Adriaan Coppens

TLDR

Adriaan Coppens is co-founder and CEO of Qargo, a Ghent-based transport management SaaS that raised $33 million in a Series B and grew its customer base fivefold in 18 months.

Overview

Coppens co-founded Qargo in 2020 with Sander De Wilde and Joeri De Turck. Before Qargo, Coppens and De Turck were the CEO and CTO, respectively, at OTA Insight, a travel management company that raised over $100 million. Qargo builds a modern cloud-based TMS for road transport companies and freight forwarders, and has expanded to six European logistics markets. In March 2024 the platform powered over 175,000 journeys per month across more than 140 customers including Altrea Group and Uniserve Group. Total funding to date is $54 million over three rounds, backed by Balderton Capital.