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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Telematics |
Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | Oakville, Ontario |
Area served | North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa |
Key people | Neil Cawse (CEO) |
Website | www |
Geotab Inc. is a Canadian technology company headquartered in Oakville, Ontario. The company develops and markets telematics hardware and software for use with motor vehicles. [1] The company's products are primarily used for fleet management, including on-board diagnostics, electronic logging, route optimization, accident data recording and CO2 emissions reporting.
Geotab was founded in 2000 by Neil Cawse, the CEO of the company. [2] Its primary customers are private and public sector fleets. Geotab sells its products to end users mainly through a global network of third-party resellers. [3] As of 2023, the company’s products have over 4 million subscriptions by customers in 160 countries. [4]
Geotab’s core product lines are the GO device and MyGeotab software as a service (SaaS) platform. The GO device connects to the OBD port of a motor vehicle and transmits diagnostics and location information (obtained via a built-in GPS receiver) over commercial cellular networks in real-time. This information can then be viewed or analyzed using the MyGeotab platform. The MyGeotab platform and GO device also support extensibility through a software development kit (SDK) and an on-device expansion port.
The company was founded in North America in 2000 by Neil Cawse, the current CEO.
Geotab has been included in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 list in North America, eight times in the last 10 years (2010-2014, 2017, 2018, 2019). [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] Geotab has been included in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 in Canada four times (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014). In 2020, Geotab was named one of Canada's Enterprise Fast 15 in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50™ awards. [50]
In 2018 and 2020, Geotab ranked on Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies Growth 500. [51] [52] Geotab was also recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. [53] [54] [55] [56] In 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, Geotab became a certified Great Place to Work in Canada, [57] as well as a Great Place to Work in the USA in 2018, 2019 and 2020. [58]
In 2018 and 2020, Geotab ranked on Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies list Growth 500. [59]
Geotab was ranked the number one Commercial Telematics vendor in the world in 2019 and 2020 by ABI Research. [60] [61]
In 2020, Geotab placed no. 210 on Globe and Mail's Canada's Top Growing Companies list. [62]
In 2022, ABI Research recognized Geotab as the top commercial telematics vendor for the third time, for its innovation and implementation. [63] Geotab was included on the 2022 Report on Business Canada’s Top Growing Companies ranking for the fourth year in a row. [64]
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