The Dynamo Show: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast

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...

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 launchin...

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 s...

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 o...

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 netwo...

Highlights from their conversation include: Michael’s backstory in logistics and autonomous vehicles (2:21) Ryder and Gatik’s collaboration (6:17) Autonomous vehicle diagnostics, hardware, and maintenance (8:49) Dealing with different drivetrains (15:39) Building scalable solutions across geographies (18:58) Locking down a solid playbook for scalability (20:38) Developing transparent and collabora...

Highlights of this conversation include:  Transfix’s origin story (1:35) Applying software to create a competitive advantage and drive people toward the future (5:05) With every segment of the supply chain being digitized, where is the digitalization really accelerating? (9:10) Learning to harmonize the digital and the physical to become a world-class 3PL (14:14) Addressing criticism of margins in...

Highlights from their conversation include: Building a next-generation transportation management system (1:03) Announcing Rose Rocket’s Series A and discussing bringing a horizontal software to address multiple trucking verticals (6:09) Providing transparency with a platform layer (11:30) How Rose Rocket solves problems for its customers (15:36) The Rose Rocket shipper portal and a freemium model...

Highlights from their conversation include: Mike background and growth and expansion at Pure Storage (1:33) Mike’s responsibilities as VP of Operations (6:22) Current state of the hardware supply chain (8:56) Risk mitigation lessons learned from previous disasters and disruptions (11:44) Visibility in the supply chain (14:08) Preparing for the worst and planning for the best (19:54) Near-shoring a...

Highlights from their conversation include: Nulogy’s fit in the supply chain and Jason’s background at Kellogg’s (1:12) E-commerce acceleration (5:38) Defining co-packers (8:22) Typical customers using Nulogy (12:46) Problems that Nulogy addresses (14:30) Operational effectiveness and on-time and full metrics (18:20) Nulogy University’s role in business building (20:18) How culture scales as a bus...

Topics in this conversation include:  How Craig coined Chattanooga as the “Freight Alley” and decided to found Freightwaves there (1:58) How the Sonar Freight Forecasting Platform works (11:38) Bull or Bear outlook for the freight markets moving forward? (24:20) The current state of digitizing freight (31:42) The biggest lessons learned in building Freightwaves & the purpose of the media arm (41:2...

Highlights from their conversation include: Alan had been running UPS Ventures when he last appeared on the show. What he’s been up to since then. (1:45) Looking at the changing landscape for the last mile in fulfillment, delivery, and returns (7:35) Three key takeaways (12:07) Data science driving operations (17:50) What will separate the winners from the losers in the next five years (23:27) Hea...

Highlights from their conversation include: Peter’s background in journalism (1:22) Eric’s focus on technology (2:28) Extreme increases in freight benchmarks and decreases in service (4:30) Frustrations in container shipping detention (11:10) Slowdown in circulation of assets (13:25) E-commerce boom’s impact on distribution centers and more (19:28) When this boom will peak (23:00) Demand for visib...

Highlights from their conversation include: Jeppe’s background (1:22) Overview of Maersk Growth and its dedicated investment and portfolio management teams (2:51) Making investments that are future-minded (5:46) Having a steady, long-term commitment (8:18) Exciting supply chain opportunities (11:55) Exposing an old industry to new technology (14:35) Challenges with getting to prime market fit (17:...

Highlights from their conversation include: Sunny and taking on the challenge of creating Fulcrum Manufacturing (1:12) The urge to use technology to improve manufacturing (4:08) What Fulcrum provides for customers (8:07) Fulcrum’s one-stop shop solutions for companies of various sizes (16:00) Removing inefficiencies (19:01) Shifts in process control methods (21:41) Benefits realized by customers a...

Topics in this conversation include:   Norton Transport’s humble beginnings: delivering buses (1:45) Defining driveaway services for commercial vehicles and manufacturers (5:16) Cultivating a genuinely unique culture for Norton drivers (12:36) New tech, carbon-neutral trucks, and low emission vehicles (21:50) Opportunities for innovation in the driveaway industry (28:20) Justin and the crew at Nor...

Siva and Santosh span a number of topics including the global pandemic and:   Starting a global logistics career by sailing on a container ship (1:25) Managing a global supply chain during a global pandemic (4:32) Inventory management by customer segmentation (10:30) Technology at the forefront of risk management innovation (18:20) On-shore, Near-shore, and vendor diversification as a defense stra...

Topics include:  David’s early years, life struggles, & turning points (1:25) The wild career ride from nearly being fired to CEO of Honeywell (6:15) Top 3 lessons for growth-stage CEOs (20:55) The one thing David is most proud of from his time at Honeywell (30:45) What will change (and stay the same) in the “new normal” ((38:00)  Thanks to David for joining the show! We enjoyed the exciting and i...

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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 inn...

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-co...

*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 entrepr...

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 (14:2...

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 insuranc...

*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 entre...