Jacob Boudreau, left, and Sean Henry work Monday, July 11, 2016, at Dynamo, a logistics and transportation accelerator launched by Access America founders.Dynamo participants
SkyDrop — Based in Monterrey, Mexico, SkyDrop specializes in connecting small businesses in Latin America with last-mile delivery options. Its founders are Armando Solbes Arguello, Arnoldo Rodriguez and Jose Zambrano. Skupos — Based in San Francisco, Skupos specializes in convenience store inventory fulfillment by tracking in-store sales in real time. Its founders are Jake Bolling, Linh Nguyen and Mike Glassman. SynapseMX — Based in Atlanta, SynapseMX specializes in aircraft maintenance tracking and management through a mobile-first platform. Its founder is Shane Ballman.Sirenum — Based in London, Sirenum specializes in staff management and health and safety compliance in heavily-regulated industries like trucking and railroads. Its founders are Ben Rubin, Ben Hizak and Josh Pines.Source: Dynamo
For the next 12 weeks, 10 carefully-selected teams will try to solve the world’s transportation and logistics problems from the second floor of the Loveman’s Building downtown.
The teams make up the inaugural class of the Dynamo accelerator program, a relative boot camp for companies that specialize in getting goods from point A to point B. Dynamo is hosted by Lamp Post Group and was created by Access America Transport founders Ted Alling, Barry Large and Allan Davis.
Under the direction of former CitiCorp and Wells Fargo executive Santosh Sankar, Dynamo is partnered with GE Ventures, Kenco and Ryder.
Sankar said Dynamo received applicants from 120 teams worldwide and heard back from more than 1,000 interested parties. It took several rounds of cuts to establish the final list of participants, he said. Among the 10 accepted into the program are representatives from the United Kingdom, Ireland and Mexico.