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D’Andrea Visual Communications and the art of making it fit
A print shop with a giant test wall, a metal shop, and a taste for complicated briefs. Inside DVC’s work, the small production details explain the big displays.
Inkspot Inc knows a good label starts before the ink
The Santa Fe Springs printer grew out of prepress and plate making. Its pitch to brands is practical: help the artwork survive the journey from screen to shelf.
Vintage 99 makes wine labels worth picking up
Foil, texture, and a very unforgiving production line: inside the California printer turning winery artwork into something a shopper can hold.
San Diego Printers Takes the Job Beyond the Press
A brochure is only the beginning. This San Diego print shop connects design, production, packing, and mailing - with a business built around the work customers would rather hand over.
RAKSUL Found a Business in Japan’s Idle Printing Presses
A print-order website became a ¥61.95 billion business by putting other companies’ machines to work. Now RAKSUL is betting that the same customers will buy much more than ink on paper.
The Firm That Buys the Companies Nobody Puts on a T-Shirt
In Rye, New York, a former Blackstone dealmaker built a private equity firm around a contrarian bet: the least glamorous companies in America - the ones that make labels, insulation, and water pumps - are where the returns hide.
Every Pokemon Card Runs Through a Belgian Town You've Never Heard Of
The name on the box is Pokemon, Hasbro or Disney. The company that actually prints, cuts and packs the cards is a 250-year-old Belgian manufacturer most players have never heard of.
Pacdora
Pacdora is a browser-based packaging design platform that lets brands, designers and e-commerce sellers create photorealistic 3D mockups, generate print-ready dielines and export high-resolution renders without installing specialized 3D software. Founded in 2021 and operated by parent company Cloudbox, it offers thousands of editable templates and, more recently, AI tools that take a packaging idea from concept to factory-ready file in the browser. The company positions itself as the 'Canva + Figma' for the roughly $1 trillion global packaging industry and reports more than 4.5 million users across 100+ countries.
Specright
Specright is the first cloud-based, patented platform for Specification Data Management - the digital backbone that captures the DNA-level data of products, packaging, formulas, and bills of materials in a single source of truth. Founded in 2014 by packaging veteran Matthew Wright, it helps the world's largest brands and challenger startups cut costs, accelerate innovation, and reduce waste by replacing scattered spreadsheets with connected, auditable specification data. The platform now hosts more than 5 million products and is layering AI across formulation and spec-first PLM workflows.
Byron Hoffman
Byron Hoffman is the Co-CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Offset, a Napa Valley-based company that is simultaneously a premium wine ecommerce platform and a brand design studio. Born and raised in Napa to a family steeped in food and wine culture - his grandfather was a winemaker at Christian Brothers and his grandmother Sally Schmitt was the original founder of The French Laundry - Byron brings both heritage and craft to his work. He co-founded Offset by merging his design studio Hoffman & Co. with Tyson Caly's 750 Group in 2015, having first collaborated on Last Bottle wine in 2011. Today, Offset serves legendary wineries like Frog's Leap, Grace Family Vineyards, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Kosta Browne, and Realm Cellars. Beyond wine, Byron spent ten years producing and designing his grandmother's memoir and cookbook 'Six California Kitchens,' which won the 2023 IACP Award for Best American Cookbook and generated coverage in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Wall Street Journal.
Michael Boese
Michael Boese is the CEO of Specright, the first cloud-based Specification Data Management platform, appointed in April 2025. A seasoned enterprise software executive with 25+ years across Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Taleo, and multiple startup CEO roles, Boese brings a track record of scaling B2B SaaS companies through operational discipline and product innovation. Under his leadership, Specright is accelerating its mission to digitize product specifications across global supply chains, with $42M in total funding, $22.4M ARR, and ambitions to infuse AI across its platform to help manufacturers, retailers, and brands make better, more sustainable products.
Tugce Erten
Tugce Erten is a Partner on the Growth team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads pricing and packaging strategy for portfolio companies. Drawing on a career spent inside high-growth tech companies - Atlassian, PagerDuty, and Freshworks - she has become one of Silicon Valley's go-to voices on B2B SaaS monetization, generative AI pricing, and the art of bundling. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, she brings an economist's rigor (NERA Economic Consulting, Edgeworth Economics) to the distinctly human problem of what something is worth.