Overview
Solvice was founded in 2015 in Ghent by Christophe Van Huele and Kenny Helsens. Van Huele earned a PhD at Ghent University researching combinatorial optimization for healthcare scheduling and built the company's first solution for a large university hospital in Leuven. He serves as Founder and CTO. Bert Van Wassenhove serves as CEO. The company operates from Kleindokkaai 19 in Ghent with a team in the 11 to 50 range.
The product suite is delivered as APIs that embed mathematical optimization and machine learning into customer applications. OnRoute solves constraint-based vehicle routing across fleets, handling capacity, skills, service windows, and multi-day planning. OnShift automates workforce scheduling and shift generation under labour-law and SLA constraints. OnPick covers warehouse picking, OnStock covers inventory optimization, and additional Drive Time Matrix and Directions APIs round out the stack. The company cites up to 35% road-time reduction through its optimization layer.
Solvice raised an early round from imec.istart. On 2 April 2026 Quickbase, an AI operations platform owned by Vista Equity Partners, acquired Solvice NV to extend its resource management capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed. Initial integration plans target embedding OnRoute into FastField Pro and OnShift into Quickbase Business and Enterprise during the second half of 2026, while the standalone APIs remain available to existing customers.
Funding history
- imec.istart pre-seed round
- 2 April 2026: Acquired by Quickbase (Vista Equity Partners portfolio); terms undisclosed
Key people
In the news
- Make sure to grab a coffee with Eric Lequenne or Bert Van Wassenhove in Amsterdam!
- Great few days at Field Service Next in Amsterdam so far. 👋 Eric Lequenne and I are here for Solvice, and we've had some inspiring conversations about where field service scheduling is heading. The problems are more complex than ever: scheduling teams instead of individual technicians, taking spare part availability into account, planning multi-day jobs, and re-planning live as the day unfolds. A solver is no longer an overnight batch job. It needs to respond in seconds when reality changes. You'll find us all around the
- Great few days at Field Service Next in Amsterdam so far. 👋 Eric Lequenne and I are here for Solvice, and we've had some inspiring conversations about where field service scheduling is heading. The problems are more complex than ever: scheduling teams instead of individual technicians, taking spare part availability into account, planning multi-day jobs, and re-planning live as the day unfolds. A solver is no longer an overnight batch job. It needs to respond in seconds when reality changes. You'll find us all around the
- We're back for Day 2 of EmpowerPro 2026! In the words of our CEO, Kim Eaton, "Change is a constant. And just when you think something is stable and working, 💢 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙢 💢, something disrupts what you know to be true." Quickbase builders know this better than anyone. Every day, you're on the frontlines of problem solving: anticipating challenges, adapting to change, and solving problems one-by-one. At Quickbase, we believe the tools you use should evolve as quickly as the challenges you face. That's why we're constantly improving
- 𝙄𝙣 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨. A truck full of bin contents cannot take another stop until it tips, so the run to the dump site is part of the route rather than an interruption to it. Plan around time windows alone and you get a schedule that is arithmetically fine and impossible to drive. This is where general-purpose open-source solvers tend to stall. Waste is not only constrained, it is large: • Multi-trip depot cycles • Capacity by waste stream • Driver
- 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙖 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙨. If you embed a third-party solver, the security team eventually asks who else touches the data. Your routing vendor lands on that list, and a product manager who wanted to ship a dispatch feature spends a fortnight chasing a penetration test summary instead. 📜 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗦𝗢 27001. Nothing in the API changed: no new endpoints, no migration, no version bump. What
- A home health planner sits down Friday afternoon with 30 patient visits to route. She has until 4pm. She will pick a decent order, check it against the rules she remembers, and ship it. The plan will be fine. The hours she spent building it will never appear in anyone's business case, because planning time does not show up in the fuel bill. It shows up when the operation tries to grow and the planning job will not scale with it. Wanda Space: a 6 hour scheduling process, now under 30 minutes. UZ Leuven: three days of scheduling work
- Any vendor who hands you a single ROI percentage for route optimization is guessing. Including us. The number moves on four things about your operation: jobs per resource per day, distance between jobs, cost of a job, and how long a job takes. Two field service companies with identical technician counts can land in completely different places on the same project. What we can tell you is where the value shows up. Drive time: BPS cut 23% across 47 technicians. Planning time: Wanda Space went from a 6 hour scheduling process to under
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