Pre-seed investment round · 2026

$500K to unlock
$1M ARR
in 2026.

500,000 U.S. OTR carriers operate without a real back office.
Supernova is building it for them — as a software-powered operation from day one.

We are already live, generating revenue, and onboarding carriers. The bottleneck is not demand. It is dispatcher capacity. This round removes it.

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Traction
Apr 2025 → now
Monthly recurring revenue
Apr '25
May '26 ↑
+ pipeline →
Progress to 100 truck milestone
48 / 100
48% onboarded
+20% in pipeline
100 = $1M ARR
On track — accounting for expected 12–15% churn, we are tracking to deliver 100 trucks within this raise.
Apr 2025 – May 2026 · 13 months
18 → 48 trucks · proof of model
$3.73M GTV · $112K revenue
$5.85K → $17K → $25K MRR (Mar · Apr · May)
Not a service company

Service on the surface.
Software underneath.

The carrier sees an operation. We are building a platform.

To the carrier, Supernova is a back office that just runs. No setup. No adoption. No change.

What is actually happening is different. Every step of that operation runs through software Supernova builds and owns. Service delivery is the distribution. The software is the business.

Service companies scale with headcount.
Supernova scales with data.
What the carrier sees
What is actually being built
Dispatcher makes a call
→
Decision captured + scored
Load gets booked
→
Lane data recorded
Compliance handled
→
Carrier pattern learned
Invoice sent
→
Cash flow intelligence built
Carrier scales
→
Cost per carrier drops
↓Workflow proven at revenue
↓Automation layer deployed
↓Cost per carrier drops
↓Margin expands without headcount
The service is the distribution. The software is the business.
Why we win

While others wait for adoption.
Supernova is already at the Epicenter.

Trucking carriers need a back office to survive.
They cannot build one themselves.
Software tools require behavior change — they won't.
Human dispatchers are expensive, don't scale, and don't compound.

Supernova doesn't require the carrier to change anything. It just runs. And because it runs, it learns. Because it learns, it improves. Because it improves, it compounds.

The network effect is invisible to the carrier but structurally irreversible. The longer they stay, the more they depend on what Supernova built around them. Leaving doesn't mean cancelling a service — it means losing infrastructure they cannot rebuild alone.
Supernova is the operation.
Supernova is there when trucking happens.
Supernova is the software and the back office. Simultaneously.
Supernova wins because it is solving a paradox that does not resolve from the outside.
Software needs adoption. Operations need execution. Supernova skips adoption — it becomes the operation. The carrier never installs anything. Supernova is already running.
The result is three things that compound and cannot be replicated from the outside
TrustEarned through operational accountability, not marketing.
DataGenerated through execution, not observation.
NetworkEvery carrier makes every other carrier stronger.
These three things are not just what makes Supernova defensible today. They are exactly what AI needs to automate the trucking back office tomorrow — knowledge of how trucking actually behaves under pressure. That knowledge only exists inside a running operation.
That is not a feature. That is a structural position.
And structural positions, once held, are very difficult to displace.
The raise

Closing our
pre-seed now.

82 trucks needed to reach $1M ARR. Current acquisition rate: 2 trucks per week. The only constraint is dispatcher capacity — not demand, not product, not market. This raise removes it.

2026 · Now
100 trucks · $1M ARR
Capital deployed into dispatcher hiring and sales ops. Break-even at ~65 trucks. This milestone proves the unit model and unlocks the Seed round.
$500K
2027 · Seed
250–350 trucks · $2.6–4.5M ARR
Priced round targeting Q1 2027. Scales the dispatcher pool and launches the full back-office stack — compliance, ELD, billing, after-hours. AI Co-Worker ① enters the operation.
$2M–$5M
2028 · Series A
650–1,000+ trucks · $8–16M ARR
Full back-office stack at scale. AI Co-Worker ② takes over execution. Human team manages exceptions. Cost structure flattens as revenue compounds. The infrastructure is fully autonomous.
$10M–$20M
Pre-seed round · Raising now
$500K
SAFE
InstrumentSAFE note
Valuation cap$5M
Target closeQ2 2026
Use of fundsDispatchers + sales
Milestone100 trucks · $1M ARR
Break-even~65 trucks
Seed round$2M–$5M · Q1 2027
Contact the founders
mihail@supernova.centersupernova.center
The Team
Mihail Cernei
CEO & Co-Founder
mihail@supernova.center

10+ years building freight platforms across US & Europe. Built Qoobus — 40,000+ carriers & shippers onboarded. Raised institutional capital, scaled multi-country operations in highly fragmented logistics markets. Has watched thousands of carriers collapse under back-office weight.
Supernova is built on that pattern recognition — not theory.

Robert Nürnberger
CFO & Co-Founder
robert@supernova.center

20+ years scaling finance and operations across startups, PE-backed businesses, and listed corporations.CFO at Eurowag and UTA— leading fleet card issuers in Europe managing hundreds of thousands of commercial vehicles. Brings the financial infrastructure discipline that turns an operations business into a platform business.

We are closing
our $500K pre-seed now.

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