![]() ![]() Logiwa came to Chicago with a business plan, and we first helped them develop a very thorough understanding of the market opportunity in the US and worked with them to learn how to incrementally test the market. In this sense, they’re tackling a very interesting and critical problem. Logiwa is a cloud-based warehouse management service platform that helps small companies manage complex supply chains. Serhat: If I had to choose one, it would be a graduate of our 2017 program. Do you have any particular success stories from the Sente Foundry program that come to mind? It’s a relatively affordable city and a very diverse, immigrant-friendly, and entrepreneur-friendly environment.Ĭhris: Very cool. Chicago is not only a great ecosystem for the essential task of scaling a startup, but it’s also a great place to run a business from a day to day operations perspective. No industry vertical represents more than 12% of the city’s economy, making it one of the most diverse in the world. If your primary goal is to test your product market fit and you’re a B2B company, Chicago is by far the best test environment in North America. ![]() Our other unique strength is our home base in Chicago, for a number of reasons. It’s essential in order to enable truly meaningful interactions in the marketplace, with meaningful results. Twelve months might seem like a bit more time than that most startups would like to see, but this is the nature of B2B world. It’s a formula of commercial market development, followed by funding to accomplish a startup’s commercial goals. With any startup, we first focus on a twelve month engagement where we methodically design a product market test and refine it. Why should a startup team up with Sente Foundry for your new 12 month program? Sente has been such an awesome influence on SwipeGuide, and we’re blown away by all you do to stimulate a vibrant community of startups in the US. (Make sure to check out Sente Foundry's Website to see all of the great work they do.)Ĭhris: Hi Serhat, thanks so much for doing this interview. Our staff writer Chris sat down with Serhat Cicekoglu to find out a bit more. Startups need someone like Sente Foundry to watch their backs while they grow. This year we’ve been working with them on an advisory basis, and with their guidance we’ve been able to engage with a lucrative US market and maximize our success in one of the richest environments relative to our Ideal Customer Profile. The start-ups will be selected specifically for their potential to help GXO meet its strategic priorities, including accelerating warehouse innovation for customers that are increasingly looking to automate their logistics operations.SwipeGuide thinks Sente Foundry is pretty cool. “We look forward to working with Sente to identify innovators around the world that are using emerging technologies to develop game-changing solutions to make logistics a competitive advantage.”ĭuring the year-long partnership, GXO says Sente will conduct a global search for and evaluation of the world’s most promising technology-focused startups. “Our partnership with Sente reflects our ongoing commitment to providing our customers with cutting-edge automated solutions that increase safety, productivity, accuracy and scalability,” said Sandeep Sakharkar, GXO’s chief information officer. – GXO Logistics has announced a new partnership with Sente Foundry, a global startup investment and innovation platform that aims to accelerate innovation in logistics. ![]()
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