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business with more than a few mobile employees deals with
OptimoRoute, which today announced that it has raised a $6.5 million Series A round led by Prelude Ventures, is tackling exactly this
Built by a team of former Google and Yelp engineers, the service allows businesses to set their specific constraints and then automatically
creates daily routes for their drivers, no matter whether they are doing deliveries or cleaning pools.What makes OptimiRoute stand out from
experience that includes live tracking and ETAs and the ability to change routes in real time as necessary
With OptimoRoute, companies can plan for specific days of the week or up to five weeks in advance
The company is also currently testing a pickup and delivery system for both passengers and goods, as well as support for multi-day long-haul
account a number of variables (how much material can fit into a van, hourly wages, skills needed to perform a certain repair, etc.) and lets
from small businesses to large energy companies like Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, which manages the routes of more than 300
maintenance technicians with the help of the service
reduce their overall carbon footprint.The team spent a lot of time on developing the basic algorithms that power the service
The team, though, expected that a lot of its users would be very sophisticated logistics managers, but it turned out that there was a lot of
