Ironspring Ventures

🎙New Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast featuring Co-Founder & General Partner Ty Findley in conversation with Oracle Construction and Engineering Senior Director of AI & Analytics Josh Kanner on the evolution of built world innovation over the past two decades, how Oracle is leveraging AI to enable workers in construction to do their jobs better, and key lessons learned on M&A in the built world (from his experience across three transactions). 👉 Listen here https://lnkd.in/gmxDx-eW

Check out our latest Nuts & Bolts newsletter! In this edition: 🤠 Ironspring Ventures 2024 Roundup 🏭 Preparing for the Future in Manufacturing 🚧 New Approaches and "Show Me the Money" in the Built World 🚚 Full Speed Ahead in Transport & Logistics Consolidation ⚡Exciting Advances in Alternative Energy Plus the latest updates from our team, deals, and jobs!

📆 2024 was a big year for Ironspring Ventures! We’re grateful for a banner 12 months advancing digital industrial innovation. Highlights include: 💰Close of a $100M Fund II 👋 5 new portfolio companies (FleetPulse, Reshape Automation, Wilya, Base Power Company, stealth) ➕ 7 follow on investments 🤝 11 ecosystem building events, including the first ever Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Summit in NYC 💡 4 “Go Faster” knowledge sharing programs for our portfolio go to market community As we head into 2025, we want to thank all of the partners with whom we work to explore new solutions in heavy industrial industries. We’re committed (and fired up!) to invest in and support the next generation of category defining companies in digital industrial innovation and feel incredibly fortunate to do this work surrounded by a world class community of builders. 🥳 Happy New Year! #digitalindustrial #2024

🎙New Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast featuring Co-Founder & General Partner Ty Findley in conversation with Upfront Ventures Partner Nick Kim on the development of his firm’s national infrastructure and hard tech focus areas, the resurgence of Southern California as a industrial powerhouse, and the key role of human workers as industrial automation advances (and why these workers will gain not disappear). 👉 Listen here https://lnkd.in/gbk-hVSN

Check out our latest Nuts & Bolts newsletter! In this edition: 🏭 Dynamics at Play in Manufacturing 🚧 Deals, Deals, Deals in Construction 🚚 Busy Q4 in Transport & Logistics ⚡Impressive Innovation in Alternative Energy (Texas edition!) Plus the latest updates from our team, deals, and jobs!

🎙New Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast featuring Co-Founder & General Partner Ty Findley in conversation with Xylem VP Sivan Zamir 🎗️ on why the company launched a corporate innovation and venture capital team in 2021 (and how these efforts move the needle for a $8B revenue F500 water-focused corporation that spans 150 countries and 23,000 employees), the critical role of water and water tech in fueling the AI / data center frenzy, and how water infrastructure fits in to sustaining the nearshoring / reshoring boom.    👉 Listen here https://lnkd.in/gbk-hVSN

💥 Go GoodShip! Tremendous honor to be selected by industry peers as a leader in procurement tech.

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are integral to the operation of infrastructure, factories, and warehouses, yet the Operations Technology (OT) sector has lagged in innovation. Copia Automation, founded and led by CEO Adam Gluck, addresses this gap by introducing DevOps tools tailored for industrial control engineers.  Ironspring Ventures invested in Copia Automation in 2021, recognizing the transformative potential of its tools to modernize an underserved yet essential industry. Copia Automation has recently launched Copia Copilot, an AI-powered tool designed to enhance code management for industrial automation teams. Copia Copilot automates tasks such as generating clear documentation, converting between ladder logic and structured text, summarizing complex code, and assisting with code troubleshooting and formatting. By streamlining these processes, Copia Copilot empowers engineers to focus on innovation and continuous improvement. For more, check out: https://lnkd.in/gmrDVxBA 

🎙New Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast featuring Co-Founder & General Partner Ty Findley in conversation with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller on the story behind founding FreightWaves, a look behind the scenes of his notable industry predictions over the past few years (including his recent call on the end of the “freight recession”), and his take on what’s hot and hype in freight tech today coming off the FreightWaves F3 conference and 2025 FreightTech 25 awards.    👉 Listen here https://lnkd.in/gTYcK63y

🎉 🚚 🎉 Congrats to Cargado (#10), OneRail (#19), and GoodShip (#23) for being named to FreightWaves 2025 FreightTech 25! This list recognizes the most innovative companies in transportation and logistics over the past calendar year. Full speed ahead! #freighttech #digitalindustrial