Highlights from their conversation include:

• About TexAmericas Center (TAC) (1:12)
• The Eric story (1:42)
• How TAC is enabling better logistics for its industrial customers (3:58)
• How TAC is able to have such strong coverage (6:30)
• Eric’s perspective on nearshoring (8:43)
• How transportation managers are restrategizing with TAC (10:44)
• TAC success stories (14:19)
• Inventory levels through TAC’s facilities (17:21)
• How TAC leverages technology to better its service (19:19)
• Which supply chain areas entrepreneurs should focus on (20:45)

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:

• What’s being built at Semicab (1:08)
• The Ajesh story (2:50)
• The problems Semicab is solving for its customers (5:04)
• Semicab as a collaborative platform (9:24)
• Getting scale behind new technology (11:58)
• Benefiting from Semicab’s advantaged approach (16:03)
• Integrating with Semicab (18:05)
• When Semicab is not a great solution (19:27)
• How Semicab is promoting ESG goals (21:18)
• Rapid-fire round: signs of a pending freight recession, the future of digital freight brokerage, favorite book (23:01)

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:

• Milk Moovement’s mission (1:20)
• The Rob story (2:30)
• Breaking down the dairy industry (5:10)
• The data farmers are interested in (8:40)
• The benefits of leveraging Milk Moovement (11:11)
• The scale of Milk Moovement (13:32)
• The grand vision for Milk Moovement (15:05)
• Benefits of taking daily walks (18:02)
• Valuable business lesson (19:58)
• If you could take up an opportunity in supply chain… (21:27)

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 included:

• Using advanced image processing to help bulk materials companies eliminate that year-end surprise (1:14)
• How bulk materials companies used to assess their inventory (5:53)
• Interpreting pixels captured by smartphones, drones and more for attributes of a stockpile (9:38)
• Sample use cases for image acquisition and data integration (13:00)
• Attitude shifts in inventory management in 2020 (17:37)
• Offering a bundled option compared to a white label option (19:35)
• Focusing on a problem to solve and partnering to provide a complete solution (23:23)
• Projecting the future of Stockpile Reports (25:22)

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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 Locomation AI (1:14)
• The Çetin story (4:02)
• Locomation’s competitive advantage (6:43)
• The different way Locomation is selling (9:34)
• Long haul trucking being split into relays (11:03)
• The necessity of underlying trucking OEMs (13:12)
• The ​​lack of a clear, federal level safety framework (15:58)
• Transporting 2x as more in the same amount of time (17:53)
• The arrival of level five autonomy (20:53)
• Electrification as the energy system of the future (22:39)
• Solving other supply chain issues (24:57)

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 Rob and team are building at Backbone AI (1:02)
• Rob’s background and career journey (1:49)
• The massive ripple effects of spreadsheet limitations (3:56)
• Backbone’s practical solution: Databots (10:16)
• The transformation to digital sales happening in B2B (14:27)
• Backbone IRL: 2 case studies (16:18)
• Rob’s POV on utilizing the blockchain for supply chain (24:43)
• Rapid fire on business building (26:54)

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/.

Highlights from their conversation include:

• About XPO (1:15)
• Matt’s background and career journey (2:45)
• XPO’s record-breaking year in 2021 (3:52)
• The Greenwich arrangement (5:20)
• Tech’s role in XPO’s business (7:57)
• XPO’s driver school (12:01)
• LTL’s 2022 Outlook (14:13)
• The North American Freight Brokerage outlook (17:36)
• Rapid-fire round: Ukrainian-Russian conflict, truck shortages, prized daily habit (19:43)

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/.

Their conversation about the state of the container shipping industry covered:

• The state of the container business in 2020 (3:34)
• Integration ambition, building larger vessels and depressing sea rates (9:56)
• Carrier consolidation and global alliances (15:10)
• Carriers being smart with pricing and keeping space open (19:23)
• Technological adoption for liners (22:00)
• Average annual global container growth and proliferation of regional trade (30:44)
• What does the state of global trade mean for VCOs? (37:21)

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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:

• KINETIC and how Haytham got there (1:07)
• The problem KINETIC is trying to solve (4:39)
• What KINETIC’s device work (8:33)
• Selling as an IoT enabled business (12:14)
• Monetizing around insurance (15:08)
• Adapting as a CEO (18:47)
• Brokerage, the MGA model, & underwriting (20:30)
• Rapid-fire round: labor shortages across supply, favorite hardware product, the outlook for the New York City startup ecosystem (23:48)

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 Flexport story (2:00)
• Ben’s career journey (4:41)
• International global supply chains (9:54)
• Technology adoption in the forwarding market (13:28)
• The start of Flexport (18:40)
• Raising rounds’ effect on the scaling process (26:22)
• Multi-product line training and quota attainment (30:24)
• Expansion tactics, incentives, and considerations (35:13)
• Rapid-fire round: favorite book, important daily habit, uncommon belief (38:34)

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/.