# Carolyn Mooney

> Carolyn Mooney is the co-founder and CEO of Nextmv, a Philadelphia-based developer platform for building, testing, and deploying decision models - everything from vehicle routing to staff scheduling. A systems engineer by training, she ran missile simulations at Lockheed Martin, optimized pizza deliveries at Zoomer, and led Grubhub's systems engineering team before deciding the messy gap between data science and operations needed its own discipline. She calls it DecisionOps. In May 2026, FICO acquired Nextmv, vindicating the bet she and co-founder Ryan O'Neil made that optimization deserved the same engineering rigor as software.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Nextmv
- **Organizations:** Nextmv, FICO, Grubhub, Zoomer, Lockheed Martin, Jersey Juniors
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BSE, Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Nextmv into a recognized DecisionOps platform for optimization and decision automation., Helped define and popularize 'DecisionOps' as a category of practices and tooling., Raised approximately $19.3M across seed and Series A rounds.

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Ran large-scale simulations in systems engineering at Lockheed Martin, working in ballistic missile and radar systems.
- **later** — Led Decision Engineering at Zoomer, a meal-delivery startup, optimizing real-time delivery operations.
- **later** — Led Grubhub's Systems Engineering team on projects from ETA improvements to scheduling and market management.
- **2019** — Co-founded Nextmv in Philadelphia with Ryan O'Neil (CTO).
- **2020** — Went through Y Combinator; closed a $2.7M seed round.
- **2022** — Raised an $8M Series A (announced November 2022); total funding reached roughly $19.3M.
- **2026** — FICO acquired Nextmv (announced May 19, 2026 at FICO World 2026).

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Nextmv into a recognized DecisionOps platform for optimization and decision automation.
- Helped define and popularize 'DecisionOps' as a category of practices and tooling.
- Raised approximately $19.3M across seed and Series A rounds.
- Led Nextmv to acquisition by FICO in 2026.
- Y Combinator alumna (2020).

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — FICO acquired Nextmv, announced May 19, 2026 at FICO World 2026; Nextmv to integrate with FICO Platform for agentic decision workflows.
- **2026-02** — Published 'DecisionOps and reflections on the road ahead.'
- **2025-11** — Hosted DecisionFest community event.

## Links

- Website: https://nextmv.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-m-mooney
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/cmoon6
- GitHub: https://github.com/nextmv-io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM9PRPJwP9w-lPS_uaJh17g

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Last updated: 2026-06-14