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
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Category: Supply Chain Innovators
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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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Wuhan Kindstar Diagnostics does lab work for more than 2000 hospitals in 320 cities in China. Last year, the startup added 700 new hospitals as clients, and it expects to keep growing as more Chinese enter the middle class and can afford diagnostic tests. Kindstar's CEO, Dr. Shiang Huang, was educated in China, but spent…
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Speaking of the man biting the dog, Macy's has decided to build a new network of internet fulfillment centers across the US–using the backrooms of their existing stores. The reason? Amazon and their success at capturing the consumer with high in stock positions of hot items and rapid shipping. Macy's might have a hot item…
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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – APRIL 24: Planetary Resource's Arkyd Seris I satellite seen as a full-scale mockup during a press conference announcing plans to mine asteroids at the Museum of Flight April 24, 2012 in Seattle, Washington. Well, this post will probably mean most to my grandchildren, who will likely think nothing of designing and implementing…
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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 CrunchBase According to Xconomy, Alice.com, an e-commerce platform exclusively for household goods, received $3 million in funding from private Spanish investors. Instead of acting as a go-between for manufacturers and customers, Alice.com is a platform for companies to sell toilet paper, laundry detergent and everything else that makes your house needs directly to you. Companies such as…
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Neeeewww Stitch Lab! (Photo credit: average_jane_crafter) Stitch Labs, a start-up that helps small businesses manage inventory, orders, and shipping, has secured $1 million in seed funding from True Ventures, according to VentureBeat. Co-founder and chief executive Brandon Levey began working on Stitch Labs in 2011 when he was running his own design and manufacturing company. He was…
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According to Scott Kirchner of Innovation Economy, CasePick Systems is a company who is, like Kiva Systems, revolutionizing warehouse operations with robots. The company was acquired by C&S Wholesale Grocers, a privately held New Hampshire company. Here's what Scott had to say: "I got a chance to see the bots in action until last month, at the…
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Image via Wikipedia According to Xconomy, if you’re one of the 12 million drivers who use real-time traffic data from Waze, there’s a drawback — the smartphone app depends on users to collect traffic data, but if a driver is stuck in traffic or spots an accident, that’s exactly when they shouldn’t be fiddling with their…
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Image via Wikipedia Talk about thinking inside the box….and check out Dekalb Marketplace in Brooklyn to see stores in shipping containers… According to Xconomy's Curt Woodward, you might not think of a grocery store inside a recycled shipping container as a technology-centric startup. But without some cheap, powerful devices and software, Web-enabled crowdfunding, and tech…
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