Optiyol
“Can academic operations-research rigor beat off-the-shelf routing tools for real-world last-mile and long-haul logistics?”
Founded2015
HQSan Francisco, California, USA (with offices in Istanbul, Turkey)
FoundersTuba Gözbaşı, Ozan Gözbaşı
Total raised~$1.1M+ (disclosed)
Latest roundLater Stage VC, $1.58M (per PitchBook)
IndustryVertical SaaS / Logistics
The story
Optiyol is a Turkish-founded, US-headquartered logistics SaaS company building AI-driven route optimization for last-mile, middle-mile and long-haul operations. It has stayed strictly in the operations-research / decision-support software lane — no embedded finance, banking, lending, or payments products in its stack. The company monetizes via B2B SaaS subscriptions to enterprise logistics, retail, F&B and CPG customers (including DHL eCommerce).
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2015
Founded by Tuba and Ozan Gözbaşı (both Georgia Tech Ph.D.s) to modernize route optimization for logistics teams.· pivot
2021
Raised $810K seed led by Ford Otosan's Driventure to scale SaaS route optimization.· funding
2025
Deepened telematics integrations for planned-vs-actual route visualization.· product
The stack
0 layers disclosed in Optiyol’s embedded-finance stack
Accounting gap: none