In 2015, we looked at the transportation industry and saw the same problem repeated everywhere. Airlines needed to move crew between airports and hotels. Retailers needed to deliver groceries to customers' doors. Enterprises needed to get employees to work across shift schedules. Every vertical faced the same Vehicle Routing Problem, but every solution on the market was built for just one use case.
We made a bet that one optimization engine could serve all of them. Separate the intelligence from the application layer, build the deepest constraint-handling solver we could, and let configuration (not code) adapt it to each vertical. Like its biological namesake, the vast underground fungal network that connects trees and plants across entire forests, Mycelium connects and optimizes complex transportation networks from a single intelligent core.
A decade later, that bet has been proven right. The same VRPTW solver that reduces airline crew transport costs by 25% also increases retail delivery route efficiency by 30%. A leading Israeli airline has run crew transport on Mycelium since 2016. Israel's largest supermarket chain has processed millions of delivery routes through the optimization API since the same year. Mycelium technology has powered mobility operations across four continents, with R&D, ISO/IEC 27001 certification, and the platform's largest production deployments anchored in Israel. Over 2 million routes and 18 million individual trips are optimized through the platform every year.
