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hc1 and the hospital that thought it had a good deal
A laboratory can tell you what is wrong with a patient. hc1 thinks it can also tell you what is wrong with a hospital’s business - provided someone is willing to act on the result.
nVision Global and the price of being in a hurry
The expensive part of shipping can be the decision made before anything moves. nVision Global turns freight bills into evidence, then puts that evidence to work at the booking desk.
Supplyframe and the trouble with a perfect part
A component can be perfect on paper and impossible to buy. Supplyframe built a business around closing that gap - before it becomes a factory’s problem.
The Price of Everything on Your Plate
Expana turns the stubbornly private business of food pricing into benchmarks, forecasts and negotiating leverage. Its unusual trick is pairing a publishing lineage that begins in 1858 with software built for the next supplier meeting.
GEP Wants to Put the Fortune 500's Buying Department on Autopilot
GEP spent decades helping giant companies buy better. Now it is folding its familiar software brands into one AI-native system - a bet that the winning procurement platform will not just recommend the next move, but make it.
The $100 Billion Back Office: How Buyers Edge Turned Coffee-Stained Invoices Into Restaurant Leverage
Restaurants came for the rebates. Buyers Edge built its advantage from the mess underneath them: invoices, product codes and purchasing signals that the rest of the industry struggled to read.
Part Analytics Bet Procurement Teams Were Done With Spreadsheets - Then Customers Rewrote the Product
Two former GE HealthCare operators built the electronics sourcing system they wished they had. Their useful trick was letting early customers pull it from a BOM tool into a broader operating layer for procurement - and the reported results explain why Altium bought it.
LevaData
LevaData is an enterprise SaaS company that builds an AI-powered supply management platform for direct-materials procurement. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, its Cognitive Supply Management platform blends a company's bill of materials and sourcing objectives with real-time market data covering over a billion parts and tens of thousands of suppliers to recommend cost savings, flag risks, and speed up new product introduction. It counts manufacturers and OEMs among its customers and raised a $47M Series C in 2021 led by Banneker Partners.
ThroughPut.ai
ThroughPut.ai is a Silicon Valley-based supply chain decision intelligence company that turns time-stamped operational data into fast, profit-focused decisions. Its AI platform - anchored by an engine named ELI - detects bottlenecks, senses demand, rebalances inventory, and optimizes capacity and logistics so manufacturers, distributors, and industrial operators can free up cash from operations they already run. Founded in 2017 by operators and serial industrial-tech entrepreneurs, the company works backward from real customer demand to match it with actual capacity.
Tredence Inc.
Tredence is a data science and AI engineering firm built around a single, stubborn idea: most analytics projects die in the gap between insight and action. The 'last-mile' is the company's organizing obsession - bridging dashboards and decisions for the world's largest retailers, CPGs, healthcare and telecom companies through industry accelerators, ML platforms and a deep alliance with Databricks.