BeGo
YC W20San Francisco, US · Founded 2019 · 65 employees · Hiring · 3 known investors
BeGo is a platform that connects cargo shipments with available transportation, serving freight companies and logistics operators in Mexico. The company offers services for cargo matching, fleet management, and insurance solutions for truckers.
Also known as Be-Go · bsilience · Bego · BeSilience S.A. de C.V.
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W20)
BeGo was founded in 2019 by Ivan Cardenas and Jasiel Cardenas.
Investors · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026BeGo operates a digital freight marketplace and logistics software platform that connects shippers with available truck capacity in Mexico and the United States. Through its Bego User and Bego Driver applications and its websites, the company serves carriers (entities offering motor vehicles to transport goods), commercial drivers, shippers/consignors/consignees, and dispatchers who assign vehicles and drivers to freight. Shippers use the platform to source and quote transportation, while carriers and drivers use it to find loads near their current or future location in order to reduce empty return trips.
Beyond load matching, the company offers sea freight services with presence at Mexico's main seaports for import and export shipments, and BeGo Black, fleet management and tracking software intended to lower operating costs and allow 24/7 monitoring of fleets and commercial equipment. In partnership with Prudential, BeGo also offers a medical expense insurance product designed for truck drivers. The company is categorized by Y Combinator under artificial intelligence, banking as a service, and digital freight brokerage.
Founding story
The company was founded in 2019 by two brothers: Jasiel Cardenas, who has more than 10 years of industry experience running a freight forwarder and customs agency, and Ivan Cardenas, a former Tesla engineer with a background in product design and machine learning.
Business model
BeGo runs a two-sided platform between freight owners and transport providers, layering additional products on top of the core matching service: fleet management and tracking software (BeGo Black), sea freight import/export services through Mexican seaports, and an insurance offering for truckers created with Prudential.
Traction
Y Combinator lists a team size of 65 and active status; other listings place headcount in the 41-100 range. The company's site displays a section of customers who use the platform.
Latest developments
The company's website promotes a Mexico 2026 presence alongside its BeGo Black fleet management software and the Prudential-backed medical expense insurance plan for truckers, and it was recruiting a senior full-stack engineer for Mexico City/remote.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
BeGo addresses a freight trucking market it describes as exceeding $40 billion, in which demand for moving cargo outpaces available fleet capacity while trucks run empty roughly 40% of the time. The company positions ground freight quoting and confirmation — which it says takes about three days on average — as a process it can compress to minutes via its network.
BeGo emphasizes machine-learning-based load matching around a driver's current and future position to cut empty returns and deadheads, faster quoting and confirmation than typical multi-day ground freight processes, and an integrated set of adjacent services spanning fleet tracking software, sea freight and trucker insurance.
Technology
The platform uses machine learning to match drivers with nearby loads based on current and future location, with the stated aim of reducing empty returns, deadhead miles and CO2 emissions. The apps collect precise or approximate location data from driver and dispatcher mobile devices, transaction data, photos of bills of lading and freight, and device data; APIs are made available to partners and third parties. Reported web and application technologies include TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Angular, lit-element and lit-html, and Google Maps.
Go-to-market
The company markets separately to shipper companies and to carriers through its bilingual (Spanish/English) website, with self-service quoting flows, an events/presence page for Mexico 2026, and dedicated product pages for fleet software and trucker insurance.
Shippers and freight-owning companies needing land and sea transportation, plus carriers, fleet owners, commercial drivers and dispatchers seeking loads and fleet management tools.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Mexico City and operations across Mexico and the United States, including presence at Mexico's principal seaports; the company has stated plans to extend into Latin America. Job postings are based in Mexico City/remote, and a corporate address is listed in Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico.
History
Founded in 2019, BeGo participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, with Brad Flora as primary partner. It operates under the legal entity BeSilience S.A. de C.V. and has expanded from cargo matching into fleet management software, sea freight and an insurance product for drivers.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 3
by search overlap
Companies competing with BeGo for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsBeGo and Prudential jointly created a medical expense insurance plan designed for truck drivers, offered through BeGo.
BeGo offers BeGo Black, software for managing and tracking fleets or commercial equipment 24/7 to reduce operating costs.
BeGo provides sea freight solutions for import and export services with presence at Mexico's major seaports.
BeGo was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, with Brad Flora as primary partner.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- BeGobego.ai · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does BeGo do?
- BeGo is a digital freight platform matching cargo shippers with available trucking capacity in Mexico and the US.
- Who founded BeGo?
- BeGo was founded by Ivan Cardenas, Jasiel Cardenas in 2019.
- Who are BeGo's investors?
- BeGo's investors include Mantis Capital, Startups, Y Combinator.
- Where is BeGo headquartered?
- BeGo is headquartered in San Francisco, US.