5U AI lands $3.2M pre-seed for AI freight workforce platform

Munich-based logistics
AI startup 5U AI has raised $3.2 million in pre-seed funding to scale its
digital workforce platform for freight forwarding teams. The round was led by
London-based Emerge Capital.

Founded in 2025 by
Technical University of Munich graduates Yagiz Abik and Fehmi Şener, 5U AI
develops AI-powered digital workers that automate operational tasks across air,
sea and road freight. Its platform integrates with existing freight systems to
manage tasks including quoting, bookings, shipment tracking, invoice
reconciliation, data entry and routine administration.

Unlike conventional
automation tools, the platform records the reasoning behind each operational
decision through its Decision Layer, giving freight teams visibility into how
work is completed. It also builds a knowledge base that can help improve future
processes. The system is trained specifically for logistics workflows,
including the complex exceptions and manual decisions that are difficult to
automate using generic AI tools.

The platform is already
in use by freight forwarders and carriers across Europe, supporting air and
ocean freight operations. The company is backed by experienced logistics
industry executives.

Freight forwarding
is full of decisions that are still trapped in inboxes, spreadsheets, and
people’s heads. We are not building another chatbot that answers questions and
disappears, we are building AI Workers that understand freight operations, carry
out the work, and capture the reasoning behind every decision, so teams can
scale their knowledge as well as their capacity,

said Yagiz Abik, CEO of
5U AI.

5U AI will use the
funding to accelerate product development, expand its go-to-market activities
across Europe, and grow its team across product, engineering, operations,
commercial and customer-facing roles.