# KonaWare

> KonaWare was a Menlo Park mobility-software company founded in 1999 that built a platform and development tools for putting mission-critical enterprise applications into the hands of mobile field workers. Its suites covered transportation, logistics and field service - dispatch, proof-of-delivery, electronic driver logs, vehicle inspections and asset tracking - and were engineered to keep data intact whether devices were connected or not, running across laptops, PDAs and early smartphones. Backed by Draper Richards and Western Technology Investment, the company was an early bet on enterprise mobility years before the smartphone made it mainstream; its field-service assets were acquired by ServicePower in 2008.

- **Founded:** 1999
- **Headquarters:** Menlo Park, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jim DiSanto (Co-Founder & CEO), Gary Portney (Co-Founder), Wesley Cheng (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Small; roughly a couple of employees remained associated with the entity in later records, after the operating business was acquired.
- **Products:** KonaWare Mobility Platform, Mobile Transportation & Logistics (T&L) Suite, Field Service Suite, Asset & Shipment Tracking
- **Notable:** Founded in 1999, well ahead of the smartphone-driven enterprise-mobility wave., Secured venture backing from Draper Richards and Western Technology Investment., Landed multi-hundred-unit deployments with LTL carriers including Land Air Express of New England and Dependable Highway Express.

## Products & services

- **KonaWare Mobility Platform** — A standards-based software development and deployment framework for building enterprise mission-critical mobile applications that run across laptops, PDAs and smartphones with minimal coding, leveraging existing IT infrastructure.
- **Mobile Transportation & Logistics (T&L) Suite** — Modular apps for fleet and transport operations including dispatch, proof-of-delivery, intermodal, electronic driver logs and vehicle inspections.
- **Field Service Suite** — Mobile applications for field service workforces; these assets were acquired by ServicePower in 2008.
- **Asset & Shipment Tracking** — Asset and shipment status monitoring, tracking and security for fleet operators, designed to work in both connected and disconnected modes with data integrity across networks.

## Achievements

- Founded in 1999, well ahead of the smartphone-driven enterprise-mobility wave.
- Secured venture backing from Draper Richards and Western Technology Investment.
- Landed multi-hundred-unit deployments with LTL carriers including Land Air Express of New England and Dependable Highway Express.
- Built a device-portable platform running across laptops, PDAs and smartphones.
- Field-service assets acquired by ServicePower in 2008.

## Latest updates

- **2006-04** — Reported to be close to securing significant new capital.
- **2006-07** — Recorded a reported ~$2M funding round (dated 2006-07-06).
- **2008-03** — KonaWare's field-service assets acquired by ServicePower (Crunchbase records the acquisition dated March 26, 2008).

## Links

- Website: https://konaware.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/konaware

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