Co-author: John Azubuike (@jnazubuike), KEC Ventures. Note: This article does not necessarily reflect the opinion of KEC Ventures, or of other members of the KEC Ventures team. Supplying the world with nearly everything is an enormous and complex job: there are things to discuss. – Rose George (2013-08-13). Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the […]
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Updates – Industry Study: Freight Trucking (#Startups)
Note: John Azubuike (@jnazubuike) and I are currently conducting research on software startups in the ocean freight shipping market. We expect to publish that towards the end of January 2017. Our blog post about freight trucking startups opened the door to numerous conversations that we may never have had, with people who know more about […]
User Manual: The Early Stage Startups I Want To Hear About Most in 2017 and 2018
About KEC Ventures We are a team of early-stage investors based in New York City. We invest in information technology startups that are pursuing business models with the potential to transform the way business is done in their market. In such startups, we invest in the first institutional Seed Round. Often, but not always, we […]
Industry Study: Freight Trucking (#Startups)
Embed from Getty Images Co-author: John Azubuike (@jnazubuike), KEC Ventures. Note: This article does not necessarily reflect the opinion of KEC Ventures, or of other members of the KEC Ventures team. Note: Updated on October 2, 2019 to remove charts from Statista because the data has been moved behind Statista’s paywall and no longer adds […]
Announcing KEC Ventures’ Investment in Virgil Security℠, Inc.
I am excited to announce that KEC Ventures led Virgil Security’s $4.0 Million Series A round. Virgil, founded in May, 2014, is based in Manassas, Virginia. Virgil Security provides easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use cryptographic software and services for use by software developers in organizations of all sizes in any industry. If your product is connected to […]
Announcing KEC Ventures’ Investment in Navisens
Note: This blog post was originally published on August 26, 2016, at KEC Ventures. I am excited to announce that KEC Ventures has made an investment in Navisens $2.6 Million seed round. Navisens is based in San Francisco, CA. Navisens develops a software-only location platform that operates indoors and outdoors without relying on infrastructure located on […]