FreightScout, the Jacksonville software company building an operating system for freight brokerages, is entering due diligence for an investment from the Chang Robotics Fund. The milestone follows the company's win at the 2026 Jacksonville Venture Competition, where it took both the judges' award and the crowd favorite award on August 19.

The Jacksonville Venture Competition is run by Chang Robotics founder Matthew Chang to surface and back founders building in Northeast Florida. Winning the competition carries more than a trophy: it puts the winning company directly in front of the fund itself. For FreightScout, that visibility has now translated into due diligence with the fund. Due diligence is the evaluation stage in which a fund reviews a company's operations, finances and legal standing before committing capital, and reaching that stage does not guarantee that an investment will close.

"We look at the founder before we look at anything else. Connor spent twelve years inside this industry before he built a line of software for it, and that shows up in the product. That is the profile we are trying to find in Jacksonville," said Matthew Chang, founder of Chang Robotics and the Chang Robotics Fund.

FreightScout founder Connor Miller spent twelve years inside freight brokerages before writing the first version of the platform himself. Along the way, he helped scale one brokerage division from $15 million to $130 million in annual revenue. The platform is live in production today at a mid-market brokerage, where roughly 3,000 shipments a month move through it. Freight brokerages sit between shippers and trucking carriers, matching loads with available capacity and managing the coordination in between — logistics work that much of the sector still handles manually, and the kind of workload Miller says he built the software to take over.

"I did not build this to win a pitch competition. I built it because I spent twelve years watching good people burn their days on work a machine should be doing," Miller said. "What the fund's interest tells me is that people outside of freight can see it too. The plan does not change. We go live at full production in September and we keep building."

FreightScout was one of six finalists at the 2026 competition, alongside Aurumn, Acorn, ChainMail, RACOS and Optitrade. The company launches full production with its founding customer in September 2026. What remains open is whether the fund's diligence converts into a closed investment, and how the platform performs once it is running at full production scale.