Second wave of blessing
By Carol Marsh - DarkeCountyMedia.com
Dennis Garber (right), a semi driver for GTL Transportation in West Manchester, Ohio, is seen passing out water and other supplies to members of Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood last Saturday.
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Ten-year-old Aaron (left) and Rosa (right), members of Radiant Lighthouse Wichita, help unload items at the Children’s Activity Center in Houston, Texas. Radiant Lighthouse Wichita lead by Darke County native, Pastor Nathan Paulus, is located at 4600 W. Kellogg Drive, in Wichita, Kansas.
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Dennis Garber stands with Pastor Scott Binkley and Pastor Nathan Paulus, and members of the ministry teams after delivering water and other needed supplies to residents in Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood. Gulfton is one of the most impoverished and densely populated areas in the city, with over 40,000 people and over 50 spoken languages in its 3.2 square miles.
The round was led by The Engine.
The funding, which brings The Routing Company’s total capital raised to $6.175m, will be used to accelerate commercialization of the startup’s dynamic shared rides technology, refine its product, and round out a team that combines extensive rideshare industry leadership experience with deep academic expertise.
Spun out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) by Menno van der Zee and Alex Wallar, Chief Technology Officer, later joined by James Cox, CEO, and Bradford Church, head of product, The Routing Company partners with cities to improve the reach, efficiency, and sustainability of public transit via an on-demand vehicle routing and management platform. Its proprietary technology – born out of a 2017 MIT study – powers a platform that helps cities and other transit providers solve the problem of how to deliver reliable demand-responsive transit – sustainably and at scale. Cities and other transit