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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/06\/22\/kaitlyn-glancy-long-flexports-vp-of-north-america-just-joined-the-world-of-vc\/<\/a><\/br> Today, Kaitlyn Glancy, who has spent more than eight years with the logistics company Flexport \u2014 the last four of them as the outfit\u2019s vice president of North America \u2014 is announcing that she has joined the world of VC as the newest partner at the venture firm Eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n On its face, it appears to be a great fit. Eight-year-old Eclipse, based in Palo Alto, has from its founding looked to fund startups that are modernizing legacy industries, and as the world learned during the pandemic, the shipping industry remains highly challenged<\/a>, even while it becomes more automated. Meanwhile, Glancy has serious operational chops. She oversaw a team of roughly 400 people spanning 10 offices in her previous role and is expert in developing sales teams.<\/p>\n To learn more about Glancy and the types of startups that she\u2019s likely to be spending the most time with \u2014 at least at the outset \u2014 we talked with her yesterday morning.<\/p>\n TC: Presumably, you\u2019ve seen enough at Flexport to understand the pain points that younger startups might tackle. Where do you see the most opportunity?<\/strong><\/p>\n KC: Flexport today focuses on the freight forwarding customs brokerage business \u2014 so really on the international trade, [including] air, ocean, and then the extension of trucking. With the Flexport acquisition of Deliverr [the logistics business that Shopify just sold<\/a> to Flexport], they are going to be moving into fulfillment and final mile distribution. If you take what they\u2019re doing as an example, what customers want is a more end-to-end solution and a more tech-enabled solution. That became for me abundantly clear in the height of COVID when there were supply-chain crunches everywhere and you bought a new couch and had no idea where it was for six to eight months. The biggest theme we saw was resiliency, this sense of: how can we react quickly and take whatever comes our way? So I\u2019m really excited to look into the whole suite of startups and players in the supply chain space.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of interesting developments to be done on the domestic piece [in particular], whether that\u2019s support infrastructure, rail infrastructure, trucking infrastructure, enabling your frontline operators in warehouses to work more efficiently, getting goods from the warehouse to the end customer faster. There\u2019s just so much space to play in.<\/p>\n
\nKaitlyn Glancy, long Flexport\u2019s VP of North America, just joined the world of VC<\/br>
\n2023-06-22 21:39:07<\/br><\/p>\n