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

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Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. 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. and Enable. Steve Sloane. Contributor.

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

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NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.

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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

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We have made the decision to invest in entrepreneurs without slides, whose ambition, passion, depth of understanding of an opportunity and compelling vision come through crystal-clear in conversation,” states Sarah Guo from Greylock Partners. As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent.

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

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Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future

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The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. Following up on our May of 2020 survey of the sector and about the impact of COVID-19 in particular , TechCrunch spoke with 10 investors about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.

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Morocco’s Freterium grabs $4M to scale its freight trucking software across MENA

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While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. CDG Invest, Y Combinator, Flexport, Swiss Founders Fund, Outlierz Ventures, and a few angel investors from the U.S.,

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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

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The investment came from a long list of VCs and angel investors. Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. The company started with ride-hailing services because the cities it targeted had dense populations and inefficient transportation services.