Less then a year after its launch, Philly-founded but distributed optimization startup Nextmv has raised its first significant round of fundraising: a $2.7 million seed round.

The cofounders — CEO Carolyn Mooney and CTO Ryan O’Neil — are alumni of startups Zoomer and Grubhub, where they built the algorithms to consolidate and automate deliveries and managed large distributed teams.

Optimization factors into most work; think the algorithm behind package shipping, making an employee schedule or how a restaurant goes about making deliveries. Many systems that are done manually can really be set to automatic.

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