Alexandria’s Columbia Capital, Greenspring Associates and DHL today announced to jointly acquire Riskpulse to scale the business in combination with Resilience360. Incubated in DHL’s global Innovation Center, Resilience360 provides an end-to-end supply chain risk assessment and monitoring solution. It has become an independently operated company under the management of Rising Tide Digital following a $21M investment by Columbia Capital in 2018.
Riskpulse helps shippers, carriers, distributors, and their customers increase their on-time performance, reduce unnecessary freight spending and avoid waste caused by operational and natural, social or infrastructure-driven variability. The company’s SaaS solutions quantify and standardize their clients’ understanding of risk across their transportation networks and provide real-world, actionable risk mitigation recommendations up to two weeks before dispatch through to delivery.
“Risk analytics is central to the creation of the predictive and prescriptive insights that will revolutionize supply chain management,” noted John Siegel, managing partner at Columbia Capital. “Resilience360 and Riskpulse have unique and powerful capabilities to apply risk analytics to operational decision-making at the shipment and network level, both for supplier management and logistics optimization. We are also thrilled to have Greenspring join this venture, given the success of our past co-investments and their extensive network.”
“Since demonstrating that our predictive analytics can deliver provable ROI to some of the most innovative supply chain participants, Riskpulse has seen significant interest from the investment community,” said Simon Woods, CEO of Riskpulse. “Joining the Columbia-led platform creates the greatest value for our clients because, together with growth capital, Columbia, DHL and Greenspring bring a platform ready to scale globally with unique and valuable data assets.”
Katja Busch, DHL’s Chief Commercial Officer noted that “the combination of experienced investors, a seasoned management team, two unique analytics platforms and DHL’s network is powerful and unrivaled in this industry and will play a central role in the digitalization and reinvention of global supply chain management as we continue to innovate with our clients.”
Both companies will operate independently for the short term, leveraging operational efficiencies provided by Rising Tide Digital. The companies will transition into a single brand and operating structure in 2020 in close consultation with our clients and partners and will be followed by other acquisitions that support our ability to deliver on the promise of supply chain digitalization for our customers.
David Shillingford CEO of Rising Tide Digital added, “The combination and scaling of Riskpulse and Resilience360’s solutions are significant steps towards our most forward-thinking clients’ vision of risk analytics as a central and integrated component of supply chain decision making processes. It is this sort of predictive and prescriptive analytics that will help power the autonomous supply chains of the future.”
