ClearJet is betting that the future of parcel shipping will depend less on owning transportation assets and more on connecting the ones that already exist. The Austin-based logistics infrastructure technology company announced a $25 million growth equity investment led by Edison Partners, with participation from returning investors Venture53, Origin Ventures, Salt VC and SpringTime Ventures. What Is a Monopsony-and Why Is New Jersey Suing Amazon Over It?
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The company's intelligence and orchestration layer connects shippers with available air cargo on commercial flights and combines that air capacity with sorting, staffing and ground infrastructure to move packages across the country. Its asset-light, software-powered "SuperCarrier" network is carrier agnostic, allowing retailers, marketplaces, third-party logistics providers (3PLs) and regional parcel carriers to use the infrastructure without having to own planes, trucks or sort centers. The company believes its advantage lies in a widening total addressable market.
ClearJet says it currently moves more than 30 million packages annually—a small slice of the 1.8 billion parcels it estimates are eligible for air transportation. Both its delivery volumes and revenue are growing 2.5 times annually, according to the company. Rather than compete with existing national carriers, ClearJet aims to complement them, funneling middle-mile packages into the last-mile networks of partner carriers including OnTrac and Veho.
"Rather than compete with the existing national package delivery services, we work with them," said Chris Guggenheim, ClearJet's founder and CEO, in a statement. "We've created a service that lets retailers build their own parcel delivery network with regional and national carriers of their choice to every zip code nationwide, efficiently and affordably." At the center of ClearJet's model is what it calls Air Zone Skip. Instead of moving a package through a traditional ground network of regional hubs and trucking legs, consolidated parcels can fly directly to their destination region and then enter a local last-mile network.
The company's AI models determine which airport, flight and downstream carrier combination makes the most sense based on destination, timing, available capacity and cost. For example, a package traveling from California to New York might otherwise move through a national ground network, passing through multiple sorting facilities and spending several days in long-haul transit before reaching the final mile. A single retailer might not have enough California-to-New York volume to justify an air move on its own, so ClearJet consolidates those packages with other New York-bound shipments.
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