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Jeremy Baksht is the Founder and CEO of Catena Clearing, the universal data layer for trucking. Catena aggregates 200+ ELD and telematics providers into a single normalized API across 900,000+ trucks, powering fintech, insurance, and freight operations customers. Jeremy previously ran alternative data at Bloomberg and led strategy at Walmart Data. Earlier, he built 2 fintech companies Estimize and ACE Portal, ran DataFrame Ventures investing in data companies, and was a VP in Citi's Industrials IB group. Jeremy writes about freight, AI, and the physical economy at jbaksht.substack.com.
Catena is building the connectivity infrastructure freight has been missing. We unify telematics, sensor, and operational data into a single API so brokers, shippers, insurers, fintechs, and fleets can access real time, high fidelity information without fragmentation. Catena has raised $8.25 million from Shaper Capital, Floating Point, Teamworthy, Plug and Play, SpringTime, Liquid 2, Blue Moon, Blue Impact, and more than twenty industry angels.
Notable investments include: Agolo, Americana, Arbital Health, BlueX Trade, CirrusMD (acq Quantum Health), Cylera, Datavations, data.world (acq ServiceNow), DECKARD Technologies, Doorvest, Dusty Robotics, EarthSense, Infield, Jaxon AI, Koidra Tech, Metadata.io, Nomad Data, Quiver Quantitative, Revelio Labs, Tributi, Unacast, and Walrus Health.
I ran strategy for Walmart’s commercial data businesses. Accomplishments included the acquisition of Volt Systems and I led a partnership with NielsenIQ for Adult Beverage data. Projects included alternative data opportunities with HFs, CVAI partnerships for shelf intelligence, and I researched new use cases in health & wellness / pharmacy data.
DataFrame is a data oriented pre-seed VC with $2M invested across 14 companies.
I left Bloomberg to supercharge Ascential’s alt data practice.