Burq Named to FreightWaves' 2027 FreightTech100

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 29, 2026--

Burq, the delivery decisioning platform that decides how every order moves, has been named to FreightWaves' 2027 FreightTech100. The list recognizes 100 companies across freight and supply chain technology for innovation and industry impact.

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Now in its eighth year, the FreightTech100 drew a record number of nominations this cycle. FreightWaves' Research team evaluated nominees on documented innovation, market impact, and how each company's ideas evolved from the previous year. More than half of this year's honorees are new to the list. Burq appears alongside established carriers, logistics providers, and technology leaders.

Burq is an intelligence that decides how every order moves. For each order, Burq decides which node to source from (store, DC, or 3PL) and which fulfillment channel to use (in-house fleet, gig, big-and-bulky, or regional carrier). Those decisions are driven by performance, profitability, and customer impact, not fixed routing rules. Burq's decisioning is both real-time and predictive: it proactively re-routes orders before issues impact the customer. Every decision is dispatched across hundreds of delivery providers in the US and Canada, and every one is documented with the reasoning behind it.

"No order in commerce should move on a guess. Burq decides how every order moves and writes down why, so delivery becomes a decision that drives growth instead of a cost to manage. We're proud to be recognized on the FreightTech100 for building that," said Salman Habib, co-founder of Burq.

The FreightTech100 is the first stage of the annual FreightTech Awards. An independent panel of more than 80 industry executives will now rank the honorees to determine the FreightTech25. The results will be revealed at the inaugural F3 Awards Dinner on October 26 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, ahead of FreightWaves' F3: Future of Freight Festival.

About Burq

Burq is the delivery decisioning platform. For every order, Burq decides, dispatches, and defends the best way to deliver it, in real time, across a network of hundreds of delivery providers. Burq Intelligence is the decision layer behind that call, built on a live Decision Graph of how providers, zones, hours, and order types actually perform. Burq is also recognized on Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators list in 2025 and Inc Power Partner in 2025. Learn more at burq.ai.

About FreightWaves

FreightWaves is the #1 source of logistics and supply chain news in the world, according to SimilarWeb (2026). Its news, analysis and market intelligence are powered by FreightWaves Inc.'s SONAR, a high-frequency freight data platform that tracks billions of data points on the global logistics market, updated daily. Through its daily news coverage, newsletters, podcasts, livestream programming and live events, including the Future of Freight Festival (F3), FreightWaves reaches more than 500,000 supply chain professionals every month, from carriers and brokers to shippers and technology leaders.

Burq named to the FreightWaves 2027 FreightTech100

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The sheriff's department and the FBI Guthrie Task Force were recently made aware of the possible ransom note as well as social media comments related to it, the statement from the sheriff's department said Monday. Investigators are working to determine its credibility.

Officials did not immediately release details on how they found the note or what was in it.

In July, authorities released two ransom notes initially sent to a Tucson television station days after the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie went missing on Feb. 1 from her home outside Tucson.

The first note, sent Feb. 2, said Nancy Guthrie was safe but scared and would be released unharmed once her captors received $4 million in cryptocurrency. The second note, sent Feb. 6, said Guthrie died shortly after she was kidnapped. Authorities have not said whether Guthrie is still alive.

No suspects have been arrested in her disappearance. The investigation is dogged by unanswered questions, such as how many people are believed to have taken part in her abduction and whether she was taken by someone who knew her.

The FBI had also released surveillance videos of a masked person who authorities said appeared to tamper with a camera on Nancy Guthrie’s front porch and block it with a plant.

Nancy Guthrie's family has shared their pleas for information in videos posted to social media.

FILE - A banner with notes from hundreds of well-wishers for Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, is displayed outside of KVOA Newsroom on March 6, 2026, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rebecca Noble, File)