Logixboard Raises $4.2M in Seed Funding

Logixboard, a Seattle, WA-based digital partner for freight forwarders, raised $4.2m in seed funding.

The round was led by Social Leverage, with participation from F-Prime Capital, Founders’ Co-op, Techstars Venture Fund, Liquid 2 VC, Bragiel Brothers, and Tom Gonser, the Founder of Docusign. In conjunction with the funding, Social Leverage Partner, Gary Benitt, has joined Logixboard’s Board.

The company intends to use the funds to expand its platform and accelerate product innovation.

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Led by Julian Alvarez, CEO, Logixboard provides a web-based end-to-end customer engagement platform for freight forwarders to give real-time visibility to their customers. Existing customers, like Transborder SAS, have processed millions of dollars in shipments using Logixboard.

With the new financing, the company will accelerate its vision of becoming the digital system of engagement for the global freight forwarding industry, automating quote and booking processes, deriving data insights, and building data integrations to other critical systems across the industry.

Logixboard, a recent graduate of Techstars, has offices in Bogota, Colombia.

Source. FinSMEs, October 22, 2019

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Anvyl, looking to help D2C brands manage their supply chain, raises $9.3M

D2C brands face an interesting challenge. While they’ve eliminated much of the hassle of a physical storefront, they must still deal with all the complications involved in managing inventory and manufacturing and shipping a physical product to suppliers.

Anvyl, with a fresh $9.3 million in Series A funding, is looking to jump in and make a difference for those brands. The company, co-founded by chief executive Rodney Manzo, is today announcing the raise, led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from existing investors First Round Capital and Company Ventures. Angel investors Kevin Ryan (MongoDB and DoubleClick), Ben Kaufman (Quirky and Camp) and Dan Rose (Facebook) also participated in the round.

Manzo hails from Apple, where with $300 million in spend to manage logistics and supply chain he was still operating in an Excel spreadsheet. He then went to Harry’s, where he shaved $10 million in cash burn in his first month. He says himself that sourcing, procurement and logistics are in his DNA.

Which brings us to Anvyl. Anvyl looks at every step in the logistics process, from manufacture to arrival at the supplier, and visualizes that migration in an easy-to-understand UI.

The difference between Anvyl and other supply chain logistics companies, such as Flexport, is that Anvyl goes all the way to the very beginning of the supply chain: the factories. The company partners with factories to set up cameras and sensors that let brands see their product actually being built.

“When I was at Apple, I traveled for two years at least once a month to China and Japan just to oversee production,” said Manzo. “To oversee production, you essentially have to be boots on the ground and eyes in the factory. None of our brands have traveled to a factory.”

On the other end of the supply chain, Anvyl lets brands manage suppliers, find new suppliers, submit RFQs, see cost breakdowns and accept quotes.

The company also looks at each step in between, including trucks, trains, boats and planes so that brands can see, in real time, their products go from being manufactured to delivery.

Anvyl charges brands a monthly fee using a typical SaaS model. On the other end, Anvyl takes a “tiny percentage” of goods being produced within the Anvyl marketplace. The company declined to share actual numbers around pricing.

This latest round brings Anvyl’s total funding to $11.8 million. The company plans to use the funding toward hiring in engineering and marketing, and grow its consumer goods customer base.

Source. Jordan Crook, TechCrunch, July 10, 2019

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