GoodShip Inc. has always sounded like a promise. Not a slogan, not a decal slapped on the side of a truck, but a quiet statement of intent from people who have lived inside the mess. Founded in 2022 by Ryan Soskin and David Tsai, veterans of Convoy, Coyote Logistics, Amazon, and Stord, the Bellevue, Washington freight orchestration company was built by operators who got tired of pretending spreadsheets were strategy and dashboards were decisions.
On January 6, 2026, GoodShip made a small announcement that carries a lot of weight if you know how to read freight tea leaves. Three hires. Senior Demand Generation Manager. Engineering Manager for Data and Infrastructure. Senior Enterprise Account Executive. Marketing, engineering, sales. The classic spine of a company that has moved past asking if the product works and started asking how fast the market can absorb it.
This matters because GoodShip is not pitching theory. ARR grew tenfold in 2024. The customer list already includes Kellanova, Tropicana, KeHE, KBX Logistics, and other shippers who do not gamble on science projects. A $25 million Series B closed in August 2025, led by Greenfield Partners with Bessemer back at the table. A Bellevue headquarters followed. Then, in January, Laney arrived, an AI transportation analyst designed to sit inside the chaos of real freight networks and talk back with clarity.
Ryan Soskin has spent his career watching freight teams drown in disconnected systems, while David Tsai has built the kind of infrastructure that survives scale instead of collapsing under it. That pairing explains why this hiring push feels deliberate. Under Eric Dillon, engineering is doubling down on data and infrastructure, the unglamorous backbone that lets AI actually earn its keep. Under Nick Boston, sales is sharpening its enterprise edge, aimed squarely at Fortune 500 shippers who want leverage without losing control. Marketing stepping up now signals that the story is ready to travel without founder narration.
GoodShip positions itself as a neutral execution layer, not a replacement brain. It orchestrates procurement, performance, and carrier collaboration in one system of action. That distinction has teeth in a trillion dollar freight market where trust is currency and switching costs are real. The name fits. GoodShip is not about speed for its own sake. It is about moving clean cargo through noisy systems without losing signal.
