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: Sustainability
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Whatever you want to call it, supply chain professionals are now more worried than ever about where their stuff is coming from. And the worries are from a variety of perspectives: Can I assure my stakeholders/shareholders that the stuff I'm making is not being produced by child labor, or by cutting down rain forests? Can…
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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…
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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…
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United Airlines (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Accordint to a recent press release, United Airlines is launching a Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC) initiative in an effort to better understand the environmental performance of its suppliers and deepen relationships with its key supply chain partners. The initiative underscores United’s effort to lead commercial aviation as an environmentally responsible…
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US City Sustainability (Photo credit: whiterice) I have been looking at sustainability investments in the supply chain space for the last few years, ranging from Sustainable Minds, which is focused on designing greener products right from the start, to ecoshift, whose technology lets you determine the sustainability of your existing supply chain–as well as many…
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