By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner, and Colleen Konetzke, Principal Skilled labor in manufacturing and supply chain is in short supply and difficult to manage. Nearly 50% of manufacturers say they have turned down work due to lack of labor. There is a 2.1M factory worker shortage predicted for 2030, costing ~$1T in productivity. This is […]
By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner & Colleen Konetzke, Principal At Ironspring Ventures, we focus on backing innovators in massive industries that make modern life possible, industries that are often out of sight and out of mind to the general public. The distribution of building materials, which we will do our best to roughly […]
By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner, and Colleen Konetzke, Principal Ironspring Ventures is proudly headquartered in Texas, the energy capital of the country for both traditional and renewable energy. The state produced the most wind energy in the country last year, and the second most solar, behind only California. In the fourth quarter of 2023, real GDP for […]
By Ty Findley, General Partner & Natan Reddy, Investor Welcome to our second edition of The Blueprint, Ironspring Ventures’ new series to share what we’re thinking about, observing, and predicting across the digital industrial innovation ecosystem. Want to learn more about The Blueprint? Check out this primer. This piece focuses on nearshoring and why the […]
It’s no mystery anymore that since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and only further heightened by recent geopolitical tensions across the world, there has been a whirlwind of attention (much of it deserved, in our opinion) toward the critical importance of supply chain resiliency and transparency. Nowhere is this truer than for shippers, who […]
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have accounted for nearly 52% of Mexico’s GDP in recent years. Nowhere is this SMB emphasis more apparent than in Mexico’s $82 billion trucking industry, where carriers with fewer than 30 trucks make up the vast majority of the country’s 157K permitted carriers. With many of these businesses under tight […]
From infrastructure and factories to warehouses and amusement parks, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are a driving force behind society’s built world. These computerized brains also sit within the larger Operations Technology (OT) arena, one which despite its outsized impact on our physical world, has seen less attention paid toward innovation. Copia Automation is ushering in […]
Ironspring is excited to announce we’ve expanded the team by bringing on our new investment associate, Natan Reddy. We had hundreds of applications come in as we launched the search this summer, and as you’ll read in Natan’s story below, he was the perfect fit! Growing up in the heart of Silicon Valley, Natan was […]