April 16, 2025 Geofences
Where to Next for Healthcare Staffing: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities
The healthcare staffing industry is undergoing significant transformation. As it adapts to evolving market dynamics, technological advancements, and workforce challenges, industry leaders are faced with the task of innovating to survive and keep up with the trends and strategies that shape the future of healthcare staffing. At last month’s Staffing Industry Analysts Executive Forum, North America in Miami, these topics were highlighted in the session, Where to Next for Healthcare Staffing. Th
By Jared McGriff, Gaurav Deshpande
January 15, 2025 Company
HyperTrack 2024 in Review
In 2024 we noticed a continued trend in hiring contingent workers with the help of shift work marketplaces. These marketplaces address a significant portion of the labor market, especially the healthcare, light industrial, and hospitality industries. As varied as these industries are, they have a common cause in ensuring management and operations teams have the necessary tools to plan and verify work, visualize work being done in real time, and automate tasks where possible. Watch the video f
By Jared McGriff
October 21, 2024 Company
The Secret to No-show Detection in Healthcare
Shift Work Summit featured a session led by Saurabh Das, VP of Engineering at HyperTrack, as he discussed the nuances of no-show detection in shift work. With a focus on healthcare marketplaces, Saurabh was able to break down the complexities of implementing no-show detection at scale, offering valuable insights for businesses grappling with this common challenge. Drawing from his working with the largest shift work marketplaces, Saurabh provided an overview of how industry leaders think about t
By Saurabh Das, Jared McGriff
December 12, 2023 Company
Scale your Workforce & Logistics Operations with AWS and HyperTrack: Webinar Featuring PartRunner
In response to the requirements of the on-demand economy, teams must include location intelligence in their digital transformation initiatives. We recently hosted a webinar with AWS and our customer, PartRunner, who is an example of how embracing technology can scale operations and improve performance over time. Through this discussion, Manish Govil - Global Segment Leader, Supply Chain at Amazon Web Services, Tarun Aleti - Chief Product & Technology Officer at PartRunner and Ram Kakkad - VP of
By Jared McGriff
October 19, 2023 Company
Embracing the Gig Economy: How Staffing Platforms Are Revolutionizing the Workplace
Value of focus: How we built Zenjob from a niche player to a leading staffing platform The modern work landscape is evolving rapidly. As the global economy shifts towards more dynamic employment models, the gig economy will only become a larger portion of the overall economy. On-demand staffing, once a novelty, has now become a cornerstone for many businesses that need flexibility in hiring. Gig work platforms, in particular, are at the forefront of this revolution, acting as the bridge betwee
By Gaurav Deshpande, Jared McGriff
October 17, 2023 Gig Work
How Traba is Redefining Staffing Technology for the On-demand Economy
On October 5 we hosted Gig Work Summit, were the featured keynote was given by Traba co-founder and CTO, Akshay Buddiga. Traba’s journey is a testament to builders centering the customer experience to create solutions that change the industry. In two short years Traba has grown to be a leader in providing light industrial workers in five states with over 60,000 workers on their platform. Akshay shared his perspective on the gig economy and the solutions they build to streamline hiring for their
By Jared McGriff, Gaurav Deshpande
October 12, 2023 Company
Gig Work Revolution: The Rise of Tech-Driven Labor and the Future of On-Demand Workforce
In a riveting keynote at the Gig Work Summit, Kashyap Deorah CEO at HyperTrack delves deep into the transformation of the labor market, emphasizing the role of technology in reshaping blue-collar and shift labor. Drawing from real-time examples, Kashyap highlights the transition of various industries towards gig work and how technology-driven solutions like HyperTrack are enabling this shift. Drawing parallels from the e-commerce evolution, the talk offers insights into what both gig workers a
By Jared McGriff, Kashyap Deorah
August 2, 2023 Geofences
Why Location History is Important for On-demand Business Models
Location History is the Pulse of the Business To compete in the on-demand economy, it is critical for companies to continuously improve and optimize field operations. Collecting the history of fulfillment locations, parking spots, routes, and job sites helps teams create a picture of how long it takes technicians to complete tasks in the field or how long it takes a gig worker to arrive at a job site. These data points come together to give operations teams the most important information about
By Jared McGriff
December 13, 2022 Logistics APIs
Buyer's Guide For Last Mile Logistics Technology
Even the most experienced climbers use a guide. They need help not only navigating the terrain but designing and implementing a plan to reach the summit. As ability and skill increase, the most challenging peaks become reachable but the complexity involved requires a more attuned plan, more resources and specialized support to optimize the skills and experience of the climber. While logistics tech builders aren't summiting peaks, they are still approaching the lofty heights of the on-demand ec
By Jared McGriff
September 21, 2022 Technology
Engaging with the Next Generation of Tech Innovators
Last weekend HyperTrack had the amazing opportunity to sponsor and mentor HackTheNorth 2022 at the University of Waterloo and work with an amazing organizing team, and work alongside some of the biggest names in tech like Bloomberg, Deloitte, Square, and more to help over 1000 hackers turn their wildest dreams into a reality. We saw hackers working on everything from ways to make sure your housemates keep the Brita full using social psychology and automated voice and text reminders, entire DIY m
By Muiz Chunara, Jared McGriff
August 17, 2022 Company
Investing in Logistics Automation with HyperTrack
This post is written by guest author, Sumir Chadha, Managing Partner of WestBridge Capital, who led the series A investment in HyperTrack. Be it the food order placed for immediate delivery, a furniture delivery scheduled days in advance, or a plumbing service to be booked based on the ETA, users today love to track their order fulfillment details live; in fact, it is starting to become table stakes expectation from a company. Order fulfillment and tracking experiences as good as Amazon are exp
By Guest Author, Jared McGriff
August 17, 2022 Company
Announcing Series A Funding and Introduction of BuilderX
I am delighted to share that HyperTrack has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by WestBridge Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners to support company growth and expand global engineering teams to deliver next-generation technology for the $11 trillion logistics market. You can read all about it in today’s press release. I am also thrilled to announce the release of BuilderX, powering the fastest time-to-market for developers building last mile logistics technology for on-d
By Jared McGriff, Kashyap Deorah
July 21, 2022 Company
Order Assignment and Tracking to Improve Fulfillment Efficiency
We are excited to share our product updates from Q2 '22. This quarter we released a more powerful Nearby Search to help you with on-demand order assignment, improved your ability to manage drivers who are available for work and release a new version of our Android SDK with better outage handling and reduced size. We also made it easier for you to dive into your logistics KPIs to find root causes of deviations. More details on these and other features released in the quarter below. Order Assignm
By Jared McGriff, Ram Kakkad
October 4, 2021 Company
Logistics tech builders of the world—join the movement
When building out an ecommerce business, fulfilling the orders is often seen as a necessary evil. On-demand commerce has flipped that on its head—"what if you could press a button and it shows up the same day, even the same hour?" The fulfillment promise becomes the customer value prop. Numbered are the days for businesses that rely entirely on fulfilling pre-scheduled orders with static routes. These are traditional systems where happenings of any given day are pre-decided and logistics is jus
By Jared McGriff, Kashyap Deorah
August 31, 2020 Company
Let’s move up-stack
Why HyperTrack is investing in partnerships I’ve just joined the HyperTrack team to form relationships with software developers and build integrations with platform vendors. Even though my first day was earlier this month, though, my HyperTrack story starts further back. Who in his right mind would leave a steady job to join a small startup during a global pandemic? I’d recently left the JavaScript software registry npm after leading their marketing team and growing the world’s largest commu
By Jonathan E Cowperthwait, Jared McGriff
November 27, 2019 Company
Add live location tracking to any app in minutes — and my HyperTrack story
This is a guest blog by Gavin Sherry (Co-founder and CEO of Autonomic, now a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) who recently joined the HyperTrack Board of Directors. Prior to Autonomic, he was VP Engineering at Pivotal. Here, Gavin is seen writing a check to HyperTrack in a parking lot after first joining the company as Advisor. I first met Kashyap Deorah a year ago thanks to an introduction by Rohan and Arjun Malhotra of Good Capital. I’m lucky to meet the founders of early stage compani
By Jared McGriff, Guest Author
June 13, 2019 Company
HyperTrack Culture
Culture eats strategy for breakfast - Peter Drucker We are now 15 people, between San Francisco and Ukraine, with some in transit from Bangalore to San Francisco. All team members have joined in the last 9 months, 10 joined in 2019. When we got together in Istanbul for our offsite in May, TEAM showed up as the top strength in our SWOT analysis. During one of many team lunches, we went around the table to answer why we joined the company. Team members were authentic and open in their sharing. A
By Jared McGriff, Kashyap Deorah
May 28, 2019 Company
Painting the town green with HyperTrack
We use two tools as we build HyperTrack. 1. A home-grown server-less JS tool called Atlas. It chomps up a stream of location, activity and health events as JSON and spits out a map. After initial load, the JS module updates the stream in real-time and renders it in a Mapbox-Leaflet view. 2. The React JS front end of HyperTrack product used by our customers. It consumes a stream of location, activity and health events through a GraphQL end point. After the initial query, the GraphQL client upd
By Jared McGriff, Kashyap Deorah
November 15, 2017 Company
HyperTrack got PyConned
PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. HyperTrack decided to be a part of PyCon India 17 as a Platinum sponsor. We were very excited to be a part of PyCon. In this two-day event, we aimed to build relationships with the Python developer community, organise a hackathon with HyperTrack APIs and introduce developers to the power of our stack. On the first day of PyCon, we reached the venue early and set up the Hyper
By Ravi Jain, Jared McGriff
November 4, 2017 Company
HyperTrack at Code-off 2017 Hackathon
Last week Hypertrack team was at IIIT Delhi as one of the main sponsors for Women Who Code’s Code-off hackathon. Around 150 students from all corners of Delhi region participated, and needless to say we had a great time mentoring the teams as they burnt the midnight oil. The hackathon had 5 major tracks (Health, Music, Cyber Security, Agriculture, Tech education) with great prizes for top 3 hacks built across any of these tracks. There was also a special Hypertrack prize for best hack using hy
By Kashyap Deorah, Jared McGriff
September 23, 2017 Company
Come join us at API World 2017 Hackathon
We’re super excited to be sponsoring API World 2017’s hackathon. The event will take place on 23 & 24 September in Palo Alto, California. It is considered to be the largest API hackathon in the world. Why are we sponsoring it? HyperTrack is still in its early days. There’s so much we need to better understand. What are your needs? What are your pain points? How do you work? What do you value? What do you dislike? How can we make it easier for you? Is what we are trying to do even clear? We’re
By Sebastien d'Ursel, Jared McGriff
August 22, 2017 Company
Drawing inspiration from LEGO
“Cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am) – René Descartes Humans are superior if not unique compared to other animals in our ability to imagine. We use our imagination to survive as a species and derive primal pleasure from building on our imagination. A century old toy company called LEGO re-invented itself in 1947. Instead of creating readymade toys they started creating bricks that children could use to build their own toys. When asked about how big the idea could be their CEO said “imagin
By Kashyap Deorah, Jared McGriff
June 12, 2017 Company
Standing on the shoulders of giants
“We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more and things that are more distant than they did not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they but because they raise us up and by their great stature add to ours.” – John of Salisbury Metalogicon circa 1159 Welcome Naren Gupta (Nexus Venture Partners) and Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund) as Series A investors in HyperTrack! I first heard about Naren when moving back to India from the Silicon Valley in 2007. He
By Jared McGriff, Kashyap Deorah
May 26, 2017 Company
HyperTrack and GSA Hackathon 2017 In Review
According to Wikipedia a hackathon (pronounced “hakəˌTHän”) is “a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development including graphic designers interface designers project managers and others often including subject-matter-experts collaborate intensively on software projects.” That was certainly the case when we traveled to Gdansk Poland for the 2nd GSA Galileo Hackathon last week. Piyush and I arrived in Gdansk and were pumped to meet with the m
By Jeremy, Jared McGriff
April 5, 2017 Company
HyperTrack Participating in 2nd Annual Galileo Hackathon
Hackathons are a great opportunity for creative juices to run wild and for the next innovation to be born. Over a short period of time usually 24-28 hours participants are tasked with using a variety of technology and services and fueled by pizza energy drinks and excitement to create something amazing. At HyperTrack we’ve built a plug-and-play location stack that is truly easy to integrate into not only existing applications but also new ideas. This is why we’re excited to partner with the 2nd
By Jared McGriff, Jeremy
March 28, 2017 Company
Live Location Sharing by Google Maps and Facebook Messenger
On Mar 22, Google announced that users of Google Maps can share their trips and real-time location with friends when on the way. Then on Mar 27, Facebook announced that users of Facebook Messenger can share their live location with friends to make meeting up easier and safer. The news from Google and Facebook comes hot on the heels of the Feb 3 news story that Whatsapp has been testing real-time location sharing. Apple has had Find My Friends app packaged into iOS 9 and later since September 201
By Jared McGriff, Kashyap Deorah
February 6, 2017 Company
HyperTrack — making sense of location
This is a guest post by Ashish Gupta, the newest member of our Board of Directors. Ashish is the only person we know who has been angel investor in four Indian startups that went on to become billion-dollar companies – MuSigma, MakeMyTrip, InfoEdge, and Flipkart. Ashish co-founded Helion Ventures and serves as their Managing Director. He is a Kauffman Fellow and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree from IIT Kanpur, where he was awarded the highest ac
By Jared McGriff, Guest Author
February 6, 2017 Company
Why we invested in HyperTrack
This is a guest post by Arjun Malhotra, founding partner at Investopad and an early investor in HyperTrack. There are really no aspects of the business that we do not lean on Rohan and Arjun for. In this post, they share their thought process about the journey so far and where we are headed. In January 2016, we invested in HyperTrack, which provides simple APIs for developers to build dynamic location features such as tracking, metering, trip replays, and live ETAs. The team led by Kashyap an
By Guest Author, Jared McGriff
September 28, 2016 Company
How APIs make build v buy irrelevant
A traditional distinction that often comes up for users considering HyperTrack (especially business users) is–should I build location tracking in-house or outsource? The thought process then moves on to whether this is a core feature in the product. If so, “we are going to build it in-house,” they say. If not, “we are looking to partner with someone to implement it for us,” they conclude—and that usually means an enterprise-y application with customizations, integration services, and operational
By Kashyap Deorah, Jared McGriff
June 27, 2016 Company
Why startups are early adopters of cloud software
What factors do product teams consider when making decisions about building or buying software? I have found it to be some combination of the following. How can they launch the product and get to market quickly (time-to-market)? How can they stretch the dollar and do more within a budget constraint (reduce cost)? How can their product be reliable scalable robust and high quality from the word go (best-in-breed)? How can they focus on their core business and not worry about the rest (focus)? Du
By Kashyap Deorah, Jared McGriff
June 24, 2016 Company
Why enterprise SaaS is more like a consumer Internet business
In my past life I used to sell big software. I sold verification software to semiconductor companies for hundreds of thousands of dollars per license. It took several months of pre-sales involving navigating the customer’s organization building relationships identifying key projects playing ping-pong between project teams and central purchasing teams long-drawn evaluations nuanced contract negotiations big purchase orders and wider training and roll-out programs in order to make the sale. I came
By Kashyap Deorah, Jared McGriff
April 14, 2016 Company
The problem with tracking
You can track your Uber until it gets to you. Once you get in the Uber your friends can track your ride until you get to them. The simple ability to track a ride seems useful. Sounds like something I should be able to do for everyone coming to me or I am going to. Sounds like something everyone should be able to do for things in their lives that are out and about. After all when things are on the move they are trying to get somewhere usually to someone usually with some purpose. The simple abili
By Kashyap Deorah, Jared McGriff
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