The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast

Highlights from their conversation include:Clay’s background and how he ended up at Dynamo (1:23)Africa’s automotive supply chain (4:57)Importance of infrastructure (8:19)Africa as “the last frontier” for unhindered progress (10:03)Nearshore vs offshore manufacturing (11:16)Fast and fun round: Omicron, Semiconductor Shortage (15:59)Clay’s self-help advice (17:17)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage and enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Important points in the conversation include:Alden breaks down his background with supply chain and automation (1:18)The state of self-driving vehicles in 2020 (2:47)How Ike differentiates itself from competitors (14:31)Navigating regulations and ensuring safety (19:39)Discussing the news of working with Ryder, NFI, and DHL (28:01)Pitching to fleets and helping them prepare for this vision of the future (34:03)Alden’s take on the value of demonstrating the technology on public roads early on (37:01)Ike is building cutting-edge automation technology to help improve the trucking industry and was recently acquired by Nuro. Ike envisions a world with automated trucks that focus on highway driving and hand-off the more complex and high-value parts of freight transportation to human operators. Find out more at ike.comAbout The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Rob’s background and founding story (6:02)How Clockwork enables shippers to control the delivery moment (11:06)The 4 key solutions delivered through Clockwork (13:21)The ideal Clockwork customer profile (20:28)Achieving scale by building configurable software (25:31)Solving detention and demurrage through real time delivery tracking (28:27)Fast and fun round: Theranos, 2022 goals, Prediction (33:54)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Santosh and Julian discussion covered supply chain start-ups, e-commerce, warehouse automation, the coolest robots and more. Highlights in the conversation include:Getting to know Julian’s background in seed investing and the supply chain (1:17)Discussing the current state of warehouse robotics and industrial automation (7:33)The excitement and challenges of rail automation (20:55)Start-ups and avoiding pitfalls with long-sale cycles (23:35)Offering contrarian takes on robotics and investing (33:56)Picking our favorite robots (38:24)Schematic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund located in San Francisco. The fund is focused on investments in technology companies within supply chain, manufacturing, commerce infrastructure & digital industrial sectors. Find out more at schematicventures.comAbout The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Description of Transporeon (1:25)How Stephan got into the Supply Chain technology industry (2:06)The European landscape for supply chain software (5:21)Breaking down Transporeon’s service offerings (11:28)How Transporeon built and launched a carbon visibility product (19:21)Investing in an end to end platform to serve Supply Chain customer needs (26:45)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/

Highlights from their conversation include:Synopsis of Jonathan’s book, “Supply Chain for Startups” (1:30)Jonathan’s career background & journey to Google (2:46)The importance of mapping products & strategic planning (7:13)Nearshoring to mitigate risk in supply chain (16:28)Scaling quality control as a competitive advantage (20:28)Opportunities for innovation in early stage raw material procurement (22:45)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/

Highlights from their conversation include:Why Michael started SwagUp  (1:10)The supply chain challenges behind getting startups their Swag (5:26)How SwagUp manages forecasting product availability (9:13)Opportunities for innovation in the swag supply chain (14:28)How the swag supply chain works today (17:20)Managing quality control for customer swag (20:28)How Michael has built learning and growth into his daily habits (26:35)Where to look for future opportunities for innovation (30:10)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/

Highlights from their conversation include:HV Capital’s investment thesis (1:30)Felix’s background and career arc (2:26)‘State of the Union’ on European road freight (5:23)Incumbent obstacles to innovation (11:28)Freight accumulation as a model for growth (15:20)HV’s POV and investment in construction logistics (18:45)Investing €1,000,000 in a single growth area (24:35)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups.Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/

Highlights from this episode include: Launching Pactum as a start-up (2:50)Reaching pareto optimality in negotiations (4:45)Use case description of negotiation with vendors (6:23)Benefits seen and value created for customers and suppliers (12:28)Example of Pactum in retail (20:15)Where Pactum fits into the future of the supply chain (21:57)How launching a second startup compares to launching your first one (24:01)Determining pricing strategy and utilizing profit-sharing (26:01)Lessons learned from having an engineering team in Estonia (28:50)Pactum is an AI-based system that helps global companies to autonomously offer personalized, commercial negotiations on a massive scale. The system adds value and saves time for both the Pactum client and their negotiation partner by aligning their values to determine win-win agreements via an easy-to-use chat interface that implements best-practice negotiation strategies. The company is based in Mountain View with engineering and operations in Estonia. Find out more at pactum.comAbout The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.

Highlights from their conversation include:Post-Brexit fallout for supply chain (1:30)How the pandemic has changed the VC playbook (4:18)Market opportunities around sustainability (5:23)Innovation in mobility (10:28)Leading and Lagging European OEMs (12:54)Temperature of the European venture markets (17:15)Biggest lessons learned since starting cargo.one (34:52)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed stage, enterprise startups.Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/About The Future of Supply Chain:During each episode of The Future of Supply Chain, we sit down with a different entrepreneur, investor, or industry veteran to discuss their story, views on the industry, and how we can collectively build the future of supply chain together.