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  • Supply Chain Innovators: Drizly for Fast Booze Deliveries

    Drizly Inc., a Boston-based maker of an iPhone app for on-demand(within an hour) beer, wine and liquor delivery in Boston and New York City, has raised $2.25 million in seed funding. Backers include Atlas Venture, Abundance Partners, Breakaway Ventures, Continental Advisors, Fairhaven Capital and Reynolds & Company Venture Partners. The start up brings back memories…

  • Supply Chain Innovators: Postmates–Another Up Equity Round

    Postmates, a San Francisco-based on-demand delivery service I have been following since their debut in late 2011, has raised $16 million in Series B funding. Spark Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors including Crosslink Capital, Matrix Partners, and SoftTech VC. Postmates provides local delivery service within an hour through its mobile app and…

  • Supply Chain Innovators: Blue Apron dis-intermediates food supply chain

    Tasty Food Abundance in Healthy Europe (Photo credit: epSos.de) Blue Apron, a Brooklyn, N.Y..-based fresh food and dinner recipe subscription service, has raised $5 million in Series B funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, and fellow return backers like First Round Capital. www.blueapron.com   My son and his wife are a big user of Blue…

  • Supply Chain Innovators: GrabIt–Stop Losing Boxes Off the Conveyor

       Santa Clara, California  –  Material handling technology company Grabit has garnered an undisclosed amount of Series A institutional venture capital financing. Grabit has created electroadhesion-based gripping products to improve the holding or grasping of objects in an industrial or manufacturing setting. Formation 8 led the round, which also included ABB Technology Ventures and Nike. The company…

  • Supply Chain Innovators: Drivewyze-Improving Truck Driver Productivity

    US truck – California 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Transportation technology company Drivewyze has secured $7.5 million in Series A financing led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital. The company delivers time-saving and cost-effective driving solutions to commercial vehicle operators in the trucking industry. The funding will be used for sales and marketing expansion, as…

  • Supply Chain Innovators: Good Eggs-farm-to-fridge delivery platform

    Image by Max Ventilla / Aardvark via CrunchBase According to Venture Beat, San Francisco-based local food technology startup Good Eggs has raised $8.5 million in series A funding led by Sequoia with participation from Collaborative Fund, Harrison Metal, Max Ventilla, and others. Good Eggs will use the capital to expand its farm-to-fridge delivery platform. Founded…

  • Supply Chain Innovators: Chinese e-commerce logistics heats up

    Image via CrunchBase According to TI Weekly, competition continues to heat up as China's two largest e-commerce companies, Alibaba and Jingdong (formerly known as 360Buy) go head-to-head in the logistics and last-mile delivery space. Last week, Alibaba officially announced its plan to create a logistics network to connect all of China with a goal to…

  • Supply Chain Innovators: Postmates–Same Hour Delivery Expands to NYC

    So, I got @dynamodonut delivered via @postmates for National Donut Day. Not sorry. (Photo credit: mariannemasculino) Postmates, the startup that delivers anything to you within an hour, just launched in New York.   This marks Postmates' third city. Before today, it was only available in San Francisco and Seattle. But for now, Postmates will only be…

  • Supply Chain Innovators: Instacart: Aisle411 raises $6.3M to create digital maps of physical store

    Aisle411 powers searchable store maps for retailers. It collects data on retailers’ inventory, in-store product locations, and floor plan information, and turns it into digital maps. Consumers can access the maps from their mobile phones to find the items they are looking for. Read the full story on VentureBeat. 

  • Supply Chain Innovators: One More Pallet–The Priceline of Trucking?

    According to American Shipper,    Targeting small shippers who don’t necessarily move a lot of freight, the new Website OneMorePallet.com is taking a Priceline approach to truck freight costs.   The Website boasts a "name-your-price" payment option that then matches shippers with truckers who have available capacity and are looking for cargo. Company officials said the new…