by Jesper E. Thomsen | Jun 3, 2020 | Business, Logistics
…and just as quickly as the valuation went up, the valuation has come back down again. Hapag Lloyd hit its peak on the 15th of May at EUR 187 and in two weeks since dropped to EUR 75, which has led to all sorts of speculations and likely investigations. This...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Apr 30, 2020 | Business, Logistics
When I looked at how logistics companies were be valued by the investors 9 months ago we had no idea what was abou to hit the world. Of the companies I looked at, Maersk was the most valuable at USD 23,7B followed by K+N at USD 17,4B and DSV at USD 17,0B. Since then...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Mar 22, 2020 | Digital, Logistics, Transformation
CB Insights has done an analysis of the impact of the outbreak of Covid-19 private funding, which in particular impacts startups. The bad news Unsurprisingly, the bad news is that it is going to go down, and based on experience from previous outbreaks, especially Asia...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Mar 20, 2020 | Business
Every crisis forces you to rethink how you have historically done things and the outbreak of Covid-19 is from that perspective no different. Stop the bleeding The immediate concern is, of course, to eliminate, or as a minimum reduce, the threat to a manageable level....
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Feb 21, 2020 | Digital, Logistics
FreightTech has seen a continuous rise over the last 18-24 months beyond what others, e.g. FinTech, have experienced. The front runners have been Flexport (although more forwarder than a pure technology company) and WiseTech. I have discussed their valuations more...
