[10] A number of publications, including Inc. magazine and TechCrunch, have called the company "Uber for delivery".

[1][11] Onfleet also helps businesses outsource delivery couriers, using the platform as a collaboration tool.

[9] The company was founded in 2012 by group of Stanford University students: David Vetrano, Mikel Carmenes Cavia and Khaled Naim.

[1][2] In April 2015, they received $2 million of funding from a number of angel investors, including Stanford University's own business accelerator program StartX.

[1][11] The idea of the company evolved from Addy, a simple address resolution app created by Khaled Naim that was intended to simplify navigation in the cities of the Middle East, where, according to him, addresses "are either nonexistent or very difficult to communicate."