Datatruck Secures $12M in Series A Funding for AI Operating System in Long-Haul Transportation

January 28, 2026 landed with the sound of air brakes and bank wires. Datatruck, the Chicago based freight tech company building an AI native operating system for long haul carriers, closed a $12 million Series A led by Avenue Growth Partners. Not a flashy demo day moment. A working capital moment. The kind that shows up after the product has already been pulling weight in the real world.

Datatruck started in 2022 after Shah Rahmanov spent years watching trucking companies bleed money quietly. Paper, spreadsheets, disconnected systems, no real view into profitability. Losses hiding in plain sight. After five months of teardown level analysis, Shah Rahmanov and the founding team decided trucking did not need another dashboard. It needed an operating system that actually understood the job. By January 2023, Datatruck had its first paying customers. The signal was there early.

What they built is not a prettier TMS. It is a carrier first system of record that fuses dispatch, compliance, AI automation, and financial intelligence into one place. TruckGPT reads rate confirmations and paperwork in seconds. AI Dispatcher cuts assignment time from minutes to moments. AI Updater handles broker calls and load updates around the clock. FinTruck puts real time profitability per truck, per lane, per driver on the screen without waiting for month end excuses.

The traction backs it up. Datatruck serves roughly 500 carriers across the United States, processes over $1.7 billion in freight annually, and supports more than 100,000 supply chain professionals every day. Triple digit year over year growth, largely organic. Hundreds of legacy systems quietly replaced. Customers scaling fleets without scaling back offices. That is not hype. That is throughput.

Avenue Growth Partners led the round because the usage is real. Ryan Russell called out that customers are already running AI agents in production, not experimenting. Returning investors AloqaVentures, IT Park Ventures, DOMiNO Ventures, and Silk Road Angels Club doubled down again. Money follows gravity.

The leadership bench reflects the build. Shah Rahmanov on finance and market truth. Mamur Kodirov running operations with engineering discipline. Ulugbek Ergashev driving AI from a research deep foundation. Azizbek Ergashev bringing enterprise grade engineering from Capital One, Intuit, Apple, and Vanguard. No mascots. No tourists.

Trucking moves 72.7 percent of U.S. freight and generates over $900 billion a year. The software running it has been stuck in another decade. Datatruck is betting that carriers are done waiting. This raise does not end the story. It widens the road, adds lanes, and turns the volume up on a system that is already moving freight the hard way.