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Austin-based Overhaul, an in-transit supply chain risk management company, raised a $105M Series C led by Springcoast Partners and Edison Partners

The company, which helps shippers track shipments and fight cargo theft, plans more acquisitions  —  Supply-chain risk management company …

Wall Street Journal Liz Young

Context & Ripple Effects

Overhaul’s latest round extends a funding arc from its earlier real-time visibility offering to a 2023 financing for AI-assisted freight security. Edison Partners participated in that earlier round and returns as a lead investor here.

The company now pairs shipment tracking with cargo-theft mitigation and says it will pursue acquisitions, shifting the story from standalone product funding toward expansion of an in-transit risk-management platform.

First-order effects

  • Overhaul gains $105M to fund operations and acquisitions, giving its management team capital to add capabilities or scale through deals rather than relying solely on internal development.
  • Springcoast Partners and Edison Partners become the named lead backers of the Series C, while shippers using Overhaul have a better-capitalized provider focused on transit visibility and cargo-risk response.

Second-order effects

  • Potential acquisition targets in shipment visibility, freight security, or related risk workflows may gain a new strategic buyer; Overhaul’s peers face a better-funded competitor with an explicit inorganic-growth mandate.
  • The move raises pressure on tracking platforms such as project44, which also funded shipment-issue tracking, to demonstrate that visibility data can support broader operational and risk-management outcomes.

Third-order effects

  • If acquisition-led expansion continues, in-transit supply-chain software could consolidate around platforms that combine monitoring with intervention and security workflows, rather than remain a set of point visibility tools.
  • The financing suggests buyers may increasingly evaluate supply-chain technology as risk infrastructure; whether that becomes a durable category shift depends on the value shippers realize from combining tracking and theft mitigation.

The trend: Supply-chain visibility vendors are evolving into broader risk-management platforms, using capital and acquisitions to combine data, security, and operational response.