What Tive does

Tive is a privately held Boston-based IoT supply chain visibility company founded in 2015 by Krenar Komoni. The company sells proprietary cellular, GPS, and WiFi-enabled hardware trackers (Solo 5G, Solo Lite, Solo Pro), passive NFC temperature loggers (Tive Tag), digital tamper-detecting seals (Tive Seal), and accessories such as Dry Ice/Cryogenic probes and Bluetooth temperature beacons. These devices report real-time location, temperature, humidity, shock, and light data to Tive's cloud platform—sold in Essential, Plus, and Premium subscription tiers with API and webhook access—and to a 24/7 Live Monitoring service staffed by logistics professionals. On top of the platform, Tive layers 'Tive Intelligence' AI capabilities: Smart Alerts for anomaly detection (route deviation, reefer cycling) and Workflow Automations with optional AI agents acting on ground-truth shipment data. As of May 2026 the company has sold over 4 million trackers that have logged nearly 12 billion miles across 186 countries.\n\nTive monetizes through a SaaS-plus-hardware model. Hardware revenue comes from tracker sales—including the world's first single-use 2G device priced at $29 for cost-effective deployment and single-use or multi-use recyclable options—while recurring revenue is generated by tiered SaaS subscriptions (Essential, Plus, Premium) and managed 24/7 Live Monitoring services. Go-to-market combines enterprise field sales targeting global shippers, 3PLs, and retailers with product-led self-serve components (guided product tours, an ROI calculator, and a 2026 Buyer's Guide). Distribution is reinforced by Solo 5G Non-Lithium tracker approvals on 170+ air carriers and direct integrations with TMS providers including Shipwell.\n\nTive serves 1,200+ customers across life sciences and pharmaceuticals (Biocair, YSDS, E.T.H. Cargo, Southwest Transplant Alliance), food and beverage (Alpine Fresh, Sun-Glo of Idaho, Dulces de la Rosa), high-value goods (Moët Hennessy/LVMH, Semex, Potomac Metals, Venture Metals), transportation and logistics (GEODIS, Hellmann, LOT Cargo, Crane Solutions, Vector Global Logistics), and consumer goods (Mary Kay). Coverage spans all transportation modes (road, air, ocean, rail). A validated regulatory posture—FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 9001:2015, GxP/GAMP 5, plus EASA/FAA airworthiness certifications—positions the platform for regulated, high-stakes cargo where procurement is gated by validation and audit.

Name

Tive

Legal name

Tive, Inc.

Website

https://tive.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Tive is a Boston-based IoT supply chain visibility company combining proprietary cellular/GPS trackers, NFC temperature loggers, and a cloud-based SaaS platform. It serves 1,200+ customers across life sciences, food and beverage, high-value goods, and logistics across 186 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Supply Chain Visibility / IoT Logistics Tracking

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829)

akta.pro primary industry

Asset Tracking, RTLS & Industrial Visibility (IMAIAMAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Asset Tracking, RTLS & Equipment Monitoring (Facilities) (HSAPAPAJ), IoT/Connected Risk Prevention & Parametric Triggers Platforms (FSAGAGAG)

Keywords

• Supply chain visibility
• Shipment tracking devices
• IoT logistics monitoring
• Cold chain tracking
• Cargo security solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hardware Trackers: Sale of IoT tracking devices including Solo 5G, Solo Lite, Solo Pro, and Tive Tag. Single-use trackers eliminate reverse logistics or support sustainability with multi-use recyclable options. World first single-use 2G tracker priced at $29.
2. SaaS Platform Subscriptions: Cloud-based platform with tiered subscription plans (Essential, Plus, Premium) providing shipment visibility, alerts, analytics, and API access. Reached $100 million booked ARR milestone.
3. 24/7 Live Monitoring Services: Expert monitoring services where logistics professionals actively manage shipments around the clock, working with carriers and drivers to prevent issues.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Tive develops and sells IoT hardware trackers (Solo 5G, Solo Lite, Solo Pro, Tive Tag, Tive Seal) and a cloud-based SaaS platform that capture and transmit real-time shipment location, temperature, humidity, shock, and light data across road, air, ocean, and rail transportation modes. The company pairs the platform with 24/7 Live Monitoring services and AI-driven Smart Alerts to deliver end-to-end supply chain visibility for enterprises in life sciences, food and beverage, high-value goods, and logistics.

Product overview

Tive is a supply chain and logistics visibility technology company offering a hardware-software-people integrated solution. The portfolio centers on IoT trackers (Solo Pro for pharma/life sciences, Solo 5G for general real-time tracking, Solo Lite for cost-effective tracking) and passive loggers (Tive Tag for NFC temperature logging), paired with a cloud platform available in Essential, Plus, and Premium tiers. The ecosystem is extended by Tive Intelligence (Smart Alerts with route deviation and reefer cycle detection, Workflow Automations with AI agents), the Tive Seal security product, and 24/7 Live Monitoring services. Accessories include Dry Ice/Cryogenic Probes and Temperature Beacons. Together, these products enable real-time shipment location and condition monitoring across all transportation modes in 186+ countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tive Platform Cloud-based SaaS platform providing real-time shipment visibility, alert management, custom dashboards, reports, and API integration across road, air, ocean, and rail transportation modes for enterprise supply chain teams.
• Solo 5G Tracker Industry-leading IoT tracker capturing hyper-accurate location, temperature, humidity, shock, and light exposure using global cellular, WiFi, and GPS technology, available in Lithium and Non-Lithium models for real-time global shipment visibility.
• Solo Lite Tracker Cost-effective real-time IoT tracker using global cellular connectivity and WiFi technology for essential shipment visibility, with a $29 single-use unit price for affordable per-shipment deployment.
• Solo Pro Tracker Validated real-time visibility tracker for life sciences and pharmaceutical shipments featuring temperature range of -30°C to 60°C with dry ice and cryogenic probe support, designed to streamline product releases and protect pharmaceutical product integrity.
• Tive Tag NFC-enabled paper-thin passive temperature logger that continuously tracks temperature compliance throughout transit and displays pass/fail results when scanned with a smartphone, designed for direct-to-consumer shipments.
• Tive Seal Intelligent single-use digital security seal with IP67 rating and 4-month battery life providing real-time tamper detection and instant location alerts with ISO 17712 and C-TPAT certification for cargo theft mitigation.
• Dry Ice & Cryogenic Probes Specialized temperature probes compatible with Solo 5G and Solo Pro trackers for validated ultra-cold chain monitoring in dry ice (-70°C) and cryogenic (-200°C) shipments such as cell and gene therapies and biologics.
• Tive Temperature Beacon Bluetooth-enabled temperature and location sensor for item-level or pallet-level shipment monitoring that wirelessly pairs with Solo 5G and Solo Pro trackers to extend granular condition visibility inside containers and trailers.
• Tive Smart Alerts AI-powered alert suite powered by Tive Intelligence that automatically generates expected routes from historical data and flags deviations indicating theft risk, plus detects refrigeration unit cycling behavior that signals spoilage risk.
• Workflow Automations Automation feature that lets users define event- and condition-based triggers executing actions such as shipment generation, tracker setting adjustments, custom notifications, and issue escalation, with optional AI agents acting on the company's ground truth shipment data.
• 24/7 Live Monitoring Service Staffed service in which logistics professionals actively manage customer shipments 24/7, working directly with LSPs, carriers, and drivers to intervene on delays, damage, and theft, with a reported impact on an average of 12 potentially-lost shipments daily and $325 million in customer savings to date.

Quantifiable outcome

• Tive's 24/7 Live Monitoring team saves customers an average of 12 potentially-lost shipments daily and has generated $325 million in total customer savings
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability4 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• VizioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 February 2026Tive partnered with Vizion, an AI-powered global trade intelligence company, to co-host the 4th annual ION Workshop at Manifest 2026. The half-day workshop convenes supply chain practitioners, innovators, and strategy leaders to discuss cargo theft evolution, AI implementation, geopolitical trade shifts, tariff exposure, and data integrity challenges.
• ShipwellcoreTechnology or Integration · 14 July 2025Shipwell announced partnership to integrate Tive's IoT supply chain tracking technology into Shipwell's transportation management system. The integration enhances real-time shipment visibility, efficiency, and risk mitigation across industries including food, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing.
• Open Visibility NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-launched in February 2021 as an industry initiative to advance supply chain visibility standards and interoperability.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Controlant: Controlant provides real-time cold chain visibility and GxP-validated monitoring for pharmaceutical and life sciences customers worldwide. Closely comparable to Tive in the pharma cold-chain vertical with reusable data loggers and a comparable platform-as-a-service model.
• Sensitech (Emerson): Sensitech, part of Emerson's Cold Chain business, offers temperature and condition monitoring for life sciences, food, and other cold-chain-sensitive shipments. Directly overlaps Tive in pharma cold-chain visibility and is the most established competitor in GxP-validated temperature tracking.
• FourKites: FourKites is a direct competitor offering real-time transportation visibility across road, ocean, air, and rail modes for shippers and 3PLs. Operates in the same procurement cycles as Tive with comparable pharma, food, and high-value-goods customer bases and a similar data-platform monetization model.
• project44: project44 provides multimodal supply chain visibility for shippers, carriers, and 3PLs across global lanes. Competes with Tive for enterprise visibility RFPs, with overlapping customer profiles in life sciences, retail, and manufacturing and a comparable API-driven SaaS model.

Emerging players

• Geotab: Geotab provides fleet telematics and asset tracking with growing cold-chain and supply-chain monitoring capabilities. Adjacent competitive overlap to Tive through vehicle- and cargo-mounted IoT sensors, though centered on fleet operations rather than multi-mode shipment visibility.
• Sendum Technologies: Sendum offers cellular and Bluetooth IoT sensors and asset trackers used for supply chain and cold-chain monitoring. Smaller and niche compared to Tive, but directly comparable in multi-sensor shipment devices and corresponding web/cloud management platforms.

Broad incumbents

• Samsara: Samsara is a public IoT platform for fleet operations and asset telemetry with thousands of enterprise customers across logistics. A broader incumbent that overlaps Tive in cellular IoT hardware, condition sensors, and cloud dashboards, but is fleet-centric versus Tive's shipment-centric model.
• Descartes Systems Group: Descartes is a broad logistics technology incumbent offering transportation management, customs, and routing products with a growing visibility portfolio. Larger and more diversified than Tive; competes at the platform level for shipper IT budgets rather than on dedicated real-time tracking hardware.
• Manhattan Associates: Manhattan Associates is a large enterprise supply chain and omnichannel commerce platform provider with TMS and inventory visibility capabilities. Broader and more established than Tive, with overlapping coverage of retailer and shipper visibility use cases within a wider WMS/TMS portfolio.
• Kinaxis: Kinaxis specializes in supply chain planning and orchestration software, increasingly incorporating shipment visibility and execution capabilities. A broad incumbent that competes for enterprise supply chain IT spend adjacent to Tive's tracking and event-monitoring layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tiveinc

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds11 records

Investors20 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

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