Problem

Freight forwarding is a complex, manual coordination problem spanning quotes, supplier and carrier qualification, documentation, compliance, tracking, customer updates, customs, and delivery. Traditional freight offices may take about two days to respond to a request, while Derya says the right supplier and carrier can be matched within minutes. The economics are meaningful: booking costs typically run $1,000–$5,000 per container, and demurrage or detention can reach an average of $2,500 per container once incurred. The core use case is moving a container-load shipment from an initial request for quotation through booking, customs, tracking, and final delivery without delays or missing information.

Product / Service

Derya is a full-stack, AI-native freight forwarder rather than only a software tool. Its AI agents operate across traditional forwarding functions such as sales, pricing, and operations, using a customer’s existing technology stack together with Derya’s logistics knowledge base. A customer sends one freight request; Derya sources and qualifies options, quotes and books the appropriate carrier, coordinates the shipment, manages customs and documentation, and tracks progress through inland delivery. For bookings over $20,000, it also offers term-payment financing.

The delivery model combines software automation with operational responsibility and a partner network of carriers, brokers, shippers, and local logistics providers. The intended benefit is faster quoting, fewer errors and follow-ups, better-informed loads for carriers, and improved working-capital efficiency for importers and exporters. Derya also generates freight leads for forwarding offices and can provide financing options, giving it a marketplace and service layer in addition to its AI operating layer.

Market

Derya competes in freight forwarding, digital freight brokerage, logistics automation, and freight finance, positioning itself as an AI-native logistics office for startups, SMEs, enterprises, importers, exporters, forwarders, and carriers. Its competitive set includes traditional freight-forwarding companies as well as digital freight platforms and forwarders such as Flexport and Freightos. Derya’s distinction is that it aims to automate the forwarding office while directly coordinating and moving freight, rather than simply providing shipment-management software.

The company appears to be early but commercially active, not pre-launch. Its website reports more than $3 million in managed freight and supply-procurement transactions and cites early customers and loads, including a 20-container engagement with TVO and additional monthly volume in the pipeline. YC lists Derya as an active Summer 2026 company founded in 2026, and Dealroom reports a $1.1 million pre-seed round raised from 212, Y Combinator, and angel investor Umur Çubukçu on June 30, 2026. Public sources do not disclose revenue, so Derya is best characterized as revenue-undisclosed rather than definitively pre-revenue.