Feb 14Meet FreightifyWritten by Marina Hadjipateras Global freight forwarding — facilitating the movement of cargo from one point to another — is a $200B industry, with 300,000+ freight forwarders working around the world. And yet it has lagged years behind other sectors in efforts to digitize and automate processes. Pricing is inefficient…4 min read4 min read
Oct 31, 2022Meet Topline ProWritten by Emma Silverman The home services industry — the services needed to maintain and improve the places we call home — represents a trillion-dollar global market and employs over five million professionals in the U.S. alone. These are the people like your longtime plumber who comes to the rescue…6 min read6 min read
Oct 12, 2022Meet BonsideWritten by Emma Silverman Think about your favorite businesses: your local pizza place, the café around the corner that makes life-changing croissants, the nail salon where you have a standing weekly. All the places you tell your friends and family about, the spots you wish you could pick up and…8 min read8 min read
Sep 27, 2022Meet BridgeWritten by Lucas Turner-Owens “I think I won the ‘ovarian lottery’,” says Bridge founder and CEO Lalit Janak, referencing Warren Buffett’s famed metaphor for the power of circumstance in determining one’s path. “I’m lucky — I was born in the right place, at the right time, with opportunities afforded to…6 min read6 min read
Sep 13, 2022Meet MillieWritten by Emma Silverman There are approximately four million births in the U.S. per year, 99% of which take place in hospitals or medical settings. And yet, the country’s maternal mortality rate is twice that of other developed nations — with the highest cost of maternity care in the world…7 min read7 min read
Jul 27, 2022Our New Principal on Why He Joined TMVWritten by Lucas Turner-Owens I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in a tight-knit, progressive community. It was a wonderful world to grow up in, with a strong focus on social equality — alive with block parties and neighbors who were like family. There was a genuine sense of growing up…5 min read5 min read
Jun 14, 2022Meet RoonWritten by Soraya Darabi Sometimes, we get the call we never imagined would come: the news that we or someone we love has been diagnosed with a complex health condition. Our first instinct is often to seek answers. Where do we turn? The internet — even though medical professionals counsel…5 min read5 min read
May 11, 2022Meet OURSWritten by Emma Silverman Think of couples counseling. What do you imagine? Two people looking to proactively and consistently invest in their relationship? Or, a pair on the brink of a breakup giving it one “last shot”? Social biases and other misperceptions lead us directly to an image of heartbreak…5 min read5 min read
May 4, 2022Meet ShipsKartWritten by Marina Hadjipateras We rely on Amazon, if nothing else, for relatively seamless click-and-buy delivery, especially when we need our items fast. But, what about all those customers who spend most of their work lives at sea? Captain Dhruv Sawhney saw a massive need for improvement in the procurement…5 min read5 min read
Mar 16, 2022Our CFO on Why She Joined TMVWritten by Alexia Kalfas The word “institutionalized” can be intimidating to some. It cues rigidity, policy, procedure, regulation — all the elements which (accurately or not) tend to imply bureaucratic obstacles to innovation — especially in the context of a rapidly growing, nimble VC. But financial management of the venture…3 min read3 min read
