Alexander Chikunov

Alexander Chikunov (Verb Ventures) on Trade Infrastructure

Alexander Chikunov introduces Verb Ventures' $25M fund backing trade infrastructure — software running real-economy supply chains. He argues digital sovereignty should come from market competition rather than government mandates (citing France's move off Zoom as a misstep) and points to an airline's ~2,400 cancelled flights over de-icing fluid procurement as the cost of un-digitized supply chains. He explains why 'boring' sectors like construction, aviation parts and logistics still run on brokers and fax machines with up to 18 intermediaries in a chain, and predicts B2B marketplaces will evolve transaction, supply-chain and data layers into agentic AI, as one of his portfolio companies has done.

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