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/.

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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.com

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.

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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.com

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.

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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.

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Highlights from their conversation include:

• What cargo.one is building (1:15)
• How Oliver and Moritz started two businesses together (2:18)
• cargo.one’s ideal customer profile (5:49)
• How air freight handled operations for years and how that’s shifting (8:09)
• Value add for freight forwarders (10:54)
• Building an organization that provides technology that scales (14:15)
• Generating value on both sides of the marketplace (19:08)
• Importance of cargo.one’s aggregation and workflow (21:13)
• Global ambitions and perspective of cargo.one (26:44)
• Adapting to cultural differences in an international marketplace (32:09)
• Biggest lessons learned since starting cargo.one (34:52)

cargo.one’s platform allows for users to search for quotes, compare real-time quotes across airlines, and then directly book quotes with instant confirmation. Find out more at: https://www.cargo.one/#How-it-works

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.

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Highlights from their conversation include:

• David’s story and pivoting from his original idea (1:36)
• Tapping into the European road freight market (4:57)
• Balancing organic and inorganic growth (9:12)
• Understanding what motivates the team around you (13:39)
• Re-inventing business models, including with autonomous trucks (17:06)
• Fostering trust with carriers and shippers (21:10)
• Managing a wide network of carriers (24:23)
• Employees contribution to sennder’s culture (28:09)
• David’s effective habits and advice for entrepreneurs (30:41)

sennder places a focus on digitization and automation of all road logistics processes and positions itself as Europe’s leading freight forwarder that connects shippers with a fleet of thousands of trucks. Find out more at: https://www.sennder.com/about-us

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.

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