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Spireon finds the money in empty space
A trailer can be exactly where the map says it is and still be useless. Spireon built a business around the questions a GPS dot cannot answer.
James Plante and the Value of Fifteen Seconds
Before a fleet manager could change a driving habit, someone had to save the moments that explained it. James Plante helped build SmartDrive around that small, consequential problem.
Microlise follows the money out of the depot
A truck leaves, and the costs keep moving. Microlise connects drivers, deliveries and dispatchers - and its own setbacks show how much now depends on that connection.
The Dash Cam That Learned to Coach: How Lytx Turned 311 Billion Miles Into a Fleet-Safety Business
A brick through a windshield inspired a crash recorder. Twenty-eight years later, Lytx is selling fleets something more ambitious: a system designed to spot risk, coach drivers and make the next collision less likely.
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.
The Company Teaching Trucks, Forklifts and Fridges to Talk
Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket sold their last company to Cisco for $1.2 billion. Then they went looking for the least digital corner of the economy - the trucks, warehouses and job sites that run the physical world - and wired it up.
Global Mobility Service Inc.
Global Mobility Service Inc. (GMS) is a Tokyo-based FinTech and mobility company that gives people locked out of traditional credit a path to vehicle ownership. By pairing its proprietary IoT device, MCCS, with a cloud platform called MSPF, GMS lets lenders remotely manage and, if payments stop, safely disable a financed vehicle - turning driving behavior and payment data into a new form of creditworthiness. The model has extended auto loans to gig drivers, taxi operators and delivery workers across Japan, the Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia who would otherwise be rejected by conventional screening.
Jeremy Gelbart
Jeremy Gelbart is the co-founder and CEO of Autobrain, a Boca Raton company that turns any ordinary car into a connected 'smart car' through a plug-and-play device offering GPS tracking, diagnostics, automatic crash response, and family-safety alerts. A serial entrepreneur who has been building since college, he first drew national attention as co-founder of Ultrinsic, a platform that let students legally wager cash on their own grades, and later founded the medical-notification startup BeeperMD. His through-line is a simple bet: that the right incentive, or the right piece of hardware, can change everyday behavior.