Partsimony helps companies that design, manufacture, and sell hardware products turn product designs into actual products with less time, money, and frustration by facilitating collaboration, increasing visibility, and serving as the connective tissue between all the different parties in manufacturing value chains and supply chains.
REFASHIOND Ventures raises $2 Million, and invests in 34 early-stage Supply Chain Tech startups; Pioneering New York-based emerging early-stage supply chain technology venture capital firm invests in startups creating technology innovations to tackle the problems emerging as global supply chains adjust to escalating geopolitical tensions, the climate crisis, and worsening demographic and social trends.
The team at REFASHIOND Ventures explains why they invested in Gildform, a commerce-enablement platform that helps jewelry creators, big or small, go from jewelry concept to fulfillment in a tenth of the time it takes using traditional methods.
The team at REFASHIOND Ventures shares 6 rules that investors in early-stage supply chain technology should observe based on their research and study of the area since 2015, and the firm’s investing activity since 2021, with 22 startups in the firm’s portfolio within the first 12 months of its first investment.
In this blog we explain why we decided to invest in Shipday, a startup that makes it easy for any merchant to create a delivery service by providing all the data and decision analytics infrastructure that is necessary for merchants of any size to set up scalable delivery operations without the need to know how to create the software needed to manage such a service.
Authors’ Note: This is the first in a series of six articles about problems and opportunities in global supply chains, with a focus on the fashion industry. This article frames the problem. The next article will delve into a historical analyses of technological disruption, from the perspective of risks and uncertainties for the fashion industry.
Executive Summary: Recent trends present incumbent companies in the global fashion industry with challenges and opportunities related to innovation in supply chain. In this article, we discuss how a historical top-down approach to business is giving way to an emerging bottom-up approach that is driven by consumer preferences. This is placing stresses on fashion supply chains which the industry can only address by adopting a collective, collaborative, ecosystem-driven approach to innovation.
The fashion supply chain is broken and must be refashioned. This is the conclusion we have come to after studying the issue, starting in 2014.
