Supply chains were never easy to understand, and they haven’t gotten any more predictable. However, some companies are taking a technologically advanced approach to anticipating what might go wrong, when and where.

Bangalore, India-based HyperTrack is among them, with the firm on Wednesday launching a new solution that will take the last mile into the metaverse. The offering, called Playground, was added to HyperTrack’s BuilderX route optimization platform, announced last month, to allow users to test different last-mile scenarios in a simulated environment.

The news follows a $25 million Series A funding round, which the company said it would use to make improvements to BuilderX. The platform is designed with app developers in mind, helping them build powerful and easy-to-use interfaces for…