A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
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- The Role of Generative AI in Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- AI’s Impact on Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- The ‘New Normal’ is now the ‘No Normal’ in Supply Chains
- SRR—Sustainability, Resilience, Risk Management: The Latest Supply Chain Buzzwords & Investment Opportunities
- 3PLs–Investing in the Next Generation of Outsourced Supply Chain Solutions
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Category: Green Logistics
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Image via CrunchBase According to Xconomy, San Diego’s EcoATM, which operates automated kiosks that enable consumers to recycle their mobile devices, says it has raised $40 million in debt financing from Boston’s Falcon Investment Advisors to expand beyond its existing network of 300 kiosks in 20 states. In the statement, EcoATM chairman and CEO Tom Tullie…
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local food madness (Photo credit: Mike Gogulski) Well, I admit it, this is not really a supply chain company, but Freight Farms does solve a problem–recycling those old ocean containers who blot our landscape into urban vegetable farms. Take one well used 40 foot container, add plastic-and-foam growing channels on the walls, an irrigation system on…
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Image via CrunchBase Tired of trying to sell that old phone on eBay? Or finding a charity who will take it? Or giving it for free to Verizon, who then certainly resells it? Then ecoATM is for you. And it solves a big supply chain problem–making it easy to recycle small electronic products that often just…
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Image via Wikipedia Accoring to a recent article in the Napa Valley Register, the U.S. wine industry estimates that Americans purchase more than 300 million cases of wine annually, but what happens to all those empty wine bottles? With the EPA-estimated national recycling rate for wine bottles at only 30 percent, a new company in…
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Image via CrunchBase According to Xconomy, California-based thredUP (see earlier post), the online platform for swapping children’s accessories, recently completed a $7 million Series B financing. Redpoint Ventures led the round with Trinity Ventures and former eBay CEO, Brian Swette participating. Tim Haley of Redpoint Ventures will join Patricia Nakache of Trinity Ventures on thredUP’s…
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Image via Wikipedia The NY Times Magazine featured an interesting article, titled Wasted Data, on how information collected on our buying habits could help us reduce waste. Although the article was more than a bit disjointed–it was based on a graduate student's thesis–the concept is intriguing. Getting manufacturers to take more responsibility for the eventual recycling…
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Image via Wikipedia We all fondly remember forking out hundreds, if not thousands for our college textbooks, including many we never really read (thank you, CliffsNotes). With basic tuition, plus room & board approaching $50K a year in many schools, it's no wonder that cost saving college options abound on the web. Renting your college…
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According to Xconomy, Energy management startup Hara recently released a supply chain module that can evaluate energy efficiency among a client’s suppliers – vendors, transportation services, warehouses and the like. The addition of Hara Value Chain effectively widens the scope of Hara’s main product, a software called Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) that identifies energy inefficiencies…
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Image via Wikipedia According to the British newspaper, The Guardian, Britain and other European governments have been accused of underestimating the health risks from shipping pollution following research, which shows that one giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50m cars. Confidential data from maritime…
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Image via CrunchBase According to MassHiTech, ThredUP Inc., the online clothing swap service, reports it has received $1.4 million in a seed funding from a handful of early-stage venture capital firms, bringing the Cambridge startup’s total funding to date up to $1.7 million. Perhaps an online setting will allow parents to avoid the stigma of visiting…
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