A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
recent posts
- 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: Supply Chain Innovators
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3PLs (Third-Party Logistics Companies) have been around supply chains, well, forever. Using outside logistics capacity to supplement (or replace) in-house distribution capabilities is a lower cost (think operating, not capital costs) way to add extra trucks or warehousing space during peak shipping cycles or in new regions where product demand is still emerging. With the…
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Deep technology–generally defined as technology that could take a decade or more to reach commercialization–is not a favorite investment of most VCs. Long time horizons, costly development costs, and early-on marginal market acceptance all make the typical VC firm shy away from such investments. But we need to bet on the future as many of…
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One of our emerging investing themes at Supply Chain Ventures is the democratization of supply chain technology. Over the past four or so decades, supply chains have become increasingly complex–think globalization, eCommerce, and the emergence of real-time data on traffic, weather, among other drivers of supply chain efficiencies. And supply chain planning and execution software…
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We get asked all the time about how to keep up with what's going on in supply chains. There's no one source, so here are a few ways to be up-to-date with the latest news, innovation, and activities in logistics: We recommend the Wall Street Journal’s Logistics Report, which comes out each day for up…
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RightHand Is Latest Robotics Startup to Grab Venture Capital According to Xconomy, another Boston-area robotics company has raised venture capital. But this one isn’t saying much about what it’s building yet. RightHand Robotics, a Harvard University spin-out based at the Harvard Innovation Lab, has raised $3.3 million, according to a regulatory filing. Co-founder Yaro…
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According to the Boston Business Journal, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in an extraordinary upending of the traditional model for graduate education, is expanding its prestigious program in supply chain management to include students admitted in large part based on their performance in free MIT online courses and on a wrap-up exam. In filling about 40…
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According to Fred Wilson's Blog, the ability for anyone to get in their car and open up an app and get business has turned into an enormous market in the past five years. The two biggest categories are “ridesharing” (Uber, Lyft, Sidecar) and “delivery” (Postmates, Deliv, etc). But there isn’t any reason why these two categories…
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The Stanford Value Chain Innovation Initiative conducted a multidisciplinary, 2.5-year district-level, randomized study which found that systematic management of motorcycles used by health workers to reach far-flung rural villages improved health ministry system performance in Zambia. You can download the study at Riders for Health Stanford research brief. The study, which looked at the effect of…
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Flipkart, a competitor to Amazon in India, is looking to offer customers delivery of an order within two to three hours, ramping up the game for satisfying the 'I want it NOW' generation. According to an article in the Times of India, Flipkart, via its logistics subsidiary, ekart, is evaluating which products and cities it can…
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Shyp is the easiest way to ship your stuff. A driver comes to your house or business, picks up all items, then takes them away to be professionally packed and shipped to their destination. They will connect the package to USPS, FedEx, UPS, OnTrac or other regional carriers – automatically figuring out the best carrier to…
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