Logistics management platform Locus has raised $2.75 million in Series A funding led by Exfinity Venture Partners with participation from Blume Ventures, BeeNext and Rajesh Ranavat (MD, Fung Capital). Existing investors also participated in this round.

The start-up has got seed funding from growX, Bhupen Shah, Manish Singhal, Amit Ranjan and others mid last year. Locus enables enterprises with technology to manage their deliveries, with features including, automated smart dispatches, tracking, and fleet visualisation, proprietary geocoder and proprietary route deviation engine. The funding will be used to strengthen its technology offerings and expand the team.

Balakrishnan V, Chairman, Exfinity Venture Partners and ex CFO of Infosys, joins the Locus board with this round. He said, "Logistics in India is evolving rapidly and it is the interplay of infrastructure, technology and new types of service providers that will define whether the industry is able to help its customers reduce their logistics costs and provide effective services. This provides an opportunity to solve these problems in a fundamentally different way using algorithms with greater opportunity for optimization. The Locus solution is built by factoring real world fuzziness to support iffy networks, inaccurate addresses and hundreds of other exception scenarios. It can also club orders in real-time re-routing to maximise throughput”.

Locus was founded mid last year, by Nishith Rastogi (BITS Pilani alumnus) and Geet Garg (IIT Kharagpur alumnus), who worked together at Amazon, and has emerged from RideSafe, an app they built over a route deviation engine for travel safety for women. The core team at Locus comprises ex-AWS engineers and PhDs from TIFR with rich experience in data science, mobile and design.

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