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 […]
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 […]