Smartlane GmbH, founded in 2015, is a Munich-based software company that developed Smartlane Transport Intelligence, an AI-based software for transport optimization in logistics. Smartlane is backed by innovative investors, first and foremost Frank Thelen with his VC company Freigeist. Based on many years of research by the founders at the Technical University of Munich, Smartlane Transport Intelligence enables the gradual digitalization and automation of transport planning (dispatching). For the first time, the self-learning cloud-based technology reduces dispatching efforts by up to 90% as well as resource requirements, operational costs and CO2 emissions by up to 21%. Customers include numerous medium-sized general cargo forwarders, including several network partners of the Cargoline association