Freightos Limited Ordinary shares (CRGO) POS AMProspectus update (post-effective amendment)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On February 22, 2023, the registrant filed a Registration Statement on Form F-1 (Registration No. 333-269911), as amended on April 14, 2023, which was subsequently declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 1, 2023 (the “Registration Statement”).

This post-effective amendment is being filed to update the Registration Statement to include unaudited interim financial statements of the registrant.

No additional securities are being registered under this post-effective amendment. All applicable registration fees were paid at the time of the original filing of the Registration Statement.

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SELECTED DEFINITIONS

“2022 LTIP” means the Freightos Limited 2022 Long-Term Incentive Plan.

“Additional Backstop Commitment” means the $10,000,000 that the Backstop Investor agreed to invest in Gesher, pursuant to the terms of the Backstop Agreement, in the event that, as of immediately prior to the Closing, certain minimum cash conditions were not met after taking into account redemptions by Gesher shareholders in connection with the Transactions and certain other investments.

“Backstop Agreement” means the Backstop Subscription Agreement, dated as of April 14, 2022, entered into by Gesher and the Backstop Investor, pursuant to which the Backstop Investor agreed to provide the Additional Backstop Commitment.

“Backstop Investor” means Composite Analysis Group, Inc. and Joseph Lipsey, III, as applicable pursuant to their respective rights and obligations under the Backstop Agreement.

“Business Combination” means the merger contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement, whereby Merger Sub I merged with and into Gesher, with Gesher surviving the First Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Freightos, and whereby immediately following the First Merger, Gesher merged with and into Merger Sub II, with Merger Sub II surviving the Second Merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Freightos.

“Business Combination Agreement” means the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of May 31, 2022, by and among Gesher, Freightos, Freightos Merger Sub I and Freightos Merger Sub II.

“Buyers” means purchasers of logistics services, such as freight forwarders and importers/exporters.

“Closing” means the consummation of the Business Combination.

“Closing Date” means the date on which the Closing occurred.

“Companies Act” means the Companies Act (As Revised) of the Cayman Islands, as the same may be amended from time to time.

“Dodd-Frank Act” means the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

“EarlyBird” means EarlyBird Capital, Inc., which served as the representative of the underwriters in the Gesher IPO.

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

“First Merger” means the merger of Merger Sub I with and into Gesher, with Gesher as the surviving entity.

“Forward Purchase Agreement” means the Forward Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 23, 2022 (as amended), entered into by Gesher and the Forward Purchaser, pursuant to which the Forward Purchaser agreed to provide the FPA Backstop Commitment.

“Forward Purchaser” means M&G (ACS) Japan Equity Fund, as managed by M&G Investment Management Limited, and The Prudential Assurance Company Limited, as applicable pursuant to their respective rights and obligations under the Forward Purchase Agreement.

“FPA Backstop Commitment” means the amount up to $10,000,000 that the Forward Purchaser agreed to invest in Gesher, pursuant to the terms of the Forward Purchase Agreement, in the event that, as of immediately prior to the Closing, certain minimum cash conditions were not met after taking into account redemptions by Gesher shareholders in connection with the Transactions and certain other investments.

“Freightos” means Freightos HK, including its subsidiaries, through May 27, 2022, and Freightos Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company limited by shares, including its subsidiaries, after May 27, 2022.

“Freightos A&R Articles” means the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of Freightos Limited, effective as of the Closing.

“Freightos Board” means the board of directors of Freightos.

“Freightos HK” means Freightos Limited, a limited company incorporated and existing under the laws of Hong Kong.

“Freightos Ordinary Shares” or “Ordinary Shares” means each ordinary share of Freightos, par value $0.00001 per share.

“Freightos Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 25, 2023, by and between Freightos and the shareholders of Freightos party thereto, pursuant to which Freightos granted certain registration rights to certain Freightos shareholders with respect to the Freightos Ordinary Shares.

“Freightos Stock Plan” means the Tradeos Ltd. 2012 Global Incentive Option Scheme, as amended and/or restated from time to time.

“Freightos Warrant” means a warrant to purchase one Freightos Ordinary Share.

“GAAP” means accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

“Gesher” means Gesher I Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company limited by shares.

“Gesher IPO” or the “IPO” means the initial public offering of Gesher Units pursuant to the final prospectus of Gesher, dated as of October 12, 2021, and filed with the SEC on October 13, 2021 (File No. 333-259253).

“Gesher Ordinary Shares” means the ordinary shares of Gesher, par value $0.0001 per share.

“Gesher Preference Shares” means the preference shares of Gesher, par value $0.0001 per share.

“Gesher Registration Rights Agreement” means Gesher’s Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 12, 2021, which was amended on the Closing for Freightos to assume the obligations of Gesher under such Gesher Registration Rights Agreement, and, among other things, to reflect Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants instead of Gesher Ordinary Shares and Gesher Warrants.

“Gesher Shares” means Gesher Ordinary Shares and Gesher Preference Shares.

“Gesher Units” means the units issued by Gesher in the Gesher IPO and the exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option, each consisting of one Gesher Ordinary Share and one-half of a Gesher Warrant.

“Gesher Warrants” means all outstanding and unexercised warrants issued by Gesher to acquire Gesher Ordinary Shares.

“IFRS” means the International Financial Reporting Standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, as in effect from time to time.

“Lock-Up Agreements” means the Freightos Lock-Up Agreements and Sponsor Lock-Up Agreements (each as defined below) entered into by certain shareholders of Freightos and certain members of the Sponsor, as applicable, concurrently with the execution of the Business Combination Agreement.

“Merger Sub I” means Freightos Merger Sub I, a Cayman Islands exempted company limited by shares and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Freightos.

“Merger Sub II” means Freightos Merger Sub II, a Cayman Islands exempted company limited by shares and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Freightos.

“Nasdaq” means the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.

“PCAOB” means the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

“PIPE Financing” means the purchase of 1,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares for the aggregate purchase price of $10,000,000 at a price per share equal to $10.00, pursuant to the PIPE Agreement with the PIPE Investor, consummated immediately prior to the consummation of the Business Combination.

“PIPE Agreement” means the subscription agreement entered into by the PIPE Investor, pursuant to which the PIPE Investor committed to purchase an aggregate of 1,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares at a purchase price per share of $10.00.

“PIPE Investor” means Alshaffafia Trading W.L.L, an affiliate of Qatar Airways Group Q.C.S.C.

“Platform” means the platform by which Freightos connects Buyers to Sellers allowing Buyers to query Sellers’ rates, capacity and additional services, transmits booking requests to Sellers, and enables the Buyers or Sellers to manage certain aspects of the transaction. The Platform may be offered as part of a paid software-as-a-service product, a free portal, via API, or via third parties (such as companies providing transportation management systems) who choose to embed this functionality inside SaaS or portals offered by the third party to Buyers.

“Private Placement Investors” means the Forward Purchaser, the Backstop Investor and the PIPE Investor.

“Private Placements” means the transactions contemplated by the PIPE Agreement, the Forward Purchase Agreement and the Backstop Agreement.

“Public Warrants” means the 5,750,000 public warrants directly underlying the Gesher Units, with each whole warrant exercisable to purchase one Gesher Ordinary Share.

“Recapitalization” means the recapitalization of Freightos outstanding equity securities that occurred immediately prior to the First Merger, so that the only outstanding equity securities of Freightos were Freightos Ordinary Shares and certain options to acquire Freightos Ordinary Shares following the Closing. To effect the Recapitalization, (1) each Freightos Preferred Share was automatically converted into Freightos Ordinary Shares in accordance with the Freightos organizational documents, and (2) immediately following such conversion, each then issued and outstanding Freightos Ordinary Share was automatically converted into 3.51806 Freightos Ordinary Shares.

“Registration Rights Agreements” means, collectively, the Freightos Registration Rights Agreement and the Gesher Registration Rights Agreement.

“Regulation FD” means the SEC regulation promulgated under the Exchange Act that prohibits companies from selectively disclosing material nonpublic information to analysts, institutional investors and others without concurrently making widespread public disclosure.

“Restricted Securities” means Freightos Ordinary Shares, Freightos Warrants and/or Freightos Ordinary Shares issuable in respect of Freightos Warrants that the holder has agreed not to sell, hypothecate, pledge, hedge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establish or increase certain derivative positions with respect to.

“Sarbanes-Oxley Act” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

“SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

“Sellers” means sellers of logistics, services such as carriers and freight forwarders

“Sponsor” means Gesher I Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. Ezra Gardner and Omri Cherni are managing members of the Sponsor.

“Transactions” means the transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement.

“Trust Account” means the trust account established by Gesher upon the consummation of the Gesher IPO.

“Warrant Agreement” means the warrant agreement dated as of October 12, 2021, between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, and Gesher, which was subsequently amended by the first amendment to the Warrant Agreement, dated as of January 25, 2023, pursuant to which Freightos assumed the obligations of Gesher under the Warrant Agreement, and, among other things, the Warrant Agreement was amended to reflect that each former Gesher Warrant will be exercisable for one Freightos Ordinary Share.

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this prospectus, including statements regarding our future financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “expect,” “predict,” “potential” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, our expectations concerning the outlook for our business, productivity, plans and goals for future operational improvements and capital investments, operational performance, future market conditions or economic performance and developments in the capital and credit markets and expected future financial performance, as well as any information concerning possible or assumed future results of operations of the Company.

Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, and actual results or events may differ materially from those projected or implied in those statements. Important factors that could cause such differences include, but are not limited to:

We caution you against placing undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect current beliefs and are based on information currently available as of the date a forward-looking statement is made. Forward-looking statements set forth herein speak only as of the date of this prospectus. We undertake no obligation to revise forward-looking statements to reflect future events, changes in circumstances, or changes in beliefs. In the event that any forward-looking statement is updated, no inference should be made that we will make additional updates with respect to that statement, related matters, or any other forward-looking statements.

Any corrections or revisions and other important assumptions and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements, including discussions of significant risk factors, may appear in our public filings with the SEC, which are or will be (as appropriate) accessible at www.sec.gov, and which you are advised to consult.

For additional information, please see the section of this prospectus titled “Where You Can Find More Information.”

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RISK FACTORS

An investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below before making an investment decision. Our business, prospectus, financial condition or operating results could be harmed by any of these risks, as well as other risks not known to us or that we consider immaterial as of the date of this prospectus. The trading price of our securities could decline due to any of these risks, and, as a result, you may lose all or part of your investment. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and notes thereto included herein. You should carefully consider the following risk factors in addition to the other information included in this prospectus, including matters addressed in the section titled “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry

We have incurred and may continue to incur significant restructuring costs and may not realize our anticipated cost savings with respect to our restructuring initiatives.

As previously announced on July 11, 2023, in light of persisting global economic headwinds, we announced an operational efficiency plan expected to allow us to continue growth and to reach break-even on existing funds. The efficiency plan included reducing headcount by approximately 50 employees, or about 13% of the team. We have incurred significant restructuring costs in connection with our cost saving initiatives. These restructuring actions may not achieve the associated cost savings in a timely and efficient manner, and we may not fully realize the anticipated cost savings for a variety of reasons. Some of the risks include failure to obtain expected cost savings due to increased demands by users. These restructuring activities may result in material restructuring charges that could adversely affect our results of operations and cash flows in the periods in which such charges occur or payments are made. Additionally, actual costs related to such restructuring action may exceed the amounts that we previously estimated. Further, if the expected cost saving benefits are not realized, our business may be harmed.

Our growth depends on our ability to attract and retain carriers, freight forwarders and importers/exporters using our Platform, and the failure to maintain or grow the number of users, and the level of activity of such users, could adversely impact our business.

Our ability to achieve significant growth in revenue in the future will depend, in large part, upon our ability to retain our current users and attract new users, including air and ocean carriers, freight forwarders and large, medium and small enterprise importers/exporters participating in the global freight ecosystem.

Sellers, which are generally carriers and freight forwarders on our Platform, have many different ways of marketing their services, securing clients and obtaining payments from clients, including advertising to, and engaging with, prospective clients through other online or offline platforms and methods, using third-party brokers and offering their services directly to customers.

Buyers, which are generally freight forwarders and importers/exporters on our Platform, have similarly diverse options to find and engage service providers, such as other online or offline platforms, engaging providers directly or using other brokerage services. If we fail to attract and retain a community of carriers that service the routes sought by freight forwarders and importers/exporters, or freight forwarders servicing geographic regions where importers/exporters need services, or if Sellers resist adopting our Platform or integrating their existing information technology systems with our Platform, the quality and types of services provided on our Platform may not be satisfactory to Buyers on our Platform, services in geographic regions in which Buyers seek to engage freight services may not be available, and Buyers may decrease their use of, or cease using, our Platform.

We expect to increasingly engage in sophisticated, costly and lengthy sales, marketing, internationalization and localization efforts. These efforts and others may not generate additional users, retain current users or advance our business in a cost-effective manner. We may not be successful in growing spend from target users, and in the event our current users decrease their usage that is not offset by increased activity from new users, that may result in a temporary or long-term deceleration in GBV growth. We may also modify our pricing model, or introduce new, modify or consolidate existing offerings or otherwise change our services and features to attract and retain users. Such actions may not have the intended effect of attracting and retaining users at the levels we anticipate and may have unintended negative consequences, such as a loss of users or a reduction of user activity or spend on our Platform.

Any decrease in the attractiveness of our Platform, failure to attract and retain users or reduced spending by users could lead to decreased activity, diminished network effects or a decrease in GBV on our Platform, each of which could adversely affect our business, revenue, financial condition and operating results.

We have a limited operating history and a history of net losses, and we anticipate that we will experience net losses for the foreseeable future.

You should consider our business and prospects in light of the risks, expenses and difficulties encountered by companies in their early stage of development. Although we launched our business in 2012, airline integrations reached critical mass in 2020. In addition, we recently shifted our business model from a bifurcated SaaS offering for carriers and freight forwarders, and a marketplace offering for our end customers, to a comprehensive platform model encompassing all of our customer segments. Accordingly, we have limited representative operating history upon which to base an evaluation of our business and prospects and customers may not adopt the new model and we may face increased customer attrition.

Changes in our offerings and pricing, and the continued evolution of our business strategy, subject us to a number of uncertainties, including our ability to plan for and model future growth and make accurate projections regarding our future performance. In addition, we have in the past seen, and may in the future see, unexpected or unintended negative effects, as a result of changes to our pricing model, offerings and sales, brand positioning, and marketing efforts, including a failure to attract and retain carriers, freight forwarders and shipping companies or attract new end customers that spend on our Platform or the loss of spend from existing end customers. We cannot ensure that we will be successful in addressing these and other challenges we may face in the future, and our business may be adversely affected if we do not manage these challenges successfully.

We have experienced significant net losses since our inception and, given the significant operating expenditures associated with our business plan, we anticipate continuing net losses for the foreseeable future. If we do achieve profitability, we cannot be certain that we will be able to sustain or increase such profitability. We incurred a loss of approximately $24.7 million and $16.4 million for years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We have not generated positive cash flow from operations, and we cannot be certain that we will be able to generate positive cash flow from operations in the future. To achieve and sustain profitability, we must accomplish numerous objectives, including broadening and stabilizing our sources of revenue and increasing the number of users and monetizing transactions. Accomplishing these objectives may require significant additional investments and we cannot be certain that we will be able to raise additional investments on attractive terms, or even at all. Ultimately, we may not be able to achieve our objectives.

If we fail to maintain and improve the quality of our Platform, we may not be able to attract and retain users.

To satisfy users, we need to continue to improve their experience as well as innovate and introduce features and services that they find useful and that cause them to use our Platform more frequently. This includes improving our technology to optimize search results, tailoring our database to additional geographic and market segments and improving the user-friendliness of our Platform and our ability to provide high-quality support. Our users depend on our support organization to resolve issues relating to our Platform. Our ability to provide effective support is largely dependent on our ability to attract and retain employees who are well versed in our Platform. As we continue to grow our international user base, our support organization will face additional challenges, including those associated with continuing to deliver support to users who speak an increasing number of languages. Any failure to maintain high-quality support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality support, could harm our reputation or adversely affect our ability to market the benefits of our Platform to existing and prospective users.

In addition, we need to adapt, expand and improve our Platform and user interfaces to keep up with changing user preferences. We invest substantial resources in researching and developing new features and enhancing our Platform by incorporating these new features, improving functionality and adding other improvements to meet our users’ evolving needs. The success of any enhancements or improvements to our Platform or any new features depends on several factors, including timely completion, adequate quality testing, integration with technologies on our Platform and third-party partners’ technologies and overall market acceptance. Because further development of our Platform is complex, challenging and dependent upon an array of factors, the timetable for the release of new features and enhancements to our Platform is difficult to predict, and we may not offer new features as rapidly as users of our Platform require or expect. Additionally, the time, money, energy and other resources we dedicate to developing new features or enhancements to our Platform may be greater than the short-term, and potentially the total, returns from these new offerings.

It is difficult to predict the problems we may encounter in introducing new features to our Platform and we may need to devote significant resources to the creation, support and maintenance of these features. We provide no assurances that our initiatives to improve our user experience will be successful. We also cannot predict whether any new features will be well received by users or whether improving our Platform will be successful or sufficient to offset the costs incurred to offer these new features. If we are unable to improve or maintain the quality of our Platform, our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

We face intense competition and could lose market share to our competitors, which could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

The global freight industry is highly competitive, rapidly evolving, fragmented and subject to changing technology, shifting needs, virtual integration and frequent introductions of new competitors as well as new offerings and services. The level of competition within, and the frequency and likelihood of increased third-party investment and new competitors entering, this market segment has further intensified due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and global supply chain disruptions. We compete with a number of online and offline platforms and services domestically and internationally, as well as traditional freight brokerage businesses, to attract and retain users and increase the number of transactions booked through our Platform. Our main competitors fall into the following categories:

In addition, well-established internet companies, such as Amazon, and businesses that operate driving, delivery and other commoditized marketplaces, such as Uber Technologies, have entered or may decide to enter into our market segment. Some of these companies have launched or may launch, or have acquired or may acquire, companies or assets that offer products and services that directly compete with our Platform. Many of these established internet companies and other competitors are considerably larger than we are, have considerably greater financial and other resources than we do, and could offer products and services similar to our offerings for lower fees.

Internationally, we compete against online and offline channels and products and services in most countries. Local competitors, or competitors that have invested more in international expansion, might have greater brand recognition than us in some countries and a stronger understanding of local or regional culture and commerce. Some competitors also offer their products and services in local languages and currencies that we do not offer. As our business grows internationally and we expand and grow our services offerings, we may increasingly compete with these international companies. We also compete against locally sourced service providers and traditional, offline means of identifying freight resources, such as local freight brokers and professional networks.

We also compete with companies that utilize emerging technologies and assets, artificial intelligence and machine learning. These competitors may offer products and services that may, among other things, use machine learning algorithms to connect users more effectively than we do, or otherwise change the way that businesses engage or pay service providers so as to make our Platform less attractive to users. Many of the companies and services that utilize these technologies in our market are still new and not yet fully mature in their capabilities or network scale; however, we may face increased competition should these companies or services or new entrants, succeed.

Many of our current and potential competitors, both online and offline, enjoy substantial competitive advantages, such as greater name recognition and more prominent brand reputation; pre-existing relationships with desirable service providers and end customers; more experience with international operations and localization of their offerings; longer operating histories; greater financial, technical and other resources; more users; newer technologies; greater appeal to certain segments of users; and, in some cases, the ability to rapidly combine online platforms with traditional global freight solutions. These companies may use these advantages to offer services similar to ours at a lower price, develop different or superior services to compete with our Platform or respond more quickly and effectively than we do to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards, regulatory conditions or user preferences or requirements. In addition, while we compete intensely in more established markets, we also compete in developing technology

markets that are characterized by dynamic and rapid technological change, many and different business models and frequent disruption of incumbents by innovative online and offline entrants. The barriers to entry into these markets can be low, and businesses easily and quickly can launch online or mobile platforms and applications at nominal cost by using commercially available software or partnering with various established companies in these markets.

Moreover, current and future competitors may also vertically integrate their services or make strategic acquisitions or establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with others, including our current or future third-party partners. By doing so, these competitors may increase their ability to meet the needs of our existing or prospective users. These developments could limit our ability to obtain revenue from existing and new users. For all of these reasons, we may not be able to compete successfully against our current and future competitors. If we are unable to compete successfully against current and future competitors, our business, operating results and financial condition would be adversely impacted.

A limited number of Sellers provide a substantial portion of the offerings available on our Platform. If we fail to retain these Sellers, our GBV could decline significantly impacting our revenue and EBITDA.

For the year ended December 31, 2022, approximately 19% and 58% of our pro forma GBV was generated through the top Seller and the top-five Sellers on our Platform, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2021, approximately 20% and 55% of our pro forma GBV was generated through the top Seller and the top-five Sellers on our Platform, respectively. As a result, our GBV could fluctuate materially and could be materially and disproportionately impacted by changes in the offerings made available to Buyers on our Platform by these Sellers or any other significant future Seller. If any of our significant Sellers decrease, alter or discontinue the offerings available on our Platform, our GBV would decline, which would materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. If we do not further diversify our Seller base, we will continue to be susceptible to risks associated with Seller concentration.

Adverse global economic conditions, geopolitical issues and other conditions that impact our increasingly global operations could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition and liquidity.

As a global company, our performance is affected by global economic conditions as well as geopolitical issues and other conditions with global reach, including changes in political conditions and in governmental policies; changes in and compliance with international and domestic laws and regulations; and wars, civil unrest, acts of terrorism, embargoes and other conflicts. Macroeconomic weakness and uncertainty make it more difficult for us to manage our operations and accurately forecast financial results.

While macroeconomic risks apply to most companies, we are particularly vulnerable. The global freight industry is highly cyclical and especially susceptible to trends in economic activity. Our primary business is to facilitate the transportation of goods, so our business levels are directly tied to the purchase and production of goods — key macroeconomic measurements influenced by, among other things, inflation and deflation, supply chain disruptions, interest rates and currency exchange rates, labor costs, fuel and energy prices, buying patterns, debt levels, credit availability, disposable income, increased global concerns regarding working conditions and environmental sustainability; and changes in consumer attitudes regarding goods made in countries other than their own. When individuals and companies purchase and produce fewer goods, we facilitate the transportation of fewer goods, and as companies move manufacturing closer to consumer markets and expand the number of distribution centers, we facilitate the transportation of goods covering shorter distances. Certain retailers are making investments to house goods in closer proximity to customers in connection with the recent growth in e-commerce demand and we expect this trend to continue. As we continue to grow our international business, we are increasingly affected by the health of the global economy, the rate of growth of global trade, world trade policies, international taxes, government-to-government relations and the typically more volatile economies of emerging markets. For instance, anti-trade and protectionist measures adopted by the United States or other countries in which we do business, such as trade controls, tariffs, quotas, embargoes, sanctions or retaliation by another country against such measures, could result in economic uncertainty and instability, resulting in fewer goods being transported globally.

A reduction in global freight volumes may adversely affect our customer base and our opportunities for growth. A significant portion of our services are “spot market” opportunities, which refers to the freight services our service providers provide without contractually set rates. The spot market generally is impacted more quickly than the contract market by overall economic conditions. If rate conditions or a downturn in our end customers’ business cycles causes a reduction in the volume of freight they ship, particularly among certain national retailers or in the food, beverage, retail, manufacturing, paper or printing industries, carrier availability and our operating results would be adversely affected. In addition, the global freight market is also subject to cost

increases outside of our control that could materially reduce the amount of global freight services that our end customers require. Such cost increases include, but are not limited to, increases in wage rates, fuel prices, interest rates, taxes, tolls, license and registration fees, insurance, equipment and healthcare for employees.

The uncertainty regarding the status of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (“Brexit”) has negatively impacted the United Kingdom’s and the European Union’s economies. This negative impact will likely continue until the United Kingdom and European Union resolve all post-Brexit issues. Any additional impact of Brexit will depend on application of the terms of the agreements. Further discussion between the parties on implementation of the trade deal could trigger significant market and economic disruption, and the demand for our services could be depressed. Following Brexit, the movement of goods between the United Kingdom and the remaining member states of the European Union has become subject to additional inspections and documentation checks, which may create delays at ports of entry and departure and potentially impact our ability to effectively provide our services. Additionally, depending on the application of the terms of the trade deal, we may face new regulations regarding trade, aviation, tax, security and employees, among others, in the United Kingdom. Compliance with such regulations could be costly, negatively impacting our business, results of operations and financial condition. The post-Brexit trade deal could also adversely affect European and worldwide economic and market conditions and could contribute to instability in global financial and foreign exchange markets, including volatility in the value of the Euro and the British pound.

As a result of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions have imposed sanctions on certain Russian and Belarussian persons and entities, including certain Russian banks, energy companies and defense companies, and have imposed restrictions on exports of various items to Russia and certain regions of Ukraine (including the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Luhansk People’s Republic and Crimea).

Moreover, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States issued sanctions aimed at limiting Russia’s ability to raise funds through sovereign debt. Such ongoing events between Ukraine and Russia could also increase China/Taiwan political tensions and U.S./China trade and other relations. These geopolitical issues have resulted in increasing global tensions and create uncertainty for global commerce. Any or all of these factors could negatively affect demand for global freight, our business, financial condition and result of operations. In addition, new requirements or restrictions could come into effect which might increase the scrutiny on our business or result in one or more of our business activities being deemed to have violated sanctions prohibitions. Our business and reputation could be adversely affected if the authorities of the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom or other jurisdictions were to determine that any of our activities constitutes a violation of the sanctions they impose or provides a basis for a sanctions designation of us.

Our employees and contractors include professionals located in various international locations, including Israel, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Palestinian Authority and Catalonia. Political changes, including policies regarding export controls, that affect these or other international operations could disrupt or limit the work our employees and contractors are able to perform, and thus negatively affect the range of services we are able to provide our users or our cost for such services.

More recently, the closures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and their placement into receivership with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) created bank-specific and broader financial institution liquidity risk and concerns. Although we do not hold accounts in these banks and although the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC jointly released a statement that depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank would have access to their funds, even those in excess of the standard FDIC insurance limits, under a systemic risk exception, future adverse developments with respect to specific financial institutions or the broader financial services industry may lead to market-wide liquidity shortages, impair the ability of companies to access near-term working capital needs, and create additional market and economic uncertainty. There can be no assurance that future credit and financial market instability and a deterioration in confidence in economic conditions will not occur. Our general business strategy may be adversely affected by any such economic downturn, liquidity shortages, volatile business environment or continued unpredictable and unstable market conditions. If the current equity and credit markets deteriorate, or if adverse developments are experienced by financial institutions, it may cause short-term liquidity risk and also make any necessary debt or equity financing more difficult, more costly, more onerous with respect to financial and operating covenants and more dilutive. Failure to secure any necessary financing in a timely manner and on favorable terms could have a material adverse effect on our growth strategy, financial performance and share price and could require us to alter our operating plans. In addition, there is a risk that one or more of our service providers, financial institutions and other partners may be adversely affected by the foregoing risks, which could directly affect our ability to attain our operating goals on schedule and on budget.

Our GBV, revenue and profitability are impacted when market rates for air and ocean shipping change, through demand for shipping and, as a result, the demand for our services. In addition, some of our Platform revenue is directly linked as a percentage of GBV, and if there is price deflation, our revenue will be negatively impacted. For example, the FBX01 index, which indicates the market price for shipping a 40-foot container from China and East Asia to the North American West Coast, a bellwether trade lane, declined by over 80%, from $10,762, when the Business Combination Agreement was announced on May 31, 2022, to $1,977 as of September 3, 2023. If market prices remain at their current levels or fall further, our results of operations will likely be adversely affected.

Additional changes in international trade laws, regulations, policies and relations and commercial trends such as nearshoring could significantly reduce the volume of goods transported globally and adversely affect our business and results of operations.

The U.S. government has made and maintained significant changes in U.S. trade policy and has taken certain actions that have negatively impacted trade to and from the United States, including imposing tariffs on certain goods imported into the United States. Several governments, including the European Union, China and India, have imposed tariffs on certain goods imported from the United States. These actions contributed to weakness in the global economy that adversely affected our results of operations in recent years. Any further changes in international trade policy could trigger additional retaliatory actions by affected countries, resulting in “trade wars” and further increased costs for goods transported globally, which may reduce customer demand for these products if the parties having to pay those tariffs increase their prices, or in trading partners limiting their trade with countries that impose anti-trade measures. Political uncertainty surrounding international trade and other disputes could also have a negative effect on business and consumer confidence and spending. Such conditions could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition, as well as on the price of our ordinary shares.

Additionally, the U.S. government has taken action to limit the ability of domestic companies to engage in commerce with certain foreign entities under certain circumstances, and foreign governments may investigate our compliance with these restrictions. Furthermore, given the nature of our business and our global recognizability, foreign governments may target us by limiting the ability of foreign entities to do business with us in certain instances, imposing monetary or other penalties or taking other retaliatory action, which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition, as well as on the price of our ordinary shares.

We may need to raise additional funds to finance our future capital needs, which may dilute the value of our outstanding ordinary shares or prevent us from growing our business.

We may need to raise additional funds to finance our existing and future capital needs, including developing new services and technologies, and to fund ongoing operating expenses. We have not generated positive cash flow from operations in the past and may not do so in the foreseeable future. If we raise additional funds through the sale of equity securities or securities convertible into equity securities, these transactions may dilute the value of our outstanding ordinary shares. We may also decide to issue securities, including protected securities, that have rights, preferences and privileges senior to our ordinary shares. Any debt financing would increase our level of indebtedness and could negatively affect our liquidity and restrict our operations. We also can provide no assurances that the funds we raise will be sufficient to finance any future capital requirements. We may be unable to raise additional funds on terms favorable to us or at all. If financing is not available or is not available on acceptable terms, we may be unable to fund our future needs. This may prevent us from increasing our market share, capitalizing on new business opportunities or remaining competitive in our industry, which could materially and adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

We have experienced growth in recent periods and expect to continue to invest in our growth for the foreseeable future. If we are unable to maintain similar levels of growth or manage our growth effectively, our business, revenue, profits and financial condition could be adversely affected.

We have experienced growth in a relatively short period of time. For example, our total GBV for the year ended December 31, 2022 was approximately $611 million on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the acquisitions of Customs Services, Inc. and certain assets from its Canadian affiliate, which collectively operate an online customs clearance business known as Clearit (“Clearit”) and 9T Technologies LLC. (d/b/a 7LFreight) (“7LFreight”), representing a period-over-period growth rate of 102% over the same period in 2021. This GBV growth was due in part to the shift toward spending on consumer goods rather than services and entertainment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore may not be indicative of future growth. For example, future period-over-period GBV growth rates, when compared against the quarterly and full-year results of 2022, may fail to meet the expectations of investors or securities analysts given the accelerated GBV growth experienced during such periods due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the

resulting increased spending on consumer goods and reduced spending on services and entertainment experienced during such periods. Moreover, oscillations in the global freight market may be exaggerated (for example, increased spending on vacations during the summer and holiday seasons rather than on consumer goods) as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides and the restrictions intended to prevent its spread are relaxed or lifted, which may further impact period-over-period GBV growth rates. Sustaining our growth will place significant demands on our management as well as on our administrative, operational and financial resources. To manage our growth, we must continue to improve our operational, financial and management information systems and processes; expand, motivate, retain and effectively manage and train our workforce; and effectively collaborate with our third-party partners, all of which can be more difficult with an increasingly remote workforce and an increasingly competitive labor market. If we are unable to manage our growth successfully without compromising the quality of our offerings or user experience, or if new systems that we implement to assist in managing our growth do not produce the expected benefits, our business, operating results, financial condition and ability to successfully market our Platform and serve our users could be adversely affected.

Our recent and historical growth should not be considered indicative of our future performance. We have encountered, and will encounter in the future, risks, challenges and uncertainties, including those frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly changing and highly competitive industries. If our assumptions regarding these risks, challenges and uncertainties, which we use to plan and operate our business, are incorrect or change, or if we do not address these risks successfully, our financial condition and operating results could differ materially from our expectations and those of investors and securities analysts, our growth rates may slow and our business would be adversely impacted.

We may not successfully manage our growth.

We have grown rapidly and substantially in recent periods, including by expanding our internal resources and by making acquisitions, and in the future may seek to make additional acquisitions and enter into new markets. We intend to continue to focus on growth in our business, including organic growth through bringing on new carriers and Buyers and increased number of transactions with existing market participants. In addition, we may pursue additional transactions to grow into new markets or expand the offerings on our Platform. We may experience difficulties and higher-than-expected expenses in executing these strategies as a result of unfamiliarity with new markets, changes in revenue and business models, entry into new geographic areas, inability to find suitable acquisition partners and increased pressure on our existing infrastructure and information technology systems from multiple project implementations.

Our growth may place a significant strain on our management, operational, financial and information technology resources. We seek to continually improve existing procedures and controls, as well as implement new transaction processing, operational and financial systems and procedures and controls to expand, train and manage our employee base. Our working capital needs may continue to increase as our operations grow. Failure to manage our growth effectively, or obtain necessary working capital, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.

If we fail to maintain and enhance our brand, our business, results of operations and prospects may be materially and adversely affected.

We believe that maintaining and enhancing our brand are of significant importance to the success of our business. A well-recognized brand is critical to increasing the number and the level of engagement of Buyers of freight services and, in turn, enhancing our attractiveness to carriers and other Sellers of freight services. Successful promotion of our brand and our Platform depends on, among other things, the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, our ability to provide a reliable, trustworthy and useful platform, the perceived value of our Platform and our ability to provide quality support. In order to maintain and enhance our brand, we will need to continuously invest in marketing programs that may not be successful in achieving meaningful awareness levels. However, brand promotion activities may not yield increased revenue, and even if they do, the increased revenue may not offset the expenses we incur in building and maintaining our brand. We have conducted and may continue to conduct various marketing and brand promotion activities. We cannot assure that these activities will be successful or that we will be able to achieve the brand awareness we expect. In addition, our competitors may increase the intensity of their marketing campaigns, which may force us to increase our advertising spend to maintain our brand awareness.

In addition, any negative publicity relating to our Platform or us, regardless of its veracity, could harm our brand. If our brand is harmed, we may not be able to grow or maintain our carriers or user base, and our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

Because we expect the substantial majority of our future revenue to come from our Platform-with most of our revenue derived from our freightos.com marketplace and WebCargo Platform offerings, our inability to generate revenue from our Platform would adversely affect our business operations, financial results and growth prospects.

We expect to derive the substantial majority of our future revenue from our Platform, with most of our Platform revenue derived from our freightos.com marketplace and WebCargo offerings. As such, market acceptance of our Platform, including new offerings, is critical to our continued success, and any failure of our Platform to meet users’ expectations with respect to user experience or the failure of specific features to be effective in attracting and retaining users will have a negative impact on our business. Demand for our Platform is affected by a number of factors beyond our control, including the timing and success of new offerings and services by our competitors, our ability to respond to technological change and to effectively innovate and grow, the ability of our service providers’ information technology systems to handle the volume of searches generated by our Platform, contraction in our market, client spending patterns, global freight activity levels, the size and price of end customer orders on our Platform, changes in traditional freight booking behaviors, macroeconomic effects, such as those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the other risks identified herein. If we are unable to meet user demands, to expand our offerings or the categories of services offered on our Platform or to achieve and maintain more widespread market acceptance of our Platform, our business operations, financial results and growth prospects will be adversely affected.

Our revenue growth and ability to achieve and sustain profitability will depend in part on being able to increase the productivity, effectiveness and efficiency of our sales force.

In order to increase our revenue from our offerings and achieve and sustain profitability, we must improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our sales force and generate additional revenue from new and existing users. There is significant competition for sales personnel with the skills and technical knowledge required to maintain a productive and efficient sales force. Our ability to achieve significant revenue growth will depend, in large part, on our success in recruiting, training, effectively deploying and retaining sufficient numbers of sales and sales support personnel to support our growth. It is difficult to find, and we may be unable to retain, a sufficient number of sales personnel with the specific skills and technical knowledge needed to sell our offerings, particularly in light of the current global labor shortage. Furthermore, hiring and effectively deploying sales personnel, particularly in new markets, is complex and requires additional costs that we may not recover if the sales personnel fail to achieve full productivity. Even if we are able to hire qualified sales personnel, doing so may be costly and lengthy, as new sales personnel require significant training and can take a number of months to achieve full productivity. In addition, new sales personnel do not always achieve productivity milestones within the timelines that we have projected. Not all of our sales personnel and planned hires have or will become productive or do so as quickly as we expect. When our new sales personnel do not become fully productive on the timelines that we have projected, or at all, our revenue will not increase at anticipated rates, or at all, and our ability to achieve long-term projections may be negatively impacted. The COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions intended to prevent its spread adversely affected the productivity of our sales force for a period of time and may adversely affect it again as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, as the productivity of our sales force may diminish as users return more frequently to physical offices or are otherwise no longer subject to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. If our sales personnel are not successful in obtaining new business or increasing sales to our existing user base, our business and results of operations will be adversely affected.

If we are unable to maintain our payment partner relationships on favorable terms, or at all, our business could be adversely affected.

Our payment partners consist of payment processors and disbursement partners. We rely on banks and payment partners to provide us with corporate banking services, FBO accounts and clearing, processing and settlement functions for the funding of all transactions on our Platform and disbursement of funds to users, and we do not always have a sufficient surplus of vendors in the event one or more relationships are terminated for any reason.

Our payment partners are critical to our business. In order to maintain these relationships, we have in the past been, and may in the future be, forced to agree to terms that are unfavorable to us. If we are unable to maintain our agreements with current payment partners on favorable terms, or at all, or we are unable to enter into new agreements with new payment partners on favorable terms, or

at all, our ability to collect payments and disburse funds and our revenue and business may be adversely affected. This could occur for a number of reasons, including the following with respect to our payment partners:

Our management team has limited experience managing a public company.

Our management team has limited experience managing a publicly-traded company, interacting with public-company investors and complying with the increasingly complex laws pertaining to public companies in the United States. Our management team may not successfully or efficiently manage our transition to being a public company subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations under the U.S. federal securities laws and the continuous scrutiny of securities analysts and investors. These new obligations and constituents will require significant attention from our senior management and could divert their attention away from the day-to-day management of our business, which could adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

We are subject to currency risk and changes in the relative values of different currencies could have a material impact on our financial results.

The U.S. dollar is our functional currency and our financial results are reported in U.S. dollars. Our revenue was denominated in U.S. dollars, Euros and Canadian Dollars, as well as other currencies to a lesser extent, for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, and certain components of our cost of revenue and operating expenses, primarily payroll and rent, were denominated in New Israeli Shekel (“NIS”) and Euros. We incur expenses in other currencies, such as the Canadian Dollar, Indian Rupee and Chinese Yuan, although to a lesser extent. As a result, we are exposed to exchange rate risks that may materially impact our financial results.

For example, if the NIS appreciates against the U.S. dollar or if the value of the NIS declines against the U.S. dollar at a time when the rate of inflation in the cost of Israeli goods and services exceeds the rate of decline in the relative value of the NIS, then the U.S. dollar cost of our operations in Israel would increase and our results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

We do from time-to-time attempt to mitigate the risk of currency rate fluctuations by entering into forward contracts to hedge certain forecasted payments denominated in NIS, mainly payroll and rent. However, there can be no assurance that our attempts to hedge will be successful. Our non-U.S. operations also could be materially and adversely affected if we are unable to effectively hedge against currency fluctuations in the future. We cannot predict any future trends in exchange rate changes or the rate of inflation or deflation in the countries where we operate. We are also subject to counterparty risk related to our hedging transactions. If our hedging program is not successful, or if we change our hedging activities in the future, we may experience significant unexpected expenses from fluctuations in exchange rates. Any hedging technique we implement may fail to be effective. During the six months ended June 30, 2023 and the year ended December 31, 2022, we entered into forward contracts to hedge certain forecasted payments denominated in NIS for a period of up to twelve months. We had outstanding forward contracts that were not qualified as hedging instruments in a cash flow hedge, in the aggregate notional amount of $4.1 million and $3.3 million as of June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. The fair value of the outstanding forward contracts as of June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 was negative $0.05 million and $0.1 million, respectively.

Segments of our industry are subject to seasonal volume fluctuations, business cycle fluctuations and long-term trends. Unusual or otherwise unanticipated seasonality or other changes in volumes and prices could have an adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition.

Segments of our industry are subject to seasonal volume fluctuations. If we were to experience lower than expected revenue during any such period, whether from a general decline in economic conditions or other factors beyond our control, our expenses may not be sufficiently offset, which would have a disproportionately adverse impact on our operating results and financial condition. If we cannot maximize volume during peak seasonal periods, that may impact our operating results and financial condition.

Extreme or unusual weather conditions, earthquakes, fires, floods and other natural disasters or acts of God can disrupt the transportation ecosystem and our operations, impact freight volumes, carrier availability and our costs, any or all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business results.

Certain extreme or unusual weather conditions, such as snowstorms and hurricanes, natural disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods and climate change-caused events and acts of God, including pandemics (such as COVID-19) and epidemics, can disrupt the transportation ecosystem and affect freight volumes, operations, costs and revenues. The frequency and severity of some catastrophic events, such as flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, extended droughts and wildfires are contributed to by global climate change, which many in the scientific community, in governmental bodies and elsewhere believe will continue for decades to come, potentially resulting in increased disruption to us. Geopolitical trends, including nationalism, protectionism and restrictive visa requirements could limit the expansion of our business in those regions. Our business operations are subject to interruption by, among others, natural disasters, fire, power shortages, earthquakes, floods, nuclear power plant accidents and events beyond our control such as other industrial accidents, terrorist attacks and other hostile acts, labor disputes and public health issues. A catastrophic event that results in a disruption or failure of our systems or operations could result in significant losses and require substantial recovery time and significant expenditures in order to resume or maintain operations, which could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We rely on service providers, such as air, ocean and ground freight carriers, and if they become financially unstable or have reduced capacity to provide service because of COVID-19 or other reasons, it may adversely impact our business and operating results.

As a non-asset-based provider of a platform for global freight booking services, we depend on a variety of carriers and other service providers, including air, ocean and ground freight carriers. The quality and profitability of our services depend upon effective selection and oversight of our service providers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, air carriers have been particularly affected having to cancel flights due to travel restrictions resulting in dramatic drops in revenues, historical losses, high leverage and liquidity challenges. Uncertainty over recovery of demand for passenger air travel, in particular business travel, to pre-pandemic levels means air carriers’ operations and financial stability may be adversely affected long term. Prior to 2021, ocean carriers have incurred significant operating losses and may still be highly leveraged with debt and, if market prices for ocean cargo remain at their current levels or fall further, ocean carriers could be adversely impacted, which could adversely impact our operations and financial results.

COVID-19 places significant stress on our air, ocean and freight ground carriers, as well as other service providers, which may continue to result in reduced carrier capacity or availability, pricing volatility or more limited carrier transportation schedules and other services that we utilize, which could adversely impact our operations and financial results.

Our business experienced, and may again experience, an adverse impact from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including as new variants of COVID-19 continue to emerge and spread. In addition, the positive impacts on our business resulting from the shift in consumer spending behaviors during the pandemic are not continuing as the pandemic subsides and the restrictions intended to prevent its spread are relaxed or lifted.

The COVID-19 pandemic adversely impacted our business for a period of time and resulted in reductions in demand for our offerings and services by some of our clients, including small- and medium- sized business clients, which have been the most impacted by the resulting macroeconomic downturn and uncertainty and from which we derive a substantial portion of our GBV and revenue. Conversely, beginning in 2020, we experienced an increase in GBV and revenue growth driven by an acceleration in the shift in consumer spending to consumer goods and away from services and entertainment, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. These positive impacts have not continued as the pandemic subsides and the restrictions intended to prevent its spread are relaxed or lifted, which has negatively impacted, and may continue to negatively impact, our GBV and revenue growth.

The extent to which the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will continue to adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flow will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot reasonably be predicted with confidence at this time, including the duration, spread and severity of new COVID-19 variants; the availability, utilization and efficacy rates of vaccinations; government responses to the evolving pandemic and potential restrictions on our business and the businesses of our users; the impact of the pandemic on the markets in which we operate and global economies and demand for our offerings; how quickly and to what extent normal economic and operating conditions resume; and the reaction of users and potential users to these developments, among others. The potential impacts of such developments include, but are not limited to:

Although the COVID-19 pandemic did not have a direct material adverse impact on our financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022, the rapidly changing market and macroeconomic conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted our business and the business of many industry participants using our Platform. There can be no assurance that the positive impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as increased consumer spending on consumer goods and increased international freight shipments, will continue.

We are subject to various risks related to Freightos data products and in particular our freight indexes. If we are unable to accurately calculate an index or comply with our published guides for calculating an index, we may face liability or reputational damage and lose clients and revenue, which could have a material impact on our financial results.

We act as the calculating agent for the Freightos Baltic Index (“FBX”) and the Freightos Air Index (“FAX”) and we calculate and distribute Freightos Terminal, a market intelligence product that improves supply chain decision-making, planning, and pricing transparency. The FBX is published every weekday to provide indicative market prices for shipping a 40 foot container on twelve trade lanes, plus a global average. While we act as the data provider and calculating agent for FBX, the Baltic Exchange in London is the benchmark administrator responsible for IOSCO compliance of the benchmark. Six of the twelve FBX indices have futures contract trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and futures contracts for several of the indices are able to be traded on the Singapore Exchange. These derivative products are new and trading volumes are still minimal, but we believe that FBX is the most used benchmark of containerized shipping prices. The FAX is published weekly to provide indicative market prices per kilogram for air cargo on various pairs of many major airports, as well as airport-to-region and region-to-region. FAX indexes are currently published for free as “beta” indexes for market feedback, and we may act as the benchmark administrator for FAX in the future. Freightos Terminal is a one-stop dashboard that provides industry stakeholders with data and market updates, trends, and insights that allow logistics professionals to optimize their international shipping. We may launch further data products including benchmarks in the future.

Our ability to calculate the FBX and the FAX and distribute Freightos Terminal are contingent upon our continued access to market information from the active use of our Platform. Analyzing the underlying data and calculating an index can be operationally challenging and can also be subject to interpretation. We are dependent on a very small group of employees with specialized experience to calculate our indexes. If we lose the services of any of those employees, our ability to maintain the indexes would be at significant jeopardy. Upon the occurrence of certain events, a benchmark administrator or calculation agent may need take one or more of the following actions: (i) postpone the day on which a calculation or publication is due to take place; (ii) suspend the calculation, publication and dissemination of the index; (iii) make a modification or change to the index; (iv) restate historical index data; (v) discontinue and cancel the index; or (vi) exercise discretion in the calculation of the index in accordance with the published guide for that index. For example, the FBX methodology needed to be changed in March 2022 as a result of the underlying data not accurately capturing surcharges imposed on freight shipments. There can be no assurance that if any of the foregoing actions are taken in the future that the indexes will remain credible to the market and continue to be used widely.

Futures contracts or other derivatives are and may be traded based on one or more of our indexes. Further, different market participants may use a published index to settle privately negotiated contracts. If we are unable to accurately and timely calculate and publish an index, we may be subject to claims, which may result in an adverse effect on our Company, such as claims for damages as a result of the mispricing of derivatives or freight contracts, a loss of goodwill with users, reputational harm, lost revenue and an increase in costs to us. Even if these claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could result in legal, settlement or other financial costs, divert the resources of our management and adversely affect our business and operating results. Any failure to maintain high-quality indexes, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality indexes, could harm our reputation or adversely affect our ability to market the benefits of our Platform to existing and prospective users.

We face payment and fraud risks that could adversely impact our business.

Our Platform systems and controls relating to customer identity verification, user authentication and fraud detection are complex. If such systems and controls are not effective, our Platform may be perceived as not being secure, our reputation may be harmed, we may face regulatory action and our business may be adversely impacted. In addition, bad actors around the world use increasingly sophisticated methods to engage in illegal activities involving personal information, such as unauthorized or fraudulent use of another’s identity, payment information or other information; misrepresentation of the user’s identity, location or skills, including using accounts that they have purchased, borrowed or leased; and the improper acquisition or use of credit or debit card details and banking or other payment account information. These types of illegal activities may increase as platforms like ours gain more prominence, including due to the ongoing disruption to the global supply chain, and as we become more visible as a result of our brand promotion efforts, as bad actors seek to take increasing advantage of us or our users. This conduct on our Platform could result in any of the following, each of which could adversely impact our business:

We do not have control over users of our Platform and cannot ensure that any measures we have taken to detect, prevent and mitigate these risks will stop or minimize the use of our Platform for, or to further, illegal or improper purposes.

Buyers sometimes fail to pay their invoices, necessitating action by us to compel payment.

In connection with our Platform, we provide a “payment guarantee” to Sellers for invoiced services on behalf of the Buyer and subsequently invoice the Buyer for such services. In order to maintain these relationships, we have in the past been, and may in the future be, forced to agree to terms that are unfavorable to us, including extended payments terms and providing cash deposits. We also extend credit to certain eligible Buyers in the ordinary course of business as part of our business model. By extending credit, we increase our exposure to uncollected receivables.

From time to time, Buyers fail to pay for services rendered by service providers, and as a result, we may be adversely affected both from the inability to collect amounts due and the cost of enforcing the applicable agreement or our terms of service, including through arbitration or litigation. Furthermore, some Buyers may seek bankruptcy protection or other similar relief and fail to pay amounts due, or pay those amounts more slowly, either of which could adversely affect our operating results, financial position and cash flow. All of these risks are made more likely during a macroeconomic downturn and could result in increased costs to us as we guarantee payments to service providers and seek to compel payment from our Buyers.

We are subject to disputes with or between users of our Platform.

Our business model involves enabling connections between Buyers and Sellers of freight services that contract directly through our Platform. Carriers utilize their own terms of service, and often have separate contracts with freight forwarders and other Buyers. Buyers and Sellers on the freightos.com marketplace are subject to various rules and terms for buying and selling on our Platform. Disputes sometimes arise between Buyers and Sellers with regard to their contract terms, service relationship or otherwise, including with respect to service standards and payment. These disputes may occur more frequently during a macroeconomic downturn or when freight costs are particularly high. If either party believes the contract terms were not met, we provide a mechanism for the parties to request assistance from us. Whether or not Buyers and Sellers decide to seek assistance from us, if these disputes are not resolved amicably, the parties might escalate to formal proceedings, such as by filing claims with a court or arbitral authority. Given our role in facilitating and supporting these arrangements, claims may sometimes be brought against us directly as a result of these disputes. Through our terms of service, we disclaim responsibility and liability for any disputes between users; however, we cannot guarantee that these terms will be effective in preventing or limiting our involvement in user disputes or that these terms will be enforceable or otherwise effectively prevent us from incurring liability as a result of disputes between users. In addition, users may assert claims against us regarding their experience on our Platform. Disputes between Buyers and Sellers, and between users and our Company, may become more frequent based on conditions outside our control, such as a macroeconomic downturn. Such disputes, or any increase in the number of disputes, may result in an adverse effect on our Company, such as a loss of goodwill with users, reputational harm, lost GBV and revenue and an increase in costs to us. Even if these claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could result in legal, settlement or other financial costs, divert the resources of our management and adversely affect our business and operating results.

Our business depends largely on our ability to attract and retain talented employees, including senior management and key personnel. If we lose the services of Zvi Schreiber, our Chief Executive Officer, or other members of our senior management team or key personnel, we may not be able to execute on our business strategy.

Our future success depends in large part on the continued services of senior management and other key personnel and our ability to attract, retain and motivate them. In particular, we are dependent on the services of Zvi Schreiber, our Chief Executive Officer, and our future vision, strategic direction, Platform and technology could be compromised if he were to take another position, become ill or incapacitated or otherwise become unable to serve as our Chief Executive Officer. We rely on our leadership team and other key personnel in the areas of product, research and development, operations, security, marketing, support and general and administrative functions. While our senior management and many other key personnel are employed pursuant to employment agreements, there can be no assurance that such persons will continue to provide services to us. Further, our senior management and other key personnel are employed in jurisdictions where courts may or may not enforce non-competition and other restrictive covenants included in our employment agreements. We do not maintain any “key-person” life insurance policies on any of our members of management other than our Chief Executive Officer, and the amounts of such policies may not be sufficient to pay losses experienced by us as a result of the loss of our Chief Executive Officer. If we lose the services of senior management or other key personnel, if our succession plans prove inadequate, or if we are unable to retain, attract, train, and integrate the highly skilled personnel we need, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.

We have made, and may continue to make, changes that have been and will be disruptive to our personnel, such as acquiring other businesses, changes to the composition of our leadership team and other key personnel and reorganizations of reporting lines of our workforce. These changes have resulted, and future personnel changes may result, in increased attrition or reduced productivity of our personnel, including senior management and key personnel, stemming from organizational restructuring, as new reporting relationships are established and as other companies may increasingly target our executives and other key personnel, particularly during the current highly competitive market for qualified personnel. Any such changes may also result in a loss of institutional knowledge, cause disruptions to our business, impede our ability to achieve our objectives or distract or result in diminished morale in, or the loss of, personnel.

Our future success also depends on our continuing ability to retain, attract, train and integrate highly skilled personnel, including software engineers and sales personnel. We face intense competition for qualified personnel from numerous software and other technology companies. In addition, competition for qualified software engineers is particularly intense. We may not be able to retain our current key personnel or attract, train, integrate or retain other highly skilled personnel in the future, all of which may be more difficult given our shift to a flexible work model for our workforce. We may incur significant costs to attract and retain highly skilled personnel, we may lose employees to our competitors or other technology companies before we realize the benefit of our investment in recruiting and training them and our succession plans may be insufficient to ensure business continuity if we are unable to retain key personnel or were to lose a significant portion of our personnel. Further, even highly skilled personnel may fail to be productive. We may not be able to retain personnel of the business that we have acquired, or may acquire in the future. To the extent we move into new geographies, we would need to attract and recruit skilled personnel in those areas.

While we enter into non-competition covenants with our employees in certain jurisdictions, we may be unable to enforce these covenants under the laws of the jurisdictions in which our employees work, and it may be difficult for us to restrict our competitors from benefiting from the expertise our former employees developed while working for us. For example, Israeli labor courts have required employers seeking to enforce non-compete undertakings of a former employee to demonstrate that the competitive activities of the former employee will harm one of a limited number of material interests of the employer, such as the protection of a company’s trade secrets or other intellectual property. Also, to the extent we hire personnel from competitors, we may be subject to allegations that they have been improperly solicited, that they have divulged proprietary or other confidential information or that their former employers own their inventions or other work product developed while employed by us.

Volatility or lack of appreciation in the trading price of our ordinary shares may also affect our ability to attract new skilled personnel and retain our key personnel. If we are unable to attract and retain suitably qualified individuals who are capable of meeting our growing technical, operational and managerial requirements, on a timely basis or at all, or if we need to increase our compensation expense to retain our employees, our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows may be adversely affected.

We may be unable to integrate acquired businesses and technologies successfully or to achieve the expected benefits of such acquisitions. We may acquire or invest in additional companies, which may divert our management’s attention, result in additional dilution to our shareholders and consume resources that are necessary to sustain our business.

Our business strategy may, from time to time, include acquiring complementary products, technologies, businesses or other assets. For example, we acquired 7LFreight in 2021 and Clearit in 2022. We also may enter into relationships with other businesses to expand our Platform or our ability to provide our Platform to more users, which could involve preferred or exclusive licenses, additional channels of distribution, discount pricing or investments in other companies. Negotiating these transactions can be time-consuming, difficult and expensive, and our ability to close these transactions may often be subject to approvals that are beyond our control. Consequently, these transactions, even if undertaken and announced, may not close, and any acquisition, investment or business relationship may result in unforeseen or additional operating difficulties, risks and expenditures. For one or more of those transactions, we may:

Any of these risks could adversely impact our business and operating results.

Our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes is limited.

As of June 30, 2023, we had estimated net operating loss carryforwards for Israeli income tax purposes of $74.6 million available to offset future taxable income and for Hong Kong income tax purposes of $23.1 million available to offset future taxable income recognized in Hong Kong and $0.5 million for U.S. federal income tax purposes available to offset future taxable income in the U.S. Realization of these net operating loss carryforwards depends on future income, and there is a risk that our existing carryforwards could expire unused and be unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities, which could materially and adversely affect our operating results.

In addition, under Sections 382 and 383 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change,” generally defined as a greater than 50% change (by value) in its equity ownership over a three-year period, the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change net operating loss carryforwards and other pre-change tax attributes, such as research tax credits, to offset its post-change income may be limited. In addition, we may experience ownership changes in the future as a result of subsequent shifts in our share ownership. As a result, if we earn net taxable income, our ability to use our pre-change net operating loss carry-forwards and other tax attributes to offset U.S. federal taxable income may be subject to limitations, which could potentially result in increased future tax liability to us.

Our business could be adversely affected by strikes or work stoppages by seaport or airport employees or employees in other areas of the global freight network.

There may be labor unrest, including strikes and work stoppages, among workers at various transportation providers and in industries affecting the transportation industry, such as ports, railroad, warehousing and trucking. Freight service providers could be affected, and we could lose business, due to any significant work stoppage or slowdown. Strikes, work slowdowns or labor shortages among longshoremen and other workers at ports in recent years have resulted in reduced activity at the ports for a time, creating an impact on the transportation industry. Work stoppages occurring among owner-operators in a specific market have increased costs periodically in the past. In recent years, there have been strikes involving railroad workers. Future strikes by railroad employees in North America or Europe or anywhere else that our customers’ freight travels by railroad could adversely affect our business. Any significant work stoppage, slowdown or other disruption, including disruption due to restrictions imposed as a result of a pandemic, involving port employees, railroad employees, warehouse employees or truck drivers could adversely affect our business and results of operations. Our employees in Barcelona are represented by a government-mandated collective bargaining agreement, and none of our other employees are represented by a collective bargaining agreement. If in the future our employees decide to unionize, this could increase our operating costs and potentially force us to alter the way we operate causing an adverse effect on our operating results.

Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Data Privacy and Security

Errors, defects or disruptions in our Platform could diminish demand, adversely impact our financial results and subject us to liability.

Our Solutions segment offerings, including SaaS and data, and our Platform enable our users to manage important aspects of their businesses, and any errors, defects or disruptions in our SaaS and data offerings or our Platform, or other performance or availability problems with our infrastructure, could harm our brand and reputation, negatively impact our operating results or otherwise damage our business or the businesses of our users. As the usage of our Platform grows, and as we introduce new offerings and services and look to expand our reach with more industry participants over time, we will need an increasing amount of technical infrastructure and continued infrastructure modernization, including network capacity and computing power, to continue our operations. We may fail to effectively scale and grow our technical infrastructure to accommodate these increased demands, which may adversely affect our user experience. We also rely on third-party software and infrastructure, including the infrastructure of the internet, to provide our Platform. Any failure of or disruption to this software and infrastructure could also make our Platform unavailable to our users.

Internet shutdowns in certain jurisdictions are becoming more frequent, including in response to civil unrest or prior to contested political elections, and any shutdown in a jurisdiction in which a significant number of our users are located will adversely affect user activity of our SaaS and data offerings or on our Platform throughout the duration of such shutdown. Our Platform is constantly changing with new updates, which may contain undetected errors when first introduced or released. Any errors, defects, disruptions in service, or other performance or stability problems with our Platform, or the inadequacy of our efforts to adequately prevent or timely detect or remedy errors or defects, could result in negative publicity, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our Platform, loss of competitive position, our inability to timely and accurately maintain our financial records, interference with our customers’ ability to contract for, or the ability of service providers to complete, bookings on our Platform, inaccurate or delayed invoicing of end customers, delay of payment to us or service providers, claims by users for losses sustained by them or investigation and corrective action taken by regulatory agencies. In such an event, we may be required, or may choose, for customer relations or other reasons, to expend additional resources in order to help resolve the issue. Accordingly, any errors, defects or disruptions in our Platform could adversely impact our brand and reputation, revenue and operating results.

If we are unable to comply with our security obligations or our computer systems are or become vulnerable to security incidents or other operational disruptions, we may face reputational damage and lose clients and revenue.

The services we provide are often critical to our users’ businesses. Our contracts generally require us to comply with security obligations, which could include maintaining network security and backup data, not breaching any security protocols on our users’ systems that we have access to, ensuring our network is virus-free, maintaining business continuity planning procedures and verifying the integrity of employees and contractors that work with our users. Any failure in a user’s system, whether or not a result of or related to the services we provide, or breach of security relating to the services we provide to the user could damage our reputation or result in a claim for substantial damages against us. Our liability for breaches of data security or information security requirements, for which we may be required to indemnify our users, may be extensive. Any significant failure of our equipment or systems, or any major disruption to basic infrastructure like power and telecommunications in the locations in which we operate, could impede our ability to provide services to our users, have a negative impact on our reputation, cause us to lose users and adversely affect our results of operations.

In addition, we often have access to or are required to collect and store confidential user data. If any person, including any of our employees or contractors or former employees or contractors, penetrates our network security, accidentally exposes our data or code or misappropriates data or code that belongs to us, our users, or our users’ customers, we could be subject to significant liability from our users or from our users’ customers for breaching contractual confidentiality provisions or privacy laws. Unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential data, whether through breach of our computer systems, systems failure, loss or theft of confidential information or intellectual property belonging to our users or our users’ customers, or otherwise, could damage our reputation, cause us to lose users and revenue, and result in financial and other potential losses by us.

Our internal computer and information technology systems, or those of our vendors, users or contractors, have been and may in the future be subject to cyberattacks or security incidents, including sabotage, which could result in a material operational or developmental disruption, or otherwise adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, result in reputational damage or liability, and cause us to lose existing or future users and revenue.

Despite our efforts to implement security measures, our internal computer and information technology systems and those of our vendors, users and contractors are vulnerable to attack and damage from computer viruses, malware, denial of service attacks, unauthorized access or other harm, including from threat actors seeking to cause disruption to our business. We face risks related to the protection of information that we maintain — or engage a third-party to maintain on our behalf — including unauthorized access, acquisition, use, disclosure or modification of such information. Cyberattacks are increasing in their frequency, sophistication and intensity and have become increasingly difficult to detect. Cyberattacks could include the deployment of harmful malware, ransomware, denial-of-service attacks, social engineering and other means to affect service reliability and threaten the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. Cyberattacks also could include phishing attempts or e-mail fraud to cause unauthorized payments or information to be transmitted to an unintended recipient or to permit unauthorized access to systems. A material cyberattack or security incident could cause interruptions in our operations and could result in a material disruption of our business operations, damage to our reputation, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and prospects.

In the ordinary course of our business, we collect and store data that we are required to protect, including, among other data, personal information about our employees, intellectual property and proprietary business information. We also collect and store data, including through the use of third parties that host the data on our behalf, on behalf of our users, which could include their personal

data, and information about their business that they deem proprietary, among other data. Any cyberattack or security incident that leads to unauthorized access, acquisition, use, modification or disclosure of any such information, whether pertaining to us, our users (former, current, prospective), could harm our reputation, cause us not to comply with U.S. federal and/or state, European or other non-U.S., data breach notification laws, our contractual obligations and otherwise subject us to liability under laws and regulations that protect the privacy and security of personal information and under contract. In addition, we could be subject to risks caused by misappropriation, misuse, leakage, falsification or intentional or accidental release or loss of information maintained in our information systems and networks and those of our vendors, including personal information of our employees and company, user and vendor confidential data.

In addition, outside parties have previously attempted and may in the future attempt to penetrate our systems or those of our vendors or fraudulently induce our personnel or the personnel of our vendors to disclose information in order to gain access to our systems or data or seek to gain a fraudulent payment (such as through a phishing/wire fraud scheme). The number and complexity of these threats continue to increase over time. If a material breach of our information technology systems or those of our vendors occurs, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed and our reputation and credibility could be damaged, resulting in increased costs and potential losses to us.

Our insurance coverage may not be adequate to cover losses associated with security incidents, and in any case, such insurance may not cover all of the types of costs, expenses and losses we could incur to address a security incident. As a result, we may be required to expend significant additional resources to protect against the threat of these issues or to alleviate problems caused by the same. In addition, we could be subject to regulatory actions and/or claims made by individuals and groups in private litigation related to data collection and use practices and other data privacy laws and regulations, including claims for misuse or inappropriate disclosure of data, as well as unfair or deceptive practices. Although we develop and maintain systems and controls designed to prevent these events from occurring, and we have a process to identify and mitigate threats, the development and maintenance of these systems, controls and processes is costly and requires ongoing monitoring and updating as technologies change and efforts to overcome security measures become increasingly sophisticated. Moreover, despite our efforts, the possibility of these events occurring cannot be eliminated entirely and there can be no assurance that any measures we take will prevent cyberattacks or security incidents that could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and prospects.

We are vulnerable to intellectual property infringement claims and challenges to our own intellectual property rights brought against us by third parties.

We operate in a highly competitive industry, and there has been considerable activity in the software industry to develop and enforce intellectual property rights. Intellectual property infringement claims against us or our users or third-party partners could result in monetary liability or a material disruption in the conduct of our business. We cannot be certain that aspects of our Solutions segment offerings, our Platform, content and brand names do not or will not infringe valid patents, trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property rights held by third parties, including our competitors. Also, we may in the future be subject to legal proceedings and claims relating to the intellectual property of others, including our competitors. The likelihood of intellectual property-related litigation and disputes may increase due to the increased attention on us in connection with the business combination and increased attention on our market segment due to the ongoing disruption to the global supply chain. Companies, including non-practicing entities, have also sent us demand letters alleging that we infringe their intellectual property. We may receive such demand letters seeking licensing fees, royalties and damages and demanding that we cease certain commercial activity in the future. Our competitors and other third parties may in the future challenge our registration or use of our trademarks, including “Freightos,” and other intellectual property rights, and such a challenge, even if not successful, could adversely affect our brand and business. Our competitors and others may now and in the future have significantly larger and more mature patent portfolios than we have or trademarks or other rights that pre-date and take precedence over our own. We may also be obligated to obtain licenses from third parties or modify our Solutions segment offerings, our Platform or marketing strategy, and each such obligation would require us to expend additional resources and could divert the attention of management. Some of our infringement indemnification obligations related to intellectual property are contractually capped at a very high amount or not capped at all.

Any litigation or other disputes relating to allegations of intellectual property infringement could subject us to significant legal costs, devotion of internal resources and liability for damages, invalidate our proprietary rights or force us to do one or more of the following:

Even if intellectual property claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert resources and the attention of management and adversely affect our business and operating results. We expect that the occurrence of infringement claims is likely to grow as the market segment for optimized global freight solutions and the users that engage them grows. Accordingly, our exposure to damages resulting from infringement claims could increase and this could require us to expend additional financial and management resources.

Failure to protect our intellectual property could adversely affect our business.

Our success depends in large part on our proprietary technology and data. We rely on various intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as confidentiality provisions and contractual arrangements, to protect our proprietary rights. In addition, to protect our brand, we may be required to expend substantial resources to register and defend our trademarks and to prevent others from using the same or substantially similar marks. As competitors enter our market segment, our exposure to unauthorized copying and use of our Solutions segment offerings, our Platform, technology, intellectual property and other proprietary information may increase. If we do not protect and enforce our intellectual property rights successfully or cost-effectively, our competitive position may suffer, which would adversely impact our operating results.

Our pending and future patent or trademark applications may not be approved, or competitors or others may challenge the validity, enforceability or scope of our patents, the registrability or validity of our trademarks or the trade secret status of our proprietary information. If we are unsuccessful in a dispute or litigation, we may be unable to stop competitors or others from using our marks or confusingly similar marks and we may suffer dilution, loss of reputation, genericization or other harm to our brand. Efforts to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights, even if successful, may be costly, negatively impact our brand, negatively affect worker productivity and be time consuming and distracting to our management.

There can be no assurance that additional patents or trademarks will be issued or that any patents or trademarks that are issued will provide significant protection for our intellectual property. In addition, our patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights may not provide us a significant competitive advantage. There is no assurance that the particular forms of intellectual property protection that we seek, including business decisions about when and where to file patents or register or renew trademarks and when and how to maintain and protect trade secrets, will be adequate to protect our business, or that common law protection will be sufficient for marks or in jurisdictions where we do not register the marks.

We may not pursue or file patent applications or apply for registration of copyrights or trademarks in the United States and foreign jurisdictions in which we have a presence with respect to our potentially patentable inventions, works of authorship and marks and logos for a variety of reasons, including the cost of procuring such rights and the uncertainty involved in obtaining adequate protection from such applications and registrations. Moreover, recent amendments to developing jurisprudence regarding, and possible changes to, intellectual property laws and regulations, including U.S. and foreign patent law, may affect our ability to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights or defend against claims alleging we are infringing others’ rights. If the intellectual property rights that we develop are not sufficient to protect our proprietary technology and data, our brand, business, financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected.

In addition, the laws of some countries provide varying levels of protection for our intellectual property. As we operate globally, our exposure to unauthorized copying and use of our SaaS offerings, our Platform and proprietary information could increase. Despite our precautions, our intellectual property is vulnerable to unauthorized access through employee or third-party error or actions, theft, cybersecurity incidents and other security breaches and incidents. It is possible for third parties to infringe upon or misappropriate our intellectual property, to copy our Platform and to use information that we regard as proprietary to create products and services that compete with ours. Effective intellectual property protection may not be available to us in every country in which our Platform is available. In addition, many countries limit the enforceability of patents or other intellectual property rights against certain third parties, including government agencies or government contractors. In these countries, patents or other intellectual property rights may provide limited or no benefit. Further, certain countries impose additional conditions on the transfer of intellectual property rights from individuals to companies, which may make it more difficult for us to secure and maintain intellectual property protection in those countries. We may need to expend additional resources to defend our intellectual property rights domestically or internationally, which could be costly, time consuming, and distracting to management and could impair our business or adversely affect our domestic or international expansion. If we cannot adequately protect and defend our intellectual property, we may not remain competitive, and our business, operating results and financial condition may be adversely affected.

We rely on trade secrets as an important aspect of our intellectual property program and to cover much of our technology and know-how. We seek to protect our trade secrets and obtain rights in intellectual property developed by service providers through confidentiality and invention assignment or intellectual property ownership agreements with our employees, contractors and other parties. We also take other measures to protect our information and data, including implementing acceptable use policies, limiting access to our information and data through technological means and monitoring and limiting the dissemination of our information and data outside of company-owned information systems. We cannot ensure that these agreements, or all the terms thereof, will be enforceable or compliant with applicable law, or that these agreements and other measures will be effective in controlling access to, use of, and distribution of our proprietary information or in effectively securing and maintaining exclusive ownership of intellectual property developed by our current or former employees and contractors. Most of our employees and contractors work remotely much of the time, which may make it more difficult to control use of confidential materials, increasing the risk that our source code or other confidential or trade secret information may be exposed.

Further, these agreements with our employees, contractors and other parties may not prevent other parties from independently developing technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our intellectual property. In addition, trade secret protection will not be able to stop third parties from independently developing competing technology. Any failure to protect intellectual property that we develop or our proprietary technology and data would adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

Even if we spend significant time and resources securing and monitoring our intellectual property rights, we may not be able to detect infringement by third parties. Our competitive position may be adversely impacted if our efforts to secure and protect our intellectual property are not successful, or we cannot detect infringement or enforce our intellectual property rights quickly or at all. In some circumstances, we may choose not to pursue enforcement because an infringer may have a dominant intellectual property position or for other business reasons. In addition, competitors might avoid infringement by designing around our intellectual property rights or by developing non-infringing competing technologies. We may in the future be forced to rely on litigation, opposition and cancellation actions and other claims and enforcement actions to protect our intellectual property, including to dispute registration, use of marks that may be confusingly similar to our own marks or use of technologies that infringe on our intellectual property. Similar claims and other litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce and protect our intellectual property rights. Litigation brought to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time-consuming and distracting to management and could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property. Further, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses; counterclaims attacking the scope, validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights; or counterclaims and countersuits asserting infringement by us of third-party intellectual property rights.

Our failure to secure, protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could adversely affect our brand and our business, and we could lose the right to use certain intellectual property or lose the opportunity to license our technology to others or to collect royalty payments based upon successful protection and assertion of our intellectual property against others.

Our SaaS offerings, our Platform and other software contain open source software components, and failure to comply with the terms of the underlying licenses could restrict our ability to market or operate our Platform.

Our SaaS offerings, our Platform and other software incorporates certain open source software components. An open source license typically permits the use, modification and distribution of software in source-code form subject to certain conditions. Some

open source licenses contain conditions that any person who distributes a modification or derivative work of software that was subject to an open source license make the modified version subject to the same open source license. Distributing software that is subject to this kind of open source license can lead to a requirement that certain aspects of our Platform be distributed or made available in source code form. Although we do not believe that we have used open source software in a manner that might condition its use on our distribution of any portion of our Platform in source code form, the interpretation of open source licenses is complex and, despite our efforts, it is possible that we may be liable for copyright infringement, breach of contract or other claims if our use of open source software is adjudged not to comply with the applicable open source licenses.

Moreover, we cannot ensure that our processes for controlling our use of open source software in our Platform will be effective. If we have not complied with the terms of an applicable open source software license, we may need to seek commercial licenses from third parties to continue offering our Platform and the terms on which such licenses are available may not be economically feasible, to re-engineer our Platform to remove or replace the open source software, to discontinue offering our Platform if re-engineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis, to pay monetary damages or to make available the source code for aspects of our proprietary technology, any of which could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

In addition to risks related to license requirements, use of open source software can involve greater risks than those associated with use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties or assurances of title, performance or non-infringement, nor do they control the origin of the software. There is typically no support available for open source software, and we cannot ensure that the authors of such open source software will implement or push updates to address security risks or will not abandon further development and maintenance. Many of the risks associated with the use of open source software, such as the lack of warranties or assurances of title or performance, cannot be eliminated, and could, if not properly addressed, negatively affect our business.

We rely on Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) and Google Cloud and other cloud and technology providers to deliver our products and services to our users, and any disruption of service from AWS or Google Cloud or material change to our arrangement with AWS or Google Cloud could adversely affect our business.

We currently host our SaaS offerings, our Platform and other software solutions, serve our users and support our operations using AWS and Google Cloud, providers of cloud infrastructure services. We do not have control over the operations of the facilities of AWS or Google Cloud that we use. AWS’s and Google Cloud’s facilities are vulnerable to failure, damage or interruption from a number of causes, including from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, cybersecurity attacks, terrorist attacks, power losses, telecommunications failures and similar events or could be subject to break-ins, computer viruses, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism and other misconduct. The occurrence of any of these events, a decision to close the facilities or cease or limit providing services to us without adequate notice or other unanticipated problems could result in interruptions to our Platform, including lengthy interruptions. Our SaaS offerings, our Platform and other software solutions’ continuing and uninterrupted performance is critical to our success and users may become dissatisfied by any system failure that interrupts our ability to provide our solutions to them. We may not be able to easily switch our AWS or Google Cloud operations to another cloud or other data center provider if there are disruptions or interference with our use of AWS or Google Cloud, and, even if we do switch our operations, other cloud and data center providers are subject to the same risks. Sustained or repeated system failures could reduce the attractiveness of our Platform to users, cause users to decrease their use of or cease using our Platform and adversely affect our business. Moreover, negative publicity arising from these types of disruptions could damage our reputation and may adversely impact use of our Platform. We currently do not carry business interruption insurance to compensate us for losses that may occur as a result of any events that cause interruptions in our services.

Neither AWS nor Google Cloud has an obligation to renew its agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If we are unable to renew our agreements or unable to renew on commercially reasonable terms, our agreements are prematurely terminated or we add additional infrastructure providers, we may experience costs or downtime in connection with the transfer to, or the addition of, new data center providers. If these providers charge high costs for or increase the cost of their services, we may have to increase the fees to use our Platform and our operating results may be adversely impacted.

Legal and Regulatory Risks Related to Our Business

The listing of our securities on Nasdaq did not benefit from the process customarily undertaken in connection with an underwritten initial public offering, which could result in diminished investor demand, inefficiencies in pricing and a more volatile public price for our securities.

Unlike an underwritten initial public offering of our securities, the initial listing of our securities as a result of the Business Combination did not benefit from the following:

The lack of such a process in connection with the listing of our securities could result in diminished investor demand, inefficiencies in pricing and a more volatile public price for our securities during the period immediately following the listing than in connection with an underwritten initial public offering.

Regulatory, legislative or self-regulatory/standard developments regarding privacy, cyber security matters could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business and cause increased costs of compliance.

We, along with a significant number of our users, are subject to laws, rules, regulations and industry standards related to data privacy and cyber security, and restrictions or technological requirements regarding the collection, use, storage, protection, retention, transfer and other processing of personal data. For example, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, came into force in May 2018 in respect of processing operations carried out in the context of the activities of an establishment in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), and any processing by entities not established in the EEA and relating to the offering of goods or services to individuals in the EEA and/or the monitoring of their behavior in the EEA. Also, the United Kingdom has implemented its own version of the GDPR, the so-called U.K. GDPR; therefore, as a practical matter, the GDPR continues to apply in substantially equivalent form to processing operations carried out in the context of the activities of an establishment in the United Kingdom, and any processing by entities not established in the United Kingdom and relating to the offering of goods or services to individuals in the United Kingdom and/or monitoring of their behavior in the United Kingdom. Accordingly, where we refer to the GDPR in this section, we are also referring to the U.K. GDPR in the context of U.K. processing operations, unless the context requires otherwise.

In the United States, the rules and regulations to which we may be subject include those promulgated under the authority of the Federal Trade Commission, state regulators and regulator enforcement positions and expectations. At the state level, all states have implemented security breach notification laws. Many states have adopted issue-specific laws pertaining to use of GPS and biometrics, among other technologies. Additionally, several states, including California, Virginia, Maryland and Utah, have enacted laws creating new individual privacy rights for consumers (as that word is broadly defined in the law) and placing increased privacy and security obligations on entities handling personal data of consumers or households. Among other requirements, the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) requires covered companies to provide new disclosures to California consumers and provide such consumers ways to opt- out of certain sales of personal information. The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations and allows for a new cause of action for data breaches. Other U.S. states, including Colorado, Virginia, Utah and Connecticut have enacted similar — but not identical — laws, which either are or will go into effect in 2023 and beyond. As our business is directed exclusively to business consumers, we may not be subject to all such consumer-directed privacy laws. Nonetheless, we must evaluate whether and to what extent we are required to comply with any such law; to the extent that we are subject to these or other privacy laws, we may be required to implement additional processes or procedures or change the way in which we do business, ultimately increasing costs and limiting our ability to collect, use and share data subject to those laws.

The GDPR provides that EEA member states and the United Kingdom may make their own further laws and regulations to introduce supplementary requirements in certain areas. Such country specific regulations, as well as differing and/or conflicting interpretations of the GDPR across the EEA and the United Kingdom, may lead to divergence in the application of the laws that

govern our processing of personal data across the EEA and/or the United Kingdom, endeavoring to comply with each of which may increase our costs and could increase our overall compliance risk. Such country-specific regulations could also limit our ability to collect, use and share data in the context of our EEA and/or U.K. operations and/or could cause our compliance costs to increase, ultimately having an adverse impact on our business and harming our business and financial condition.

Collectively, European data protection laws (including the GDPR) are wide-ranging in scope and impose numerous, significant and complex compliance burdens in relation to the processing of personal data. Specifically, the GDPR introduced numerous privacy-related changes for companies operating in the United Kingdom and EEA, including greater control over personal data by data subjects (e.g., the “right to be forgotten”), increasing transparency obligations to data subjects, requiring the establishment of a legal basis for processing personal data, creating obligations to appoint data protection officers and/or U.K. and/or EU representatives in certain circumstances, establishing obligations to implement certain technical and organizational safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of personal data, introducing data breach notification requirements and increasing fines. In particular, fines of up to €20 million or up to 4% of the annual global revenue of the noncompliant company, whichever is greater, could be imposed for violations of certain of the GDPR’s requirements. In addition to administrative fines, a wide variety of other potential enforcement powers are available to competent supervisory authorities in respect of potential and suspected violations of the GDPR, including extensive audit and inspection rights and powers to order temporary or permanent bans on all or some processing of personal data carried out by noncompliant actors. The GDPR also includes a private right of action on data subjects and consumer associations to lodge complaints with supervisory authorities, seek judicial remedies and obtain compensation for damages resulting from violations of the GDPR. Additionally, as noted above, the United Kingdom has transposed the GDPR into the laws of the United Kingdom by way of the U.K. GDPR, which could expose us to two parallel regimes, each of which potentially authorizes similar fines, with the U.K. GDPR permitting fines of up to the higher of £17.5 million or 4% of annual global revenue of any noncompliant company; as well as other potentially divergent enforcement actions for certain violations.

The GDPR requirements apply not only to third-party transactions, but also to transfers of personal data between, and other processing of personal data by, us and our subsidiaries, including employee information. The GDPR also restricts transfers of personal data to the United States and other countries, known as ‘third countries’, in respect of which the European Commission or other relevant regulatory body has not issued a so-called ‘adequacy decision’, unless the parties to the transfer have implemented specific safeguards to protect the transferred personal data. This is an area of evolving complexity and achieving effective compliance with ever changing requirements and guidance in relation to data transfers governed by GDPR is highly challenging. If we are unable to implement sufficient safeguards to ensure that our transfers of personal data governed by GDPR are lawful, we may face increased exposure to regulatory action(s), substantial fines and injunctions against processing personal data governed by GDPR. Loss of our ability to lawfully transfer personal data out of the United Kingdom and/or EEA to the United States or any other jurisdictions may (1) restrict our activities outside the United Kingdom and/or EEA, (2) limit our ability to work with partners, service providers, contractors and other companies outside the United Kingdom and/or EEA and/or (3) require us to increase our data processing capabilities in the United Kingdom and/or EEA at significant expense or otherwise cause us to change the geographical location or segregation of our relevant systems and operations — any or all of which could adversely affect our financial results.

Additionally, other countries outside of the United Kingdom and EEA in which we operate, including China and Israel, have enacted or are considering enacting similar cross-border data transfer restrictions and laws requiring local data residency, which could increase the cost and complexity of delivering our services and operating our business. The type of challenges we face in the United Kingdom and EEA will likely also arise in other jurisdictions that adopt laws similar in construction to the GDPR or regulatory frameworks of equivalent complexity.

Seeking to comply with evolving data protection requirements has caused us to expend significant resources and such expenditures are likely to continue into the near future as we respond to new interpretations, additional guidance and potential enforcement actions and patterns. While we have taken steps to comply with the GDPR, we cannot assure you that our efforts to achieve and remain in compliance have been, and/or will continue to be, fully successful.

Globally, governments and agencies have adopted and could in the future adopt, modify, apply or enforce laws, policies, regulations and standards covering user privacy, data security, technologies such as cookies that are used to collect, store and/or process data, marketing online, the use of data to inform marketing, the taxation of products and services, unfair and deceptive practices and the collection (including the collection of information), use, processing, transfer, storage and/or disclosure of data associated with unique individual internet users. New regulation or legislative actions regarding data privacy and security (together with applicable industry standards) may increase the costs of doing business and could have a material adverse impact on our operations and cash flows.

We make public statements about our use and disclosure of personal data, including through our privacy policy. Although we endeavor to comply with our public statements and documentation, we may at times fail to do so or be alleged to have failed to do so. Moreover, despite our efforts, we may not be successful in achieving compliance if our employees or vendors fail to comply with our published policies and documentation. The publication of our privacy policy and other statements that provide promises and assurances about data privacy and security can subject us to potential government or legal action if they are found to be deceptive, unfair or misrepresentative of our actual practices.

Any failure or perceived failure (including as a result of deficiencies in our policies, procedures or measures relating to privacy, data protection, marketing or client communications) by us to comply with laws, regulations, policies, legal or contractual obligations, industry standards or regulatory guidance relating to privacy or data security, may result in governmental investigations and enforcement actions, litigation, fines and penalties or adverse publicity and could cause our clients and partners to lose trust in us, which could have an adverse effect on our reputation and business. We expect that there will continue to be new proposed laws, regulations and industry standards relating to privacy, data protection, marketing, consumer communications and information security in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area and other jurisdictions, and we cannot determine the impact such future laws, regulations and standards may have on our business. Future laws, regulations, standards and other obligations or any changed interpretation of existing laws or regulations could impair our ability to develop and market new services and maintain and grow our client base and increase revenue.

The enactment of legislation implementing changes in taxation of international business activities, the adoption of other corporate tax reform policies or changes in tax legislation or policies could impact our future financial position and results of operations.

Corporate tax reform, base-erosion efforts and tax transparency continue to be high priorities in many tax jurisdictions where we have business operations. As a result, policies regarding corporate income and other taxes in numerous jurisdictions are under heightened scrutiny and tax reform legislation is being proposed or enacted in a number of jurisdictions.

In 2015, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (the “OECD”) published final recommendations on base erosion and profit shifting (“BEPS”). These recommendations proposed the development of rules directed at counteracting the effects of tax havens and preferential tax regimes in countries around the world. Several of the areas of tax law on which the BEPS project focused have led or will lead to changes in the domestic law of individual OECD jurisdictions. These changes include (amongst others) restrictions on interest and other deductions for tax purposes, the introduction of broad anti-hybrid regimes and reform of controlled foreign company rules. Changes are also expected to arise in the application of certain double tax treaties, which may restrict the ability of certain members of the Freightos group to rely on the terms of relevant double tax treaties in certain circumstances. Further, recent BEPS developments such as the OECD Inclusive Framework’s global tax reform statements in October 2021 include proposals for new profit allocation and nexus rules and for rules (including Pillar Two model rules released in December 2021) to ensure that the profits of multinational enterprises are subject to a minimum rate of tax. If these are enacted, we would expect our tax costs and operational expenses related to this complex compliance to increase.

Changes of law in individual jurisdictions which may arise as a result of the BEPS project or other tax measures may ultimately increase the tax base of individual members of the Freightos group in certain jurisdictions or the worldwide tax exposure of the Freightos group. Changes of law may also include revisions to the definition of a “permanent establishment” and the rules for attributing profit to a permanent establishment. Other changes may focus on the goal of ensuring that transfer pricing outcomes are in line with value creation.

Such changes to tax laws could increase their complexity and the burden and costs of compliance. Additionally, such changes could also result in significant modifications to existing transfer pricing rules and could potentially have an adverse impact on our taxable profits in various jurisdictions.

We may have exposure to additional tax liabilities.

As an international business providing global freight booking services around the world, we are subject to income taxes and non-income-based taxes. Although we believe that our tax filing positions are reasonable and comply with applicable law, we regularly review our tax filing positions, especially in light of tax law or business practice changes, and we may change our positions or determine that previous positions should be amended, either of which could result in additional tax liabilities. Significant judgment is required to evaluate applicable tax obligations. In many cases, the ultimate tax determination is uncertain because it is not clear how new and existing statutes might apply to our business, and as a result, amounts recorded may be subject to adjustments by the relevant

tax authorities. The final determination of tax audits or tax disputes may be different from what is reflected in our historical income tax provisions and accruals. If current or future audits find that additional taxes are due, we may be subject to incremental tax liabilities, possibly including interest and penalties, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

In general, governments are increasingly focused on ways to increase tax revenues, which has contributed to an increase in audit activity, more aggressive positions taken by tax authorities, more time and difficulty to resolve any audits or disputes and an increase in new tax legislation. Any such additional taxes or other assessments may be in excess of our current tax provisions or may require us to modify our business practices in order to reduce our exposure to additional taxes going forward, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Certain countries have taken steps to unilaterally introduce a digital services tax to address the issue of multinational businesses carrying on business in their jurisdiction without a physical presence and therefore generally not being subject to income tax in those jurisdictions. These digital services taxes are calculated as a percentage of revenue rather than net income or profits. The interpretation and implementation of the various digital services taxes (especially if there is inconsistency in the application of these taxes across tax jurisdictions) could have a materially adverse impact on our results of operations and cash flows. Due to the global scale of our business activities, any changes in tax law that apply to our activities, such as new definitions of permanent establishment, new nexus and profit allocation rules or the combined effect of tax laws in multiple jurisdictions may increase our worldwide effective tax rate, increase the complexity and costs associated with tax compliance and adversely affect our cash flows and results of operations.

We are also subject to other non-income-based taxes, such as value-added, payroll, sales, use, excise and goods and services taxes. From time to time, we may be under audit or investigation by tax authorities or involved in legal proceedings related to these non-income-based taxes or we may revise or amend our tax positions, which may result in additional non-income-based tax liabilities.

We are subject to a complex regulatory environment, and failure to comply with and adapt to these regulations could result in penalties or otherwise adversely impact our business, and future regulation changes including sanctions could limit our ability to conduct parts of our business.

We are affected by ever increasing regulations from a number of sources in the global locations in which we operate. Many of these regulations are complex and require varying degrees of interpretation, including those related to trade compliance, data privacy, environmental, employment, compensation and competition, and may result in unforeseen costs.

In reaction to the continuing global terrorist threat, governments around the world are continuously enacting or updating security regulations. These regulations are multi-layered, increasingly technical in nature and characterized by a lack of harmonization of substantive requirements among various governmental authorities. Furthermore, the implementation of these regulations, including deadlines and substantive requirements, can be driven by regulatory urgencies rather than industry’s realistic ability to comply.

We are and, in the future, may be regulated and licensed by various federal, state, and local transportation agencies in the countries in which we operate. We are subject to regulation as a customs broker under licenses issued by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“USCBP”) and the Canada Border Services Agency (“CBSA”). As such, we are required to maintain prescribed records and are subject to periodic audits by the appropriate governmental authority. The regulations are complicated and subject to change. There can be no assurance that we will comply with all of the requirements of the USCBP or CBSA, and our failure to do so would jeopardize our licenses and our ability to continue offering and providing customs brokerage services. Some of the Sellers on our Platform are engaged in activities that require a license, including customs brokerage, U.S. ocean freight forwarding, and providing insurance. Other than Clearit, Freightos is not itself licensed to carry out such activities and while we state on our Platform that we are not acting as a service provider, there can be no assurance that we will not face claims that we are required to comply with such requirements.

On June 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (“OSRA”) into law, which provides, among other things, that no person may operate a shipping exchange involving ocean transportation in the foreign commerce of the United States unless the shipping exchange is registered as a national shipping exchange under US law. The OSRA further provides that a person shall register a shipping exchange by filing with the Federal Maritime Commission (“FMC”) an application for registration in such form as the FMC, by rule, may prescribe, containing the rules of the exchange and such other information and documents as the FMC, by rule, may prescribe as necessary or appropriate to complete a shipping exchange’s registration. The OSRA provides that the FMC shall issue regulations no later than three years after the enactment of the law. For purposes of OSRA, the term ‘shipping

exchange’ means a platform (digital, over-the-counter, or otherwise) that connects shippers with common carriers for the purpose of entering into underlying agreements or contracts for the transport of cargo, by vessel or other modes of transportation. We do not yet know what regulations the FMC will adopt, nor whether any part of our Platform will be a shipping exchange under the law requiring us to be registered with the FMC.

Failure to consistently and timely comply with these or additional regulations, such as the application of California law “AB5” to our service providers located in California, or the failure, breach or compromise of our policies and procedures or those of our service providers or agents, may result in increased operating costs, damage to our reputation, difficulty in attracting and retaining key personnel, restrictions on operations or fines and penalties.

Failure to comply with anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and sanctions laws, and similar laws associated with our activities in and outside of the United States, could subject us to penalties and other adverse consequences.

We have voluntarily implemented an anti-money laundering compliance program designed to address the risk of our Platform being used to facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing or other illegal activity. Our program may not be sufficient to prevent our Platform from being used to improperly move money or may be found not to satisfy the expectations of our partners or regulators. In addition, if we or a regulator determines that we are required to comply with anti-money laundering laws (such as the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), 31 U.S.C. § 5311), we may be required to enhance or alter our anti-money laundering compliance program. We also have some policies, procedures and technology designed to allow us to comply with economic sanctions laws in the countries in which we operate and prevent our Platform from being used to facilitate business in countries, regions or with persons or entities included on designated lists promulgated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which we refer to as OFAC, and equivalent foreign authorities. Our efforts to comply with OFAC regulations may be insufficient or not be effective, including in preventing users from using our services within the OFAC-sanctioned countries and regions, our partners or regulators may determine they are insufficient, or we may be required to comply with new sanctions laws and regulations, which may require us to further revise or expand our compliance program. For example, geopolitical events may result in new sanctions negatively affecting our users and business. Given the technical limitations in developing controls to prevent, among other things, the ability of users to publish on our Platform false or deliberately misleading information or to develop sanctions-evasion methods, it is possible that we may inadvertently and without our knowledge provide services to individuals or entities that have been designated by OFAC or are located in a country subject to an embargo by the United States that may not be in compliance with the economic sanctions regulations administered by OFAC.

Consequences for failing to comply with applicable anti-money laundering and sanctions laws and regulations, even unintentional violations, could include fines, criminal and civil lawsuits, forfeiture of significant assets or other enforcement actions. We could also be required to make costly and burdensome changes to our business practices or compliance programs as a result of regulatory scrutiny, voluntary changes we may make to our business strategy or the expansion of our operations. In addition, any perceived or actual breach of compliance by us, our users or payment partners with respect to applicable laws, rules and regulations could have a significant impact on our reputation and could cause us to lose existing users, prevent us from obtaining new users, cause other payment partners to terminate or not renew their agreements with us, negatively impact investor sentiment about our Company, require us to expend significant funds to remedy problems caused by violations and to avert further violations and expose us to legal risk and potential liability, all of which may adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition and may cause the price of our ordinary shares to decline.

We are also subject to the anti-bribery/anti-corruption laws in the jurisdictions in which we conduct business, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”). These laws generally prohibit companies as well as their employees and agents from improperly influencing government officials or commercial parties in order to, among other things, obtain or retain business, direct business to any person or gain an improper business advantage. Such laws also require companies to maintain accurate books and records and have a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that transactions are executed and assets are accessed and accounted for in accordance with management’s authorization. We face significant risks if we fail to comply with these laws. In many foreign countries, particularly in countries with developing economies, it may be a local custom that businesses engage in practices that are prohibited by the FCPA or other applicable laws and regulations. We may have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or state-owned or affiliated entities, and we may be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of our employees, representatives, contractors, partners and agents, even if we prohibit or do not explicitly authorize such activities. While the Company’s compliance program, policies and other resources are intended to mitigate and manage such risks, there is no guarantee that they are or will be fully effective at all times, and our

employees, users and agents, as well as those contractors to which we outsource certain of our business operations, may take actions in violation of our policies, procedures, agreements and/or applicable laws, for which we may be ultimately held responsible.

Any violation of the FCPA, other applicable anti-bribery/anti-corruption laws, anti-money laundering or sanctions laws, could result in investigations and actions by federal or state attorneys general or foreign regulators, loss of export privileges, severe criminal or civil fines and penalties or other sanctions, forfeiture of significant assets, whistleblower complaints and adverse media coverage, which could have an adverse effect on our reputation, business, operating results and prospects. In addition, responding to any enforcement action may result in a significant diversion of management’s attention and resources and significant defense costs and other professional fees. Further, even if we maintain proper controls and remain in compliance with applicable anti-corruption, anti-bribery/anti-money laundering and sanctions laws or regulations, should any of our competitors not implement sufficient controls and be found to have violated such laws or regulations, user perception of online freight platforms in general may decrease and our business, brand and reputation may be adversely affected.

We may be subject to governmental export and import controls that could impair our ability to compete in international markets and subject us to liability if we violate such controls.

Since 2018 in particular, there have been political and trade tensions among a number of the world’s major economies. These tensions have resulted in the implementation of tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and sanctions, including the use of export control restrictions and sanctions against certain countries, individuals and companies. Any increase in the use of export control restrictions and sanctions to target certain countries, regions and entities or any expansion of the extraterritorial jurisdiction of export control laws could impact our ability to compete globally. In addition, measures adopted by an affected country to counteract impacts of another country’s actions or regulations could lead to legal liability to multinational companies, including us. For example, in January 2021, China adopted a blocking statute that, among other matters, entitles Chinese entities incurring damages from a multinational’s compliance with foreign laws to seek civil remedies. In February 2022, due to the military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, several major economies, including the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union imposed economic sanctions against Russia and certain Russian persons and entities. Our current operations have not been materially, directly affected by the expanded export control regulations or the novel rules or measures adopted to counteract them. Nevertheless, depending on future developments of global trade tensions, such regulations, rules or measures may have an adverse impact on our business and operations and we may incur significant legal liability and financial losses as a result.

Any change in export or import regulations, economic sanctions or related legislation or change in the countries, governments, persons, vessels or technologies targeted by such regulations, could result in decreased use of our Platform by existing or potential users with international operations. Any decreased use of our Platform or limitation on our ability to export or sell our products would likely adversely affect our business, operating results and financial results.

Adverse litigation judgments or settlements resulting from legal or arbitral proceedings in which we may be involved could expose us to monetary damages, equitable restraints or limit our ability to operate our business.

In the future, we may become involved in private actions, collective actions, investigations and various other legal proceedings by users, service providers and government agencies that may have a potential material impact on our business. We may be subject to litigation relating to various matters relating to our business. The results of any such litigation, investigations and legal proceedings are inherently unpredictable and expensive. Any claims against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, costly and harmful to our reputation, and could require significant amounts of management time and corporate resources. If any of these legal proceedings were to be determined adversely to us, or we were to enter into a settlement arrangement, we could be exposed to monetary damages or be forced to change the way in which we operate our business, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

In addition, arbitration provisions may be included in our terms of service with users. These provisions may be intended to streamline the litigation process for all parties involved, as arbitration can in some cases be faster and less costly than litigating disputes in state or federal court. However, if we choose to include arbitration provisions, arbitration may become more costly for us or the volume of arbitrations may increase and become burdensome. Further, the use of arbitration provisions may subject us to certain risks to our reputation and brand, as these provisions have been the subject of increasing public scrutiny. To minimize these risks, we have in the past and may in the future voluntarily limit our use of arbitration provisions, or we may be required to do so, in any legal or regulatory proceeding, either of which could increase our litigation costs and exposure in respect of such proceedings.

Further, with the potential for conflicting rules regarding the scope and enforceability of arbitration on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis, as well as conflicting rules between the laws of the various jurisdictions in which we operate, some or all of the arbitration provisions we may choose to include, could be subject to challenge or may need to be revised to exempt certain categories of protection. If our arbitration agreements were found to be unenforceable, in whole or in part, or specific claims were required to be exempted from arbitration, we could experience an increase in our litigation costs and the time involved in resolving such disputes, and we could face increased exposure to potentially costly lawsuits, each of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and prospects.

Claims against us may exceed our insurance coverage and/or coverage amounts and may or may not be covered by insurance at all.

We maintain various insurance policies for employee health, worker’s compensation, commercial general liability, director and officers, errors and omissions, cyber, property and excess coverage over the commercial general liability. If any claim falls outside of our coverage or exceeds our coverage we may be required to record additional expense, which could adversely impact our results of operations.

Ongoing market conditions for obtaining insurance, the rising cost of insurance and coverage expense may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Insurance availability and coverage terms continue to vary with market conditions, the market of available insurers is constricting and premium costs have consistently trended upwards. Obtaining insurance and claim expense coverage is becoming increasingly burdensome and expensive and may not be available for some or all of our services offerings on acceptable terms, in sufficient amounts, or at all. A successful claim in excess of our insurance coverage or any material claim for which insurance coverage is denied, limited or is not available could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flow.

Changes in, or failure to comply with, competition laws, or customers using our data or tools for anti-competitive purposes, could adversely affect our business, financial condition or operating results.

Governmental agencies and regulators may, among other things, prohibit future acquisitions, divestitures or combinations we plan to make, impose significant fines or penalties, require divestiture of certain of our assets or impose other restrictions that limit or require us to modify our operations, including limitations on our contractual relationships with platform users or restrictions on our pricing models. Such rulings may alter the way in which we do business and, therefore, may increase our costs or liabilities or reduce demand for our products and services, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition or operating results.

Climate change, including measures to address climate change, could adversely impact our business and financial results.

The long-term effects of climate change are difficult to predict and may be widespread. The impacts of climate change may include physical risks (such as rising sea levels, which could affect port operations or frequency and severity of extreme weather conditions, which could disrupt our operations and damage cargo and our service providers’ facilities), compliance costs and transition risks (such as increased regulation and taxation to support carbon emissions’ reduction investments), shifts in customer demands (such as customers requiring more fuel efficient transportation modes or transparency to carbon emissions in their supply chains) and other adverse effects. Our non-asset-based model gives our end customers a flexibility and an ability to change locations, modes and carriers based on evolving operating conditions, however, such impacts may disrupt our operations by adversely affecting our ability to procure services that meet regulatory or customer requirements, depending on the availability of sufficient appropriate logistics solutions.

In addition, the increasing concern over climate change has resulted and may continue to result in more regulations relating to climate change, including regulating greenhouse gas emissions, restrictions on modes of transportation, alternative energy policies and sustainability initiatives, such as the FuelEU Maritime initiative. If legislation or regulations are enacted or promulgated in the United States or in any other jurisdictions in which we operate that impose more stringent restrictions and requirements than our current legal or regulatory obligations, we may experience disruptions in, or increases in the costs associated with delivering our services, which may negatively affect our operating our results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.

Risks Related to Our Incorporation in the Cayman Islands

You may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through U.S. courts may be limited, because we are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, and we conduct substantially all of our operations, and a majority of our directors and executive officers reside, outside of the United States.

We are an exempted company limited by shares incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands and conduct a majority of our operations outside the United States. Substantially all of our assets are located outside the United States. A majority of our officers and directors reside outside the United States and a substantial portion of the assets of those persons are located outside of the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon our directors or officers, or to enforce judgments obtained in the United States courts against our directors or officers.

Our corporate affairs are governed by the Freightos A&R Articles, the Cayman Islands Companies Act and the common law of the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders to take action against our directors, actions by minority shareholders and the fiduciary duties of our directors to us under Cayman Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the Cayman Islands. The common law of the Cayman Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the Cayman Islands as well as from the common law of England, the decisions of whose courts are of persuasive authority, but are not binding, on a court in the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary duties of our directors under Cayman Islands law are different from what they would be under statutes or judicial precedent in some jurisdictions in the United States. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a different body of securities laws than the United States and some U.S. states, such as Delaware, may have more fully developed and judicially interpreted bodies of corporate law than the Cayman Islands. In addition, shareholders of Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholder derivative action in a federal court of the United States.

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the “Grand Court”) may not (i) recognize or enforce against us judgments of courts of the United States predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state; and (ii) in original actions brought in the Cayman Islands, impose liabilities against us predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state, so far as the liabilities imposed by those provisions are penal in nature.

Although there is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, a final and conclusive foreign judgment obtained against us will be recognized by the Grand Court as a cause of action for a debt and may be sued upon without reexamination of the issues if: (a) the foreign court had jurisdiction in the matter; (b) we either submitted to the jurisdiction of the foreign court or was resident and carrying on business in the jurisdiction and was duly served with process; (c) the judgment was not obtained by fraud; (d) the judgment was not in respect of penalties, taxes, fines or similar fiscal or revenue obligations imposed on us; (e) recognition or enforcement of the judgment in the Cayman Islands would not be contrary to public policy; and (f) the proceedings under which the judgment was obtained were not contrary to the principles of natural justice. A Cayman Islands court may stay enforcement proceedings if concurrent proceedings are being brought elsewhere.

Shareholders of Cayman Islands exempted companies like us have no general rights under Cayman Islands law to inspect corporate records (other than the memorandum and articles of association, the register of mortgages and charges, any special resolutions passed by shareholders and a list of the names of the current directors) or to obtain copies of lists of shareholders of these companies. Pursuant to the Freightos A&R Articles, our directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what time and places and under what conditions or articles our accounts and books or any of them shall be open to the inspection of our shareholders not being directors, and no shareholder (not being a director) shall have any right of inspection of any account or book or document except as conferred by law or authorized by our directors or by ordinary resolution of our shareholders. This may make it more difficult for you to obtain the information needed to establish any facts necessary for a shareholder motion or to solicit proxies from other shareholders in connection with a proxy contest.

Certain corporate governance practices in the Cayman Islands, which is our home country, differ significantly from requirements for companies incorporated in other jurisdictions such as the United States. As a foreign private issuer whose securities are listed on Nasdaq, we are permitted to follow certain home country corporate governance practices in lieu of the requirements of Nasdaq pursuant to Nasdaq Rule 5615(a)(3), which provides for such exemption to compliance with the Nasdaq Rule 5600 Series, subject to certain exceptions. To the extent we choose to follow home country practice with respect to corporate governance matters, our shareholders may be afforded less protection than they otherwise would under rules and regulations applicable to U.S. domestic issuers.

As a result of all of the above, our shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests in the face of actions taken by management, members of our Board or controlling shareholders than they would as public shareholders of a company incorporated in the United States.

Economic substance legislation of the Cayman Islands may adversely impact us or our operations.

The Cayman Islands, together with several other non-European Union jurisdictions, have recently introduced legislation aimed at addressing concerns raised by the Council of the European Union as to offshore structures engaged in certain activities which attract profits without real economic activity. With effect from January 1, 2019, the International Tax Co-operation (Economic Substance) Act, (2020 Revision) (the “Substance Act”) came into force in the Cayman Islands introducing certain economic substance requirements for in-scope Cayman Islands entities which are engaged in certain “relevant activities,” which in the case of exempted companies incorporated before January 1, 2019, will apply in respect of financial years commencing July 1, 2019 onwards. As we are a Cayman Islands company, compliance obligations include filing annual notifications, which need to state whether we are carrying out any relevant activities and if so, whether we have satisfied economic substance tests to the extent required under the Substance Act.

As it is a new regime, it is anticipated that the Substance Act will evolve and be subject to further clarification and amendments. We may need to allocate additional resources to keep updated with these developments, and may have to make changes to our operations in order to comply with all requirements under the Substance Act. Failure to satisfy these requirements may subject us to penalties under the Substance Act.

We may be affected by the Financial Action Task Force’s increased monitoring of the Cayman Islands.

In February 2021, the Cayman Islands was added to the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) list of jurisdictions whose anti-money laundering practices are under increased monitoring, commonly referred to as the “FATF grey list.” When the FATF places a jurisdiction under increased monitoring, it means the country has committed to swiftly resolve the identified strategic deficiencies within agreed timeframes and is subject to increased monitoring during that time frame. In its October 2021 plenary, the FATF positively recognized the ongoing efforts of the Cayman Islands to improve its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime. Despite the progress the Cayman Islands is making on satisfying the final outstanding recommendations (being considered as compliant or largely compliant in 39 of the FATF’s 40 recommendations and having completed 61 out of 63 FATF recommendation actions), it is still unclear how long this designation will remain in place and what ramifications, if any, the designation will have for us.

The Cayman Islands have been added to the EU AML High-Risk Third Countries List.

On March 13, 2022, the European Commission (“EC”) updated its list of ‘high-risk third countries’ (“EU AML List”) identified as having strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing regimes. The EC has noted it is committed to greater alignment with the FATF listing process and the addition of the Cayman Islands to the EU AML List is a direct result of the inclusion of the Cayman Islands on the FATF grey list in February 2021. It is unclear how long this designation will remain in place and what ramifications, if any, the designation will have for us.

Failure to maintain our status as tax resident in Israel could adversely affect our financial and operating results.

Because we are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, we are treated as a tax resident of the Cayman Islands. In addition, according to the tax ruling we received from the Israel Tax Authority (“ITA”), we were required to register with the ITA and be permanently treated as a tax resident of Israel, which we have done. Continued attention must be paid to ensure that we continue to be a tax resident solely in Israel. If we were to be considered as tax resident within another jurisdiction, we may be subject to additional tax in that jurisdiction, which could negatively affect our financial and operating results, and/or our shareholders’ or warrant holders’ investment returns could be subject to additional or increased taxes (including withholding taxes).

Risks Related to Freightos’ Operations in Israel and Certain Other Jurisdictions

Relations between Israel and the other jurisdictions in which we operate, and geopolitical issues in the various jurisdictions in which our employees and users reside, could materially affect our business.

Many of our employees, including most of our management team, operate from our offices which are located in Jerusalem, Israel. In addition, several of our directors and members of our management team are residents of Israel. Accordingly, political, economic and military conditions in Israel and the surrounding region may directly affect our business and operations. In recent years, Israel has been engaged in sporadic armed conflicts with Hamas, an Islamist terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah, an Islamist terrorist group that controls large portions of southern Lebanon, and with Iranian-backed military forces in Syria. Some of these hostilities were accompanied by missiles being fired from the Gaza Strip against civilian targets in various parts of Israel, which negatively affected business conditions in Israel. In addition, Iran has threatened to attack Israel, is believed to be developing nuclear weapons and targeting cyber attacks against Israeli entities. Any hostilities involving Israel or the interruption or curtailment of trade between Israel and its trading partners could adversely affect our operations and results of operations.

Our commercial insurance does not cover losses that may occur as a result of events associated with war and terrorism. Although the Israeli government currently covers certain damages that are caused by terrorist attacks or acts of war, we cannot assure you that this government coverage will be maintained or that it will sufficiently cover our potential damages. Any losses or damages incurred by us could have a material adverse effect on our business. Any armed conflicts or political instability in the region would likely negatively affect business conditions and could harm our results of operations.

Further, the State of Israel and Israeli companies have been, from time to time, subjected to economic boycotts. Several countries still restrict business with the State of Israel and with Israeli companies. These restrictive laws and policies may have an adverse impact on our results of operations, financial condition or the expansion of our business. A campaign of boycotts, divestment, and sanctions has been undertaken against Israel, which could also adversely affect our business. Actual or perceived political instability in Israel or any negative changes in the political environment, may individually or in the aggregate adversely affect the Israeli economy and, in turn, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.

In addition, many Israeli citizens are obligated to perform annual military reserve duty each year for periods ranging from several days to several weeks until they reach the age of 40 (or older, for reservists who are military officers or who have certain occupations) and, in the event of a military conflict, may be called to active duty. In response to increases in terrorist activity, there have been periods of significant call-ups of military reservists. It is possible that there will be military reserve duty call-ups in the future. Our operations could be disrupted by such call-ups, which may include the call-up of members of our management. Such disruption could materially adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition, and results of operations.

Our Israeli subsidiary currently maintains a beneficial tax treatment status. Changes in tax laws, tax incentives, benefits or differing interpretations of tax laws or our inability to maintain our Israeli subsidiary’s beneficial tax status may adversely affect our results of operations.

We believe our Israeli subsidiary is eligible for certain tax benefits provided to “Preferred Technological Enterprises” under the Israeli Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments, 1959 (the “Investment Law”). In 2019, our Israeli subsidiary received a tax ruling from the ITA regarding its entitlement to tax benefits as a Preferred Technological Enterprise subject to compliance with the conditions set forth in such tax ruling and in the Investment Law. The tax ruling was valid from 2018 until the tax year ending in 2022. In order to remain eligible for the tax benefits for Preferred Technological Enterprises, our Israeli subsidiary must continue to meet certain conditions stipulated in the Investment Law and its regulations, as amended. There is no assurance that our Israeli subsidiary will remain eligible for the tax benefits for Preferred Technological Enterprises in the future or that those benefits will be available to it in the future. If these tax benefits are reduced, canceled or discontinued, or if our Israeli subsidiary fails to continue to meet certain conditions, its Israeli taxable income would be subject to regular Israeli corporate tax rates. The standard corporate tax rate for Israeli companies is currently 23%. Furthermore, the reduction, cancellation or discontinuation of the tax benefits for Preferred Technological Enterprises may have adverse tax consequences for our shareholders with respect to tax withholding and the tax rate that would apply on dividends paid by us. See the section of this prospectus entitled “Certain Material Israeli Tax Considerations.”

A tax ruling we obtained from the ITA imposes conditions that may limit our flexibility in operating our business and our ability to enter into certain corporate transactions.

Prior to, and in preparation for, the Business Combination, we underwent an internal reorganization. We obtained a tax ruling from the ITA in connection with the reorganization. The tax ruling imposes a number of conditions that limit our flexibility in operating our business and in engaging in certain corporate transactions. In accordance with the terms of the tax ruling, until the two-year anniversary of the completion date of the reorganization, we agreed to continue to hold 100% of the shares of our subsidiaries that took part in the reorganization and that the shareholders who held shares of Freightos HK prior to the reorganization continue to hold at least 25% of their holdings in Freightos’ shares during such period. Under certain circumstances, these conditions may not allow us the flexibility that we need to operate our business and may prevent us from taking advantage of strategic opportunities that might benefit our business and our shareholders. In addition, if we breach any of the terms of the tax ruling, we may be subject to additional Israeli tax (including penalties, interest and linkage differentials), which could negatively affect our financial condition and results of operations.

It may be difficult to enforce a U.S. judgment against us or our officers and directors in Israel or the United States or to assert U.S. securities laws claims in Israel or serve process on our officers and directors.

It may be difficult to enforce a U.S. judgment against us, our officers and directors and the Israeli experts named in this prospectus in Israel or the United States, or to assert U.S. securities laws claims in Israel or serve process on our officers and directors and these experts.

Most of our directors or officers are not residents of the United States and most of their and our assets are located outside the United States. Service of process upon us or our non-U.S. resident directors and officers and enforcement of judgments obtained in the United States against us or our non-U.S. directors and executive officers may be difficult to obtain within the United States. We have been informed by our legal counsel in Israel that it may be difficult to assert claims under U.S. securities laws in original actions instituted in Israel or obtain a judgment based on the civil liability provisions of U.S. federal securities laws. Israeli courts may refuse to hear a claim based on an alleged violation of U.S. securities laws against us or our non-U.S. officers and directors, reasoning that Israel may not be the most appropriate forum to bring such a claim. In addition, even if an Israeli court agrees to hear a claim, it may determine that Israeli law and not U.S. law is applicable to the claim. If U.S. law is found to be applicable, the content of applicable U.S. law must be proved as a fact, which can be a time-consuming and costly process. Certain matters of procedure will also be governed by Israeli law. There is little binding case law in Israel addressing the matters described above. Israeli courts might not enforce judgments rendered outside Israel, which may make it difficult to collect on judgments rendered against us or our non-U.S. officers and directors.

Moreover, an Israeli court will not enforce a non-Israeli judgment unless, subject to certain exceptions, certain conditions are met such as the judgment was given in a state whose laws provide for the enforcement of judgments of Israeli courts, its enforcement is not likely to prejudice the sovereignty or security of the State of Israel, it was not obtained by fraud or in the absence of due process, it is not at variance with another valid judgment that was given in the same matter between the same parties, and a suit in the same matter between the same parties was not pending before a court or tribunal in Israel at the time the non-Israeli action was brought.

Provisions of Israeli law may delay, prevent or make undesirable an acquisition of all or a significant portion of our shares or assets.

We are taxed as an Israeli corporation and Israeli tax considerations may make potential transactions undesirable to us or to some of our shareholders whose country of residence does not have a tax treaty with Israel granting tax relief to such shareholders from Israeli tax. With respect to mergers, Israeli tax law allows for tax deferral in certain circumstances but makes the deferral contingent on the fulfillment of numerous conditions, including a holding period of two years from the date of the transaction during which certain sales and dispositions of shares of the participating companies are restricted.

We may face various risks as a result of proposed judicial reforms in Israel.

Members of the Israeli government have announced plans to introduce far-reaching plans for overhauling the Israeli judicial system. In response, there have been protests at various levels domestically, including amongst high-tech employees. Ratings agencies, as well as large investment banks and other investors have raised concerns about the proposed reforms, putting negative

pressure on Israel’s credit rating, which could slow the flow of international investment, negatively impacting the infrastructure and business environment in which we operate.

We face various risks related to our operations in the Palestinian Authority which could materially affect our business.

Many of our employees, including members of our product, research and development and customer support teams, operate from our offices that are located within the West Bank, in Ramallah and Nablus.

Under a series of agreements, known as the Oslo Accords, signed between 1993 and 1999, the Palestinian Authority has security and civilian responsibility for many Palestinian-populated areas of the West Bank, including Ramallah and Nablus. The Palestinian Authority last held elections in 2006, when Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council. Fatah, the dominant Palestinian political faction in the West Bank, and Hamas failed to maintain a unity government. From time to time, there have been violent clashes between their respective supporters. In addition, tensions are often high between Israel and Palestinians living in the West Bank and from time to time, there is violence within the West Bank between Palestinians and Israelis.

The economic outlook in the West Bank is fragile, as security concerns and political friction have led to slow economic growth. Longstanding Israeli restrictions on imports, exports, and movement of goods and people continue to disrupt labor and trade flows, and the territory’s industrial capacity, and constrain private sector development.

Palestinian courts have limited history addressing issues that may impact our operations, including intellectual property and corporate matters. As such, we may lack the ability to enforce legal agreements or assert legal rights in the Palestinian Authority, which could materially impact our business and operations.

Our operations in the Palestinian Authority are subject to political, military, economic and legal risks, and conditions in the Palestinian Authority and the surrounding region may adversely impact our business and results of operations.

Our business is currently concentrated in certain geographies, especially Europe and the United States. Many shipments originate in Asia. Future exposure to local economies, regional downturns or other political, social or economic disruptions or events may materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

Our business is currently heavily concentrated in Europe. As a result, our business is currently more susceptible to regional and national conditions than the operations of more geographically diversified competitors, as we are more vulnerable to local economies, regional downturns or other more localized political or social disruptions and events. Any unforeseen events or circumstances that negatively affect these areas could materially adversely affect our revenues and profitability. These factors include, among other things, changes in demographics, population, competition, shifts in production, warehousing and distribution sites, consumer preferences and new or revised laws or regulations.

Risks Related to Ownership of Our Securities

The price of Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants may be volatile, and the value of Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants may decline.

We cannot predict the prices at which Freightos Ordinary Shares or Freightos Warrants will trade. The price of Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants may not bear any relation to any established criteria of the value of our business and prospects. In addition, the trading price of Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants is likely to be volatile and could be subject to fluctuations in response to various factors, some of which are beyond our control. These fluctuations could cause you to lose all or part of your investment in Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants as you might be unable to sell your shares at or above the price you paid. Factors that could cause fluctuations in the trading price of Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants include the following:

Broad market and industry fluctuations, as well as general economic, political, regulatory and market conditions, may also negatively impact the market price of our ordinary shares. In the past, companies who have experienced volatility in the market price of their securities have been subject to securities class action litigation. We may be the target of this type of litigation in the future, which could result in substantial expenses and divert our management’s attention.

Sales of Freightos Ordinary Shares, or the perception of such sales, by us or the Selling Securityholders pursuant to this prospectus in the public market or otherwise could cause the market price for the Freightos Ordinary Shares to decline and certain Selling Securityholders still may receive significant proceeds.

The sale of Freightos Ordinary Shares in the public market or otherwise, including sales pursuant to this prospectus, or the perception that such sales could occur, could increase the volatility of the market price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares or result in a significant decline in the public trading price of Freightos Ordinary Shares. These sales, or the possibility that these sales may occur, also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and at a price that it deems appropriate. Resales of Freightos Ordinary Shares may cause the market price of our securities to drop significantly, even if our business is doing well.

Although the Sponsor Holders (as defined below) and the Freightos Holders (as defined below) will be prohibited from transferring any Restricted Securities for the duration of the Sponsor Lock-Up Period (as defined below) and the Freightos Lock-Up Period (as defined below), respectively, subject to certain exceptions, these shares may be sold after the expiration or release of the respective applicable lock-up provisions in the Lock-Up Agreements. For more information, see the section of this prospectus titled “Freightos Ordinary Shares Eligible for Future Sale — Lock-Up Agreements.”

Following the expiration of the applicable lock-ups described in this prospectus and as restrictions on resale end and registration statements are available for use, the market price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares could decline if the holders of restricted or locked up shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell them. As such, sales of a substantial number of the Freightos Ordinary Shares in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to sell such shares, could reduce the market price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares.

This prospectus registers the Freightos Ordinary Shares being offered for resale pursuant to this prospectus by the Selling Securityholders, which represent approximately 65.0% of the outstanding Freightos Ordinary Shares as of the date of this prospectus, assuming the exercise of all Freightos Warrants. Certain of these Freightos Ordinary Shares were purchased at prices that were significantly below the current trading price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares and, even if our trading price is significantly below $10.00, the offering price for the units offered in the Gesher IPO, certain of the Selling Securityholders, including the Sponsor, may still have an incentive to sell their Freightos Ordinary Shares because they purchased the shares at prices lower than the public investors or the current trading price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares and the sale of such shares could result in the Selling Securityholders realizing a significant gain. For example, (i) the Sponsor acquired its 2,375,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares and 5,950,549 Freightos Warrants being registered for resale hereunder at prices of approximately $0.009 per share and $1.00 per warrant, respectively, (ii) the Forward Purchaser acquired its 5,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares and 2,500,000 Freightos Warrants being registered for resale hereunder at a price of $10.00 per unit, (iii) the Backstop Investor acquired its 1,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder at a price of $10.00 per share and its 100,000 Freightos Warrants being registered for resale hereunder for no additional consideration, (iv) the PIPE Investor acquired its 4,166,571 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder at a price of approximately $6.32 per share (except for the 1,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares acquired pursuant to the PIPE Agreement for a price of $10.00 per share), (v) Zvi Schreiber acquired his 4,255,849 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder at a price of approximately $0.12 per share, (vi) Aleph, L.P. and its affiliate, Aleph-Aleph, L.P., acquired their 3,544,394 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder at a price of approximately $2.23 per share, (vii) Annox Capital LLC acquired its 1,576,630 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder at a price of approximately $1.59 per share, (viii) Asian Gateway Investments Pte. Ltd. acquired its 4,749,856 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder at a price of approximately $6.32 per share, (ix) FCJI, Inc. acquired its 1,504,122 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder at a price of approximately $6.32 per share, (x) Israel Cleantech Ventures II, L.P. acquired its 3,702,727 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder at a price of approximately $2.41 per share, and (xi) Qatar Airways Group Q.C.S.C. acquired its 213,723 Freightos Ordinary Shares being registered for resale hereunder for no consideration. Based on the closing price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares of $2.63 as of September 8, 2023, (i) the Sponsor would experience a potential profit, excluding the purchase price and value of the Freightos Warrants owned by the Sponsor, of up to approximately $2.62 per share, or approximately $6,224,875 million in the aggregate, (ii)  Zvi Schreiber would experience a potential profit of approximately $2.51 per share, or approximately $10,675,844 in the aggregate, (iii) Aleph, L.P. and its affiliate, Aleph-Aleph, L.P. would experience a potential profit of approximately $0.40 per share, or approximately $1,414,253 in the aggregate, (iv) Annox Capital LLC would experience a potential profit of approximately $1.04 per share, or approximately $1,646,536 in the aggregate, (v)  Israel Cleantech Ventures II, L.P. would experience a potential profit of approximately $0.22 per share, or approximately $830,671 in the aggregate, and (vi) Qatar Airways Group Q.C.S.C. would experience a potential profit of approximately $2.63 per share, or approximately $562,091 in the aggregate. The other Selling Securityholders would not recognize a profit based on the current trading price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares as of September 8, 2023. Public securityholders who purchased their Freightos securities at higher prices than the Selling Securityholders may experience lower rates of return (if any) than the Selling Securityholders, due to differences in purchase prices and the potential trading price at which they may be able to sell.

There can be no assurance that Freightos Warrants will ever be in the money at the time they become exercisable or otherwise, and they may expire worthless.

The exercise price for the Freightos Warrants is $11.50 per ordinary share. There is no guarantee that such Freightos Warrants will ever be in the money prior to their expiration, and as such, the warrants may expire worthless. We believe that the likelihood that warrant holders determine to exercise their warrants, and therefore the amount of cash proceeds that we would receive, is dependent upon the market price of our Freightos Ordinary Shares. If the market price for our Freightos Ordinary Shares is less than the exercise price of the warrants (on a per share basis), we believe that warrant holders will be very unlikely to exercise any of their warrants, and accordingly, we will not receive any such proceeds. There is no assurance that the warrants will be “in the money” prior to their expiration or that the warrant holders will exercise their warrants. As of September 8, 2023, the closing price of our Freightos Ordinary Shares was $2.63 per share.

We may redeem your unexpired Freightos Warrants prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you, thereby making your Freightos Warrants worthless.

We have the ability to redeem outstanding Freightos Warrants at any time after they become exercisable and prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.01 per warrant, provided that the last reported sales price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (as adjusted for share splits, share dividends, reorganizations and recapitalizations) for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading-day period commencing at any time after the Freightos Warrants become exercisable and ending on the third business day prior to proper notice of such redemption provided that on the date we give notice of redemption and during the entire

period thereafter until the time we redeem the Freightos Warrants, we have an effective registration statement under the Securities Act covering the Freightos Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of Freightos Warrants and a current prospectus relating to them is available. If and when the Freightos Warrants become redeemable, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws. Redemption of the outstanding Freightos Warrants could force you (i) to exercise your Freightos Warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for you to do so, (ii) to sell your Freightos Warrants at the then-current market price when you might otherwise wish to hold your Freightos Warrants or (iii) to accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding Freightos Warrants are called for redemption, is likely to be substantially less than the market value of your Freightos Warrants.

If we do not file and maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the Freightos Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Freightos Warrants, holders will only be able to exercise such warrants on a “cashless basis.”

If we do not file and maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the Freightos Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Freightos Warrants at the time that holders wish to exercise such Freightos Warrants, they will only be able to exercise them on a “cashless basis” provided that an exemption from registration is available. As a result, the number of Freightos Ordinary Shares that holders will receive upon exercise of the Freightos Warrants will be fewer than it would have been had such holder exercised his Freightos Warrant for cash. Further, if an exemption from registration is not available, holders would not be able to exercise on a cashless basis and would only be able to exercise their warrants for cash if a current and effective prospectus relating to the Freightos Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Freightos Warrants is available. Under the terms of the Warrant Agreement, as amended, we have agreed to use our best efforts to meet these conditions and to file and maintain a current and effective prospectus relating to the Freightos Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Freightos Warrants until the expiration of the Freightos Warrants. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to do so. If we are unable to do so, the potential “upside” of the holder’s investment in our Company may be reduced or the Freightos Warrants may expire worthless.

We are an “emerging growth company” and the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to us may make our securities less attractive to investors.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act. For as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we may choose to take advantage of certain exemptions and relief from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies, including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“Section 404”). We will remain an emerging growth company until the last day of the fiscal year ending after the fifth anniversary of the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, though we may cease to be an emerging growth company earlier if (1) we have more than $1.235 billion in annual gross revenue, (2) we qualify as a “large accelerated filer” as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) or (3) we issue, in any three-year period, more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities held by non-affiliates. We currently intend to take advantage of each of the reduced reporting requirements and exemptions described above. As a result, our shareholders may not have access to certain information they may deem important.

Further, the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected, and expect to continue to elect, not to opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our financial statements with another public company, which is neither an emerging growth company nor a company that has opted out of using the extended transition period, difficult because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

It is difficult to predict whether investors will find our securities less attractive as a result of our taking advantage of these exemptions and the relief granted to emerging growth companies. If some investors find our securities less attractive as a result, the trading prices of our securities may be lower than they otherwise would be, there may be a less active trading market for our securities and the market price of our securities may be more volatile.

When we lose our “emerging growth company” status, we will no longer be able to take advantage of certain exemptions from reporting, and we will also be required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404. We will incur additional

expenses in connection with such compliance and our management will need to devote additional time and effort to implement and comply with such requirements.

We are a “foreign private issuer” within the meaning of the rules under the Exchange Act, and, as such, we are exempt from certain provisions applicable to U.S. domestic public companies.

Because we are a foreign private issuer under the Exchange Act, we are exempt from certain provisions of the securities rules and regulations in the United States that are applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, including: (i) the rules under the Exchange Act requiring the filing of quarterly reports on Form 10-Q or current reports on Form 8-K with the SEC; (ii) the sections of the Exchange Act regulating the solicitation of proxies, consents, or authorizations in respect of a security registered under the Exchange Act; (iii) the sections of the Exchange Act requiring insiders to file public reports of their share ownership and trading activities and liability for insiders who profit from trades made in a short period of time; and (iv) the selective disclosure rules by issuers of material nonpublic information under Regulation FD.

We are required to file an annual report on Form 20-F within four months of the end of each fiscal year. In addition, we intend to publish our results on a quarterly basis through press releases, distributed pursuant to the rules and regulations of Nasdaq. Press releases relating to financial results and material events will also be furnished to the SEC on Form 6-K. However, the information we are required to file with or furnish to the SEC will be less extensive and less timely compared to that required to be filed with the SEC by U.S. domestic issuers. Accordingly, if you hold our securities, you may receive less or different information about us than you would receive about a U.S. domestic public company.

We could lose our status as a foreign private issuer under current SEC rules and regulations if more than 50% of our outstanding voting securities become directly or indirectly held of record by U.S. holders and any one of the following is true: (i) the majority of our directors or executive officers are U.S. citizens or residents; (ii) more than 50% of our assets are located in the United States; or (iii) our business is administered principally in the United States. If we lose our status as a foreign private issuer in the future, we will no longer be exempt from the rules described above and, among other things, will be required to file periodic reports and annual and quarterly financial statements as if we were a company incorporated in the United States. If this were to happen, we would likely incur substantial costs in fulfilling these additional regulatory requirements, and members of our management would likely have to divert time and resources from other responsibilities to ensuring these additional regulatory requirements are fulfilled.

We may lose our foreign private issuer status in the future, which could result in significant additional costs and expenses.

As discussed above, we are a foreign private issuer and, therefore, are not required to comply with all of the periodic disclosure and current reporting requirements of the Exchange Act. The determination of foreign private issuer status is made annually on the last business day of an issuer’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter. In the future, we would lose our foreign private issuer status if (1) more than 50% of our outstanding voting securities are owned by U.S. residents and (2) a majority of our directors or executive officers are U.S. citizens or residents, or (3) we fail to meet additional requirements necessary to avoid loss of foreign private issuer status. If we lose our foreign private issuer status, we will be required to file with the SEC periodic reports and registration statements on U.S. domestic issuer forms, which are more detailed and extensive than the forms available to a foreign private issuer. We would also have to mandatorily comply with U.S. federal proxy requirements, and our officers, directors and principal shareholders will become subject to the short-swing profit disclosure and recovery provisions of Section 16 of the Exchange Act. In addition, we would lose our ability to rely upon exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements under the listing rules of Nasdaq. As a U.S. listed public company that is not a foreign private issuer, we would incur significant additional legal, accounting and other expenses that we would not incur as a foreign private issuer.

As we are a “foreign private issuer” and intend to follow certain home country corporate governance practices, our shareholders may not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to all Nasdaq corporate governance requirements.

As a foreign private issuer, we have the option to follow certain home country corporate governance practices rather than those of Nasdaq, provided that we disclose the requirements we are not following and describe the home country practices we are following. We may in the future elect to follow home country practices with regard to certain matters. For example, we will not be required to: (i) have regularly scheduled executive sessions with only independent directors each year; (ii) solicit proxies and provide proxy statements for all meetings of shareholders; (iii) obtain shareholders’ approval for certain issuances of securities in connection with the acquisition of shares or assets of another company, a change of control, the establishment of or amendments to equity-based

compensation plans and private placements; or (iv) have a minimum of three members on our audit committee. As a result, our shareholders may not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to all Nasdaq corporate governance requirements. For a more detailed description, see “Management — Corporate Governance Practices.”

The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert our management’s attention and affect our ability to attract and retain qualified Board members.

We are subject to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, Nasdaq listing requirements and other applicable securities rules and regulations. As such, we will incur additional legal, accounting and other expenses compared to when we were a private company. These expenses may increase even more if we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company.” The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual reports with respect to our business and operating results. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. We may need to hire more employees or engage outside consultants to comply with these requirements, which will increase our costs and expenses.

Changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure are creating uncertainty for public companies, increasing legal and financial compliance costs and making some activities more time-consuming. These laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We expect these laws and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and to render some activities more time-consuming and costly, although we are currently unable to estimate these costs with any degree of certainty.

Many members of our management team have limited experience managing a publicly traded company, interacting with public company investors and complying with the increasingly complex laws pertaining to public companies. Our management team may not successfully or efficiently manage the transition to being a public company subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations under the federal securities laws and regulations and the continuous scrutiny of securities analysts and investors. The need to establish the corporate infrastructure demanded of a public company may divert our management’s attention from implementing its growth strategy, which could prevent us from improving our business, financial condition and results of operations. Furthermore, we expect these rules and regulations to make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and consequently we may be required to incur substantial costs to maintain the same or similar coverage. These additional obligations could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of the Freightos Board, particularly to serve on our audit committee, and qualified executive officers.

As a result of disclosure of information in this prospectus and in filings required of a public company, our business and financial condition will become more visible, which we believe may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. If such claims are successful, our business and operating results could be adversely affected, and, even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could cause an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, prospects and reputation.

If we are unable to satisfy our obligations as a public company, we could be subject to delisting of our ordinary shares or warrants, fines, sanctions and other regulatory actions and potentially civil litigation.

If we fail to maintain an effective system of disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting, our ability to produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable laws and regulations could be impaired.

A material weakness is a deficiency or combination of deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our consolidated financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

If we experience material weaknesses or otherwise fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls in the future, we may not be able to accurately or timely report our financial condition or results of operations or prevent fraud, which may adversely affect investor confidence in us and, as a result, the value of our ordinary shares. We cannot assure you that all of our existing material weaknesses have been identified, or that we will not in the future identify additional material weaknesses. Any failure to maintain

effective disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting could have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations and could adversely impact our business, operating results and financial condition.

If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which would cause the price of our ordinary shares to decline, and we may be subject to investigation or sanctions by the SEC. Furthermore, investor perceptions of our Company may suffer if, in the future, material weaknesses are found, and this could cause the price of our ordinary shares to decline. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on the stock exchange on which we list and be subjected to regulatory investigations and civil or criminal sanctions.

The issuance of additional share capital in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our equity incentive plans or otherwise will dilute all other shareholders.

We expect to issue additional share capital in the future that will result in dilution to all other shareholders. We expect to grant equity awards to employees and directors under our equity incentive plans. We may also raise capital through equity financings in the future. As part of our business strategy, we may acquire, make investments in or engage in strategic partnerships with companies, solutions or technologies and issue equity securities to pay for any such acquisition, investment or partnership. Any such issuances of additional share capital may cause shareholders to experience significant dilution of their ownership interests and the per share value of the Freightos Ordinary Shares (and per warrant value of the Freightos Warrants) to decline.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research, publish inaccurate or unfavorable research or cease publishing research about Freightos, the price and trading volume of our securities could decline significantly.

The trading market for Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants will depend, in part, on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about Freightos or our business. We may be unable to sustain coverage by well-regarded securities and industry analysts. If either none or only a limited number of securities or industry analysts maintain coverage of Freightos, or if these securities or industry analysts are not widely respected within the general investment community, the demand for Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants could decrease, which might cause the price and trading volume of our securities to decline significantly. In the event that we obtain securities or industry analyst coverage, if one or more of the analysts who cover Freightos downgrade their assessment of us or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, the market price and liquidity for Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants could be negatively impacted.

Future resales, or the possibility of future resales, of Freightos securities issued in connection with the Business Combination may cause the market price of the Freightos securities to drop significantly, even if our business is doing well.

Certain of our securityholders (including the PIPE Investor, but not including any shares acquired by the PIPE Investor pursuant to the PIPE Financing), certain members of the Sponsor, and the Forward Purchaser have entered into lock-up agreements with us. Pursuant to such lock-up agreements, such parties have agreed that, during the applicable lock-up period, they will not, sell, offer to sell, contract or enter into any agreement to sell, hypothecate, pledge, hedge, grant any option to purchase, or otherwise dispose of or enter into any agreement to dispose of, directly or indirectly, any Freightos Ordinary Shares or Freightos Warrants, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any such securities held immediately prior to the Closing, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise, until the expiration of the following periods:

See the section of this prospectus titled “Freightos Ordinary Shares Eligible for Future Sale — Lock-Up Agreements.”

Further, concurrently with the Closing, Freightos, the Sponsor and certain Freightos shareholders entered into a registration rights agreement that provides the Sponsor and the other parties thereto with customary demand registration rights and piggy-back registration rights with respect to registration statements filed by Freightos after the closing. Additionally, pursuant to the Forward Purchase Agreement, we have agreed to file a registration statement under the Securities Act to register the Freightos securities that will be held by the Forward Purchaser following the Closing, and additionally, as to securities issued pursuant to the Backstop Agreement, we will register the resale of those securities as well. See the section of this prospectus titled “Freightos Ordinary Shares Eligible for Future Sale — Registration Rights.”

After their respective lock-up periods, certain members of the Sponsor, the Forward Purchaser, and the Freightos shareholders (including the PIPE Investor) will not be restricted from selling Freightos Ordinary Shares held by them, other than by applicable securities laws. Additionally, the Backstop Investor will not be restricted from selling any of its Freightos Ordinary Shares following the Closing, other than by applicable securities laws. As such, sales of a substantial number of Freightos Ordinary Shares in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to sell shares, could reduce the market price of Freightos Ordinary Shares. Following the completion of the Business Combination, the Freightos shareholders subject to lock-up agreements collectively owned approximately 83% of the outstanding Freightos Ordinary Shares.

The sale, or possibility of sale of these shares in the public market or otherwise, could have the effect of increasing the volatility in the share price of Freightos Ordinary Shares or result in a significant decline in the market price of Freightos Ordinary Shares if the holders of currently restricted shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell such securities. These sales, or the possibility that these sales may occur, may also make it more difficult for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and at a price that we deem appropriate. Resales of Freightos Ordinary Shares may cause the market price of our securities to drop significantly, even if our business is doing well.

The markets for Freightos Ordinary Shares or Freightos Warrants have limited volume and liquidity and may further lose liquidity in the future, which would adversely affect the liquidity and price of Freightos securities.

An active trading market for Freightos Ordinary Shares or Freightos Warrants may never develop or, if developed, may not be sustained. You may be unable to sell your Freightos Ordinary Shares or Freightos Warrants unless a market can be established and sustained.

The trading prices of Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants may be volatile and may fluctuate due to a variety of factors, some of which are beyond our control, including, but not limited to:

These and other factors may cause the market prices and demand for Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants to fluctuate substantially, which may limit or prevent investors from readily selling their securities and may otherwise negatively affect the liquidity of Freightos Ordinary Shares or Freightos Warrants. These fluctuations may be even more pronounced in the trading market for Freightos Ordinary Shares or Freightos Warrants shortly following the Business Combination. Following periods of such volatility in the market price of a company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been brought against that company. Because of the potential volatility of Freightos Ordinary Shares or Freightos Warrants, we may become the target of securities litigation in the future. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and divert management’s attention and resources from its business.

We do not expect to pay dividends in the foreseeable future.

We expect that we will continue to operate at a loss in the foreseeable future, and will retain most, if not all, of our available funds and any future earnings to fund the development and growth of our business. As a result, we do not expect that we will pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

Our Board has discretion as to whether to distribute dividends. Even if our Board decides to declare and pay dividends, the timing, amount and form of future dividends, if any, will depend on the future results of operations and cash flow, capital requirements and surplus, the amount of distributions, if any, received from our subsidiaries, our financial condition, contractual restrictions and other factors deemed relevant by our Board. Accordingly, you may need to rely on sales of Freightos Ordinary Shares after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on your investment. There is no guarantee that the Freightos Ordinary Shares will appreciate in value or that the market price of the Freightos Ordinary Shares will not decline.

We have granted in the past, and will also grant in the future, share incentives, which may result in increased share-based compensation expenses.

In 2012, our Board adopted and our shareholders approved the Freightos Stock Plan for the purpose of granting share-based compensation awards to employees, directors and consultants to incentivize their performance and align their interests with us. In connection with the Business Combination Agreement, on May 31, 2022, the Freightos Board approved and adopted the 2022 LTIP. Initially, the maximum number of Freightos Ordinary Shares issuable under the 2022 LTIP was 1,759,030 Freightos Ordinary Shares (the “Share Pool”). In addition to the initial Share Pool, on the first day of each calendar year during the term of the 2022 LTIP beginning with the calendar year starting January 1, 2023 and continuing for ten calendar years (ending with the calendar year starting January 1, 2032), in each case a number of Freightos Ordinary Shares equal to an amount equal to the lesser of (i) 5% of the number of Freightos Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding on such January 1st date or (ii) an amount determined by the Freightos Board prior to such date will be available for issuance. On January 1, 2023, 1,806,876 Freightos Ordinary Shares were added to the Share Pool. The 2022 LTIP permits the awards of options, restricted shares, share appreciation rights, restricted share units, or RSUs, performance shares or units, and other share-based awards to employees, directors and consultants of Freightos and its subsidiaries and affiliates. For more information on the share incentive plans, see “Management.” We believe the granting of share-based compensation is of significant importance to our ability to attract and retain key personnel and employees, and as such, we will grant share-based compensation and incur share-based compensation expenses. As a result, expenses associated with share-based compensation may increase, which may have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

If a U.S. Holder is treated as owning at least 10% by vote or value of our shares, such holder may be subject to adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences.

If a United States person (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) is treated as owning (directly, indirectly, or constructively) at least 10% of the total combined voting power of Freightos Ordinary Shares or at least 10% of the total value of

Freightos Ordinary Shares, such person may be treated as a “United States shareholder” with respect to each “controlled foreign corporation” (“CFCs”) in Freightos’ group (if any), which may subject such person to adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences. Specifically, a United States shareholder of a CFC may be required to annually report and include in its U.S. taxable income its pro rata share of such CFC’s “Subpart F income,” “global intangible low-taxed income” and investments in U.S. property, whether or not we make any distributions of profits or income of such CFC to such United States shareholder. If a U.S. Holder (as defined below) is treated as a United States shareholder of a CFC, failure to comply with applicable reporting obligations may subject such holder to significant monetary penalties and may extend the statute of limitations with respect to such holder’s U.S. federal income tax return for the year for which reporting was due. Additionally United States shareholders of a CFC that are individuals would generally be denied certain tax deductions or foreign tax credits in respect of their income that may otherwise be allowable to a United States shareholder that is a U.S. corporation.

We cannot provide any assurances that we will assist holders of Freightos Ordinary Shares in determining whether we or any of our non-U.S. subsidiaries are treated as CFCs or whether any holder of the Freightos Ordinary Shares is treated as a United States shareholder with respect to any such CFC, nor do we expect to furnish to any United States shareholders information that may be necessary to comply with the aforementioned reporting and tax paying obligations. The IRS has provided limited guidance regarding the circumstances in which investors may rely on publicly available information to comply with their reporting and taxpaying obligations with respect to CFCs. Each U.S. investor should consult its advisors regarding the potential application of these rules to an investment in the Freightos Ordinary Shares.

We may be (or may become) a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes, which could result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. Holders of Freightos Ordinary Shares.

The determination of whether or not we are a PFIC is made on an annual basis and will depend on the composition of our and our subsidiaries’ income and assets, and the market value of our and our subsidiaries’ assets, from time to time. Specifically, for any taxable year a non-U.S. corporation will be classified as a PFIC for U.S. federal income tax purposes if either: (1) 75% or more of its gross income in that taxable year is passive income, or (2) 50% or more of the value of its assets (generally based on an average of the quarterly values of the assets) during such year is attributable to assets that produce or are held for the production of passive income. The calculation of the value of Freightos and our subsidiaries’ assets will be based, in part, on the quarterly market value of Freightos Ordinary Shares, which is subject to change.

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The determination of whether we or our subsidiaries are or will become a PFIC may also depend, in part, on how, and how quickly, we use liquid assets and the cash acquired from the Business Combination and the PIPE Financing or otherwise. If we were to retain significant amounts of liquid assets, including cash, the risk of Freightos being classified as a PFIC may substantially increase. Because there are uncertainties in the application of the relevant rules and PFIC status is a factual determination made annually after the close of each taxable year, there can be no assurance that we will not be a PFIC for the taxable year that includes the Business Combination or any future taxable year, and no opinion of counsel has or will be provided regarding the classification of Freightos as a PFIC. If we were classified as a PFIC for any year during which a U.S. Holder held Freightos Ordinary Shares, we generally would continue to be treated as a PFIC for all succeeding years during which such holder held Freightos Ordinary Shares.

If we are or are to become a PFIC, such characterization could result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. Holders of Freightos Ordinary Shares. For example, if we are a PFIC, U.S. Holders of Freightos Ordinary Shares may become subject to increased tax liabilities under U.S. federal income tax laws and regulations and will become subject to burdensome reporting requirements.

We cannot assure any investor that we will not be a PFIC for the taxable year that includes the Business Combination or any future taxable year. U.S. investors should consult their own tax advisors about the circumstances that may cause us to be classified as a PFIC and the consequences if we are classified as a PFIC. For further information, see the section below titled “Certain Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations — Passive Foreign Investment Company Rules.”

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USE OF PROCEEDS

All of the Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants offered by the Selling Securityholders pursuant to this prospectus will be sold by the Selling Securityholders for their respective accounts. We will not receive any of the proceeds from these sales.

We will receive up to an aggregate of approximately $170,775,000 from the exercise of the outstanding warrants (each of which is generally exercisable for $11.50 per share), assuming the exercise in full of all such warrants for cash. There is no assurance that the holders of the warrants will elect to exercise any or all of the warrants. To the extent that warrants are exercised on a “cashless basis,” the amount of cash we would receive from the exercise of the warrants will decrease, potentially to zero. Further, given the recent price volatility of our Freightos Ordinary shares and relative lack of liquidity in our stock, there is no certainty that warrant holders will exercise their warrants and, accordingly, we may not receive any proceeds in relation to our outstanding warrants. We believe that the likelihood that warrant holders determine to exercise their warrants, and therefore the amount of cash proceeds that we would receive, is dependent upon the market price of our Freightos Ordinary Shares. If the market price for our Freightos Ordinary Shares is less than the exercise price of the warrants (on a per share basis), we believe that warrant holders will be very unlikely to exercise any of their warrants, and accordingly, we will not receive any such proceeds. There is no assurance that the warrants will be “in the money” prior to their expiration or that the warrant holders will exercise their warrants. As of September 8, 2023, the closing price of our Freightos Ordinary Shares was $2.63 per share.

We expect to use the net proceeds received from the exercise of the warrants, if any, for general corporate purposes, which may include funding working capital requirements, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other business opportunities and the repayment of indebtedness. Our management will have broad discretion over the use of proceeds from the exercise of the warrants. See “Plan of Distribution” elsewhere in this prospectus for more information.

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MARKET PRICE OF OUR SECURITIES

Freightos Ordinary Shares began trading on Nasdaq under the symbol “CRGO” on January 26, 2023. Freightos Warrants began trading on Nasdaq under the symbol “CRGOW” on January 30, 2023. The Gesher Ordinary Shares, Gesher Warrants and Gesher Units were previously listed on Nasdaq under the symbols “GIAC,” “GIACW,” and “GIACU,” respectively. The Gesher Units began trading on Nasdaq on October 12, 2021 and the Gesher Ordinary Shares and Gesher Warrants began trading on Nasdaq on November 9, 2021. The Gesher Units automatically separated into the component securities upon consummation of the Business Combination. Prior to the Closing, each Gesher Unit consisted of one Gesher Ordinary Share and one half of one Gesher Warrant, whereby each whole Gesher Warrant entitled the holder to purchase one Gesher Ordinary Share at an exercise price of $11.50 per share. Upon the closing of the Business Combination, the Gesher Ordinary Shares were converted into Freightos Ordinary Shares. As of September 8, 2023, there were approximately 84 holders of record of Freightos Ordinary Shares and 5 holders of record of Freightos Warrants. Such numbers do not include beneficial owners holding our securities through nominee names. On September 8, 2023, the last reported closing sale prices of our Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants were $2.63 and $0.1541, respectively.

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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Introduction

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is based on Freightos’ historical consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS and Gesher’s historical financial statements and gives effect to the consummation of the Business Combination and the Acquisition (as defined below). Gesher historically prepared its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information gives effect to adjustments required to convert Gesher’s historical financial information to IFRS. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X as amended by the final rule, Release No. 33-10786 “Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Businesses.”

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of profit or loss and other comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 and for the six months ended June 30, 2023, present the combination of the financial information of Gesher and Freightos after giving effect to the Business Combination and the Acquisition.

Gesher was a newly organized blank check company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on February 23, 2021. Gesher was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.

Freightos operates a global freight booking and payments platform, connecting carriers, forwarders and “shippers” for optimized transport shipping speed and cost. Freightos connects the freight industry to make international shipments faster, more cost-effective and reliable, expanding global trade between the people of the world with the largest global digital freight booking platform.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information of Freightos combines the accounting periods of Gesher. The historical financial information of Freightos was derived from the audited consolidated financial statements of Freightos for the year ended December 31, 2022 and unaudited consolidated financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2023, included elsewhere in this prospectus. The historical financial information of Gesher was derived from the audited financial statements of Gesher for the year ended September 30, 2022 and the unaudited financial statements for the three months ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of profit or loss and other comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 and for the six months ended June 30, 2023, present pro forma effect to the Transactions as if they had been completed on January 1, 2022.

This information should be read together with Gesher’s and Freightos’ financial statements and related notes, the section entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the other financial information included elsewhere in this prospectus.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information does not necessarily reflect what the combined company’s financial condition or results of operations would have been had the transactions occurred on the dates indicated. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information also may not be useful in predicting the future financial condition and results of operations of the combined company. The actual results of operations may differ significantly from the pro forma amounts reflected herein due to a variety of factors.

Description of the Acquisition of Clearit

On February 16, 2022, Freightos acquired Clearit (the “Acquisition”) in the United States and Canada. Freightos acquired the shares of a U.S. company and the customs brokerage business assets from a Canadian company. In consideration, Freightos paid a total amount of $5,000,000 in cash and issued 959,907 Ordinary Shares. In addition, Freightos agreed to pay up to an additional $3,500,000 in cash subject to the business achieving certain operating and financial milestones over the three years after closing. The fair value of the contingent consideration as of the acquisition date was $1,768,000.

Description of the Business Combination

Business Combination

On May 31, 2022, Gesher entered into the Business Combination Agreement with Freightos, which provides for, among other things, the following transactions:

Forward Purchase Agreement and Backstop Commitments

Gesher entered into the Forward Purchase Agreement with the Forward Purchaser to purchase 4,000,000 Gesher Units for an aggregate purchase price of $40,000,000 in connection with the Business Combination. The Forward Purchase Agreement also provides for the Forward Purchaser to provide the FPA Backstop Commitment of $10,000,000 to Gesher in the event that, as of immediately prior to the Closing, certain minimum cash conditions were not met after taking into account redemptions by Gesher shareholders in connection with the Business Combination and certain other investments.

Gesher entered into the Backstop Agreement with the Backstop Investor to provide the Additional Backstop Commitment to Gesher in the event that, as of immediately prior to the Closing, certain minimum cash conditions were not met after taking into account redemptions by Gesher shareholders in connection with the Business Combination and certain other investments.

Upon the closing of the Transactions, Freightos consummated the private placements contemplated by the Forward Purchase Agreement and the Backstop Agreement, each as assigned from Gesher to Freightos. Pursuant to the Forward Purchase Agreement, the Forward Purchaser purchased 4,000,000 Freightos Units for a purchase price of $40,000,000. Additionally, the Forward Purchaser fulfilled the FPA Backstop Commitment in exchange for 1,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares and 500,000 Freightos Warrants. Pursuant to the Backstop Agreement, the Backstop Investor fulfilled the Additional Backstop Commitment in exchange for 1,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares and 100,000 Freightos Warrants.

PIPE Financing

Concurrently with the execution of the Business Combination Agreement, Gesher and Freightos entered into the PIPE Agreement with the PIPE Investor for a private investment to purchase an aggregate of 1,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares for an aggregate purchase price of $10,000,000 at a price per share equal to $10.00. Pursuant to the PIPE Agreement, the PIPE Investor purchased 1,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares for a purchase price of $10,000,000.

Merger

On January 25, 2023, Merger Sub I merged with and into Gesher, with Gesher surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Freightos. Immediately thereafter, Gesher, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Freightos, merged with and into Merger Sub II with Merger Sub II surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Freightos. As a result of the Business Combination and the other Transactions, Gesher became a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Freightos, and its outstanding securities were exchanged for the securities of Freightos.

NOTES TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Note 1 — Basis of Presentation

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared to illustrate the effect of the consummation of the Business Combination and the Acquisition and has been prepared for informational purposes only.

The historical consolidated financial statements of Freightos have been prepared in accordance with IFRS. The historical financial statements of Gesher have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The historical financial statements of the Acquisition have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, and no material adjustments were required to convert the historical financial information of the Acquisition from U.S. GAAP to IFRS or to align with accounting policies to those applied by Freightos.

The Business Combination will be accounted for as an acquisition of an entity which does not constitute a business. Freightos will be treated as the acquirer and Gesher will be treated as the acquired company for financial statement reporting purposes. The Business Combination is not within the scope of IFRS 3 (“Business Combinations”) because Gesher does not meet the definition of a business.As the Business Combination is accounted for within the scope of IFRS 2 (“Share-based payment”), the Transactions are treated as if Freightos issued shares at the closing of the Business Combination in exchange for stock exchange listing services provided by Gesher. Any difference between the fair value of the shares and warrants issued to Gesher’s shareholders and warrant holders and the fair value of Gesher’s net assets as of the Closing Date have been recorded as a listing service expense. The net assets of Freightos and Gesher have been stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.

Freightos has been determined to be the accounting acquirer based on evaluation of the following facts and circumstances:

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of profit or loss and other comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 and for the six months ended June 30, 2023, are based on the historical financial statements of Gesher, Freightos and the Acquisition. The accounting adjustments for the Acquisition and Business Combination consist of those necessary to account for the Acquisition and Business Combination, respectively.

Freightos and Gesher did not have any historical relationship prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, no pro forma adjustments were required to eliminate pre-existing activities between the companies.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of profit or loss and other comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 and for the six months ended June 30, 2023, present pro forma effect to the Acquisition and Business Combination as if it had been completed on January 1, 2022.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 and for the six months ended June 30, 2023 have been prepared using, and should be read in conjunction with, the following:

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information does not give effect to any anticipated synergies, operating efficiencies, tax savings, or cost savings that may be associated with the Business Combination.

Management has made significant estimates and assumptions in its determination of the pro forma adjustments. The pro forma adjustments reflecting the consummation of the Business Combination are based on certain currently available information and certain assumptions and methodologies. Freightos believes that these assumptions and methodologies provide a reasonable basis for presenting all of the significant effects of the Acquisition and Business

Combination based on information available to management at the time and that the pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions and are properly applied in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operations would have been had the Business Combination taken place on the dates indicated, nor are they indicative of the future consolidated results of operations of the combined company. They should be read in conjunction with the historical financial statements and notes thereto of Freightos and Gesher.

Note 2 — Accounting Policies and conversion of Gesher’s historical financial information from U.S. GAAP to IFRS

(AA) The historical financial information of Gesher was prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The following significant adjustments were required to convert Gesher’s historical financial information from U.S. GAAP to IFRS or to align Gesher’s accounting policies to those applied by Freightos:

Note 3 — Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X as amended by the final rule, Release No. 33-10786 “Amendments to Financial Disclosures about Acquired and Disposed Businesses.” Release No. 33-10786 replaces the existing pro forma adjustment criteria with simplified requirements to depict the accounting for the transaction (“Transaction Accounting Adjustments”) and present the reasonably estimable synergies and other transaction effects that have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur (“Management’s Adjustments”). Freightos has elected not to present Management’s Adjustments and will only be presenting Transaction Accounting Adjustments in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information.

Note 4 — Adjustments for the Acquisition to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Profit or loss and other comprehensive loss

Freightos acquired Clearit on February 16, 2022.

Adjustments for the acquisition of Clearit to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Profit or loss and other comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2022

(BB) Represents pro forma adjustments to add the Clearit’s results for the period from January 1, 2022 through the acquisition date, February 16, 2022.

(CC) Reflects the amortization of intangible assets related to the acquisition of Clearit, for the period from January 1, 2022 through February 16, 2022:

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Note 5 — Adjustments for the Business combination

In connection with the Closing of the Business Combination, 10,287,844 of the 11,500,000 outstanding Gesher Ordinary Shares were redeemed. Freightos issued 7,000,000 Freightos Ordinary Shares for $70 million in connection with the Private Placements (the full amounts of the FPA Backstop Commitment and the Additional Backstop Commitment were drawn).

Transaction Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Profit or loss and other comprehensive loss

Note 6 — Gesher Combined Historical Financial Information

Freightos’ fiscal year ends on December 31 and Gesher’s fiscal year ended on September 30.

Gesher’s historical statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022 were determined as follows:

Gesher’s financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022

The historical financial information of Gesher was derived from the audited financial statements of Gesher for the year ended September 30, 2022 and the unaudited financial statements as of and for the three months ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021:

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

On May 27, 2022, Freightos HK completed a reorganization pursuant to which shareholders of Freightos HK exchanged shares in Freightos HK for shares in Freightos Limited, and Freightos HK became a subsidiary of Freightos Limited. Unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this section to the “Company,” “Freightos,” “we,” “us,” or “our” refer to the business which belonged to Freightos HK, including its subsidiaries, through May 27, 2022, and to Freightos Limited, including its subsidiaries, after May 27, 2022.

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with the sections titled “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” of this prospectus and our financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates and beliefs that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, such as those set forth under the “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” sections and elsewhere in this prospectus, our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.

Overview

Our mission is to expand trade among the people of the world by digitalizing the international shipping industry, reducing the friction that plagues global supply chains.

We operate a leading, vendor-neutral booking and payment platform for international freight. Our Platform supports supply chain efficiency and agility by enabling real-time procurement of ocean and air shipping across more than ten thousand importers and exporters, thousands of freight forwarders, and dozens of airlines and ocean carriers. According to UNCTAD, the value of goods traded internationally reached a record level of $24.9 trillion in 2022, representing nearly one quarter of the world’s gross domestic product. International trade is facilitated by the third-party logistics market, which, according to Astute Analytica, a research and data firm, was valued at $1.1 trillion in 2022 and is expected to reach $2.3 trillion by 2031, at a CAGR of 8.7% between 2023 and 2031.

Despite its size and importance, global freight has not yet undergone a comprehensive digital transformation. Unlike passenger travel, hotels and retail, cross-border freight services remain largely offline, opaque and inefficient. Most international air and ocean shipments involve multiple intermediaries, often with as many as 30 actors and 100 people, communicating across time zones. These manual processes, replicated hundreds of thousands of times each day, typically result in delays, extra expenses, non-binding and inconsistent pricing, and uncertain transit times. Even on major trade lanes, such as Asia to the United States, our research shows that it is common for importers and exporters to wait several days for a spot price quote, and prices often vary by tens of percentage points. Actual prices and transit times are not guaranteed and are unpredictable, impairing supply chain planning and execution.

The consequences of this dysfunction reach international freight, supply chains and, ultimately, businesses and consumers everywhere. As a result, consumers pay more for goods, businesses experience reduced margins, and goods remain under or overstocked. The environment also suffers from this lack of efficiency; according to the International Air Transport Association (“IATA”), air cargo holds, for example, are typically about 50% unutilized, doubling greenhouse gas emissions per unit weight.

These challenges are exacerbated by ongoing and persistent supply chain problems, making global freight pricing more volatile than most stock and commodity markets. Without digitalization, supply chains are unable to respond to stressors in an agile and cost-effective manner. As a result, supply chains have struggled to adjust in an agile and cost-effective manner to stresses, such as wars, pandemics, weather problems, strikes, obstructions and other restrictions in key trade bottlenecks, such as the Suez Canal and Panama Canal, and trade wars.

We believe that the key metric for the size of our marketplace is the number of Transactions (#Transactions) and secondarily GBV, which represents the value of transactions consummated between Buyers and Sellers on our Platform, plus related fees charged to Buyers and Sellers, and pass-through payments such as duties. We also believe this metric to be a bellwether of marketplace liquidity and growth, correlated to the potential for Platform revenue. #Transactions on our Platform started growing rapidly in 2020 as carriers increasingly adopted digital cargo sales and bookings. GBV started growing rapidly too, however, GBV is directly influenced by industry price levels, which can fluctuate dramatically, which is why we believe #Transactions provides a more stable indicator of our Platform’s traction and liquidity.

Significant Events and Transactions

Business Combination and Public Company Costs

On May 31, 2022, we entered into the Business Combination Agreement with Gesher, Merger Sub I and Merger Sub II, pursuant to which, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, (i) Merger Sub I merged with and into Gesher, with Gesher surviving the First Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Freightos, and (ii) Gesher merged with and into Merger Sub II, with Merger Sub II surviving the Second Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Freightos. Those transactions closed on January 25, 2023.

Immediately prior to the First Merger, Freightos and its shareholders engaged in the Recapitalization so that the only outstanding equity securities of Freightos were Freightos Ordinary Shares and certain options to acquire Freightos Ordinary Shares that remained outstanding following the Business Combination. To effect the Recapitalization, (1) each Freightos Preferred Share automatically converted into Freightos Ordinary Shares in accordance with the Freightos organizational documents, and (2) immediately following such conversion, each then issued and outstanding Freightos Ordinary Share automatically converted into 3.51806 Freightos Ordinary Shares.

The Business Combination is accounted for as an acquisition of an entity which does not constitute a business. Freightos is treated as the acquirer and Gesher is treated as the acquired company for financial statement reporting purposes. The Business Combination is not within the scope of IFRS 3 (Business Combinations) because Gesher does not meet the definition of a business and is accounted for within the scope of IFRS 2 (Share-based Payment) as issuing shares by Freightos at the Closing in exchange for stock exchange listing services provided by Gesher. Any difference between the fair value of the shares and warrants issued to Gesher’s shareholders and warrant holders and the fair value of Gesher’s net assets as of the Closing Date is recorded as a listing service expense. The net assets of Freightos and Gesher were stated at historical cost, with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.

As a consequence of the Business Combination, Freightos Ordinary Shares and Freightos Warrants are registered under the Exchange Act and listed on Nasdaq, which will require Freightos to hire additional personnel and implement procedures and processes to address public company regulatory requirements and customary practices. Freightos expects to incur additional annual expenses as a public company for, among other things, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, director fees and additional internal and external accounting and legal and administrative resources, including increased audit and legal fees.

Cayman Reorganization

On May 27, 2022, Freightos HK completed a reorganization pursuant to which shareholders of Freightos HK exchanged shares in Freightos HK for shares in Freightos Limited, and Freightos HK became a subsidiary of Freightos Limited.

Recent Acquisitions

In December 2021, we acquired the interlining technology and other related assets of a major airline group. Upon the closing of the acquisition, we issued 158,327 Series C Preferred Shares to the seller. The seller may also earn up to 316,658 Freightos Ordinary Shares, subject to us achieving certain commercial milestones using the acquired interlining platform. The seller agreed to use the interlining platform exclusively for a period of time and will be entitled to a revenue share in connection with the commercialization of the interlining technology.

In December 2021, we acquired all of the membership interests of 7LFreight, a U.S. company engaged in freight rate management SaaS. Upon closing of the acquisition, we paid $4.7 million in cash and issued 359,968 Freightos Ordinary Shares to the sellers. In addition, at closing we agreed to pay the sellers up to an additional $0.6 million in cash and 143,988 Freightos Ordinary Shares, subject to the 7LFreight business achieving certain operating and financial milestones over the two years following closing, of which $0.1 million has been paid and 32,739 Freightos Shares have been issued as of the date of this prospectus, and $0.2 million and 35,997 Freightos Shares can still be earned based on the performance of 7LFreight in 2023.

In February 2022, we acquired Clearit Customs Services, Inc. and certain assets from its Canadian affiliate, which collectively operated an online customs clearance business known as Clearit. Upon closing of the acquisition, we paid $5.0 million in cash and issued 959,907 Freightos Ordinary Shares to the sellers. In addition, at closing we agreed to pay up to an additional $3.5 million in cash, subject to the Clearit business achieving certain operating and financial milestones over the three years following the acquisition, none of which has been paid as of the date of this prospectus, and of which $2.3 million can still be earned.

Segment Reporting

We operate under two segments, Platform and Solutions.

Platform Segment

In our Platform segment, we generate revenue from facilitating transactions between Buyers and Sellers on our Platform based on flat fees per transaction and/or fees that are a percentage of transaction value (Gross Booking Value). In addition to freight services, certain ancillary services offered by Sellers, such as insurance and customs brokerage, generate additional revenue. These services often have higher margins than freight services allowing us to generate a higher fee for introducing Buyers. In certain Platform transactions, with respect to U.S. and Canadian customs brokerage services only, a Freightos company is the Seller, while in all other cases the Seller is a third party. Buyers typically pay for access to, and the ability to compare, prices, shipping options and historical performance across multiple Sellers. Our services save Buyers time and money with instant freight quoting, convenient online payments through our payment processing partners, and online booking and management tools.

Our Platform revenue has evolved as our Platform grows and matures. In certain cases, Sellers may utilize our Platform without charge for a limited period of time or benefit from other special arrangements. Overall, our operational Platform revenue take rate ranges from zero to approximately 10% of booking value, with an average of approximately 1.1% during the six months ended June 30, 2023.

Solutions Segment

In our Solutions segment, we generate revenue through our software-as-a-service offerings, which are typically recurring subscriptions priced per user per month or per site per month, depending on the type of product or based on a negotiated global license. This segment also includes subscriptions to our data products, such as FBX, FAX and custom market pricing data reports, often delivered through our Freightos Terminal product, which are priced per unit of time based on the number of users, granularity of data, number of data points and permitted data usage. We also generate some non-recurring revenue, including revenue from professional services such as data ingestion, engineering, customization and setup. SaaS and data subscription fees are typically collected on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Our go-to-market strategy focuses on:

We believe that our Platform compares favorably to the majority of marketplaces in other industries due to large transaction sizes and high retention of our business-to-business customers.

Geography

Given the global nature of international shipping, we operate in numerous geographies. Our Solutions revenue is strongest in Europe and North America. Importer/exporter bookings on our Platform are strongest in the United States, where we also have a customs brokerage solution. Our airline bookings on our Platform, which are strongest in Europe and the Middle East air hubs, are now growing fast in the United States. While Asian airlines have been slower to digitize than airlines in Europe, the Middle East and North America, we are working to expand both our business segments on a global basis. In many cases, Platform growth significantly outperforms market trends. For example, while IATA data shows that European air cargo exports dropped 6.5% between June 2022 and June 2023, Platform transactions on the same lane grew approximately 40%.

Key financial and operating metrics

Platform Segment

For our Platform segment, which is effectively a marketplace, we believe that certain key performance indicators are important to help understand our business. We monitor the key performance indicators listed in the table below to evaluate our Platform business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans and make strategic decisions. Certain numbers in the following table are presented on a pro forma basis to reflect the acquisitions of Clearit and 7LFreight, which were acquired during or after the periods presented.

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#Transactions

#Transactions represents the number of bookings for freight services and related services placed by Buyers across our Platform with both third-party Sellers and Clearit. Beginning in the third quarter of 2022, #Transactions include trucking eBookings, which were added to the Platform following the acquisition of 7LFreight. The number of #Transactions booked on the Platform in any given time period is net of transactions canceled during the same time period.

Gross Bookings Value

Gross Bookings Value (“GBV”) represents the total value of #Transactions, which is the monetary value of freight and related services contracted between Buyers and Sellers on our Platform, plus related fees charged to Buyers and Sellers, and pass-through payments such as duties. In other words, it is the revenue earned by Sellers via our Platform. GBV is converted to U.S. dollars at the time of each transaction on our Platform. This metric may be similar to what others call gross merchandise value (GMV) or gross services volume. We believe that this metric reflects the scale of our Platform and our opportunities to generate Platform revenue.

#Unique Buyer Users

#Unique Buyer Users represents the number of individual users placing bookings, typically counted based on unique email logins. The number of Buyers, which counts unique customer businesses, does not reflect the fact that some Buyers are large multinational organizations while others are small or midsize businesses. Therefore, we find it more useful to monitor #Unique Buyer Users than the number of Buyer businesses. In some cases, this number may be slightly higher than reported as in some organizations a number of users at a business may be using one user profile.

GBV Growth Strategy

We believe that our market opportunity is immense, and we will continue to invest significantly in scaling across all organizational functions in order to enhance our growth prospects. Our growth depends, in part, on our users’ experience, and we continue to invest heavily in research and development to create a modern, stable, fast-performing, user-friendly Platform. We have successfully introduced new features and capabilities on our Platform and plan to continue to do so. We intend to continue to invest in sales and marketing. We have also leveraged complementary acquisitions to expand our user base and improve our offerings.

We believe that investments in growth will have a strong positive impact on our long-term financial results. We intend to implement a responsible expenditure strategy, limiting our spending and therefore our negative free cash flow, while maintaining high gross profit margins and a goal to achieve positive free cash flow with the cash reserves on hand.

The success of our efforts to enhance our long-term growth potential may be impacted by our competition. For additional information, see “Business — Competition.”

COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the global freight industry in a variety of ways. In 2020, initial lockdowns dramatically reduced shipping volumes for several months. Air cargo was particularly impacted, given the cessation of many passenger flights and the fact that, according to the International Air Transport Association Knowledge Hub, those flights accounted for approximately 50% of global cargo capacity. In 2021, consumer spending on goods, particularly imported goods, recovered strongly and set new records.

The international freight industry achieved record volumes and prices, while encountering significant operational issues as demand for imported goods outstripped the capacity of the global shipping network at every level: ships, port throughput, trucks and storage.

High shipping prices affect our business in a mixed way. While increasing GBV per transaction, higher prices likely decreased #Transactions, as some importers/exporters, especially SMBs, are price sensitive.

Operational issues adversely impact the overall Buyer experience and tend to negatively impact our business. Periodic lockdowns, especially in parts of China, disrupted the manufacturing of goods and the operation of ports and the trucks that supply them.

The COVID-19 pandemic was a positive driver for digitalization in our industry because schedules and rates became more volatile, requiring digital tools that respond quickly. We expected and are observing that this trend toward digitalization is continuing, even as the COVID-19 pandemic abates.

During the spring of 2020, as part of the measures taken to cope with the first wave of the COVID-19 global crisis and the uncertainty at that time, we decided to reorganize our business units, including a workforce reduction. As a result, we recorded reorganization expenses in the amount of $0.9 million, which mostly comprised severance payments, during 2020. As the economy and industry recovered we again expanded our team.

Components of Our Results of Operations

Revenue

Platform Revenue

Platform revenue reflects fees charged to Buyers and Sellers in relation to transactions executed on our Platform. For bookings conducted by importers/exporters, our fees are typically structured as a percentage of booking value, depending on the mode and nature of the service. When freight forwarders book with carriers, the Sellers often pay a pre-negotiated flat fee per transaction. When Sellers transact with a Buyer who is a new customer to the Seller, we may charge a percentage of the booking value as a fee. When we handle payments for transactions on our Platform, Buyer and Sellers will typically pay a percentage fee for the payment handling.

Clearit customs brokerage fees are reported in our Platform segment. We charge flat fees for customs brokerage through Clearit, depending on the mode and complexity, and may charge additional fees for ancillary services.

Solutions Revenue

Solutions revenue is primarily subscription-based SaaS and data. It is typically priced per user or per site, per time period, with larger customers such as multinational freight forwarders often negotiating flat all-inclusive subscriptions. Revenue from our Solutions segment includes certain non-recurring revenue from services ancillary to our SaaS products, such as engineering, customization, configuration and go-live fees, and data services for digitizing offline data. We also recognize revenue from data subscriptions, including subscriptions to our data reports within our Freightos Terminal, including our Freightos Baltic Index, Freightos Air Invex and more.

Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue consists primarily of customer service costs, which include salaries of team members directly involved in supporting our Platform and Solutions service delivery, cloud hosting costs, and direct financial costs, such as credit card processing fees and collection costs.

Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel-related costs, third-party hosting costs and third-party software expenses related to development. Research and development costs are expensed as incurred, except to the extent that such costs are associated with internal-use software and platform development that qualifies for capitalization. We make significant investments in research and development to create new product features and launch new products. We believe continued investments in research and development are important to achieve our strategic goals. As a result, we expect research and development expenses to increase in future periods.

Selling and Marketing Expenses

Selling and marketing expenses consist primarily of expenses related to personnel-related costs, including sales commissions and travel, which we expense as incurred, and advertising and marketing activities, including external public relations, content and search engine optimization service providers. We make significant investments in sales and marketing to grow our business, including finding and acquiring new clients and driving brand awareness.

General and Administrative Expenses

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel-related expenses attributable to our finance, legal, human resources and operations functions. General and administrative expenses also include costs related to outside consulting, legal and accounting services, rent and insurance. We expect to continue to invest in our corporate infrastructure and to incur additional expenses associated with operating as a public company, including increased legal and accounting costs, investor relations costs, insurance premiums and compliance costs.

Reorganization Expenses

Reorganization expenses consist primarily of expenses related to workforce reduction carried out during the year ended December 31, 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as severance payments to employees.

Transaction-Related Costs

Transaction-related costs consist primarily of consulting and professional expenses related to the Business Combination that was signed in May 2022 and closed in January 2023.

Share listing expense

Share listing expense represents non-recurring, non-cash share-based listing expense incurred in connection with the Business Combination.

Change in fair value of warrants

Change in fair value of warrants represents the change in fair value of the Freightos Warrants, which are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol CRGOW.

Finance Income

Finance income consists primarily of changes in the fair value of contingent consideration and of interest income on short-term deposits.

Finance Expenses

Finance expenses consist primarily of bank charges, foreign exchange rate differences, net, and interest expense in respect of our lease liabilities.

Income Taxes

Income taxes consist primarily of income taxes attributable to our subsidiaries in Spain and the Palestinian Authority, which have been profitable in recent years, and, to a limited extent, certain other jurisdictions. Our subsidiaries in Hong Kong and Israel have accumulated significant carry-forward losses for tax purposes in past years, for which we do not recognize deferred tax assets because the utilization of such assets in the foreseeable future is not probable. As we expand our international business activities, any changes in the tax regime of the jurisdictions in which we operate may increase our overall provision for income taxes in the future.

Pursuant to a ruling received by us from ITA, we are required to register for tax purposes in Israel and, accordingly, will be treated as an Israeli resident company for Israeli tax purposes. The current corporate tax rate in Israel is 23%. However, the corporate tax rate applicable to a company’s income that is eligible for certain tax benefits under Israeli government programs may be considerably lower. For additional information see “Certain Material Israeli Tax Considerations.”

Six months ended June 30, 2023, compared with the six months ended June 30, 2022

Results of Operations

The following tables summarizes Freightos’ historical results of operations for the six months ended June 30 2023 and 2022:

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Revenue