Tavio pushes supply chain integration platform into freight
Tavio, formed from a 2025 merger of two HR tech integration companies, is expanding into supply chain with Uber Freight already on its customer list. The post Tavio pushes supply chain integration platform into freight appeared first on FreightWaves.
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In freight, as a company grows it needs to connect with an expanding network of trading partners. This connectivity normally takes the form of integrations, viaAPI and EDI.
The challenge is that as companies scale, they will hit a wall where managing and maintaining these integrations can create engineering bottlenecks that stall core software roadmaps and inflate developer headcount.. Tavio is betting that enough carriers, brokers and shippers have hit that wall.
It is also looking to expand its footprint among 3PLs and software vendors. It already counts Uber Freight as a customer, according to Chief Financial Officer Paul Mladineo. This software category is called Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).
Tavio sells a single platform that orchestrates B2B EDI messaging alongside modern REST and JSON APIs on the same underlying architecture. On-premises databases and AI agents ride those same data pipes. The goal of iPaaS is to eliminate the need for custom, point-to-point connections for every vendor and every trading partner.
Tavio’s freight-focused capabilities expanded significantly last fall, when Tavio added a public API, an on-premises agent and native EDI capabilities. This extended the platform beyond cloud-only deployments and into the aging B2B data exchange that carriers and shippers still run on. window. googletag = window. googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag. cmd.
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IT leaders spend 36% of their time designing, building and testing custom integrations between systems and data, according to the 2026 Connectivity Benchmark Report published in February by MuleSoft, the Salesforce-owned integration vendor. The average organization in that survey runs 957 applications with only 27% of them connected to anything else.
“Our solution is not ‘we will take care of all of your integration services for you,'” said Damian Newland, Vice President of Strategy and Growth at Tavio, in an interview with FreightWaves.
“Our offer is a technology platform that an organization can use to drastically reduce the headcount, time, and effort to deliver the integrations that they need internally and with their customers.” The reason most freight executives have never heard the name is that Tavio did not start in logistics.
Joynd, based in New York, and The Cloud Connectors, based in Quebec City, were both HR technology integration specialists, and the 2025 deal that combined them was initially announced as an HR tech merger. Each had operated for more than a decade before uniting under the Tavio brand.
Where integration counts multiply Two customers moving freight through the same carrier rarely structure or label their same data the same way. That is where the assumption that one trading partner equals one integration falls apart.
“The issue is that an integration that is required with a WMS like Manhattan may require 300 different flavors to accommodate 300 different trading partners.” Newland said.
“It comes down to subtle variations – one customer calls a field ‘shipment ID’ while another calls it ‘tracking number’'” Mladineo walked through the math using a growing freight brokerage as an example. The broker builds one integration to a trucking company and runs five customers through it.
The third customer needs different rules, so that becomes two forked versions. The fifth needs its own custom logic, so it becomes three. “And now multiply that. Now they’re bigger, right?” Mladineo said. “So now they’re working with 50 trucking companies and on the other side retailers, and they’ve got to manage all this.
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