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Router Solutions

Lost in routing before the road was built

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Quiet closure with no public announcement · Fatal mistake: Entered a software routing market too early for SaaS adoption, exhausting funding before enterprise demand materialized.

Founded	2001
Closed	2005
Country	USA
Sector	Saas

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2001-01-01

FOUNDING

Router Solutions founded to build software routing and optimization tools for enterprise clients.

2003-06-01

PRODUCT LAUNCH

Launched core routing optimization SaaS product targeting enterprise logistics and operations teams.

2004-01-01

FUNDING

Secured last known funding round, providing final runway before operations wound down.

2005-06-01

SHUTDOWN

Router Solutions ceased operations after failing to achieve enterprise adoption before funding was exhausted.

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Router Solutions operated in the early enterprise software routing/optimization space during a period when SaaS delivery models were still nascent. The company's last documented funding occurred in 2004, after ...

which there is no public trace of ongoing operations or announcements. The startup appears to have ceased operations sometime after 2004, likely due to runway depletion. The primary failure factor was

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