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Tridge makes the market legible.
A broken coal deal sent Hoshik Shin looking for better information. His company now helps food businesses see what they are buying, who is selling, and where the next opportunity might be.
The Chemical Has a Name. The Buyer Needs a Match.
A drum of chemicals can carry the right name and still be the wrong ingredient. Valdera built its sourcing platform around the awkward details that decide whether a supplier can actually deliver.
ShipServ and the paperwork behind $7 billion in ship supplies
An early dream of an eBay for ship supplies ran into customers who liked their own software. Connecting those systems became ShipServ’s business - and the foundation of a maritime trading network.
Fairmarkit Found Billions Hiding in the Purchases Nobody Wanted to Touch
Fairmarkit started with the corporate purchases too small and tedious for anyone to love. Now its AI agents run sourcing work from intake to award - and customers say the bigger prize is not merely savings, but time.
Keychain Put 50,000 Factories in a Search Box - Now It Wants to Run Them
The New York startup made contract manufacturing searchable, raised at least $78 million in publicly announced funding, and turned buyer demand into a software wedge. The useful lesson is less about AI than about starting with the ugliest spreadsheet in a valuable industry.
The 128-Year-Old Search Engine Manufacturers Still Use to Find Each Other
Thomas survived the death of its 34-volume directory by keeping the hard part - trusted industrial data - and changing the container. Its second act offers a practical lesson for any niche marketplace: own the taxonomy, earn buyer intent, then sell suppliers the tools to be chosen.