Accelerating
Global Supply
Chain Innovation

 
 

LINK is a new ecosystem co-founded by Innovation Endeavors and Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) to bring together startups, academics, investors, and large companies to foster innovation and make the world’s supply chains more effective, efficient, and resilient.

Supply chains face unprecedented challenges brought on by globalization, urbanization, and rising consumer expectations. While emerging technologies show great promise to transform the industry, the complexity of operations and coordination required across companies stymies innovation for startups and large companies alike. We hope to foster an environment where challenges can be identified and solved and novel technologies can be developed and deployed.

LINK is a collaborative ecosystem of supply chain and logistics leaders and startups working at the intersection of supply chain operations and emerging technologies such as machine learning, computer science, robotics, autonomy, and more. By connecting leading global companies and agile startups, LINK seeks to transform the technology and infrastructure of the global supply chain.

 

Startups

Receive early direction and feedback on product development

Connect with customers and strategic partners

Access investment capital

Corporate Partners

Identify emerging technologies

Access hard-to-find talent

Identify areas for cross-party collaboration and data access

Connect with peers in a more personalized setting

Our Partners

LINK Co-Leads

 
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LINK Corporate Partners

 
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A Call for Action

Startups

We are looking for companies and teams that: 

  • are passionate about applying cutting-edge technology to some of the oldest and largest challenges in our world today 

  • are not afraid of complex operations

  • are motivated by helping the world’s goods move faster, more safely, and more sustainably

 

Corporate Partners

We welcome partners that: 

  • seek to catalyze change in their organizations and industries, understand emerging supply chain problems and want to fix them

  • believe that new technologies can accelerate innovation in the field

  • are willing to test new technologies and advise on their product-market fit and strategy

Areas we’re excited about: 

  • Enabling quality, consistency, and cross-party collaboration through data infrastructure

  • Improving planning and customer experience through advanced tracking and forecasting

  • Urban fulfillment for cities of the future; warehouse automation and inventory optimization

  • Last-mile innovation for forward and reverse logistics, leveraging autonomy and new modes of delivery