A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
recent posts
- PE Buyout Outlook for 2026–Same Old, Same Old?
- 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
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Category: Supply Chain Innovators
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Image via CrunchBase Imagine opening a beautifully-packaged iPad, whose very box is aesthetically pleasing and minimally wasteful. Now imagine unpacking an appliance from Costco that’s swathed in ugly, non-recyclable styrofoam and plastic wrap. Which company’s product are you going to be happier about in your first few minutes of using it? Probably not the one…
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USPS service delivery truck in a residential area of San Francisco, California (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to Storefrontbacktalk, The U.S. Postal Service's same-day delivery trial for retailers is scheduled to begin on December 12 in San Francisco, but the service will launch with major limitations, according to the regulatory filings that allow the USPS to…
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A logistics provider's warehouse of goods being stacked on pallets with a forklift. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Nomadron is an innovative ground logistics company applying a NOMADIC approach to the B2B logistics industry, making most all components mobile including the pick-up and delivery hubs. The innovative model has the potential to have a major impact on…
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According to Xconomy, several of this year’s YC companies are trying to solve problems involving the manufacturing or movement of actual stuff, rather than just bits. For instance, more than half of all delivery attempts by companies like FedEx and UPS fail because no one is home, so BufferBox is building a network of lockers…
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Vegetables in a grocery store, Paris, France. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to their press release, Door to Door Organics, one of the nation’s leading e-grocers, is receiving a $2 million Series A round investment from Greenmont Capital, an investment fund based in Boulder, Colo., that is focused on growth stage investment opportunities in the $500…
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Got a sweet #brovalentines present from @maxstoller. Thanks @postmates! (Photo credit: talsafran) About eight months ago, I wrote about how Postmates was seeking to make rapid delivery in cities less of a hassle for cosnumers. Postmates taps into an existing big network of couriers that, before it came out, just used Craigslist and makes it way…
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Image via CrunchBase Many people have asked me why Amazon spent so much money to buy KIva Systems. I usually give them a short response, focusing on the ability of Kiva to reinvent pick and pack operations in their warehouses. And I usually get a blank stare as most people are not that versed in…
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Image via CrunchBase The old days of going to the bookstore at the beginning of a semester and buying 20 pounds of expensive textbooks and supplements is fast disappearing. And with it is a complex and expensive supply chain. Although numerous textbook rental startups have emerged over the last five years, no major players have…
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A screenshot of Navit posted on http://wiki.navit-project.org/ (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to Xconomy, Waze, the Israel-based social navigation and traffic service, announced that it now has over 20 million users. That’s quite a milestone for any startup, but what makes this number so impressive is that the company also announced that it added half of…
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Amazon-New-Detail-Page (Photo credit: kokogiak) Will publisher's relinguish control of book supply chains to Amazon? Of course, the technology already exists (and Amazon owns it) to print books at an Amazon fulfillment facility and send them off to customers, with the same delivery times as exist today. Using an industrial strength printer and a digital book…
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