CHAZZ SIMS

Age: 29 • Cofounder, Wise Systems

In a pandemic, logistics are a matter of life and death. After convincing a couple companies to hand over their customer delivery data while at MIT, Sims cofounded Wise Systems in 2014. It uses machine learning to schedule delivery routes and make adjustments in real time to account for traffic, new orders and drivers’ current location. “We’re solving the old ‘cable guy scenario,’ where you know you’re going to get a package at some point, but you could wait all day,” he says. With Wise’s software, delivery recipients can know within as little as a 20-minute window when to expect a delivery. Anheuser-Busch is using the software on 750 beer trucks, while Lyft relies on it for scheduling repairs for drivers. The Cambridge, Massachusetts–based startup has $24 million in venture funding. Says Sims, “We’re on a mission to enable perfect deliveries.”

JUDGES: Aaron Levie, cofounder, Box (Under 30 Class of 2013); Eduardo Saverin, cofounder, Facebook; Michael Seibel, CEO, Y Combinator; Jennifer Tejada, CEO, PagerDuty