Sidecar
Entrepreneur First '24Bangalore, IN · Founded 2024 · 23 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
Sidecar provides an AI system that automates repetitive manual workflows in logistics operations, including quote requests, job file creation, data entry, and financial reconciliation. The platform integrates with existing tools and systems used by freight forwarders, supply chain companies, and logistics providers.
Also known as UseSideCar
Founders & leadership
Sidecar was founded in 2024 by Sudhanshu Heda and Akshat Khare.
Investors · 7
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Sidecar (usesidecar.com) offers an AI "teammate" built for logistics and supply chain operations. Rather than requiring customers to adopt a new system, the product works inside tools companies already use — email, transport management systems (TMS), ERP systems, and shipper and carrier portals — and executes customer-specific standard operating procedures in the way a trained employee would [0][3]. The company positions itself against four categories of manual work it identifies in freight businesses: sales teams handling RFQs across email and copying agent rates into spreadsheets; operations teams creating job files, sending pre-alerts and answering track-and-trace queries; back-office staff retyping shipment details, arrival notices and EGM/IGM/HBL entries into TMS and ERP; and finance teams collecting proofs of delivery, reconciling invoices and chasing disputed charges [0].
The product is organised around three groups of capability described on the company site as Quote, Manage and Capitalize. Quote covers automated responses to inbound quote requests over email following business-specific SOPs. Manage covers creating shipment job files in the TMS, sending pre-alerts and daily status reports (DSRs), and answering customer track-and-trace requests. Capitalize covers collecting and evaluating signed PODs, scanning customer and carrier contracts to apply SLAs, bookkeeping and transaction auditing [0]. Custom workflows can also be configured for a specific business [0]. Sidecar's terms of service describe the offering as AI-powered virtual assistance services for logistics and supply chain operations [2].
A third-party directory profile describes the company as operating without complex API integrations, instead learning human-like interactions within email, TMS, ERP and portals [4].
Business model
Sidecar is categorised as B2B SaaS sold to logistics and supply chain businesses [3]. Customers create accounts and use the service under the company's terms of service; specific pricing is not disclosed in the available sources [2].
Traction
Public sources contain no disclosed customer counts or revenue figures. The company website displays a "Trusted By" section without named logos in the retrieved text, and cites performance claims rather than customer metrics [0].
Latest developments
The company's terms of service carry a last-updated date of 2025-04-12 [2]. A startup directory profile lists Sidecar at Seed stage and names Incisive Ventures as an investor [3].
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, risks & controversies
Market position
A third-party directory classifies Sidecar in the Logistics & Supply Chain sector at Seed stage with a B2B SaaS model, and lists other logistics and supply chain companies such as Jigcar, Raft and Nodal alongside it [3].
Technology
The system is an AI agent that operates within the customer's existing software surface — email, TMS, ERP, shipper portals and carrier portals — rather than through a replacement platform, and it is described as working without complex API integrations by learning human-like interactions in those tools [0][4]. It is configured with each customer's business rules, pricing logic and workflows, and can be set to "suggest" or "auto-execute" modes per task type. Every action is logged to an audit trail recording who, what, when and why, and unusual cases are flagged for human review while routine work is handled automatically [0].
Go-to-market
Logistics and supply chain operators, including freight forwarding businesses; within those organisations the product is aimed at sales, operations, back-office and finance teams [0][3][4].
Geography
The company's terms of service list a contact address at 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware, United States, and state that the terms are governed by the laws of the State of California [2].
Risks & controversies
The name "Sidecar" is shared with several unrelated companies, including a defunct US ridesharing firm and a health insurance company, which complicates public information about the business; at least one aggregator profile conflates these entities and attributes unrelated funding history to the logistics company [4][5][6][7]. Publicly available information on the company is otherwise limited: no funding amounts, customer names or headcount are disclosed in the sources reviewed.
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 · 2
by search overlap
Companies competing with Sidecar for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Sidecarusesidecar.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Sidecar do?
- AI teammate for logistics that automates quoting, job files, data entry and finance tasks inside existing email, TMS and ERP tools.
- Who founded Sidecar?
- Sidecar was founded by Sudhanshu Heda, Akshat Khare in 2024.
- Who are Sidecar's investors?
- Sidecar's investors include Entrepreneur First, Incisive Ventures, Perceptive Ventures Management Company, Llc, Transpose Platform Management, GreatPoint Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, SRI Capital.
- Where is Sidecar headquartered?
- Sidecar is headquartered in Bangalore, IN.