ClearJet has secured a $25 million growth equity investment led by Edison Partners to expand its technology-enabled parcel delivery network across the United States. Returning investors Venture53, Origin Ventures, Salt VC, and SpringTime Ventures also participated, while existing backers include Sky VC, formerly JetBlue Ventures, and Tandem Ventures. The financing brings the Austin-based logistics company’s total capital raised to more than $40 million and will support further investment in its AI-powered platform and national operating footprint.
Funding Supports National Expansion
ClearJet plans to use the new capital to deepen its presence across a network that currently spans 95 U.S. airports, giving retailers and logistics partners additional ways to move parcels between major markets. The company connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on scheduled commercial passenger flights instead of relying on a dedicated fleet of aircraft, trucks, and large sorting facilities. By combining airline capacity with ground operations, sorting infrastructure, and final-mile partners, ClearJet aims to provide faster national delivery while maintaining costs closer to traditional ground shipping.
Rethinking Parcel Delivery
The company’s model is built around what it calls a “SuperCarrier” network, a carrier-agnostic system designed to let retailers create customized delivery networks without owning transportation assets. ClearJet consolidates e-commerce parcels, moves them by air directly toward their destination regions, and injects them into local delivery networks, bypassing some of the regional hubs and long-distance trucking routes used in conventional parcel shipping. ClearJet says this approach can reduce shipping costs by as much as 35% while shortening delivery times by between one and three days.
AI and Operational Model
Artificial intelligence plays a central role in how ClearJet determines the most efficient route for individual packages across its network, taking factors such as cost, speed, geography, and available capacity into account. The company is also developing AI agents to automate operational tasks including rating, booking, tracking, and responses to disruptions, allowing shipments to be rerouted when weather or capacity problems affect a particular flight or city. This technology layer sits on top of a logistics operation that integrates airport handling, sorting, airline relationships, and multiple last-mile providers into a single system for customers.
Growth and Market Position
ClearJet says it now moves more than 30 million packages annually, compared with an estimated 1.8 billion parcels in the United States that the company considers suitable for air transport. The business also reports that delivery volumes and revenue are growing roughly 2.5 times annually, while its platform is already profitable and used by large retailers, e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, third-party logistics providers, and regional parcel carriers including OnTrac and Veho. The new investment gives ClearJet additional resources to scale that model as retailers look for alternatives to traditional national parcel networks and seek greater control over shipping speed, cost, and carrier selection.
Edison Partners Backs the Strategy
Edison Partners said its investment reflects ClearJet’s ability to combine technology with an asset-light logistics model that has already reached meaningful commercial scale. The growth equity firm highlighted the experience of ClearJet’s operating team, the company’s enterprise customer base, and the potential for its Air Zone Skip service to become a larger part of domestic e-commerce fulfillment. ClearJet founder and CEO Chris Guggenheim said the company intends to work alongside existing national and regional carriers rather than replace them, giving retailers the ability to assemble delivery networks that match their specific geographic and service requirements.
The $25 million investment marks a new expansion phase for ClearJet as it seeks to turn unused commercial airline cargo capacity into a broader parcel delivery alternative for retailers and logistics companies. Its strategy combines existing aviation infrastructure, software-based routing, AI automation, and a network of delivery partners to reduce dependence on traditional hub-and-spoke ground shipping. With fresh backing from Edison Partners and returning investors, ClearJet will now focus on scaling its airport network and technology platform while testing whether its SuperCarrier model can capture a larger share of the U.S. parcel market.