Expedock

Expedock was founded in 2019 by Stanford classmates King Alandy-Dy and Rui Aguiar, who met in a computer science class, along with Jeff Tan — a childhood friend of Alandy-Dy’s who had managed operations for one of the largest freight forwarders in the Philippines. The company set out to apply AI to a very manual part of freight logistics: reading and processing shipping paperwork and invoices.

Expedock’s platform combines proprietary AI document-processing technology with offshore workforce augmentation to automate freight document processing, accounts payable workflows, and data entry for logistics companies, claiming 99.97% accuracy, and integrates with transport management systems to give operators real-time dashboards. Reported clients include CEVA, Wayfair, and Jusda (which handles logistics for Foxconn and, in part, Tesla and NVIDIA).

Expedock closed a $13.5 million Series A in August 2022 (on top of an earlier $4 million seed round), bringing total disclosed funding to roughly $17.5 million. The company, which began as a Philippine logistics-industry startup, has since moved its formal headquarters to San Francisco and shifted more of its go-to-market focus to North America — worth noting honestly, since it means Expedock is now headquartered outside the Philippines even though it was founded by Filipino entrepreneurs and built on Philippine logistics-industry experience.

Freight forwarders and logistics companies process enormous volumes of unstructured paperwork — invoices, bills of lading, shipping documents — largely by hand, which is slow, error-prone, and expensive to scale as shipment volumes grow.

Freight forwarders and logistics/supply-chain companies (reported clients include CEVA, Wayfair, and Jusda) that need document processing, accounts payable automation, and operational data visibility.

Expedock pairs proprietary AI document-processing software with offshore workforce augmentation rather than offering pure software alone, and its founding team combines Stanford computer-science training with direct, hands-on experience running Philippine freight-forwarder operations.