“Can academic operations-research rigor beat off-the-shelf routing tools for real-world last-mile and long-haul logistics?”
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).
Optiyol was founded by Tuba Gözbaşı and Ozan Gözbaşı and is founded in 2015, headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA (with offices in Istanbul, Turkey).
Optiyol has raised ~$1.1M+ (disclosed) in total (latest round: Later Stage VC, $1.58M (per PitchBook)).
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