Terminal, a Toronto-based telematics data infrastructure company, has raised $20 million in Series A funding, according to Pulse 2.0. The round brings its total funding to $26 million since its 2023 founding.
Battery Ventures led the round. New strategic investors Intact Private Capital and Penske participated, along with existing investors Y Combinator and Wayfinder Ventures. Battery general partner Marcus Ryu, a former Guidewire Software CEO, joins Terminal's board.
What Terminal does
Commercial vehicles produce location, speed, fuel use, safety events, diagnostic fault codes, maintenance information and dash camera media. That data comes from ELDs, cameras, GPS trackers, OBD-II readers and other hardware, and hundreds of providers format and transmit it differently.
Insurers, fleet technology firms and logistics companies have typically built and maintained a separate integration with each provider. They also have to store and secure the data, collect consent, manage authorization and convert formats.
Terminal replaces those integrations with one application programming interface. Pulse 2.0 reports access to more than 325 providers, while Terminal's corporate description lists more than 333. The platform runs AI-powered data quality checks, manages consent and converts data into a standard structure, delivering normalized real-time and historical data.
The company describes itself as a neutral infrastructure layer, not a hardware maker or an end-user fleet application. It sits between data collectors and the businesses building insurance, logistics, maintenance, risk and financial products.
Who it is for
The stated target markets are insurance, fleet management, logistics and financial services. Terminal says it has signed multiyear agreements with insurers and is working with large fleet management, logistics and financial services organizations.
Terminal says insurers using its technology can offer safe commercial drivers premium savings of up to 20%, depending on program and risk profile. Pulse 2.0 notes that insurers decide how telematics data enters pricing and coverage. Fleet companies can use the same data for unsafe driving, fuel tracking, maintenance forecasting and downtime reduction. Financial firms can use it in underwriting and fraud prevention for products such as fuel cards and equipment leases.
Terminal plans to use the money to grow its enterprise customer base, deepen ties with telematics providers and meet demand from Fortune 500 companies and major insurers.
Background
CEO Raghav Midha and CTO Connor Giles previously worked on middleware APIs in financial technology. Terminal was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2023 cohort.
The company's quoted claims, including that telematics data is three times more predictive of future risk than any other underwriting variable, come from the funding announcement and were not independently verified in the source.
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