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Beds, Sheds and the Quiet Business of Rebuilding European Cities
MARK Capital Management turns tired warehouses, faded arcades and half-empty city blocks into logistics hubs and mixed-use districts. Its 'beds and sheds' strategy just won Logistics Investor of the Year.
FreshDirect Bet the Grocery Aisle Could Be Rebuilt as a Supply Chain
Long before grocery apps became ordinary, FreshDirect built a Bronx food machine that could taste a peach, portion a salmon and route both to a New York doorstep. Its next act is testing how far that tightly controlled system can open up without losing the quality that made it matter.
Jitsu
Jitsu is a tech-enabled, vertically integrated last-mile delivery company that helps e-commerce brands get parcels to the doorstep quickly, cheaply, and with unusually few lost packages. Formerly known as AxleHire, the Berkeley, California company built its own warehouse management, sortation, routing, and driver software so every system talks in real time, and it now covers 23 of the 25 largest U.S. metro areas with same-day, next-day, and two-day options at rates competitive with traditional ground shipping.
Kiwibot
Kiwibot builds small four-wheeled sidewalk robots that handle last-mile delivery on university campuses and inside cities. Founded in 2017 by three Colombian engineers and incubated at UC Berkeley's SkyDeck, the company now operates more than 1,200 Level 4 autonomous robots across 30-plus campuses, completing hundreds of thousands of deliveries with partners like Sodexo, Shopify, Chick-fil-A and the City of San Jose. In 2025 the parent entity began doing business as Robot.com, broadening from food delivery into advertising, logistics and inspection.