Highlights from their conversation include:

• Daley’s journey with startups and venture backing (1:15)
• How Engage works with Atlanta’s unique nexus of innovation in the southeast (3:58)
• Corporate engagement with startup growth (7:40)
• Thinking differently about ROI (11:46)
• Making sure that CEOs are on board with innovation cycles (19:55)
• Perpetrators of innovation theater (23:26)
• Dealing with the innovator’s dilemma (25:29)
• How founders should prepare for their first Fortune 500 sales meeting (31:29)
• Avoiding the infamous pilot’s purgatory (34:53)
• Fixing pricing later (38:02)

Engage is designed to promote innovation through a network of connections between startups, corporations, university researchers, and the venture community. Find out more at https://www.engage.vc/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.

Highlights from their conversation include:

• Kyle’s realization that shipping containers were integral to the supply chain (1:19)
• Data as a fundamental gatekeeper to the supply chain (4:04)
• Understanding the journey a container goes through (6:43)
• How Vizion triangulates data sources and creates a fully automated data pipeline (12:40)
• Massive volume of ocean shipping (14:21)
• Seeing 10 years of e-commerce growth play out over nine months (16:20)
• The benefits of API to customers (19:26)
• User success stories (21:49)
• The rise of alternative ports (26:54)

Vizion offers data services that consolidate and evaluate data from multiple sources to help logistics teams all around the globe to stay on top of day-to-day operations and strategic analysis. Find out more at https://vizionapi.com/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.

*From time to time, we’ll re-air a previous episode of the show that our newer audience may have missed.*

In this episode, we sit down with Ed Clarke, Co-Founder and CEO of Yojee to talk about smart dispatching, route optimization, and accountability and control with logistics.

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:

• The vision of FloorFound—to expand the lifespan of retail products and enable sustainability efforts (1:15)
• Chris’ background and how that led him to FloorFound (2:45)
• Oversized returns and impact on repeat buyers (5:27)
• Pandemic acceleration of oversized eCommerce market (8:11)
• Defining re-commerce (10:41)
• Benefits about partnering with FloorFound (14:25)
• The heavy lifting FloorFound does behind the scenes and dealing with current supply chain limitations (18:49)
• Circular economy principles and sustainability perspectives (23:25)
• Most surprising lessons learned as an entrepreneur (28:39)
• Running a business in Austin (31:05)
• Intentional habits that helped fuel Chris’ success (33:56)

FloorFound is an Austin, Texas, based company that helps big/bulky eCommerce retailers turn their returns and trade-ins into a resale opportunity, providing efficiency in velocity and cost recovery, while maintaining the brand’s integrity. Find out more at https://floorfound.com/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.

Highlights from their conversation include:

• Detailing the raising of the second fund and how the pandemic elevated the conversation around the supply chain (0:56)
• Multiple layers in the supply chain is becoming increasingly important (4:56)
• The state of ports and container data (7:06)
• Trade finance (12:09)
• Brokers and leverage (15:28)
• E-commerce penetration in the UK now (18:45)
• Inventory insurance and Amazon (21:19)
• Last mile investment (24:27)
• Reverse logistics and nano fulfillment (27:39)
• Large verticals (29:46)

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.

*From time to time we’ll re-air a previous episode of the show that our newer audience may have missed.*

In this episode, we sit down with Dan Covert, Director of Supply Chain R&D at Ahold Delhaize to talk about grocery logistics, distribution, and innovation in the supply chain.

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:

• Steve Wen’s entrepreneurial path to starting Dray Alliance (1:23)
• Reducing inefficiencies of delivering shipping containers with a DoorDash-style system (5:30)
• Using data-driven insights to help drivers become more efficient (7:21)
• Use case of how Dray Alliance is implemented (9:05)
• Container visibility and transparency (11:37)
• Assessing the current state of ports (13:22)
• Dealing with criticism of digital brokerage (16:45)
• Technology freeing up human capital (19:05)
• Advice for entrepreneurs on creating good habits and working with people you trust (22:31)

Based in Long Beach, California, Dray Alliance is a venture-backed company on a mission to transform the trucking and logistics industry, starting with drayage. Their technology simplifies the antiquated process of moving containers across short distances, with focus on port and rail moves. Find out more at https://www.drayalliance.com/home/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.

On this week’s episode of The Future of Supply Chain, Santosh talks with Matt Silver, CEO, and co-founder of Forager, to discuss how they’ve built a platform and a marketplace for cross-border freight. With more than 10,000,000 North American cross-border shipments a year,

Highlights from their conversation include:

• Forager’s origin (1:03)
• Matt’s path from making music videos to working in logistics (2:10)
• Orchestrating cross-border shipments and synchronizing with all the parties involved (7:18)
• Scout: Forager’s end-to-end user experience as a cloud-based TMS and marketplace (9:19)
• Operating leverage and how technology and marketplace businesses disrupt brokerages (14:04)
• Market fluctuations and pricing adjustments (20:09)
• How more companies are inserting themselves on top of the brokerages (28:06)
• Most surprising lessons learned from starting Forager (34:21)
• Rapid-fire questions: North American manufacturing, Chicago vs. Chattanooga, and freight visibility (36:11)

Founded in 2018 to help streamline the North American supply chain, Forager describes itself as the leader in cross-border logistics, Find out more at https://www.foragerscs.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.

On this week’s episode of The Future of Supply Chain, Santosh chats with Tracy Black, operating partner at NewRoad Capital Partners. Together they discuss exciting opportunities in the supply chain world and provide a VC perspective on the industry.

Highlights from their conversation include:

• Tracy Black’s introduction into the supply chain and venture capital (1:21)
• NewRoad’s VC strategy (5:21)
• The questions that startups need to be asking (9:27)
• Tracy’s experience at J.B. Hunt from growth to cloud and how that helps her as an investor (11:42)
• Fleet management and platform science (16:18)
• Technology driving margins up (20:48)
• Digesting what’s going on in the supply chain today (22:39)

NewRoad is a growth equity firm currently investing out of a $176 million fund where 75% of investments go into logistics and supply chain. Find out more at https://newroadcp.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.

*From time to time we’ll re-air a previous episode of the show that our newer audience may have missed.*

In this episode, we sit down with Ken Braunbach, VP of Transportation at Walmart to talk about retail, eCommerce transportation, and logistics as well as growth opportunities for the future.