KONVOI Helps with AI and Sensors to Prevent the Theft of Truck Cargo

Each year cargo is stolen from at least 26.000 trucks each year in Germany, worth 2.2 bn Euros.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI

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… there is organized crime stealing from parked trucks. … We want to be preventive, before the theft happens.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI

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Our solution will be a combination of hardware and software.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI

The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Heinz Luckardt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/heinz-luckhardt-a77a351a0/), Co-Founder of Hamburg-based startup KONVOI. He is originally from Frankfurt, but his studies took him to Hamburg University, where he met his co-founder. But Heinz has already traveled the world, he studied in Milano (Italy), he has been a sales intern in India, as well as working with Fraunhofer Institute. At Fraunhofer, he was working on salt-based 3d printing.

The vision is later to go deep into predictive analytics, like generating heatmaps for truck thefts.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI

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The Startup

The startup was set up already in times of corona, in October 2020. Theft of truck cargo, literally from the back of a truck, is a big problem for the trucking companies, as well as all companies using this mean of transport. So KONVOI (https://www.konvoi.eu/) provides a combination of hardware and software to prevent these thefts. Right now, they are working on the first step of the solution, but the vision is to go deep in predictive analytics.

We are looking for innovative trucking companies in Germany, to give us feedback.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI

Venture Capital Funding

KONVOI is currently not actively looking for external investors. They are currently on a government grant, funding the company at least until end of 2021.

We are not focusing on one technology. We are working with radar, as well as ultra-sonic sound at the moment.
Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI

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