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AI, robotics, and IoT to streamline the flow of goods and information

Logistics Tech

Nimble is a robotics and third-party ecommerce fulfillment company that develops AI-powered robots for autonomous logistics. The company's core offering is a fleet of intelligent robots designed to pick, pack, and handle various products in fulfillment centers. These robots can process a wide range of items, including apparel, electronics, beauty products, general merchandise, and groceries. It operates fulfillment centers across the US and offers its products on a robotic-fulfillment-as-a-service basis.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Nimble’s customers included Puma, Best Buy, iHerb, Adore Me, Shopify, Blend Jet, Fresh Clean Threads, Aura, Lisa Says Gah, TA3 Swim, and Newtype.

Using autonomous, green, IoT, and digital technologies to shape the future of ocean-based transportation

Shipping Tech

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 Freightos is a digital freight marketplace that connects shippers (importers and exporters) with freight forwarders, providing an online platform for booking international shipments. Through Freightos.com, shippers can compare instant freight quotes from multiple forwarders, book their preferred option, and manage their shipments from origin to destination.
 
 
 
 
 Freightos leverages innovative technology, including machine learning, to automate processes and optimize routing and pricing. This enables shippers to access millions of routing options, get transparent pricing breakdowns, and benefit from cost savings. The platform streamlines the entire shipping experience, from obtaining quotes to tracking shipments in real-time.
 
 
 
 
 Freightos caters to businesses of all sizes, from small enterprises to large multinational corporations, across various industries. It offers dedicated solutions for Amazon FBA sellers, facilitating the consolidation and management of shipments to Amazon fulfillment centers.
 
 
 
 
 In addition to the Freightos Marketplace, the company provides other products and services, including WebCargo, a solution for freight forwarders to digitize air cargo bookings, and Freightos Data, an analytical resource publishing the Freightos Baltic Index, a daily benchmark of container shipping prices.
 
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Empowering efficiency, visibility and collaboration throughout supply networks

Supply Chain Tech

FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform that offers solutions to enhance the efficiency and transparency of global supply chains through supply chain visibility and predictive analytics. As of October 2023, the company claimed that it tracked over 3 million global shipments every day through its platform, giving users real-time data with a single source of truth. The platform was also extended to a network of global carriers, which amounted to over 490,000, as of October 2023, and hundreds of transport management systems driving network collaboration across the world.As of October 2023, the company had built a presence in the US, the Netherlands, India, and Germany, claiming that it served over 1,200 of the world’s most recognized brands. This included 18 of the top 20 food and beverage companies and nine of the top 10 consumer packaged goods companies. The company’s platform is catered toward industries such as retail, logistics, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and oil and gas.Key customers and partnershipsAs of October 2023, FourKites' customer portfolio included leading brands such as Best Buy, Dow, Kraft Heinz, Walmart Canada, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Eastman, Bayer, Abbott, and Orvis.In August 2024, FourKites <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32701">introduced</a> a new suite of solutions known as YardWorks in partnership with AI solutions provider EAIGLE. The new solution reportedly allows facilities managers to execute their tasks more efficiently by automating supply chain processes. Also, In April 2024, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28180">partnered</a> with BuyCo, a container shipping platform, to streamline shipping operations and enhance visibility in the container shipping process. The partnership aimed to deliver an integrated solution enabling shippers to handle all container shipping operations and gain real-time, efficient, end-to-end visibility of their supply chains.&nbsp;

Technology for a regenerative future in agriculture

Regenerative Agriculture Platforms

Indigo Ag is an agricultural technology company that focuses on improving crop yields and sustainability through innovative solutions. Founded in 2013, the company leverages science, technology, and agriculture to offer a comprehensive suite of sustainability solutions. Indigo's core technologies include microbial seed treatments for crops like corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, and cotton, which aim to maximize yields while reducing water and chemical usage. The company has expanded its offerings to include digital sustainability products, biological solutions, and carbon credit programs for farmers.
Indigo's integrated business platform allows farmers to adopt and profit from sustainability practices on each field, every year of their crop rotation. The company utilizes satellite imagery and data analytics to monitor fields, soil conditions, and weather patterns, creating what they call a "living map of the world's food system." In 2023, Indigo reported a 90% year-over-year revenue growth for the first seven months compared to 2022.
One of Indigo's key initiatives is its carbon farming program, which enables farmers to generate and sell carbon credits. As of February 2023, Indigo had produced over 133,000 registry-issued agricultural carbon credits, establishing itself as a leader in the agricultural carbon credit market. In June 2024, Microsoft purchased 40,000 carbon credits from Indigo's program, marking the largest single delivery of credits by the company to date.
Indigo has also developed Market+ Source, a digital sustainability product that helps consumer goods companies measure and reduce their Scope 3 emissions through their agricultural supply chain. By 2023, the program was on track to deliver 30 million bushels of sustainably grown grains.
Key customers and partnerships
Indigo Ag has established partnerships with various companies across the agriculture and sustainability sectors. The North Face and other VF Corporation brands have worked with Indigo to source sustainably grown cotton for their products. In 2023, Indigo collaborated with Red Trail Energy to leverage its measurement, verification, and reporting capabilities for sustainable biofuels production.
Indigo has expanded its operations to 14 countries, including a joint venture in India called Grow Indigo, which aims to bring sustainable agricultural practices and carbon farming to smallholder farmers in the region. The company continues to form partnerships with agribusinesses and farmers to support the adoption of sustainable practices and drive the growth of its various sustainability solutions.

Making cold chains faster, smarter, and cooler.

Cold Chain Innovation

FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform that provides real-time tracking and insights for global shipments. The company's technology leverages data from millions of daily global shipments, combining it with enterprise data and applying patented artificial intelligence to offer comprehensive visibility across the entire supply chain. FourKites tracks 3 million shipments daily, covering over 62 billion miles annually, and captures 150+ unique data points at every geolocation update. The platform integrates with existing enterprise systems such as ERP, TMS, and WMS to provide a unified view of inventory, shipments, orders, and facilities.
FourKites' suite of applications includes transportation and order visibility, yard management, and appointment setting. The company's Fin AI, the FourKites Intelligence Network, is a natural language interface that helps users tackle supply chain challenges by surfacing insights, identifying optimization opportunities, and automating tasks. FourKites' platform is designed to mitigate risks, improve responsiveness, and enhance decision-making across the supply chain. The technology aims to eliminate silos and conflicting information by connecting data points from first to final mile.
Key customers and partnerships
FourKites serves a diverse range of industries, with notable customers including C&S Wholesale Grocers, 3 million, Pixelle, Michaels, and Kraft Heinz. C&S Wholesale Grocers used FourKites to create a digital twin of their supply chain, resulting in a 65% reduction in transportation-related customer service calls within four months. During the Covid-19 pandemic, 3 million leveraged FourKites to manage the delivery of critical N95 masks. Pixelle, a paper and packaging corporation, reported a nearly 50% reduction in track-and-trace emails after implementing FourKites. Michaels consolidated its supply chain management into a centralized control tower using FourKites, achieving 91% load tracking and improved on-time delivery. Kraft Heinz utilized FourKites to optimize shipments to food banks in partnership with Feeding America.

Nimble builds AI-powered robots that pick and pack anything to enable fast, affordable, and sustainable on-demand order fulfillment. Nimble's robots integrate into production with no modifications to the WMS/WCS. Its solutions offer a stable labor force, cost savings, reduced staff churn, and increased efficiencies. Nimble provides unrivaled reliability in handling any product by utilizing proprietary human-in-the-loop supervision and an AI framework.

She Code Africa offers an inclusive virtual community and learning environment for girls and women to inspire, learn, and educate.

Lyten is an advanced materials company that develops, sources, and manufactures low-carbon products. Lyten captures carbon from methane, transforming it into 3D Graphene. This tunable supermaterial serves as the foundation for developing applications aimed at decarbonization.  Lyten is in the process of bringing to market advanced lithium-sulfur batteries designed for applications in automotive, aerospace, defense, and other sectors. Additionally, they are introducing a cutting-edge polymer composite that can reduce plastic usage by up to 50%, while preserving structural integrity and impact resistance. Moreover, Lyten is advancing next-generation sensors with significantly enhanced detection sensitivity and selectivity, tailored for use in automotive, industrial, health, and safety applications.

Floship's smart logistics solutions covers all aspects of the global supply chain, ensuring minimal operation effort for e-commerce businesses while exceeding their expectations, allowing business owners to concentrate on driving growth and investment flexibility while gaining peace of mind. A key component of Floship's global logistics solutions is advanced logistics technology that streamlines and automates ecommerce brands' supply chains in order to expedite growth and expansion. Floship's plug-and-play integrations, intelligent automation rules, and a comprehensive operational and management tool suite, act as the building blocks of supply chain optimization, tailored to address growth factors such as cost, efficiency, complexity, visibility, accuracy, and more.

Wallaroo Hat Company is an e-shop that retails a wide variety of hats, face masks, scarves, and sun protection products.

GoKwik is an online platform that helps people solve difficulties with their buying experiences on e-commerce websites. Gokwik uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to give a shopping experience that spans the full user journey, from the point of placing orders through the delivery of those products. GoKwik was founded in 2020.

FourKites is a supply chain visibility platform that extends visibility beyond transportation into yards, warehouses, stores, and beyond. Tracking 3 million shipments daily across road, rail, ocean, air, parcel, and courier, and reaching 210 countries and territories, FourKites combines real-time data and powerful machine learning to help companies digitize their end-to-end supply chains. More than 1,500 of the world’s most recognized brands — including 9 of the top-10 CPG and 18 of the top-20 food and beverage companies — trust FourKites to transform their business and create more agile, efficient, and sustainable supply chains.

Delhivery is a supply chain services company that provides transportation, warehousing, freight, and order fulfillment services. It aims to build trust and improve the lives of its consumers. Logistics company SSN Logistics Pvt Ltd operates the web platform Delhivery.com. It offers a full suite of services such as last-mile delivery, third-party and transit warehousing, reverse logistics, payment collection, vendor-to-warehouse, and vendor-to-customer shipping. It transforms the logistics industry by utilizing a strategy that enables faster delivery speed, thus decreases logistics costs and increases e-commerce supporters. The company is backed by Times Internet Ltd, which had acquired a minority stake in the firm, as well as Japan's SoftBank Vision Fund, Carlyle, Fosun, Tiger Global, Nexus Ventures, and Steadview Capital. The company was started in Gurgaon, Haryana, India in 2011 by Bhavesh Manglani, Kapil Bharati, Mohit Tandon, Sahil Barua, and Suraj Saharan.

Indigo is an agricultural technology company that focuses on improving the sustainability and productivity of agriculture. The company focuses on the microbes that have evolved in conjunction with plants over billions of years to optimize their health and maximize their productivity. Indigo believes we are at the forefront of something that serves the needs of both farmers and consumers. For farmers, the yield benefits will help improve grower profitability while increasing our capacity to feed a growing population. For consumers, Indigo can begin to make fundamental changes in how our food is grown; like being more efficient with water, and reducing the use of nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides over time.

Toni Marlow is an online store that sells clothes. Their products include boy shorts, pants, apparel, hats, and shirts. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet, and the products serve consumers.

As a managed marketplace, we leverage technology and 3rd parties to streamline service - the sweet spot between dated traditions and a modern approach. Currently, we connect vacation rental hosts with cleaners, but inevitably we’ll disrupt the service industry by creating the world’s largest cleaning company.

The Freightos Group® makes global trade frictionless for importers, logistics providers, and carriers. Using Freightos.com, the world’s largest online freight marketplace, small and midsized importers can seamlessly compare, book and manage shipments, making freight as easy as booking tickets on Expedia. WebCargo by Freightos, the Digital Air Cargo platform connecting over 2,000 global logistics providers with top-tier airlines like Air France, KLM, British Airways, and Etihad, enables logistics providers to get on-demand pricing and capacity from airlines, conduct real-time eBookings, and provider outstanding customer service.  . The Freightos Marketplace helps importers and exporters reduce logistics spend and save time with an instant comparison, booking, and management of air, ocean, and land shipments from top logistics providers. The result is international shipping that’s as smooth as booking a flight online. Freightos also provides patent-pending technology that empowers carriers and logistics providers around the world to automate freight sales. Freightos AcceleRate™ and Freightos WebCargo™ power rate management, automated pricing, and online freight sales for over 1,000 logistics service providers and carriers, including multi-billion dollar companies like Panalpina and Nippon Express. Freightos has accumulated the world’s largest global database of multimodal freight rates, providing industry transparency with the Freightos International Freight Index. Founded by serial entrepreneur Zvi Schreiber, Freightos is a logistics technology pioneer with a worldwide presence and has raised $50 million from leading venture funds, including GE Ventures.

LiveSafe provides a mobile social safety application for individuals and safety officials to collaborate and build safer communities. LiveSafe’s mission is to create a safer world by redefining the way it responds to threats and emergencies. Using the latest in smartphone technology, our service empowers people by providing them with access to the right tools and information they need, right when they need it. The company's unprecedented technology connects citizens and safety officials through a real-time, two-way communication system. The robust application allows people to easily receive and send important safety information to law enforcement, who can then respond to situations better and faster than ever before. By engaging the whole community in a social network of safety, our student and citizen-centered design takes policing to the next generation.

Trade Compass, the leading web site for electronic products and services that facilitate international commerce over the Internet.

FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. They offer integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world's most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 290,000 employees to remain absolutely, positively focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities.

<div> FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) is the conglomerate holding company for the collection of time-definite delivery services offered under the &ldquo;FedEx&rdquo; brand. The company is the second-largest parcel delivery service provider in its domestic US market with around&nbsp; 33% revenue. It was originally formed in 1971 and expanded domestically in the US and later internationally. Its most notable acquisition was that of TNT Express in 2016, significantly expanding its footprint across international markets. FedEx generated USD 90 billion in revenue in FY2023 (ending May 31). FedEx operates through three core segments and two support segments. The FedEx Express segment (47% of FY2023 revenue) provides a range of time-sensitive domestic and international deliveries of packages and freight to business and individual clients, including overnight delivery and delivery within one to three days. It also includes international freight and delivery of items requiring added handling care. The FedEx Ground segment (37%) provides low-cost delivery options for packages up to 150 lbs in the US and Canada. FedEx Freight (11%) focuses on less-than-truckload (LTL) freight services across North America (the US and Canada). Meanwhile, FedEx Services and Corporate and other segments offer back-office and support services. FedEx's largest market is the US (72% of its FY2023 revenue), with international markets accounting for the remaining 28%. In April 2023, the company announced a restructuring to consolidate its various businesses into a unified, integrated air-ground network under the FedEx banner. The company expects to conclude this initiative by June 2024, which is expected to unlock up to USD 6 billion in cost savings by 2027. It also plans to achieve carbon-neutral status by 2040, aided by its fleet modernization and electrification initiatives. </div>

FedEx invests in AI robotics company Nimble to boost its supply chain business

Automation and robotics are finally creating solutions for the complexities of doorstep deliveries.

Last-mile Delivery Automation

Refers to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that deliver packages. Drones are already in commercial use in many other industries (such as photography, construction, and agriculture). The use of drones for goods delivery has emerged with the gradual advancement of battery and connectivity technologies.

Refers to autonomous vehicles that use pedestrian walkways and travel a little faster than average walking speed (generally 3-6 miles an hour). These vehicles can usually carry up to around 20 lb. and use a camera, radar, and sensors to move autonomously. 

This is a sub-branch of self-driving cars and represents autonomous vehicles that can move along public roads. The technology used is similar to self-driving cars. ADVs have a higher load capacity and travel at a faster speed than vehicles like droids.

Companies providing cold chain storage solutions, such as refrigerated facilities and warehouses for the secure storage of temperature-sensitive goods

Companies offering technologies to track and maintain precise temperature conditions throughout the entire supply chain, such as IoT sensors and temperature monitoring devices

Companies that design and produce packaging solutions to safeguard the integrity of temperature-sensitive products during transport

Companies that facilitate the safe and controlled movement of temperature-sensitive goods from one location to another, employing specialized equipment and logistics

Companies that provide technology-driven solutions to optimize and manage parts or all of the cold chain process

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 AI robotics and autonomous ecommerce fulfillment technology company, Nimble, has obtained an undisclosed level of financial backing from FedEx. A strategic alliance has also been established between the two firms.
 This partnership and investment endeavor to expand FedEx's fulfillment services across North America. It plans to exploit Nimble's AI robotics and independent fulfillment systems to enhance operations and reveal new consumer possibilities.
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