Bharti Airtel on Monday said that it has acqui-hired Gurgaon-based start-up Quikmile, which focuses on building tech-enabled logistics platforms for India.
The telecom major said that Quikmile’s team will now be a part of Airtel X Labs (Airtel’s digital innovation lab), which focuses on Internet of Things, Digital Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.
Airtel X Labs is building cutting-edge digital capabilities to serve the emerging needs of Digital India and is rapidly scaling up its teams and scope of work and the Quickmile team will add to the lab’s innovation pipeline for Digital India.
Started in 2018, Quikmile aims to leverage the power of digital technology to transform India’s highly disorganized logistics sector and bring efficiency, quality, and safety to fleet owners. This includes easy monitoring of fleet minutiae such as engine behaviour, tire conditions and mileage to remove transportation puzzles such as route planning, demand forecasting, analysing vehicular performance, organised achievement of targets.
Quikmile also resolves manpower issues through monitoring of driver behaviour by tracking complex data to basic information such as distance travelled per day, maximum and average speed, harsh braking, etc.
Harmeen Mehta, Global CIO and Director–Engineering, Bharti Airtel said: “As we scale up our team with world-class talent, we are thrilled to welcome the Quikmile team as part of Airtel X Labs… We see a massive opportunity to solve problems for this segment through scalable technology solutions and workforce management platforms that will make organisations much more efficient.”
Airtel said that it used Belong.co’s AI Talent Platform to discover, engage and close this acqui-hire.
This article was first published on livemint.com.