Ironspring Ventures

🎙New Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast featuring Co-Founder & General Partner Ty Findley in conversation with Tidemark Founder David Yuan on the story behind founding Tidemark, the firm’s approach to value add in Vertical SaaS, and how his team’s thesis and lessons learned apply to digital industrial end markets.    👉 Listen here https://lnkd.in/gTYcK63y

In 2023, Ironspring Ventures proudly led the seed round in GoodShip, backing the bold vision of co-founders CEO Ryan Soskin and CTO David Tsai. Their vision was to streamline transportation procurement through a comprehensive platform designed to empower shippers to make better decisions by equipping them with the data and tools needed to manage the transportation network, all in one place. Building off of the company’s early success, GoodShip raised its Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners in spring 2024. GoodShip enhances any shipper transportation management system (TMS) with a powerful suite of features designed to optimize both spend and service outcomes. Its advanced recommendation engine surfaces key performance insights, allowing users to take corrective actions directly within the platform. With in-app messaging and tagging, conversations move out of email into a centralized, data-driven inbox. GoodShip’s purpose-built procurement workflow and AI-powered award optimizer drive bid execution efficiency and strengthen carrier contracts, improving the transportation procurement process from insight to action. This fall has been a busy season for GoodShip! In September, the company was named to the FreightWaves FreightTech 100 list and last week, GoodShip took another exciting step forward, announcing a premier TMS partnership with Princeton TMX. Read more about this milestone in Business Wire: https://lnkd.in/gAnXZENh Keep trucking, GoodShip 🚛 #TransportationTech #TMS #LogisticsInnovation #ProcurementSolutions #GoodShip #SupplyChainOptimization #BusinessTransformation  

Check out our latest Nuts & Bolts newsletter! In this edition: 🚢 Get Smarter: Power Struggle and Capital Markets at the Ports 🏭 More and Less in Manufacturing 🚧 Leading the Way in Construction 🚚 Technology Drives Transition in Transport & Logistics ⚡Powering Up in Alternative Energy Plus the latest updates from our team, deals, and jobs!

🚚 🚚 Powerful partnership to unlock new capabilities in the freight industry! Exciting milestone for GoodShip.

In 2022, Ironspring Ventures invested in Handle.com to transform the construction industry by automating manual tasks and optimizing payment processes. As a purpose-built software for material suppliers and contractors, Handle helps manage payment compliance, protecting payment rights throughout the entire process. With automation tools that handle lien management, owner verification, deadline tracking, and more, Handle simplifies complex, manual workflows that often lead to late payments and project delays. Handle’s customer base includes major construction players including CRH/Oldcastle APG, U.S. Concrete, and other Fortune 500 companies. Led by Co-Founder and CEO Patrick Hogan, who grew up in the lumber business, Handle addresses a key industry challenge: slow and complex payment cycles. Handle's powerful platform helps companies reduce days sales outstanding (DSOs), speeds up payments, and improves efficiency across credit departments. Stay up to date on Handle by visiting their blog: https://lnkd.in/gp2uK_Hz #ConstructionTech #PaymentAutomation #ConstructionInnovation #DigitalTransformation

Less than one month to go until the first ever Heavy Hitters Summit! This is sure to be one of the highlights of the action packed day!

Today we release The Blueprint #5 – Data Centers Unplugged: Physical Assets for the Digital Economy, the latest edition in our thought leadership series that shares what we’re thinking about, observing, and predicting across the digital industrial innovation ecosystem. This piece covers the data center supply chain lifecycle and the infrastructure required – digital and physical – to enable the data center expansion required to support the burgeoning AI ecosystem. 🏗️ 🔌 💻 Check out this in depth primer on what it takes to design, build, and operate a data center – and the opportunities Ironspring Ventures sees to innovate and invest across the data center development value chain. Adam Bridgman Max Adelman  👉 Check out The Blueprint #5. Let us know what you think! https://lnkd.in/g98ZaSWn  👉 ICYMI: The Blueprint #1 - The Power of Industrial Vertical Labor Solutions https://lnkd.in/gGscCmtn, The Blueprint #2 – Nearshoring: A Shift in LATAM Transport & Logistics. https://lnkd.in/gUZ-pAj3, The Blueprint #3 - Designing, Building, Transporting, and Operating a More Sustainable Future https://lnkd.in/g6gyZWm9, The Blueprint #4 – The Rise of Building Material Distributors https://lnkd.in/gv-DgfMu  #digitalindustrial #datacenters #build #whatsnext #VC

Wednesday was a blast - feeling lucky to have Plug and Play Tech Center in our backyard in Cedar Park, especially given their focus on advanced manufacturing and supply chain. Thank you so much for having me for Expo Day! Great conversation alongside Lorena Segura (Ferrovial), Karyl Fowler (Transmute), and Erena Estellés Tatay on how industrial corporates embrace the innovation ecosystem.  Ehab Gabr, MBA Harvey Williams

🚀 Congrats to Document Crunch on raising its Series B! Could not be more excited for CEO Josh Levy and all of the #crunchers as they expand their platform and impact across the construction industry in their mission to de-risk construction contracts and project documents.

🎉 Honored to be included on the 2024 BuiltWorlds' Top 50 Venture Investors list! Thank you to BuiltWorlds for all of their great work advancing innovation across the built world ecosystem. https://lnkd.in/gXuUzamm