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Portfolio
Current Investments - Supply Chain
Freight Tiger
Freight Tiger is building logistics infrastructure to transform commerce in India. Their platform helps you deliver your freight on-time in-full, every time. They do it through end-to-end logistics visibility and a cloud based TMS, which together also power the largest Digital Freight Network in India.www.freighttiger.com
JASCI Software
JASCI allows companies to manage warehouse inventory, orders, people, robotics & WCS in one platform
Linnworks
Linnworks provides integrated inventory, order management and listings software built for growing retailers
ElectroTempo
ElectroTempo specializes in helping our customers de-risk their major electric vehicle investments
Phoenix Tailings
Phoenix Tailings is changing how metals are produced by extracting valuable metals and rare earth elements from mining waste
Optilogic
Optilogic offers cloud-native supply chain design solutions that enable businesses to evaluate trade-offs across financial performance, service levels, and systemic risk to design resilient supply chains
Tanbark
Tanbark designs and manufactures non-plastic sustainable packaging solutions
Pelicargo
Pelicargo makes air cargo fast, easy, and affordable for freight forwarders by automatically matching cargo with the best possible flight option.
Tenstreet
Tenstreet connects carriers and drivers, making it easier to fill trucks while staying compliant.
Finboot
Finboot is a technology company that gives its world class customers a competitive edge through accelerating their digital transformation, realizing value and building trust through blockchain. www.finboot.com
Descartes Systems Group
Descartes (TSX: DSG) (Nasdaq: DSGX) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance and security of logistics-intensive businesses. Descartes’ B2B network, the Global Logistics Network, integrates more than 35,000 trading partners to our cloud-based Logistics Technology Platform to unite their businesses in commerce.
Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, schedule, track and measure delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world’s largest, collaborative multi-modal logistics community.
Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world.
Resilinc
Resilinc offers a complete end-to-end solution for supply chain resiliency. Whether you are mapping the supply chain for visibility, resiliency or compliance purposes, we are the multi-tier collaborative mapping solution that can deliver traceability and visibility down to product and part number levels.
Work Truck Solution
Work Truck Solution provides world-class, industry-specific, outsourced business processes that connect all truck chassis manufacturers (regardless of make) with specialized work truck body manufacturers. We enable dealers, at all levels, to seamlessly locate, acquire, account for, and deliver the Right Truck to the Right Buyer.
Paradigm4’s SciDB
Paradigm4’s SciDB: the latest innovation from renowned database researcher, Turing Award winner, and entrepreneur, MIT Professor Michael Stonebraker – is a radically new computational database for mining insights from genomic, clinical, image, financial markets, instrument, and sensor data. Paradigm4 is changing what’s possible with Big Data by answering bigger, harder questions.
SupplyShift
SupplyShift is a secure, cloud-based enterprise sustainability management platform for companies with many suppliers to reduce risk and enhance sustainability in supply chains.
Cohealo
Cohealo is a technology company that helps health systems share medical equipment across facilities, so they can optimize spend, accelerate cash flow, and improve access to care.
Shipmonk
ShipMonk is revolutionizing eCommerce order fulfillment by providing the most personal and attentive fulfillment and inventory management solution for today’s global economy. Our multichannel order fulfillment service and inventory management software enable small companies to focus on building their brand and achieving next-level growth. It’s how we execute on the promise of our motto: “Stress Less, Grow More.”
LEAF
Logistics Marketplace meets financial exchange … Built for the industry, by a team with decades of logistics, technology and finance experience, the LE Platform brings financial market efficiency to the transportation marketplace.
Lumina Analytics
Lumina was founded on the idea that technology is a force for good. We optimized our artificial intelligence capabilities to help keep people and places safe and secure.
Loadsmart
Loadsmart is not just for the logistics experts or the computer-savvy; it’s for everyone. Our simple platform was created to make your life easier by allowing you to quickly book a truck and track your freight from pickup to delivery.
Mori (formerly Cambridge Crops)
Our all-natural protective layer slows down the spoiling process of fruit, veggies, meats, and seafood in the supply chain to help you enjoy fresher food for longer
RPA Labs
RPA Labs Robotic Automation Process technology is tailored specifically for transportation and logistics companies. We help companies move faster by automating work activities that are repetitive, time-consuming and no longer require human labor.
Covalent Networks
Covalent Networks provides a dynamic web & mobile-based workforce platform that brings the three primary on the job (OJT) workflows online: Map, Assign & Track, Analyze.
Isee
We develop vehicles powered by our humanistic AI that are engineered to anticipate the unexpected.
Mercado Labs
Mercado is an Import Management System designed to bring order to your imports by transforming the supply chain. Effectively connecting buyers and sellers by optimizing the First Mile, or first 120 days, of the supply chain.
Alaiko
Alaiko is the plug & play logistics partner for your shopping system in Europe. Professional order picking, packing and shipping, reliable and cost-efficient.
Tive
Companies need to know the location and condition of their goods, especially in transit – a huge challenge for traditional software-only supply chain solutions. Tive’s combination of always-connected sensors and cloud-based software gives companies the visibility they need, enabling alerts, reporting, and analysis on their inbound and outbound shipments across all modes of transport.
Torch Logistics
Torch is the only digital short-haul 3PL focused on lanes 50-550 miles. We’ve integrated with thousands of micro-carriers to unlock the hidden capacity to move these tricky loads.
nShift
nShift is market leading within Transport Management (TM) on the Nordic market. With more than 20 years of experience we provide innovative TM-systems of high quality that simplifies and improves for the transport buyer as well as for the carrier.
ZeKju
ZeKju provides digital services in the fields of transport management, transport communication and truck connectivity.
Capstone Logistics
Capstone orchestrates mission-critical activities across warehousing and transportation functions to transform discrete logistics tasks into unified, end-to-end processes.
Shipday
Shipday provides easy, stress-free, automated local deliveries for your business.
Lineage Logistics
Lineage Logistics is an international warehousing and logistics company owned by Bay Grove, LLC. As the world’s largest refrigerated warehousing company it has around 200 facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia. www.lineagelogistics.com
Current Investments - Other
ActualMeds
KnowMyMeds provides the first patient-centered, multi-disciplinary approach to medication reconciliation at transitions of care and an alternative to information collection from the current state of fragmented paper and electronic systems. Beginning with a systematic and comprehensive review of a patient’s drugs and self-medication behavior, KnowMyMeds creates and maintains an accurate list of all of a patient’s medications that can be made available to all involved with a patient’s care including family/caregiver
Placester
Placester automates your real estate marketing so you can close more deals.
Jebbit
Jebbit’s interactive micro-content platform powers 1000s of interactive micro-content experiences for leading brands around the world.
CabinetM
CabinetM helps modern marketing teams build, manage and optimize their marketing technology suite in a rapidly transforming digital marketing environment. The platform enables full lifecycle support around digital tool discovery, qualification, implementation and management by individual marketers, teams, and throughout enterprise organizations.
Prism Analytics
Prism Analytic Technologies is an evidence synthesis platform that generates proprietary clinical trial intelligence from disparate, unstructured data in real-time. We specialize in creating living evidence landscapes that empower data-driven decision making in highly specific, rapidly evolving spaces such as digital health and Alzheimer’s.
Thiozen
Thiozen generates low cost and low carbon hydrogen for the oil and gas sector via a unique chemical process
Past Investments - Supply Chain
Seyo
Seyo (acquired by founders) enables robots and AGVs to organize and safely optimize tasks between themselves in real-time without human intervention nor the internet, creating self-managing robotic fleets inside you manufacturing facilities and logistics hubs.
Return Rabbit
Return Rabbit (acquired by Auctane) is a returns management solution that understands your brand, increases your bottom line, and customizes your post-purchase experience.
Aulera Authentication
Aulera (acquired by Tive) allows innovative brands to protect against counterfeit goods and the gray market.
True Load Time
TRUE LOAD TIME (acquired by Tenstreet) is your source for determining average wait times at shipper and receiver locations.
Transporeon
Transporeon (acquired by Trimble) is the leading global cloud platform for intelligent transport logistics. It creates a digital connection between shippers and carriers, achieving smarter, transparent and more cost-effective movement of goods around the world. By digitizing the entire logistics supply chain, it also enables real communication and collaboration across the worldwide shipper-carrier community
Foxtrot
Foxtrot (acquired by Descartes) optimizes your daily distribution routes in 60 seconds.
LevaData
LevaData (acquired by Banneker Partners) is currently blazing the trail in redefining strategic sourcing capability for enterprises by effectively enabling data driven strategy & execution using our cost management software platform.
Perishables Shipping Solutions
PSS (acquired by Lineage Logistics)is a pick & pack order fulfillment warehouse providing perishable (frozen/refrigerated) shipping via FedEx. We provide a full line of e-Commerce order fulfillment services. PSS helps businesses capitalize on the recent explosion of e-commerce food shopping. Not only are people more comfortable with e-commerce shopping for nearly everything, foodies are increasingly seeking out unique products and artisan fare.
Llamasoft
LLamasoft supply chain design software (acquired by Coupa Software) helps organizations worldwide design visualize, analyze and optimize their supply chain operations. Their tools enable you to visualize your current supply chain, analyze what-if scenarios and react rapidly and efficiently to unforeseen events.
NextShift Robotics
NextShift Robotics (acquired by JASCI Software) specializes in creating material handling systems using collaborative mobile autonomous robots. Our company is focused on meeting the demands of the exploding e-commerce order fulfillment market.
Sandymount Techologies
Sandymount Techologies’ (acquired by Alfa Laval) unique filtration technology enables brewers to manufacture high quality beer concentrates and distribute their brands widely and cost-effectively while delivering superior product quality and uniformity.
Supply.ai
Supply.ai (acquired by Return Rabbit) automates supply chain decisions for logistics and ecommerce through real time decision engines
Steelwedge
Steelwedge (Acquired by E2Open) integrated sales, operations and finance planning solutions provide the “shock absorbers” to recognize, recalibrate and respond in a volatile environment. Business agility and resiliency start with Steelwedge for a clear line of sight from plan to performance to profit.
Weft (acquired by Genpact)
Weft (acquired by Genpact) provides global, real-time cargo visibility through the Weft platform — which integrates Weft sensors, sensors from other providers, and customer ERP and CRM systems –to provide status and alerts for out-of-bounds conditions (location, temperature, moisture, shock/vibration) and stage completion.
Kiva Systems
Kiva Systems (Acquired by Amazon), provides a breakthrough material handling system for the order fulfillment and warehousing industry. The Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System allows distribution center operators to triple labor productivity, decrease order cycle times to minutes, and add new capacity in days.
Lean Logistics
Lean Logistics (Acquired by Brambles) – is an on-demand Transportation Management System (TMS) focused on reducing total cost of technology ownership by blending traditional TMS functionality with collaborative shipper/carrier management tools as well as by enhancing customer service operations via real time shipment status information. LeanLogistics also manages transportation planning and execution for selected clients. Lean Logistics was sold to Brambles Logistics in 2008
True Demand Software
True Demand Software (Acquired by Acosta) – is a pioneer in the development of new supply chain applications, formulated by Dr. Hau Lee of the Stanford School of Business, which take advantage of both RFID and non-RFID data to help solve supply chain planning and execution problems.
Optant Power Chain
Optiant’s Power Chain Solutions (Acquired by Logility) – help Global 2000 companies optimize their bottom-line performance by creating responsive and resilient supply chains. As the leading provider of inventory planning and optimization solutions, Optiant’s solutions optimally balance resources, total costs, and customer service across the supply chain to deliver greater profitability, increased customer satisfaction, more efficient use of capital, and a resilient supply chain that fully handles uncertainty in supply and demand.
New Vine Logistics
New Vine Logistics (Acquired by IBG Fulfillment Group) – offers proprietary order management, storage and fulfillment services for premium west coast wineries which enable fully compliant consumer-direct wine shipments to forty-four states. Mailing list sales to consumers are the fastest growing and most profitable (the wineries sell to consumers at retail and keep the distributor’s portion) part of premium winery business. New Vine Logistics is very well positioned to capture a large market share of this fast growing segment
Crimson Hexagon (acquired by CISION)
Founded in 2007, enabler of global big data intelligence and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Crimson Hexagon is the only patented social media analysis and Big Data analytics platform available today. We provide industry-leading social media monitoring and analysis software and services to global brands, agencies, media firms and their partners.
Transplace
Transplace (acquired by Uber Freight) provides tech-enabled services for the transportation and logistics network.
Past Investments - Other
Kincrew (formerly X2X Community)
Kincrew (acquired by founder) conversations among divorced parents are secure and court-admissible.
Blank Label
Blank Label (acquired by founder) designs classic, custom-made shirts and delivers them to you with a fit guarantee in as soon as 7 days.
NBD
NBD (acquired by Henkel) makes use of a nano-scale surface to enhance water condensation. Mimicking the Namib Desert Beetle, our nanotechnology can be used to collect water in the most arid regions of the world
Little Passports
Little Passports (acquired by BEGIN) is your child’s ticket to an exciting global adventure. Inspire a love and understanding of the world as your child learns about a new country every month.
Avenue Right
Avenue Right (Acquired by Avenue Right) knows how to utilize today’s technology to create a new process for media buyers to analyze, plan, schedule and buy media – and for media outlets to sell their media. By creating a platform where media buyers and media outlets can exchange media information and transact, the tedious and manual nature of media buying is removed, easing the effort and cost of the existing market, and giving an entirely new market an ability that was once beyond their reach
AIKO
Aiko Biotechnology (Acquired by Laudant) is a Maine-based, early stage pharmaceutical company specializing in developing compounds to eliminate the harmful side effects and addiction that result from prescription pain medication use. The company has exclusive rights to a novel class of compounds, termed “opioid antagonists” that hold promise for more efficacious and safer pain and addiction management than currently exists or is under development.
Bespoke Global
Bespoke Global is the first International e-commerce website to aggregate custom home furnishings – goods previously unavailable to the global consumer.
Bow & Drape
Bow & Drape clothing is made by the individual, for the individual. We want to excite women’s style sensibilities and give them the ability to design what they really want to wear. Every detail of a Bow & Drape original is hand selected from the finest materials and made-to-order in two weeks by NYC’s distinguished garment makers
Control Group
Control Group (acquired by Google/Intersection) uses technology and design to help our clients envision what’s possible and build it with them
Kitsy Lane
Kitsy Lane is a platform for creating and driving online retail sales by leveraging social trust relationships. The platform provides everything an individual needs to operate an online store, including compelling goods, a customizable professional ecommerce site, fulfillment, and customer service. A proprietary marketing and CRM system drives sales online, eliminating the need to buy start-up kits and hold time-consuming selling parties.
Vtrenz
Vtrenz (acquired by SilverPop) Vtrenz the industry leader in on-demand marketing automation software, enables organizations to nurture, grow and retain customers through its innovative product, proven relationship marketing process and experienced marketing professionals. Developed by Vtrenz, iMarketing Automation is a comprehensive product that allows marketers to create, manage, execute and analyze all components of their marketing campaigns, both traditional and electronic, within one solution . Vtrenz was sold to Silverpop in 2007
SilverPop
SilverPop (acquired by IBM) – on-demand digital marketing platform helps marketers succeed in turning prospects into customers—and customers into fans—through the creation, automation and delivery of relevant, multichannel messaging. Silverpop’s marketing automation capabilities enable B2B marketers to efficiently manage leads and drive qualified sales opportunities through scoring and by nurturing campaigns that move prospects from interest to conversion
Tumri
Tumri (acquired by Collective) – is an on-demand, pay for performance network merchandising company which serves highly-targeted, contextually relevant products to qualified consumers browsing internet sites via a superior, scalable, lights-out targeting engine.
Biflex
Biflex (acquired by Komar Intimates) is a private label maker of bras and panties that provides a leading product design and replenishment service for major retailers, including Wal-Mart, J. C. Penny, Sears/K-Mart and Dillard’s. Recently spun out of Kellwood, Biflex’s success is derived from developing creative new products as well as running an innovative, low cost global sourcing and logistics operation
Spring Lake Technologies
Spring Lake Technologies is developing the next generation of on-demand sales performance software. The SLY solutions-SmartProfiling and SmartSelling—enable individual sales professional to significantly increase close rates by improving seller and buyer alignment during the sales process.
Whoop
Mobile Whoop Mobile, formerly XOsphere, is an enabling company, dedicated to providing the expertise and solutions required for businesses to overcome the challenges in deploying mobile applications and solutions on a worldwide basis. XOsphere’s end-to-end services include consulting, conceptual planning, development, deployment, hosting, reporting/analytics, integration and billing and end-user management. This package allows companies a means to move into the mobile sphere far more broadly and efficiently than attempting it in-house or by cobbling together a diverse group of outside resources. Whoop is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Buenos Aires
Lumoid
Lumoid makes photography simple and affordable by renting you exactly the camera you need!
ClinQs
ClinQs are reusable drink identifying stickers. clinQs are a perfect accessory to avoid a beverage mix-up. They are ideal for parties, office, gatherings, meetings, conferences, etc. Simply peel and place! Storage card included. I.D. YOUR DRINKS WITH CLINQS!
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