We didn’t come to this industry. We came from it.
Our founding partners ran revenue inside one of the largest freight networks in the country, moved product for the biggest beverage brand on earth and have put over $20B in deals together.
- OPERATOR DNA
Supply chain is not a market map to us. It is muscle memory.
Venture 53 was built by people who have sold into the industry, moved through the industry, bought from the industry, and helped companies scale inside it. That matters because supply chain does not reward theory. It rewards people who know where the load gets stuck, where the invoice breaks, where the customer loses patience, and who to call when the system needs to move.
Pat Martin
20+ year Estes Express VP who ran revenue strategy across America’s largest private LTL network — and backed it up as an early investor in Trucker Tools (sold to ASG for $65M, then to DAT) and Kuebix (acquired by Trimble) — now operator-GP at Venture 53 who knows exactly where freight deals break down.
- Freight Operations
- Revenue Strategy
- Customer Access
Dan White
Coca-Cola’s Chief of New Revenue Streams who led growth including the $2.15B Monster stake, the $5.6B BodyArmor acquisition integration, built Red Tree Beverages, the stand alone alcoholic beverage subsidiary and architected the Topo Chico mineral water expansion, Red Tree is the fastest brand in company history to crest $1B — now deploying that deal-making and category-creation firepower at Venture 53.
- M&A
- Deal Strategy
- Business Building
Amy Mack
Publicis and Coca-Cola marketing executive who managed $100M+ campaigns and built the operational systems behind them —now deploying that infrastructure discipline across Venture 53’s portfolio.
- Fund Operations
- Investor Relations
- Marketing & Positioning
George Abernathy
30+ year supply chain and technology operator who served as President of Transplace during its rise into a leading 3PL, built FreightWaves’ commercial engine as President, and led Emerge as President — with executive experience spanning J.B. Hunt, Logistics.com and Sabre Logistics — now bringing Venture 53 the operator insight, industry relationships, and commercial instincts to identify which freight technologies can actually scale.
- Go-To-Market
- Freight Strategy
- Freight Strategy
John Larkin
35+ years covering transportation and logistics as a Wall Street All-Star analyst, Stifel investment banker, and PE advisor —Venture 53’s market intelligence edge for spotting who wins the next cycle.
- Market Intelligence
- Capital Markets
- Industry Strategy
Kimberly Yoo
Credit Suisse-trained financial executive who managed a $490M portfolio for high-net-worth clients and family offices — now serving as a multi-seat CFO and Venture 53’s financial architect across capital deployment, fund operations, and portfolio oversight.
- Fund Finance
- Capital Deployment
- Portfolio Oversight
Nancy Bojorquez
National Sales Director at Estes Forwarding Worldwide and account manager at both Old Dominion and Estes Express — two decades inside the freight industry’s most respected networks, giving Venture 53 the carrier relationships and ground-level sales intelligence that deal rooms don’t have.
- Sales
- Customer Dynamics
- Operational Execution
Randy Mullet
Con-way/XPO executive-turned-DC power broker with 40+ years in trucking — Venture 53’s direct line into federal transportation policy, regulatory strategy, and the Washington relationships that determine which technologies actually scale.
- Transportation Policy
- Freight Strategy
- Commercial Scale
Shellie Davis
Finance and M&A executive who led more than $9B in transactions at The Coca-Cola Company, including investments in Keurig Green Mountain and Monster Energy and the acquisition of Costa Coffee. As CFO of Coca-Cola’s Global Ventures, Shellie oversaw the financial performance and integration of acquired businesses totaling $2.6B in revenue.
- M&A
- Deal Structuring
- Financial Diligence
- BUILDING IN SUPPLY CHAIN?
If you are fixing how things move, we want to hear from you.
We back late-seed and early-A founders building in Freight Tech, Warehousing Tech, Last Mile Services, Enterprise Supply Chain Management, and Autonomous, EV & Robotics.