PreWave Raises $20 Million

Supply Chain
Written By Rick Watson

Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating and reporting these risks.

The PreWave solution crawls data sources like global and local news, social media, and other proprietary data sources to find evidence of supplier issues and violations in a company’s supply chain.  These data sources are then aggregated into global scores that allows a brand or retailer to track their global supply chain risks and compliance over time.

TechCrunch: Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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