艾倫·拉特裏奇

2023年6月4日,

意誌最近宣布了一項1100萬美元的種子資金由紐瓦克Venture Partners和安靜的資本,主要參與Lachy新郎,艾倫·拉特裏奇朱利安資本,倫巴(蘇薩)的合資企業。意誌是第一個也是唯一在線工業零部件市場專門為硬件開發的需要。它旨在加快硬件創新作為世界的中心,組織所有的組件。工業分布世界沒有跟上整體電子商務趨勢和更敏銳地如此400000年小和利基供應商空間。這些團隊沒有資源來構建一個複雜的在線商店根據顧客的特定的技術需求,特別是創建所需的巨額成本大等高度複雜的產品的目錄。與此同時,他們的客戶正在使用的手機和電子郵件找到他們正在尋找和源組件,一個巨大的浪費時間和金錢。這些客戶現在可以用意誌來搜索最多的產品組裝,然後過濾下來的產品滿足他們的具體規範。這是第一次過可能是因為通用市場像亞馬遜和阿裏巴巴無法理解所需的大量的結構化產品數據產生這種用戶體驗。為此,意誌本質上發明了一種新型的產品數據引擎能夠上傳和規範供應商產品內容的大量規模從未實現。這個係統使用自動化和人工智能賦予人類專家來創建一個大規模高質量的目錄。 By solving this problem, Volition is able to organize the entirety of this industry’s products and make them searchable and purchasable in one place. Volition already boasts many customers from the Fortune 500 and beyond who collectively spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on these components. And the company has also signed a wide range of distributors, who already sell billions of dollars of these products, to list their full catalogs on their platform. This new funding allows them to further scale their marketplace, as well as build out new features that let customers improve their sourcing while increasing retention dramatically. Volition was founded by Nick Pinkston, Natalie Klapper, and Duffy Tilleman – who all previously worked together at Plethora creating the world’s first “self-configuring” factory. And they are also all lifelong hardware hobbyists: Nick builds race cars, Natalie creates metal sculpture and jewelry, and Duffy with carpentry and construction. Born into a manufacturing family in the Western Pennsylvania Rust Belt, Nick (CEO) has been a manufacturing tech entrepreneur his entire career, on a mission to make hardware development as easy as software development. He created HackPittsburgh (the first maker space in Pittsburgh) and CloudFab (a custom manufacturing marketplace) before starting Plethora. KEY QUOTES: “Volition is the first marketplace for the $2 trillion industrial components industry that helps engineering and purchasing teams find and buy all of the parts they need to prototype and manufacture their designs. My co-founders and I previously ran Plethora, a custom manufacturing company, and we spent far too much time just searching for the right parts to build our factory and our customers’ products. To solve for that, we built the world’s largest catalog of these components – 16M products and growing – by partnering with industrial distributors and using our uniquely scalable data technology to quickly list products for sale.” — Nick Pinkston, co-founder and CEO of Volition “We are in a critical moment for B2B commerce, where consumer trends are spilling over – and managers, as well as C-suite leadership, are looking for ways to modernize, simplify and create efficiencies around how they buy and sell products. B2B marketplaces like Volition – which serves a specific vertical with a set of tools that lower the barrier of entry for low-tech teams are positioned for easy adoption and fast growth. We believe that Nick and the Volition team have the perfect mix of startup grind and industry expertise to make real waves in the industrial components market with this model.” — Tom Wisniewski, Managing Partner at NVP Trending on Pulse 2.0