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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

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For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

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As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents.

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Sylndr, an online used-car retailer, raises $12.6M pre-seed to disrupt Egypt’s automotive market

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Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. Some include U.K.’s

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

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The platform provides various tools and apps for accomplishing different tasks across freight procurement, trade and transport management, freight audit and payment and document management, as well as dispatch planning and analytics. The result of those major disruptions? But Pando has a compelling sales pitch, judging by its momentum.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

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The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. At their core, these companies are facilitators, matching consumer demand with existing supply of a product or service.

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Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm

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Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . Melonn then takes care of the picking, packing and delivery, so that end-consumers receive their orders on the same or next day, also taking care of returns.

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After selling Bread last year for over $500M, this founder just raised millions for his new fintech startup

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So he teamed up with former Lyft exec Andrew Woolf to found Coast , a company that is aiming to meet those needs with the mission of becoming “the financial platform for the future of transportation.”. It’s the perfect recipe for a startup to come in and disrupt it with a much better experience,” Mohnot told TechCrunch via e-mail.

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