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Royal 4 Built Warehouse Software for 42 Years. Now It Has to Outrun Its Own Legacy
The Long Beach software veteran survived four decades by fitting the warehouse instead of forcing the warehouse to fit. A 2026 investment gives it fresh fuel - and makes modernization the next test.
He Wanted Inventory to Work Like Online Banking. Now It Runs 12 Million Square Feet.
Carl Wasinger started Smart Warehousing with one computer under his desk in 2001. Two decades on, its proprietary software SWIMS quietly moves other companies' products through 30-plus warehouses - and nearly 5,000 customers depend on it.
The Warehouse Next Door: How Crewdible Turned Spare Space Into E-Commerce Infrastructure
Born from one seller's exhaustion with packing orders, Crewdible built a distributed warehouse network for Indonesia's online merchants - pairing software with underused real estate to make fulfillment local, flexible and less capital-heavy.
Ledger Put a Bank Vault in Your Pocket. Now It Wants to Guard Your AI.
The French hardware company made self-custody feel like a consumer product. Its next challenge is broader: becoming the human approval layer for money, identity and autonomous software.
The Company That Turned Bitcoin Into a Ticker Symbol
21Shares spent seven years wrapping crypto in the plumbing of Wall Street - regulated, exchange-listed, boring on purpose. In October 2025, prime broker FalconX bought the whole thing.
What Chefs Want!
A one-van produce hustle in Louisville turned into a 16,000-restaurant food-distribution machine by doing the one thing the national giants would not: picking up the phone and asking the chef.
Unchained
The Austin company is betting that the people with the most bitcoin want to keep holding their own keys - and still borrow, retire, trade, and pass it on like everyone else.
Fresh Factory
Fresh Factory is an Indonesian smart cold chain fulfillment platform that operates a network of hyperlocal micro cold-storage hubs, transportation, and fulfillment software so food, beverage, and other temperature-sensitive brands can store, pick, pack, and deliver perishable goods to consumers and retailers faster and cheaper. Founded in Jakarta in 2020 and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, it functions as an outsourced cold-chain backbone for e-commerce sellers and MSMEs across Indonesia.
WheeKeep
WheeKeep is a Jeddah-based tech-enabled storage company that brings the storage unit to the customer. It drops off weatherproof, lockable containers at homes and businesses, lets people pack at their own pace, then collects and stores the units in secured, CCTV-monitored facilities across Saudi Arabia. Combining physical logistics with a mobile app for scheduling, delivery and retrieval, WheeKeep offers ambient and refrigerated units for both personal and commercial use, positioning itself in the growing on-demand self-storage market in the Kingdom.
Axiom Cloud
Axiom Cloud builds AI software that makes commercial refrigeration systems cheaper to run, easier to maintain, and dramatically less polluting. Its cloud platform plugs into existing refrigeration controllers at grocery stores and cold-storage facilities to spot refrigerant leaks early, shift energy use off-peak, and automate work orders - cutting both costs and the climate impact of supermarket cooling.
Amrit Robbins
Amrit Robbins is the CEO and co-founder of Axiom Cloud, a San Jose-based AI-powered refrigeration management software company serving grocery chains and cold storage operators. A Stanford-trained engineer and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumnus, Robbins previously co-founded Axiom Exergy — a hardware-first thermal energy storage company — before pivoting to software in 2020 with Axiom Cloud. His work addresses refrigerant leaks, which rank #4 on Project Drawdown's climate impact list, with a platform that requires no new hardware, deploys remotely, and earns payback in under a year.