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 Wikipedia When Malcolm McLean, trucking executive guru and the "godfather" of the ubiquitous global shipping container needed to solve the problem of how to stack the containers, he turned to Keith Tantlinger, an engineer at a truck trailer manufacturer in Washington to design a way to solve the problem. Keith developed a lock…
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Curt Woodward on Xconomy reports that EquaShip, the Seattle startup that’s aiming to wrangle dramatically cheaper shipping costs for small and medium-sized businesses, has added another $600,000 in financing from undisclosed investors. That pushes the startup’s total funding to $1.5 million, following the announcement of a $900,000 investment in June. EquaShip rolled out its service in…
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Image by marcopako via Flickr An amazing take by an anonymous user on Quora on why Apple products sometimes seem so superior. Because they are. Because they get them before anyone else. We'll just quote it because it's great as it is: When new component technologies (touchscreens, chips, LED displays) first come out, they are…
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According to TechCrunch, Vivino helps you identify and locate your favorite antidote for future consumption. Use the Vivino app to take a photograph of any wine label. Vivino uses image recognition to match the label against its database of 450,000 wines and return you all the information available about the wine including, hopefully, where you can…
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According to Xconomy, every commuter wants to find better ways to traverse busy cities. Subway delays and bus route changes may throw carefully timed travel plans into disarray. To ease such headaches, New York startup Roadify has developed a mobile app that delivers updates from transit agencies and input from users on the street. The…
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According to Xconomy, you never have to leave your office/couch to get what you need. Don’t want to sacrifice your lunch break to pick up those concert tickets you bought on Craigslist? Use Postmates, a local delivery service that connects businesses with freelance messengers, instead. Postmates launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference…
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Image via CrunchBase According to PeHUB, Chicago-based startup GrubHub, a service that lets you order food for delivery or take out from local restaurants online or by mobile phone, has raised $50 million in Series E funding led by Lightspeed Ventures with Mesirow Financial, Benchmark Capital, Greenspring Associates and DAG Ventures participating. The company has…
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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 Okta, co-founded by Salesforce veteran Todd McKinnon, has raised $11 million in funding across seed and Series A rounds, with Andreessen Horowitz as lead investor. According to Xconomy, Okta is targeted medium-sized businesses running multiple third-party cloud applications — think Salesforce, Google Apps or even Twitter and Facebook. The service provides a…
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Image via Wikipedia Streetline Inc., a San Francisco-based developer of smart parking solutions, has raised $15 million in Series B funding. Fontinalis Partners and RockPort Capital Partners co-led the round, and were joined by return backer Sutter Hill Ventures. In my previous post on the company, my idea that the solution could be extended to make…
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