Timefold, a Ghent-based developer platform for vehicle routing and shift scheduling APIs, has raised $13M in a Series A round led by Alstin Capital, with co-investor Kompas VC and continued backing from existing investors Lakestar and Smartfin.
The funding follows a year in which Timefold grew its annual recurring revenue 4x, driven by enterprises embedding its APIs into mission-critical scheduling and field service operations. The capital will accelerate US expansion and support continued platform development.
Addressing The Market Opportunity
Scheduling is one of the most consequential and least visible layers of enterprise operations. In field service alone, companies must coordinate thousands of daily jobs while balancing technician qualifications, service level agreements, labor regulations, travel times, customer availability, and last-minute disruptions, all in real time.
The rise of AI agents has created new software capable of interpreting requests and generating schedules, but the probabilistic nature of large language models creates reliability problems in production environments where every decision must be correct, compliant, and reproducible. Timefold was built to fill that gap with deterministic optimization that performs consistently at scale.
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How The Technology Works
Timefold provides API-first scheduling optimization that software teams can integrate into existing applications without requiring specialist expertise in operations research or mathematical modeling. The platform automates decisions such as which technician should visit which customer, how to respond when a technician is unavailable, and how to build shift schedules that are fair, fully staffed, and compliant with labor regulations.
The underlying engine is deterministic rather than probabilistic, designed for environments where scheduling errors have direct consequences on profitability, customer experience, and workforce productivity. The platform also supports what-if scenario planning and provides explainability tools that allow teams to understand and trust the decisions the system produces.
Growth And Market Traction
Timefold’s ARR grew 4x in 2025 as enterprises across field service and workforce management embedded its APIs into production systems. Customers include NEC Software Solutions, CBRE, Orange Telecom, ADP, Lufthansa, Thales, and Subaru.
A global real estate services company using Timefold’s Field Service Routing solution reduced drive time by up to 33 percent, cut distance traveled by 43 percent, and eliminated overtime. A major US retail staffing provider reduced a scheduling process that previously took ten weeks to ten minutes using Timefold’s Employee Shift Scheduling model.
Kay Aston of NEC Software Solutions commented on the integration: “We chose Timefold because it gave us a practical way to bring advanced planning AI into real operations without slowing down delivery. Their technology helped us move faster, create clear operational value, and strengthen how we bring optimization capabilities to our customer base.”
Expansion Plans
The Series A funding will support Timefold’s expansion into the United States, where demand for scheduling optimization infrastructure is growing alongside broader enterprise AI adoption. The company will also invest in platform product development to serve the increasing number of software teams building AI-powered applications that require reliable, production-grade scheduling at scale.
Looking Ahead
Maarten Vandenbroucke, CEO of Timefold, described the company’s position in the current wave of AI-driven software development: “Schedules run the world. We are all at the mercy of a schedule, and so are the millions of frontline workers whose days depend on getting it right. As software becomes increasingly autonomous, optimization becomes foundational infrastructure. Our platform gives software builders the ability to embed enterprise-grade decision intelligence into their applications, enabling better outcomes for businesses, workers, and customers alike.”
Alexander Meyer-Scharenberg, Partner at Alstin Capital, outlined the investment rationale: “What matters in mission-critical scheduling isn’t creativity, it’s correctness: a shift roster or a vehicle route has to be right, compliant, and reproducible every time. LLMs aren’t built for that. What convinced us to lead Timefold’s round was the team’s understanding of exactly that constraint, and what they’ve built around it. They’ve taken a battle-tested open source optimization engine and wrapped it in modular products that any enterprise can deploy, without needing a team of mathematicians. That’s how deep optimization technology becomes infrastructure, and we believe Timefold is best placed to own that category.”
About Timefold
Timefold is a scheduling optimization platform for software builders, based in Ghent, Belgium. Its API-first optimization models enable developers and enterprise software teams to integrate advanced scheduling capabilities into field service, workforce management, and AI-powered applications. The platform handles complex constraints at scale and provides explainability and scenario planning tools for continuous operational improvement. Customers include CBRE, Orange Telecom, Lufthansa, NEC Software Solutions, and Subaru.
