Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Strategies for crafting a strong and compelling vision for your startup: Towards the end of your pitch, tell investors that “this is just the beginning” for your startup. Tell investors how your vision affects your go-to-market strategy and how you’ll expand across verticals within the industry that you’re tackling.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

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. And our main product is transport management software for shippers enables multi-enterprise collaboration.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

They imagine it to look something like this: They think that there are some deals that are automatic yeses and some that are just bad, but there’s a whole lot that are kind of in the middle—deals that can be nudged over to one side or the other based on things like clever fundraising strategy or the presence of bias. Is that a good strategy?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

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. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. If you can map every oasis in a desert, you’ve created a transportation network. “Our engineers are excited about this move,” said Pellisé.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation. Domestic shippers like Unilever spend nearly $800 billion annually transporting raw materials and consumer goods by truck 1.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system. You will see we made a lot of seed investments — yes, that was a part of the strategy. As an investor in startups, there is considerable conventional wisdom around the idea of investing only in the Bay Area.

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