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Maximal

Maximal is a planning agent for commercial truck fleets

Y CombinatorSummer 2025ActiveB2BSupply Chain and LogisticsArtificial IntelligenceLogistics

What they do

Problem

Commercial trucking fleets rely on manual, gut-feel planning and legacy tools, limiting dispatch efficiency and profitability.

Solution

An AI-powered planning and dispatch system that sources loads, generates optimized plans, and continuously replans as conditions change using simulation and agents.

Who it's for

Commercial trucking carriers and fleet operations/dispatch teams.

Founders

Leeds Rising
Founder

Building Maximal - the optimization layer for commercial ground freight Career across logistics, fintech, devtools, massive-scale data platforms. Studied CS + Operations Research at Cornell, Columbia. Math, history of technology, philosophy of mind/ethics. Grew up in family's 3PL business, PM for Stuffstr (last-mile delivery in UK), optimized throughput as an engineer for Amazon's BOS3 DC under Kiva Robotics.

Derek Ye
Founder

Building Palace. Previously tech lead at Amazon, founding eng at Arpeggi Labs (a16z), National Merit Scholar at USC.

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