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Fitter: Beat the missed delivery
The shortest route can still end at a closed loading dock. Fitter connects route planning, live monitoring and customer feedback to help delivery teams spot trouble while there is still time to act.
FarEye and the art of keeping a delivery promise
A restaurant runs short. A washing machine needs two people. A driver meets a locked gate. FarEye builds software for the awkward details between an order and a happy customer.
UniUni found a better use for the delivery driver.
A Vancouver food-delivery startup found its opening in the parcels nobody else could move cheaply enough. Now its North American network faces a harder test: making rapid growth pay.
Kolors found a better seat in the bus business
The Mexican mobility company built its name selling bus tickets. A $12 million acquisition put a different passenger at the center of the business: the employee going to work.
Loggi found its next mile at the corner shop
The Brazilian delivery company spent years building a national network. Its next opportunity was waiting behind the counters of neighborhood shops.
99minutos kept the delivery
The Mexican startup began as a shop with a stopwatch. Dropping the shop set it on a path from urgent parcels to the entire supply chain.
Flock Freight and the expensive art of shipping air
A half-empty truck still sends a full-sized bill. Flock Freight pools compatible shipments to make the unused space pay its way - provided the route, timing and arithmetic agree.
Veho asks: does every package need to hurry?
The delivery company built a business around the doorstep. Now it is giving retailers five ways to get there - and a reason to stop buying speed they do not need.
Homer Logistics found money in the empty ride home
A New York delivery startup saw a business hiding in the return journey. Its experiment with shared couriers, employee benefits and route planning offers a useful lesson in what efficiency actually costs.
Deliv found the shortcut. The store kept it waiting.
Deliv gave retailers a way to offer same-day delivery without surrendering their customers. Its rise, retreat and second life at Target reveal where the minutes - and the money - really go.
Velocitor Solutions: The software company with a spare-parts habit
A fleet platform is only as useful as the devices that survive the working day. Velocitor pairs tracking, cameras, and mobile software with the people who install, support, and replace the hardware - and its owners have added a routing specialist to the mix.
Locus: The wrong customer led to the right road
A women’s safety app found an unexpected audience in delivery fleets. A decade later, the logistics company it became was acquired by Ingka Investments to help IKEA keep its delivery promises.
WorkWave sells the hours between jobs
A service business can be busy all day and still leave money on the road. WorkWave builds software for the routes, rosters and payments that decide whether hard work pays.
JungleWorks and the business after the buy button
A local shop can take an order online in seconds. JungleWorks sells the machinery for everything that follows - and its own history explains why that is the harder business.
StayinFront and the Case of the Missing Sale
A brand can win the advertising campaign and still lose in aisle seven. StayinFront builds the software that helps field teams find the gap, fix the shelf, and make the next visit count.
LogiNext and the trouble with the nearest driver
A delivery looks like a journey. LogiNext treats it as a chain of decisions - and sells businesses the software to make those decisions before dinner goes cold.
Cantaloupe and the secret life of a snack
A vending purchase lasts seconds. Cantaloupe built a business around everything that happens next: the payment, the missing packet of crisps, and the truck that ought to stay parked.
The Shortest Route Is Rarely the Right One
OptimoRoute sells a deceptively practical idea: a schedule is only efficient if the right person, vehicle and promise arrive together. Its software turns the daily mess of deliveries and service calls into routes that can survive real life.
Yıldız Tech Has a Useful Head Start: Customers in the Family
Built inside Yıldız Holding, the software company turns grocery orders, delivery routes and factory problems into products. Its advantage is access to businesses that can put the code to work.
BigChange Turned the Van, the Office and the Invoice Into One Conversation
A Leeds software company found a lucrative mess hiding between the depot and the customer’s door. Its answer was to make every job - schedule, journey, signature and invoice - part of the same record.
The Software Bet Hiding Behind the Portable Toilet
ServiceCore turned the least glamorous corner of field service into a sharp vertical-software play. The pitch is simple: route every truck, track every unit and turn a morning of billing into five minutes.
The $74 Million Bet on the People Who Keep America’s Pools Blue
A software engineer rode along with a pool pro drowning in paperwork. Nine years later, Skimmer is stitching routes, chemicals, payments, parts and construction into an operating system for an industry that still runs on truck rolls and trust.
IKEA Bought Made4net to Fix the Mess Behind the Box
Made4net spent two decades arguing that warehouse software should bend before operations break. Then IKEA's largest retailer bought the company and put that thesis inside one of retail's most demanding fulfillment systems.
Trucker Path Built a Waze for Big Rigs. Now It Wants the Whole Cab.
A free parking-and-scales map became a million-driver network, then a subscription, fleet software and freight marketplace. The clever part is also the fragile part: every useful check-in depends on truckers continuing to trust the route - and one another.
GPS Insight Put the Fleet Manager's Clipboard on a Map - Then Taught It to Watch the Road
GPS Insight started with dots on a map. Two decades, several acquisitions, and one private-equity deal later, it is trying to turn every truck, camera, work order, and maintenance alert into one operating picture.
Spiffy Spent a Decade Washing Cars. The Real Product Was Hiding in the Van.
The North Carolina company started with blue vans and an app. After four million services, it is selling dealers the software, hardware and hard-won operating manual behind the fleet.
ArboStar Is Turning the Tree-Care Clipboard Into a Control Room
Tree companies do dangerous physical work, then run the business through a relay of calls, paper and disconnected apps. ArboStar's answer is a vertical operating system that follows every job from the first ring to the final receipt.
Dropoff Built a Serious Business by Fixing the Least Glamorous Part of Delivery
The Austin company skipped the food-app frenzy and built for packages that cannot shrug off a late arrival. Its real product is not speed alone - it is a digital chain of custody, a professional handoff and fewer frantic phone calls.
The Tiny Software Layer Between a Prescription and the Front Door
RxMile turns the messy last mile of pharmacy into a documented workflow - routing drivers, updating patients and preserving proof long after the package reaches the porch.
The Chilean Freight Company That Hands Its Drivers the Keys to the Truck
RockTruck moved 1.7 million last-mile deliveries with a fleet it mostly does not own - then sold 70% of the company to a gas giant. Here is how the collaborative model actually works.