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§ Private Profile · 120 NW 25th St. Miami, FL 33127, USA
SmartHop is a technology company.
SmartHop provides a technology platform optimizing operations for small trucking businesses and owner-operators. Its core product offers intelligent dispatch solutions, leveraging data analytics to streamline load booking, route planning, and fleet management. This integrated approach enhances operational efficiency, improves decision-making, and automates manual processes within trucking logistics.
Co-founded in the late 2010s by Guillermo Garcia, Miguel Sucre, and Juaquin Brillembourg, SmartHop addresses independent truckers' operational challenges. CEO Guillermo Garcia's supply chain background, alongside his co-founders' expertise, drove their vision for an empowering solution. They aimed to enable operators to manage businesses and compete effectively.
SmartHop primarily serves independent owner-operators and small trucking companies seeking to maximize profitability and operational fluidity. The platform delivers tools to reduce costs and increase earning potential. SmartHop's vision centers on transforming truck drivers' livelihoods by fostering a more efficient, equitable freight ecosystem, adapting to evolving industry needs.
SmartHop has raised $47.0M across 3 funding rounds.
SmartHop has raised $47.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
SmartHop is a Miami-based technology company that develops AI-powered fleet management and dispatching software for the trucking industry, primarily serving small fleets, independent owner-operators, dispatchers, and carriers handling full truck loads (FTL) like 53-foot dry vans, reefers, flatbeds, and power-only in regional and OTR lanes across the U.S.[1][5][6]. The platform solves key pain points in the volatile spot market by automating load booking, providing personalized load recommendations based on market intelligence, rates, and driver preferences, streamlining trip updates, communication, document management, performance tracking, and goal-setting to boost profitability, reduce downtime, cut overhead, and simplify operations that traditionally require multiple tools like load boards, TMS, factoring, and fuel cards.[1][5][6]. Launched to empower "truckers by truckers," it has shown strong growth momentum with over $46 million in total funding, including a $30 million Series B in early 2022 led by Sozo Ventures, a mobile app debut, expanded broker partnerships, and a remote team of 51-200 across Miami, New York, and Colombia.[2][3].
SmartHop was founded in 2018 by Guillermo Garcia (CEO, industrial engineer and former trucking business owner), Joaquin Brillembourg (COO, fellow industrial engineer), and Miguel Sucre (CTO, computer scientist who previously built and sold a mobile app development company).[6][7]. The idea emerged from Garcia's frustration running his own trucking operation, where the spot market's complexity—unpredictable loads, constant decision-making, 24/7 demands, fragmented communication across platforms, and lack of performance insights—made success grueling; he partnered with Sucre, whose tech had powered parts of Garcia's systems, to build a unified platform reimagining trucking for small fleets.[1][6][7]. Early traction included a $4.5 million seed round in 2021 to scale automated dispatching for owner-operators and brokers, a 2022 Series B surge, mobile app launch with key hires, and rapid broker integrations for premium load access, evolving from a 2016 precursor concept to a full platform by 2020.[1][2][3][6].
SmartHop rides the wave of AI augmentation in logistics and trucking, addressing spot market volatility amid driver shortages, rising fuel costs, supply chain disruptions, and e-commerce-driven freight demand, where small fleets (80% of U.S. carriers) struggle with fragmented tools and low margins.[1][6]. Timing is ideal post-2020s pandemic supply booms, with Series B funding fueling U.S. expansion (and potential North/Central/South America growth) as digital transformation accelerates—AI dispatching cuts decision fatigue, boosts fill rates, and levels the playing field for independents against mega-fleets via broker partnerships.[2][3][6]. It influences the ecosystem by uplifting small operators (happier drivers, better cash flow), attracting brokers to its driver pool for mutual growth, and pioneering "superhuman" decision systems that could standardize AI in freight matching, reducing industry inefficiencies like empty miles.[5][6].
SmartHop is poised to dominate small-fleet trucking tech with AI scaling to broader equipment/lanes and international markets, leveraging its $46M+ war chest for product expansions like advanced analytics or factoring integrations amid persistent spot market turbulence.[2][3][6]. Trends like AI autonomy in logistics, regulatory pushes for driver welfare, and nearshoring will amplify its edge, potentially evolving it into a full-stack platform influencing broker-carrier dynamics and inspiring copycats. As trucking digitizes, SmartHop's trucker-first mission positions it to sustainably empower the independents fueling America's supply chain.
SmartHop has raised $47.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $30.0M Series B in April 2022.
SmartHop has raised $47.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
SmartHop's investors include Sozo Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Amplo, BoxGroup, Cathay Innovation, Curie.Bio, Defy Partners, Equal Ventures, Gradient Ventures, IA Ventures, Jetstream, Lux Capital.