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 […]
Despite a broader tech downturn, the construction tech space saw $1.3B in investment from venture capital and private equity investors in H1’22, a 44% increase from the activity witnessed in H2’21. While Q3’21 numbers have yet to be published, the figures point to continued high-level demand for digital solutions across the construction industry. On a […]
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 […]
Why we invested – Join According to a recent survey by the American Institute of Architects, 71% of architects and general contractors surveyed strongly agree that early collaboration between the two parties during the construction project lifecycle led to a better outcome for clients. Despite this alignment, of contractors surveyed, nearly 50% expressed dissatisfaction with […]
Why we invested – ICON It is not controversial to state that construction productivity over the last 75 years has increased slowly, at best. That almost every other major industry has seen material productivity gains over this same period. That our industries are suffering from a global skilled labor crisis. That there is a global […]
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 […]