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, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup, has raised a $25 million Series B, it tells 兔子先生传媒 News exclusively.

led the raise, which brings the Austin-based startup鈥檚 total funding to $40 million since its 2022 inception. Returning backers , , and also participated in the round. ClearJet鈥檚 earlier investors include , formerly JetBlue Ventures, and .

ClearJet鈥檚 model is straightforward. Rather than build its own fleet of planes or trucks, it connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights already traveling between U.S. cities to move e-commerce packages around the U.S. Customers include major multibillion-dollar retailers, e-commerce platforms, 3PLs and marketplaces.

In just three years, the startup has built what founder and CEO calls a 鈥渟uper carrier,鈥� a network that now spans 95 U.S. airports and connects retailers with major U.S. airlines and multiple final-mile delivery providers. This network gives retailers a way to ship packages so that they travel directly between cities on passenger planes already in the air rather than through the traditional networks used by major parcel carriers.

Unlike a traditional parcel carrier, ClearJet doesn鈥檛 own the planes transporting those packages. Instead, its asset-light 鈥淯ber for cargo鈥� model taps available capacity on flights that are already traveling between cities. The startup says its approach can cut shipping costs by as much as 35% while speeding deliveries by one to three days.

鈥淲e鈥檙e basically connecting with the already moving aircraft,鈥� Guggenheim told 兔子先生传媒 News in an interview. 鈥淭hese flights are going from A to B city. We鈥檙e taking those same routes, and that鈥檚 just why we鈥檙e so fast. That鈥檚 also why we鈥檙e so cost efficient.鈥�

The approach appears to be working. ClearJet is profitable, its revenue has more than tripled year over year, and it is approaching nine figures in top-line revenue, according to Guggenheim.

The market opportunity is still large. The startup says it moves more than 30 million packages annually, which is still a fraction of the roughly 1.8 billion U.S. parcels it considers eligible to move by air.

Global funding to supply chain management and logistics startups has reached $8.4 billion in 2026 so far, per 兔子先生传媒 . This puts this year on pace to top 2025鈥檚 total of $9 billion considering we have over four months left in the year.

How it works

Retailers connect to ClearJet through an API and can generate a two-day shipping label. ClearJet picks up the packages, takes them to an airport, handles sorting and screening, places them on commercial flights, and then injects them into final-mile networks at their destination. Those providers can include , the , , , and , Guggenheim said.

鈥淲e call it the super carrier because it truly is that, and it gives all the power back to the retailer,鈥� Guggenheim said in an interview with 兔子先生传媒 News.

One of ClearJet鈥檚 first large retail customers had previously relied on FedEx for goods arriving from Asia, with deliveries taking seven days from factory to customer, according to Guggenheim. Under ClearJet鈥檚 model, products arrive at Los Angeles International Airport, where the company takes possession of the cargo, sorts it and flies it into 14 different airports before handing the packages to final-mile carriers.

The result, Guggenheim said, was a reduction in delivery time from seven days to five 鈥� and $35 million in cost savings for the customers.

That combination of time and cost savings was what caught Edison Partners鈥� attention.

, who leads the firm鈥檚 vertical SaaS and AI practice, told 兔子先生传媒 News that Edison had spent years looking at ways to use excess capacity in supply chains without requiring companies to make massive investments in physical infrastructure.

鈥淲e looked at a few supply chain businesses over the years,鈥� Ziegler said. 鈥淐andidly, most of them went bankrupt because they took an asset-heavy approach to the middle mile.鈥�

ClearJet took the asset-light approach. And the company鈥檚 airline relationships, regional sortation infrastructure, regulatory license and technology architecture make it difficult to copy its model, according to Ziegler.

鈥淲hen you think about what they built, it is a very unique aviation infrastructure platform, and it鈥檚 difficult to replicate,鈥� he said. 鈥淗e鈥檚 [Guggenheim] proven the business model, and the unit economics work.鈥�

Backstory

The idea for ClearJet grew out of Guggenheim鈥檚 own frustrations as a longtime e-commerce entrepreneur.

He started his first company in 1997 after meeting and his family and building direct-to-fan e-commerce businesses for them. Guggenheim later worked with a range of music and sports clients, including helping launch the first beyonce.com. His company went on to support more than 2,000 Plus stores with over $1 billion in GMV, he said.

Along the way, logistics became one of his biggest headaches.

Shipping had become the second-largest cost of goods outside of the product itself for his business, he said. And in 2019, after spending $55 million with , Guggenheim said he received an email giving him five days鈥� notice that his account was being canceled because it wasn鈥檛 profitable enough.

鈥淎nd so I said, 鈥榯here has to be a better way,鈥� 鈥� he said.

Guggenheim began thinking about the thousands of domestic passenger flights traveling around the U.S. every day and wondering whether their unused cargo space could become part of an alternative parcel network.

He had no connections with the airlines, he said, so he began cold-emailing executives until he reached the president of . At a cargo industry event, Guggenheim got about five minutes to pitch his idea in what he now calls his 鈥淪hark Tank moment.鈥�

鈥淚 said, 鈥業 want to start flying packages from LA to New York. Do you have any flights?鈥欌�� Guggenheim recalled. 鈥淎nd he put his arm around me and said, 鈥榊ou and I are going to be best friends.鈥欌��

Guggenheim went on to build relationships with , , , and , the latter of which participated in an earlier ClearJet financing. He also began recruiting people from the airline and parcel industries and building the technology underpinning the network. ClearJet formally launched in May 2023.

One logistical obstacle was the aircraft themselves. Guggenheim said most U.S. passenger aircraft are narrow-body planes whose cargo doors are too small to accommodate the pallets typically moved by freight forwarders.

ClearJet addressed this by designing its own overpack bags specifically for e-commerce parcels. Those bags can travel through airports much like passenger luggage before being unloaded and handed to the appropriate delivery company.

AI component

ClearJet’s AI models choose each parcel’s path based on cost, speed and geography across its network. AI is also built into how ClearJet routes packages. Its models choose a parcel’s path based on factors including cost, speed and geography.

The company is also developing AI agents to automate more of the operational work around those shipments.

For example, ClearJet is creating AI agents to handle tasks such as rating, booking, tracking and managing delivery problems, according to Guggenheim.

This includes features such as responding to weather disruptions by moving packages onto a different flight or through a different city, something ClearJet can do because it isn鈥檛 tied to just one airline.

鈥淲e鈥檙e building an entire agent team, an army of agents that do everything that the humans were doing,鈥� Guggenheim said.

ClearJet raised its seed round in early 2023 and $13.4 million in a Series A in 2024, according to Guggenheim. He declined to disclose the company鈥檚 valuation but described the Series B as a significant step-up from its previous financing.

Next, ClearJet plans to expand into returns and international shipping, and expand its network of airports. Guggenheim also wants to give consumers much more detailed visibility into where packages are during their journeys, similar to the real-time experience they have become accustomed to with services such as DoorDash.

鈥淲e have a really big appetite for giving consumers a better visual experience with their packages,鈥� he said.

For Ziegler, the bigger bet is that ClearJet can become infrastructure for a delivery market increasingly built around getting products directly to individual consumers.

鈥淲e saw this as an opportunity to actually create a category-defining business,鈥� he said.

ClearJet has just under 50 full-time employees and hundreds of contractors operating seven days a week.

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