The top investor NordicNinja, which has supported logistics pioneers like Bolt and Einride, led a $42 million (£31 million) Series B financing for HIVED, the most popular AI-powered parcel delivery startup reimagining logistics for the e-commerce era. 

Participants included Wex Venture Capital, Rocketship VC, Elemental Impact, Yamato Holdings, Future Back Ventures by Bain and Co., Marunouchi Innovation Partners, and Planet A, among other current investors.

The money will expand HIVED's data and technical staff, speed up the UK implementation, and boost the development of its in-house logistics intelligence platform, HIVEDmind.

After the US and China, the UK has the third-largest e-commerce market globally, accounting for almost 10 percent of the GDP. 

However, this is not what most logistics companies were designed for. They are forced to retrofit intelligent features onto disjointed, outdated systems in order to accommodate e-commerce. 

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HIVED, on the other hand, has completely redesigned its package distribution system specifically for online shopping. Through a single, integrated, completely synchronized end-to-end system, its HIVEDmind platform connects merchants, warehouses, drivers, and end users like never before by utilizing AI, real-time data, and contemporary architecture.

While routing algorithms adjust to driver behavior and actual circumstances, retailers immediately integrate with real-time warehouse sorting. 

 

The world's only end-to-end electric logistics network, the system is powered entirely by electric vehicles and employs dynamic delivery clusters that are constantly redrawn in response to actual parcel loads. a change that substitutes flexible, data-driven boundaries for conventional postcodes.

In order to maximize value and safeguard reputations, all packages are traced in real time from the depot to the customer's door. Dashboards featuring geo-coded delivery images, behavioral alarms, and fraud pattern detection—such as suspicious repeat orders—provide retailers with a comprehensive picture of the entire process.

Designed to last and to learn HIVED's algorithms are accurate, comprehensive, and dynamic, which allows the platform to better predict delivery volumes for its users. Based on actual behavior rather than theoretical presumptions, it is aware of how long delivery take in particular neighborhoods, where bottlenecks like courtyards or gated buildings can cause delays, and even where parking is preferable.

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With a 99 percent on-time delivery rate, HIVED has delivered more than 6.5 million packages throughout Greater London since 2021 for retailers like John Lewis, Nespresso, Uniqlo, and Zara. Compared to other carriers, its real-time tracking and delivery intelligence have reduced "Where Is My Order" (WISMO) customer inquiries by over 90 percent, and its claims rate (lost-in-transit, damages, etc.) is more than ten times higher than industry norms. Because of all of this, HIVED routinely receives customer satisfaction ratings of 90 percent or more, which is higher than the 32 percent averaged by other companies in the sector.