The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast

Highlights from their conversation include:

• Clay’s background (2:09)
• Dynamo fellowship (3:23)
• Career-wide impact (4:29)
• Mentorship within the fellowship (13:51)
• What makes Dynamo different (16:48)
• Summarizing the fellowship (20:17)
• Favorite portfolio projects (22:23)
• If you could do the fellowship again... (24:25)
• Moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee (27:07)
• Why YOU should do the fellowship (29:55)
• Application details (30:36)

Application: https://www.dynamo.vc/blog-posts/join-dynamo-ventures-fellowship-program-2

Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed stage and enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/.

Highlights from the conversation:

• How Parade got started (1:18)
• Defining capacity management (5:20)
• The ideal Parade customer/partner (9:10)
• How capacity management is typically dealt with (10:57)
• Benefits of working with Parade (12:47)
• How Parade implements AI (16:52)
• How Parade interfaces with the TMS (20:33)
• Lessons from selling into freight brokerages (23:02)
• The future for the brokerage industry (25:11)
• Rapide fire round: the slowdown in North American trucking, sustained strength in industrial demand, favorite daily habit (27:11)

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 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:

• 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/.