Billions of dollars have been spent making logistics smarter, but there's still one part of the industry that has zero intelligence, zero automation and zero visibility, according to Craig Schneider, founder and CEO of Tow4Tech, one of the Manifest-selected overall winners of the 2025 Top Tech Startup award, presented by Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
"AI will optimize forecast and change routes, predict failures, and automate decisions that have taken teams of people in the past. But all of that intelligence, all of that investment collapses the moment a truck breaks down is on the side of the road," he says.
That's why, Schneider says, the breakdown response lives in between systems.
"Everyone touches the problem, but no one owns the infrastructure for solving the problem. That is until now," he says.
Tow4Tech was one of the two overall companies selected by Manifest to present on the Innovation Stage at Manifest: The Future of Supply Chain & Logistics, which took place Feb. 9-11 in Las Vegas. The Top Tech Startup award is designed to showcase those startups making a difference in the supply chain space.
Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief, joins Tow4Tech co-founders.
"From supply chain visibility and transparency to implementing automation, efficiency and optimization, many of today's supply chain startups share one common theme -- to better protect people, product and plant," says Marina Mayer, editor-in-chief of Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive and co-founder of the Women in Supply Chain Forum.
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