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We are pleased to share the Summer 2022 Robotics, Automation and AI( “RAAI”) news report from Cascadia Capital. As the market has changed over the past six months our team has been in active dialogue with investors, business owners and other industry participants, including at our May Cascadia Connect conference in Pittsburgh.
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Overview
With over 330 registered attendees, more than 25 speakers and panelists, and hundreds of individual meetings and connections made, the 2022 Cascadia Connect Robotics, Automation and AI ("RAAI") conference in Pittsburgh was over the top!
The Fairmont Pittsburgh was the epicenter of the event which took place from May 2-4, 2022. We were fortunate to have hosted this gathering in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, Innovation Works, and the Pittsburgh Robotics Network – all of whom have been instrumental in the region’s emergence as a hotbed of innovation to date and will continue to be key resources for the greater RAAI community.
We named our this conference “Connect” for a reason: to create connections among all of us in the RAAI ecosystem that would start at the Conference and endure after. Connections are what will help our ecosystem grow and evolve, and it was our goal to create an environment that would spur active dialogue and high-value networking for everyone – a goal we believe was achieved!
As can be expected from an event of this caliber, there are many takeaways. Please find below a brief conference recap, conference materials, images from our welcome reception and conference activities, and coverage of the conference by leading RAAI media outlets. Enjoy and see you next year!
Recap & Resources
See images from Welcome Reception at Kingfly Spirits
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Cascadia strategically positioned and effectively articulated the Company’s differentiated software and fulfillment capabilities, broadly diversified enterprise client base, and scalable platform, all of which support its path to significant growth within the eCommerce fulfillment market. By highlighting Shipfusion’s custom-built, proprietary software and extensive warehouse network that provides fulfillment services to premier eCommerce brands across the U.S., Cascadia achieved an outstanding outcome for its investors, owners, and employees. Cascadia’s experience in the software, logistics, and supply chain technology sectors played a crucial role in positioning the Company in a highly competitive sector landscape.
Based in Chicago and founded in 2014, Shipfusion utilizes custom-built, proprietary software with an application programming interface, full warehouse management system and automation controls to provide superior solutions to its customers. The Company’s capabilities include complex integration, innovative picking strategies, temperature-controlled facilities, advanced reporting tools, and end-to-end lot tracking that offer market leading B2B fulfillment, inventory management and analytics, and optimized shipping rates. In addition, Shipfusion provides customers with class leading, technology enabled support services that are differentiated in the space and support its unique value proposition.
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm that specializes in growth equity investments across a broad range of industries including supply chain and logistics, media and telecom, business process automation, financial technology, healthcare, and security compliance. The firm recognized Shipfusion’s industry growth potential, differentiated software capabilities, and top-flight management team that established the Company as a great fit for its evolving technology enabled logistics thesis.
“Cascadia provided excellent strategic advice to us throughout our capital raise process. Specifically, their expertise in both technology and logistics provided the ideal perspectives to secure a strong capital transaction with a leading growth equity firm,” said Shipfusion CEO and Co-Founder Brandon Luft.
”Shipfusion sits at the intersection of eCommerce, technology enabled services and software led-fulfillment. As the supply chain evolves, both in response to today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities, the Company is ideally positioned to benefit from these tailwinds as a market leading and differentiated platform for growth. Brandon and the team have found the perfect partner in Kayne Anderson and we look forward to their accelerated progress together,” said Firdaus Pohowalla, Managing Director and Head of Supply Chain Technology at Cascadia Capital.
“As a bootstrapped business, Shipfusion has focused on developing their proprietary software and strategic warehouse network and with the capital investment is now poised to drive significant growth in the market,” added Teague Collins, Managing Director and Co-Head of Software.
The transaction represents another successful transaction for Cascadia in its market leading transportation, logistics and supply chain technology practice focused on software, automation and services. Recent transactions include StyleGenome’s acquisition by Wayfair, FragilePak’s acquisition by Greenbriar Equity, Perfect Corp.’s Series C investment from Goldman Sachs, and the sale of Cory to J.B. Hunt Transportation Services.
For more information about this transaction, please contact the Cascadia Capital deal team:
Teague Collins
Managing Director
tcollins@cascadiacapital.com
(206) 436-2576
Firdaus Pohowalla
Managing Director
fpohowalla@cascadiacapital.com
(206) 436-2578
Cascadia Capital, an investment bank serving middle market clients globally, today announced it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Ayla Networks (“Ayla” or the “Company”), a leading advanced end-to-end IoT platform that connects devices and provides unmatched analytical capabilities, in a growth equity capital raise led by Arrowroot Capital (“Arrowroot”).
Ayla is a leader in global Internet of Things (IoT) platforms that accelerate digital transformation for product manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise companies. The Company’s IoT platform fast-tracks the development, support, and ongoing enhancements of connected products and allows companies to unlock edge data generated through device operation to enhance productivity and reduce operational expenses. Offered as a managed cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Ayla is enabling some of the largest companies in the world to turn everyday home controls and appliances, commercial and gateway devices into intelligent systems that provide real-time data and drive business transformation.
The capital raised will support the Company’s ability to further deepen their offering in the consumer device market and swiftly expand their presence amongst service providers by bolstering their sales and marketing team. Additionally, Arrowroot’s investment will accelerate the Company’s deployment of their AI/ML products, particularly with service provider end users.
“We have seen substantial growth in recent years and believe that IoT is going to experience enormous expansion in the near-term,” said Jonathan Cobb, CEO of Ayla. “The opportunities that we have today are tremendous across the industries that we serve. Thanks to Cascadia Capital, we have secured a valuable partnership with Arrowroot that will provide the necessary resources to support Ayla with its strategic plan.”
Yee Lee, Senior Vice President at Cascadia Capital added, “Tailwinds in the IoT market will continue to drive the adoption of connected devices and the digital transformation across various end markets. Successful IoT companies are beginning to realize the amount of data being collected and are developing monetization strategies with use cases such as predictive maintenance, condition monitoring and optimization. Ayla has set itself apart as a leading IoT player and will continue to see accelerated deployments in its growth markets.”
For more information about this transaction, please the contact Cascadia Capital deal team:
Jamie Boyd
Managing Director
jboyd@cascadiacapital.com
(206) 436-2514
Firdaus Pohowalla
Managing Director
fpohowalla@cascadiacapital.com
(206) 436-2578
Yee Lee
Senior Vice President
ylee@cascadiacapital.com
(206) 436-2544
Cascadia sponsored the 2021 Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistics Conference in Memphis in October and it was a great success. We are excited to share our takeaways. For those of you that attended, the A3 online content portal will be open soon and we hope our summary will be an interesting accompaniment to your review.
The pace of logistics technology development is accelerating very rapidly, the live conversations and seminars further highlighted the speed of change and the underlying trends discussed at the conference are summarized and opined on in the above linked report.
We would be excited to share our thoughts with you firsthand. Please let us know if you’d like to schedule some time over the next couple of weeks to speak with our team.
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The Fairmont Pittsburgh was once again the epicenter of the event which took place from May 1-3, 2023. Please find below a brief conference recap, conference materials, and images from our welcome reception and conference activities. Enjoy and see you next year!
Please read our full conference recap here.
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