Whip Around, a fleet maintenance and compliance platform, has appointed three executives to its leadership team: Mike Gross as President, Toby McGraw as Chief Revenue Officer, and Julie Chapman as Chief Customer Officer. The appointments come as the company pursues growth in the global fleet management software market, projected to reach over $122 billion by 2035. Gross brings over 20 years of B2B supply chain and operational SaaS experience from roles at vSync, HighJump, and TrueCommerce. McGraw previously served as CRO at Beep and EVP at HopSkipDrive, where he helped drive a tenfold revenue increase. Chapman most recently held customer leadership positions at Immersive and Interos. The company plans to accelerate organic growth, expand through innovation and strategic M&A, and develop a broader fleet operations platform.

Whip Around recognized as a top Fleet Maintenance solution for 2026. Managing a fleet means managing a hundred things that can go wrong: a missed inspection, a defect that never became a work order, a part that ran out before anyone noticed. When those gaps add up, the result is unplanned downtime, compliance exposure, and frustrated crews. The right fleet maintenance software closes those gaps before they become problems. Whip Around is proud to share that Whip Around has earned two major recognitions for 2026: a placement on the Capterra Shortlist for Fleet Maintenance and a spot on Software Advice FrontRunners for Fleet Maintenance. These recognitions are based entirely on verified user reviews and platform performance and they reflect what fleet professionals across construction, trucking, landscaping, and more are finding in the field: that Whip Around works. Whip Around earns 2026 Capterra and Software Advice recognition. The Capterra Shortlist highlights the most popular and highly rated software products in a category, based on verified user reviews and engagement data from real buyers. Software Advice FrontRunners identifies top-performing products by usability and customer satisfaction scores - both factors derived from authenticated user input, not paid placement. Whip Around's inclusion in both reports reflects a consistent track record across more than 570 verified user reviews, with an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 on Capterra. That rating spans fleets of all sizes, from owner-operators running a handful of vehicles to operations teams managing hundreds of assets across multiple sites. Being recognized in both reports in the same year isn't a coincidence, it's the result of a platform built around how fleet maintenance actually works, not how software vendors think it should work. Fleet maintenance software is a digital system that helps organizations schedule, track, and manage the upkeep of vehicles and equipment - replacing paper logs, disconnected spreadsheets, and reactive repair cycles with a centralized, searchable record of every asset's health. The stakes are real. A fleet running on paper relies on someone to catch the defect, write it down, hand it off, and hope it gets entered into a system before the vehicle goes back out. In practice, things fall through. Vehicles go out with unresolved issues. Inspections go undocumented. Maintenance gets deferred until something breaks. Good equipment maintenance software eliminates that chain of handoffs. When inspections, work orders, and parts inventory live in the same platform, the whole maintenance cycle becomes faster, more consistent, and audit-ready. What Whip Around's platform actually does. Whip Around connects the inspection layer to the maintenance layer, something most telematics-only platforms don't do. When a driver completes a pre-trip or post-trip inspection on the Whip Around mobile app, any flagged defect automatically generates a maintenance work order. That work order gets assigned, tracked, and closed in the same system - no clipboard, no phone call, no lost sticky note. Parts used on the job are logged against inventory, so reorder thresholds can be set before stock runs out. The platform covers vehicle maintenance through to full PM scheduling - set triggers by mileage, engine hours, or calendar date - and stores every inspection record in a searchable, exportable cloud database. For fleets subject to DOT safety audits, that audit-ready recordkeeping isn't a nice-to-have. It's the difference between passing and scrambling. CSA scores are also on the line every time a vehicle goes out with an unresolved defect. Whip Around's compliance dashboard gives fleet managers real-time visibility across the entire fleet, so nothing slips through. What its users are saying. Ratings and badges are useful signals, but the most honest measure of any platform is what the people using it say day to day. Here's what verified Whip Around users on Capterra shared: "It has been a game changer, no more need for paperwork to be printed, used by drivers and mechanics, inputted into the system and then stored in a file, everything is digital and can be pulled up in seconds. Tracking the fleet is so more easier and faster, its a great product! I used it at my last job and when I moved to Montana and was hired here, this product was one of the first things I recommended we start using." "Whip around has really helped me in managing fleets, I wish I had this app when i managed a fleet of 150 frac pumps, it would have made life so simple." "My location tests new technology and decides if it should be implemented throughout the company. Whip Around is a product that passed all of our requirements, and I wish we switched to it years ago. No more paper logs!" Across 570+ reviews, the pattern is consistent: fleets that move from paper to Whip Around spend less time on administrative overhead and more time on keeping vehicles road-ready. The portability matters too, one reviewer brought Whip Around from a previous job to a new employer because the results spoke for themselves. Who uses Whip Around? Whip Around is built for any organization that maintains a fleet, which means it serves a wide range of industries with different compliance requirements, asset types, and operational rhythms. Truck and delivery fleet management teams rely on Whip Around for FMCSA-compliant DVIRs and PM scheduling across CDL fleets. Construction operations use it to track heavy equipment inspections, work orders, and parts inventory across jobsites - fleet management software for construction needs to handle more than just road vehicles, and Whip Around does. Landscaping, waste and recycling, oil and gas, and passenger transport fleets use it too, each with their own inspection forms and compliance considerations. If your organization maintains physical assets and needs documented proof that they're being maintained safely, Whip Around is built for that workflow. About the 2026 awards. Capterra is the #1 destination for organizations researching software. The Capterra Shortlist identifies the most popular and highly rated products in a category, based on ratings and review volume from verified users. Products are not paid for placement - the list reflects genuine user engagement. Software Advice FrontRunners uses independent, objective methodology to score products on Usability and Customer Satisfaction. Products in the FrontRunners quadrant represent the top-performing options in a category as rated by real buyers. Both recognitions are powered entirely by the experiences of verified customers - which is what makes them meaningful. Keep your fleet moving in 2026. Being named to both the Capterra Shortlist and Software Advice FrontRunners for fleet maintenance in the same year reflects something straightforward: fleets that use Whip Around find that it works. Less paper. Fewer defects slipping through. Maintenance schedules that actually get followed. Records that hold up under audit. If you're ready to see what that looks like in practice, book a demo and see how Whip Around works for your fleet. An excavator sitting idle on a jobsite isn't just an inconvenience, it's $450 to $760 an... Managing a fleet means managing a hundred things that can go wrong: a missed inspection, a defect that... Get its free guide on silent fleet killers. Table of contents.

Whip Around attracts US private equity majority investment. * March 4, 2026 Punakaiki Fund retains stake in nz-founded company. Punakaiki Fund announces that Whip Around, a New Zealand-founded fleet compliance and operations software platform, has been majority acquired by Accel-KKR. Punakaiki Fund first invested in Whip Around in October 2021, and more recently in mid-2025, and is retaining its stake in the company. Noah Hickey continues to lead Whip Around as CEO, with a mandate to accelerate growth. Accel-KKR brings deep experience supporting software businesses through both organic growth and M&A, and Punakaiki Fund looks forward to supporting the company in these ambitions. The transaction is an exit event for the original founders as well as the majority of investors, while Punakaiki Fund will retain its stake and be the largest New Zealand-based investor in Whip Around. The transaction has received approval from the Overseas Investment Office, as required under New Zealand's overseas investment rules. Terms of the transaction are confidential. "Whip Around's product is an integral part of business-as-usual for fleets across the USA, and it delivers strong economic and safety outcomes for clients and drivers. They capture large volumes of important data that is used to further improve outcomes through partners. We backed the company in 2021 as we believed in the team's ability to build something of genuine global scale from New Zealand. That conviction has not changed, which is why Punakaiki Fund is staying in." Lance Wiggs, Punakaiki Fund Whip Around was formed around the idea of helping truck drivers quickly and thoroughly perform, and digitally track, required vehicle inspections. The company evolved significantly, and their digital platform now allows fleet owners to increase asset utilisation, lower costs and improve safety outcomes. Whip Around provides the source data for a wide range of fleet requirements and has forged strong industry partnerships to deliver exceptional results for their clients. Read the story in NBR. To invest in more companies like Whip Around read its latest share offer