Helion Ventures co-founder Ashish Gupta has joined the board of HyperTrack, which has recently closed a $1.5 million seed round of funding from investors including Gupta, Vy Capital, Jubiliant Group co-founder Hari Bhartia and the Junglee.com founders, the company said on Monday.
HyperTrack helps businesses track products or people in real time. Co-founded by Kashyap Deorah and Tapan Pandita, HyperTrack is already working with more than 100 firms across 30 plus countries.
Founded in October 2015, the start-up raised a large seed round of funding in the end of 2016 from marque investors like fund managers at Social Capital, Vy Capital, the Junglee mafia—Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal, Investopad founders Rohan Malhotra and Arjun Malhotra; Deorah revealed during a recent interaction with Mint.
“I am glad to be adding my pin to the Hypertrack destination… Given that mobile computing has become a fact of life, most applications need location oriented functionality—location is merely mobility-at-one-point-in-time. We have all encountered basic functionality like predicting the time of arrival of a cab. That could be enhanced to instead predicting time of arrival at destination by combining arrival…