Born into a dynasty of Greek shipping magnates dating back to the 19th century, Marina Hadjipateras "has no impostor complex," according to the cofounder of her venture capital firm TMV. She is self-possessed, self-assured, and driven by a singular focus: to drag the global shipping industry into the 21st century.
Hadjipateras is not interested in games or ecommerce or the usual stuff VCs hunger to disrupt. Instead, she focuses on supply chain and logistics, industries that no one ever wants to disrupt lest the world come to a standstill. That's where the margins are, where a company gets an edge. It's also where reductions in emissions and costs can be made.
Through targeted, deliberate investments in a number of companies focused on supply chain efficiencies, Hadjipateras has now bet the farm on the sea. If she's successful, she will have modernized a $14 trillion global industry that touches 90 percent of the world's goods.
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