
Every year, up to 50% of all the truck space in America goes empty. Oway creates seamless freight infrastructure to turn this waste into a new category of freight shipping, enabling the fastest and…

Every year, up to 50% of all the truck space in America goes empty. Oway creates seamless freight infrastructure to turn this waste into a new category of freight shipping, enabling the fastest and…
What they do: AI-driven rideshare freight marketplace that fills unused truck capacity for 1–12+ pallet shipments
Customer benefit: Claims up to 50% cost savings versus traditional LTL and same-day pickup
Tech highlight: AI coordination engine called Juno plus API and carrier/ELD integrations
HQ & founding: San Francisco; founded in 2023
Recent financing: Seed-stage funding reported (~$4.0M) and other reported seed totals; company snapshot shows $500K
Freight/shipping inefficiency — underutilized truck capacity and high costs of traditional less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping.
2023
Logistics / Freight Marketplace
500000.00
Company snapshot lists $500,000 total funding as of this date.
4000000.00
Third-party profiles report a seed raise of approximately $4.0M.
“Backed by Y Combinator and a mix of institutional and angel investors (reported participants include Soma Capital, Pathbreaker Ventures, Wayfinder, Transpose and others).”
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About Oway Supply chain is the circulatory system of the global economy. Every product on every shelf, every component in every factory, every meal in every restaurant, moved on a truck to get there. And for decades, that system has been running at half capacity. Every year, up to 50% of US truck space goes unused, a $100B+ annual inefficiency that acts as a hidden tax on everything Americans buy, sell, and manufacture. It slows reindustrialization, inflates goods prices, suppresses carrier earnings, and makes US supply chains more fragile than they need to be.
Oway is fixing it. We're an industrial automation and research company building AI systems that automatically price, match, and sell unused freight capacity in real time, turning dead miles into productive ones and giving businesses access to dramatically faster, cheaper distribution than anything that's existed before. When freight moves more efficiently, goods cost less, manufacturers can compete more aggressively, and the carriers who are the backbone of the US economy earn more for the work they already do.
At the center of this is Juno, our AI-native coordination engine. Autonomous freight coordination at scale is one of the hardest real-world AI problems being worked on today: it requires reasoning over live telemetry from thousands of vehicles, pricing under uncertainty, handling edge cases that no rulebook anticipated, and doing all of it in real time without human intervention. Juno does this. And as it improves, it compounds. Each solved edge case, each routing insight, each pricing calibration makes the entire network smarter. The data moat Oway is building through Juno isn't just defensible in logistics; it's the kind of industrial intelligence that could underpin US competitiveness across physical industries for decades.
We're backed by YC, General Catalyst, and leading investors in AI, industrials, and automation, and we're just getting started.
About This Role At the heart of Oway's platform is Juno, our AI-native coordination engine that automates large-scale supply chain coordination with native edge-case intelligence. As a Senior ML Engineer, you'll own both the systems that power Juno and the underlying data infrastructure that makes them possible. You'll work directly alongside our engineering leads to build, train, and ship the models that determine how freight is priced, routed, and dispatched across thousands of live vehicles nationwide.
This is a high-ownership, production-first role. The work you do here directly impacts carrier margins, shipper costs, and the efficiency of America's freight network.
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