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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

🎉 Congrats to CEO Bill Catania and the entire OneRail team on raising a Series C round! Now in more than 400 cities in the U.S. and Canada and handling more than 250,000 deliveries a day for around 50 brands, OneRail has seen tremendous growth as it changes the game in last-mile delivery. Ironspring Ventures is proud to have been an early supporter of this pioneering company - keep trucking OneRail!

💥The first Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Summit is in the books! Last week, we gathered 100+ founders, investors, corporate leaders, and other luminaries across the digital industrial ecosystem to discuss key business and technology topics at a one day event in New York City. 💡Inspired by Heavy Hitters: The Digital Industrial Podcast (hosted by Ironspring Ventures Co-Founder and General Partner Ty Findley), the Summit brought together thought leaders and innovators to further community and collaboration on important issues critical to advancing progress and building solutions in industrial markets.   Huge thanks to the "heavy hitters" who joined us for this special ecosystem building event and to our sponsors CDW (Jeff Simon Nikki Szanyi Lindsey Haan), Gunderson Dettmer (Wesley Watts Jonathan Goodwin), Stifel Bank (Matt Trotter Nathaniel Stone Emily Gast), and Withum (Fatema R. Lauren Grossi, CPA) who made the event possible!  #digitalindustrial #ecosystem

🚀 Congrats to Solvento on raising their Series A! Solvento provides liquidity and financial solutions to Mexico’s trucking and logistics market, and we are excited to continue to back co-founders CEO Jaime Tabachnik, CPO Pedro Bosch, and COO Guillermo Bosch as they enhance Solvento’s capabilities and expand the markets they serve. 👉 Read more in Axios (full text in comments) 

Check out our latest Nuts & Bolts newsletter! In this edition: 🏭 What's Next in in Manufacturing 🚧 Exciting Progress in Construction 🚚 Trending Up in Transport & Logistics ⚡Adjustments and Advances in Alternative Energy Plus the latest updates from our team, deals, and jobs!