Isembard announces a $9M Seed round led by @NotionCapital, which is backed by the UK & German governments. We're on a mission to forge industrial acceleration with software-first manufacturing. 1/9
Supply chain resilience can require total transformation of our industrial approach.
Biosyn tech like @AetherMachines is one way in which this is happening.
So we backed them. Loving working working with @SynBioMars and the whole team.
Link - https://t.co/inBRiE0pDU
Announcing our investment into Terminal Industries! 🤝 With a best-in-class AI and Computer vision team. And a roster of some of the best strategic and VC logistics investors. We take on one of the great remaining frontiers in logistics: the yard.
https://t.co/jzHWR2Y7pF
A good day! Terminal Industries out of Stealth; $17M to Bring AI to Yard Operations. Led by @8vc, @Prologis, and joined by @amplifierlab.
Inefficiencies in yard operations cost us $146B pa. It’s critical infrastructure and we have to fix it.
https://t.co/V1XHKjhtvR
Come join me, @tomasvd_Heijden, and the team at @aicampusberlin for a "fireside chat" 🔥 later this week. Sign up link below👇
https://t.co/QF8DT7s4jl
💬 why environmental and geo-political pressures will transform our supply chains. And the tech 🤖 enabling it.
🌇 Announcing our investment in @YardLink1 17.5M Series A - digitising construction procurement, focusing on local supply chains. With 95% of products procured within 15 miles of the project.
Co-investing with @Beringea (led), @speedinvest and @FjLabs. https://t.co/MDAkbW0g4V
We are thrilled to announce our USD 17.5M Series A fundraise!🚀 Our funding round was led by @Beringea , with participation from @amplifierlab, and existing investors @speedinvest and @FJlabs.
Read our full article in TechCrunch https://t.co/9oL5bTvGGf
#tech#Construction
We are hiring! 🧑🚀
Two Visting Analyst roles now open as part of our fellowship programme, for those looking to break into VC. Apply below 👇 #vcjobs
https://t.co/yc0wirglGQ
💛 $13.5m Series A for @bliq_ai, led by @NEA.
🌁 Building the OS for the gig economy - the first-ever #superapp work tool for the on-demand drivers and riders, processing their entire workflow in a single interface, enabling efficiency and earnings.
👀 https://t.co/BYXyThCuZp
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Our portfolio company @usehiveapp, has teamed up with @fortocompany and @sennderofficial, to build a fully functional supply chain capable of moving high volumes of humanitarian aid from France and Germany into Ukraine.
How this works ...👇
Great work @Matt__Heider and team @NautilusLabs1, $34M Series B 👏
🌊Few markets are as challenging for startups as Maritime. Their success is exceptional.
🌳Attacking critical inefficiencies in fuel consumption, emissions, voyage outcome prediction.
https://t.co/AEBarlL1bu
Love this team! 🦸 Backing @Trucksters_FTL again with an €8M extension of their Series A was an easy decision.
🏔 Addressing key challenges in long-haul logistics - solving massive driver shortages, reducing ETAs, and enabling electrification.
In this @Siftedeu article, Atila, one of our drivers, explains that “nearly everything is better [with Trucksters], the team, the understanding of our work, it’s fantastic". And he sleeps more at home. Read the full article: #relays#transport#logistics
https://t.co/bpcON8WfES
Some of the ways we solve this ...
🌳 Replacing fossil fuels with green hydrogen in steel production
🪨 Self-healing concrete, possible with limestone producing micro-organisms
🧬 Carbon Nano-tubes to reduce raw material volumes while achieving the same tensile strength
A new blog from our Visiting Analyst @JustineLafaix ! 📖👀 The construction industry, its waste and emissions problems, and the emerging technologies she has idenified to solve them.
https://t.co/Zlx2pAMF8S
Deal done! Congratulations 👏 to portfolio company @micropsi on raising a $30M Series B. Welcome #Metaplanet, #Vsquared, and #AhrenInnovationCapital
Ronnie and the team have developed one of the world's most advanced 🧠 AI platforms for high-speed cobot learning in the world.
Portfolio company @mercadolabs has raised their Series A! Great to have you with us @sjfventures. 🚀
👏 Congratulations to Rob and the whole team. The need for what you are building could not be greater,🧡
🎉 Mercado Labs has raised a Series A Investment by SJF Ventures 🎉
The Series A will accelerate Mercado’s efforts to rapidly digitize and automate the ordering and transport of goods throughout the international supply chain.
Read about it here >> https://t.co/ePAvX0n4GJ
💥We're thrilled to announce our investment into @hierfoods 🫐as part of a €7 million round led by @collabfund. Amazing team, led by @lara_haemmerle and @mark_jaeger, building the infrastructure layer for future decentralized food systems. 💚🚀
https://t.co/5pisU5y1ec