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# Cargado - Talent Network at Cargado

- **Company:** Cargado
- **Location:** Seattle Chicago San Francisco New York Atlanta Austin Boston Los Angeles Toronto Monterrey, Mexico
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2024-06-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cargado/570080c0-de37-4245-8965-a2263279f571

## Job description

## About the company

Cargado, the first invite-only load board for cross-border Mexico freight, launched in April 2024 by freight industry veterans Matt Silver and Rylan Hawkins. Cargado's product simplifies the cross-border freight experience and has helped drive the historic rise of nearshoring and growing demand for improved cross-border logistics. Over 60 logistics companies leverage Cargado to get loads booked faster with greater transparency and a trusted network of carriers. Cargado has raised nearly $10M since starting in October 2023 from investors such as Primary Venture Partners, Ironspring Ventures, Zenda Capital, Wischoff Ventures, and RyderVentures.

## About the Talent Network

We will be hiring across multiple areas including Operations, GTM, and Product in the near future so we’d still love to be in touch for future opportunities if we don’t have a role that fits your background at this time. Please feel free to apply into the talent network and we will be in touch.

## About Cargado

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cargado is a modern freight marketplace connecting brokers and carriers to move cross-border freight across Mexico and Canada with greater speed, transparency, and trust.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Matt Silver (CEO) and Rylan Hawkins (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cross-border freight brokerage and logistics technology; marketplace for Mexico and Canada freight.
- **Target customers**: B2B – freight brokers, forwarders, and 3PLs of all sizes, as well as carriers (trucking companies) operating cross-border lanes.
- **Mission statement**: “To make cross-border freight interconnected, dependable, and transparent for every broker and carrier moving goods across North America.”

## Products & Services
- **Cargado Marketplace**: A digital platform where brokers post spot and dedicated freight and receive bids from vetted carriers. Supports dry van, reefer, open deck, straight truck, and transload moves. Carriers are verified for equipment, certifications, and lane experience.
- **Cargado Market Rates**: A real-time pricing tool powered by live carrier bids across 2,000+ Mexico and Canada lanes, giving brokers confidence when quoting freight.
- **Excel Add-In**: Enables brokers to price and win freight faster directly within their existing workflow.
- **Chat & Translation**: Built-in freight-specific chat with instant translation in English, Spanish, and French, reducing reliance on WhatsApp and other ad‑hoc tools.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $21.8 million (Seed: $9.8M across two rounds; Series A: $12M in April 2025)
- **Notable Investors**: Primary Venture Partners, Ironspring Ventures, LGVP (lead Series A), Zenda Capital, Proeza Ventures
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Expanded into Canada and domestic Mexico lanes in 2025.
  - 250+ brokers and 2,000+ carriers on the platform, including more than 50 of the top 100 freight brokerages.
  - Network includes 210,000+ trailers and 500,000+ trucks.
  - Average bid arrival time of 12 minutes.
  - Year‑over‑year LinkedIn follower growth of 43.6%.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Built specifically for cross-border nuances**: Addresses the complexity of Mexico and Canada freight (e.g., multiple legs, customs, language barriers) that domestic‑first tools ignore.
- **Verified two‑sided marketplace**: Both brokers and carriers are vetted, and performance is monitored – reducing fraud and building trust.
- **Real‑time market intelligence**: Market Rates product uses actual carrier bids (not averages) to give brokers accurate pricing.
- **Integrated multilingual chat**: Reduces friction and speeds up communication across English, Spanish, and French.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen the marketplace network by adding more carriers and brokers across all North American corridors.
- Enhance data products (Market Rates, Excel Add‑In) to become the go‑to pricing source for cross‑border freight.
- Build long‑term lane‑level relationships between brokers and carriers, moving beyond one‑off spot transactions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, fast‑moving team of ~42 employees (as of mid‑2026) including freight operators, engineers, and builders. Values include “Win As a Team,” “Move With Velocity, Take Accountability,” “Seek Truth, Use Data,” and “Obsess Over Customers.”
- **Work model**: Hybrid – employees work remotely and from shared workspaces, with a Chicago office presence (typical on‑site 2 days/week). Distributed across North America with hubs in Chicago, Seattle, Laredo, and New York.
- **Engineering & tech**: 13 product + tech employees; tech stack includes HubSpot, Slack, Metabase. AI is used as a “daily multiplier.”
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company emphasizes autonomy, resourcefulness, and a focus on impact over hierarchy.
- **Recent team adjustments**: Headcount decreased ~7.5% year‑over‑year (from 46 to 42), with some departures in marketplace and sales roles – typical for a scaling startup refining its go‑to‑market.

## Sources
1. [Cargado About Page](https://cargado.com/about)
2. [Cargado Homepage](https://cargado.com/)
3. [Built In Profile](https://builtin.com/company/cargado)
4. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargado)