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Hypermile

Driver co-pilot to make trucking more efficient

Y CombinatorSummer 2020AcquiredB2BEngineering, Product and DesignAutonomous TruckingComputer VisionLogisticsClimate

What they do

Problem

Trucking fleets waste significant fuel and emit excess CO2 due to inefficient driving behavior and lack of cost-effective driver coaching tools.

Solution

An AI driver assistance co-pilot that guides drivers to improve driving behavior for better fuel efficiency, sustainability, and safety.

Who it's for

Logistics operators and trucking fleet managers (and their drivers) who run heavy goods vehicle fleets.

Founders

Jakub Langr
Founder

Jakub has worked in data & AI for over a decade. He is the CTO for Tenderd (YC S18). Previously, he founded AI startup Hypermile (YC S20). He wrote a best-selling book on an area of Generative AI and he guest lectures at the University of Oxford. He worked for global tech companies (Palantir), as well as consultancies (Brainpool, Mudano, where he grew the ML team from 1 to 15) and startups (as ML Tech Lead at Filtered and a consultant at Founders Factory). Jakub graduated from Oxford.

James Hennessey
Founder

Founder and CEO of Hypermile (S20). Background in computer vision and computer graphics. Former Head of Computer Vision at Pupil, ex-Adobe, ex-Disney, Entrepreneur First (EF1) alum. Computer Vision and Computer Graphics PhD from University College London.

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