Manifest Vegas: Q&A with WareMatch's Ryan Kalisky

Fresh off the energy of Manifest Vegas 2026, held this past February at The Venetian, the logistics world is still buzzing. With more than 7,200 industry leaders gathered to discuss the evolution of human-machine collaboration, one thing is clear: the hunt for efficiency has never been more tech-driven.

Amidst the sea of 1,500+ startups at the event, one founder is tackling a classic supply chain headache with a fresh, digital-first approach.

Ryan Kalisky, Co-Founder and CEO of WareMatch, sat down with us to share how his personal frustrations as a distribution business owner led to the birth of the industry’s first true 3PL warehousing marketplace.

Alongside his Co-Founder Ben, Ryan is moving beyond simple matchmaking to create a high-velocity bidding environment where software connects brands with their ideal logistics partners.

How is WareMatch re-engineering the supply chain landscape right now?

I ran a distribution company buying and selling medical supplies with many different SKUs and certifications.

While freight was easy, finding the right 3PL was tough. Other matchmakers and directories simply showed me the locations they wanted me to see. I realised that 3PLs have their own pricing based on P&L, cash flow and demand, so we wanted to create a solution for quoting efficiency.

We are the first institutionally backed tech company helping 3PLs digitally market their service offerings. Consider us the Shopify of the 3PL space; providers can update their digital footprint or service offerings at the click of a button, making changes whenever they want

What do you believe the biggest pain point in the industry is right now? How do we solve those issues?

The biggest pain point in the industry is that it's a very dynamic space but marketing is insanely static and archaic.

So our technology helps people organise information as well as helps them digitally change whatever their service offerings are every day because these 3PLs their availabilities, their certifications, their technologies, they change very constantly and rather than going to their marketing team and having their whole website changed, they could go at the click of a button and and really just change it by themselves.

Can you point to one specific win for your business or customers last year? 

I think that the biggest win for our company has been that we've got global validation in five continents in our first six months of launch.

We have over 800 3PLs listed on their own. We made a software that's very user-friendly and dynamic for them to be able to market all their service offerings.

We're in an interesting industry that is unregulated. So we have access to the entire world and uh everyone knows about technology. So I think that we're only going forward from here. 

What do you think will define the next 18 months of supply chain strategy?

I think that the industry is going to evolve in an information standpoint where AI is going to help humans make informed decisions. I's not going to replace them.

On the supply chain consulting side, there's a lot of math involved in quoting out in the 3PL space. So, AI is going to help humans organise information and make informed decisions.