Nitin Gupta

The trucking and logistics industry provides the backbone of the economy. But the payments infrastructure on which it runs is from the past century and broken. For the hard-working men and women of this sector, the existing suite of payment tools is outdated, difficult to use, prone to fraud, and saddled with shady fee structures. The incumbent players in this space often overlook the economic and practical needs of this user base. Were changing that. AtoB is modernizing the payments infrastructure for trucking and logistics. Supply chains rely on the timely movement of capital to function efficiently. Our end game is a world in which that capital movement occurs reliably, instantly and fairly. Our history and background Our founding team has backgrounds in payments, working on electric and autonomous vehicles at Cruise Automation, leading ops and growth for Uber. We have senior engineers and operators from Google, Uber, Meta, Amazon, Shopify, Stripe, Revolut, Chime, Shell, McKinsey, BCG and other leading companies. We have raised $125 million+ from investors such as General Catalyst, Elad Gil, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator, XYZ; founders and CEOs of companies such as Google (Eric Schmidt), Salesforce (Marc Benioff), Coinbase (Brian Armstrong), DoorDash (Tony Xu), Stripe, Instacart, Gusto; strategic investors like Mastercard. We were named to Forbes annual Next Billion-Dollar Startup List, and have just recently been selected to join the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator.

Stage 2 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage B2B software companies and sits shoulder to shoulder with leadership teams to operationalize sustainable revenue growth and sales operations. Backed by top go-to-market professionals from leading tech companies, Stage 2 Capital leverages its deep sales expertise to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses in addition to providing capital.

The trucking and logistics industry provides the backbone of the economy. But the payments infrastructure on which it runs is from the past century and broken. For the hard-working men and women of this sector, the existing suite of payment tools is outdated, difficult to use, prone to fraud, and saddled with shady fee structures. The incumbent players in this space often overlook the economic and practical needs of this user base. Were changing that. AtoB is modernizing the payments infrastructure for trucking and logistics. Supply chains rely on the timely movement of capital to function efficiently. Our end game is a world in which that capital movement occurs reliably, instantly and fairly. Our history and background Our founding team has backgrounds in payments, working on electric and autonomous vehicles at Cruise Automation, leading ops and growth for Uber. We have senior engineers and operators from Google, Uber, Meta, Amazon, Shopify, Stripe, Revolut, Chime, Shell, McKinsey, BCG and other leading companies. We have raised $125 million+ from investors such as General Catalyst, Elad Gil, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator, XYZ; founders and CEOs of companies such as Google (Eric Schmidt), Salesforce (Marc Benioff), Coinbase (Brian Armstrong), DoorDash (Tony Xu), Stripe, Instacart, Gusto; strategic investors like Mastercard. We were named to Forbes annual Next Billion-Dollar Startup List, and have just recently been selected to join the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator.

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.

Lumia is an early-growth stage investment firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European technology innovators expanding internationally for breakout growth. Lumia also invests in local leaders across the fastest growing global markets. We employ a hands-on strategy, working closely with management teams by pairing Silicon Valley insights and contacts with global knowledge sharing and relationships to propel companies through expansion-stage challenges and opportunities. Representative investments include: Careem (Uber), Greenhouse Software, Kabbage, Mulesoft (MULE), Pageduty (NYSE: PD), CargoX, OpenDNS (acq. by Cisco), and Procore.