by Jesper E. Thomsen | Jul 16, 2019 | Logistics, Transformation
With its latest funding round, Flexport officially entered the unicorn territory and, according to Agnes from Despicable Me, just became “so fluffy” – an opinion shared by many industry insiders. The lead investor, Softbank, may have been grabbing...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Nov 13, 2018 | Digital, Logistics
One of the greatest AHA! moments I had when I started to spend time with VCs and PEs some years ago was that they did not look at the path to success the same way I did. In a large corporate we would determine our capability gaps and then, using relatively...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Aug 15, 2018 | Digital, Logistics
Impressively SwanLeap has been ranked as the (privately owned) company with the highest growth rate in North America by Inc.5000. SwanLeap produces NextGen TMS (“Beyond TMS” as the have tagged it) using AI and real-time analytics to automate the supply...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Mar 16, 2018 | Digital, Logistics, Transformation
I was really pleased to see an “Incumbent” category in the Top 5 Digital Contenders from the TPM 2018, because in the media the high profiled startups get a large part of the attention. Flexport, NYSHEX, Freightos and the like are grabbing headlines,...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Mar 8, 2018 | Digital, Logistics
I confess. I did not participate at the TPM 2018 in Long Beach. The snow in my drive way did not remove itself, so I have been pretty occupied with that during the duration of it. However, I have been able to follow a lot of the discussions via social media and in...
by Jesper E. Thomsen | Mar 2, 2018 | Digital, Logistics, Transformation
SaaS (Software as a Service) is by no means a new concept. In the consumer space there are many cloud based services that just makes your life so much better: LinkedIN, Facebook, Evernote, Microsoft Office 365 etc. As I have been launching my own company the...
