About
Derya builds an AI-native logistics office and full-stack freight-forwarding platform that handles quoting, booking, coordination, customs, tracking, and freight financing. It serves startups, SMEs, enterprises, importers/exporters, freight forwarders, and carriers, differentiating through real-time AI agents that automate sales, pricing, and operations across a global partner network.
Market
Derya competes in digital freight forwarding and AI-enabled logistics orchestration, positioning itself as an AI-native logistics office that customers can outsource end-to-end logistics to—from booking and coordination through freight financing. Its differentiation is the use of real-time AI agents across sales, pricing, and operations, combined with customs execution, financing, and a partner network; this contrasts with broader digital-forwarding platforms such as Flexport and Forto and importer-focused orchestration platforms such as Nauta.
Derya targets importers and exporters—especially startups, SMEs, and enterprises that want to outsource their logistics function—as well as freight-forwarding buyers managing containerized ocean and multimodal shipments. Its broader ecosystem also includes freight forwarders, carriers, brokers, and other logistics partners that need qualified freight opportunities and operational coordination.
At a Glance
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.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
212, Y Combinator, Umur Çubukçu
Recent News
Y Combinator profiled Derya as an AI-native logistics office providing end-to-end logistics outsourcing, including booking, coordination, and freight financing. The company is listed as a Summer 2026 Y Combinator startup founded by Oguzhan Karaca and Mert Turna.
Derya published an official booking flow allowing customers to submit freight details and request a quote for free. The form supports container shipments, customs-clearance preferences, cargo weight, readiness dates, and dangerous-goods information.
Derya opened its partner network to forwarders, carriers, brokers, and other logistics providers. The company says partners can receive qualified freight opportunities and collaborate on pricing and operations through its AI-native workflow.
Dealroom reported that Derya, founded by Mert Turna and Oğuzhan Karaca, raised $1.1 million in a pre-seed round to automate freight forwarding with AI.
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Derya operates a transactional freight-forwarding and brokerage model: it quotes and books container shipments, coordinates carrier and customs services, and captures margins on freight deals. It also offers financing for bookings over $20,000 with term payments and generates leads for freight-forwarding offices; no standalone SaaS pricing is disclosed.