By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner Running an independent industrial equipment rental business is not easy in 2025 – in addition to fighting for share in a fragmented market and living in the shadow of behemoths like EquipmentShare, these SMBs are generally stuck managing operations with cumbersome offline tools or using legacy incumbent solutions […]
By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner AI to Transform Construction Monitoring with Reality Intelligence General contractors struggle with maintaining visibility of their jobsites. In fact, a recent Foundry survey found that 70% of construction professionals are challenged by a lack of visibility into materials specifically, and 55% face significant communication gaps between project management […]
By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner In recent years, Mexico has grabbed headlines in the industrials world as both a rising manufacturing powerhouse and a key trade partner to the US. As evident in 2023, Mexico actually became the US’ largest trade partner, beating out China for the top spot. Associated directly to that […]
By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner It is no secret that US-Mexico cross-border freight activity is on a historic rise, with Mexico becoming the US’ top trading partner in 2023, (total two-way goods trade came in at $807B, surpassing China) and already this year, trade reached $415B from January through June, the highest total […]
By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner, and Colleen Konetzke, Principal Skilled manufacturing labor is in short supply – and that supply is only dwindling. Nearly 50% of manufacturers say they have turned down work due to lack of labor, and in 2023, 10,000 baby boomers retired every day. Between 2024 and 2033, the net […]
By Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner, and Colleen Konetzke, Principal At Ironspring, we’re all about the latest technologies for making and moving things. Often, these improve how we design, build, operate, and distribute using critical but often overlooked assets across the industrial supply chain. Trailers caught our attention as one such asset ripe for […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]