Highlights from their conversation include:

• About Partstat (1:11)
• The Dennis Menefee story (4:39)
• Capital inventory pre-purchasing (7:31)
• How Partstat makes money (12:38)
• Challenges Partstat customers face (17:31)
• How Partstat views nearshoring (23:18)
• Untapped areas in the supply chain (28:21)
• The most interesting read (31:16)

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:

• Background on FEV as a company and Dean’s role (1:07)
• State of alternative energy drive systems starting with hybrid vehicles (5:38)
• Electric Trucks (9:00)
• Utilizing hydrogen (10:58)
• Use case of battery electric vehicles in logistics (17:12)
• Technical breakthroughs needed (21:47)
• Dealing with the impact of regulation (24:32)
• Evolutionary progress and predictions for 2021 (26:30)

FEV is an internationally recognized leader in the design and development of internal combustion engines, conventional, electric, and alternative vehicle drive systems, energy technology, and a major supplier of advanced testing and instrumentation products and services to some of the world's largest OEMs. Find out more about FEV at https://www.fev.com/en/who-we-are/company-history.html

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.

Highlights from their conversation include:

• About OSM Worldwide (1:14)
• The Gaston Curk story (2:43)
• Defining “parcel injection” (4:22)
• The underlying business model (9:47)
• How Dr. Squatch leverages OSM (10:50)
• eComm volumes for the rest of the year (14:38)
• An important lesson about parcel capabilities (16:54)
• The competition of the larger private parcel businesses (19:39)
• An area untapped by technology (21:35)
• Gaston’s favorite daily habit (23:13)

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:

• The Matt Hertz story (1:10)
• About Second Marathon (5:08)
• How to establish supply chain competency (7:58)
• Perspective on delivery times (12:10)
• Advice for high-growth companies (19:58)
• Matt’s favorite summer activity (26:30)

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:

• What’s being built at Manna (1:10)
• The Bobby Healy story (1:48)
• What drones are best suited for (4:23)
• How Bobby chose the enabler route (11:00)
• Safety at Manna (14:27)
• Varying designs for drones (19:38)
• Deterrents of drone expansion (25:12)
• The economics of drone delivery (29:33)
• Advice for rising founders (32:48)
• Bobby's favorite summer activity (34:01)

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:

• About UPS Capital (1:11)
• The Jeff Iannone story (1:39)
• What UPS offers (2:18)
• Managing risk exposure (3:14)
• Thinking about claims management (4:48)
• When considering insurance partnerships (7:15)
• How underwriting is improving (9:05)
• Making a plan amongst shortages (10:52)
• Rethinking supplier relationships (14:35)
• Untapped supply chain problem areas (17:07)

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:

• About Haul (1:22)
• The Tim Henry story (1:58)
• The driver shortage issue (7:00)
• A secular solution (12:48)
• Getting screened for Haul (15:26)
• The Haul customer experience (18:23)
• California Assembly Bill 5 Impact (21:40)
• Most important lesson from selling to fleets (26:43)

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:

• What Mark’s building in Africa (1:15)
• Mark’s background and career journey (2:17)
• The freight opportunity in Africa (3:34)
• Who Amitruck serves best (5:59)
• How Amitruck helps solve the issue (7:03)
• Driver recruitment and relations (8:55)
• Amitruck’s technology enablement (10:50)
• Working on the underlying fundamentals (13:24)
• Hardest learned lesson (15:33)
• How to educate yourself (16:25)
• Favorite weekend pastime (17:49)

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:

• Carolyn Mooney’s path from missiles to food delivery to nextmv (1:08)
• Using Dash to experiment and simulate and Hop to solve optimization (4:10)
• Customer benefit use cases (12:42)
• Practically implementing the nextmv API (14:53)
• Simulating thousands of decision paths and selecting the most optimal one (16:43)
• Could this be used to help with vaccine distribution? (18:50)

Nextmv’s tools allow users to encode, test, and manage decisions in the cloud, so they can scale their business with predictable performance and lower cost. Find out more at nextmv.io/about.

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.