Automile raises $7.5 million for fleet vehicle management software

Automile raises $7.5 million for fleet vehicle management software. Automile, a fleet logistics and management startup, has closed a $7.5 million Series A round led by SaaStr with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Atomico Ventures, Dawn Capital and Point Nine Capital. Automile provides customers with a box to install in under the vehicle’s dashboard to track mileage, trips and provide route tracking. Automile ships its tracking device to customers for free. Automile currently has 6,000 customers, including Samsung and Nestle. But a lot of its customers are in the businesses of plumbing, cleaning, oil, farming and concrete. “Everything that moves around in the market around our cities is what we do,” Automile CEO Jens Nylander told me. The logistics business for enterprise (think repair services, construction and agriculture) is one of the industries that technology has yet to really dive into. With the exception of Fleetmatics, which Verizon (owner of TC via acquisition of AOL) bought back in August to expand its fleet management offerings, Nylander said that few startups are focused on innovating in corporate logistics arena. With the new funding, Automile plans to more aggressively expand into Europe and build out its engineering team in Palo Alto.