3one4 Capital Portfolio Companies Win at The Economic Times Supply Chain Awards 2026.
Building durable commercial enterprises requires solving the physical friction points that constrain global supply chains. At 3one4 Capital, our investment conviction remains anchored in backing category creators who combine deep technical innovation with operating discipline. The evolution of global commerce demands a fundamental transformation of physical logistics infrastructure. While software innovation has accelerated front-end consumer experiences, the back-end fulfillment floor, chemical supply network, and cold-chain distribution channels require hard-tech engineering to scale efficiently.
The Economic Times Supply Chain Awards 2026 delivered a definitive validation of this thesis, honoring 3one4 Capital portfolio companies across three critical categories. Recognizing Unbox Robotics, Scimplify, and Licious proves that Indian deeptech platforms are setting global standards for operational performance.
Hard-tech engineering and physical automation are transforming back-end fulfillment floors, specialty chemical manufacturing, and cold-chain operations. Industry recognition across robotics, chemical manufacturing, and fresh protein logistics highlights the global market readiness of Indian deeptech innovations, driven by founders and operational leaders who combine deep technical innovation with rigorous operational execution.
Gold Award for Excellence in Supply Chain Automation and Robotics – Unbox Robotics
Sorting physical packages in high-density fulfillment centers presents a fundamental spatial challenge for logistics operators across the world. Traditional linear sortation systems demand vast floor plates, forcing warehouse operators to incur high capital expenditure for facility expansion or real estate acquisition. Unbox Robotics, co-founded by Pramod Ghadge and Shahid Memon, secured the Gold Award for Excellence in Supply Chain Automation and Robotics by solving this physical space constraint through vertical space utilization.
The platform deploys autonomous mobile robots operating on elevated, modular structures, effectively transforming traditional two-dimensional sorting floors into high-density vertical sortation systems. Operating on a compact footprint allows warehouse operators to scale sorting throughput up to four times without requiring facility reconstruction or additional physical real estate. By integrating proprietary swarm intelligence and vertical robotics, Unbox Robotics reduces installation lead times from months to days, allowing global e-commerce and logistics enterprises to improve operational efficiency while maintaining strict capital discipline. Pramod Ghadge and Shahid Memon have successfully demonstrated that physical AI and space-efficient robotics can solve core fulfillment bottlenecks at scale.
Silver Award for Startup of the Year in Supply Chain and Logistics – Scimplify
Specialty chemical manufacturing has historically suffered from fragmented supply networks, opaque quality assurance, and slow product development cycles. Traditional chemical supply chains operate on a factory-first model, where buyers are constrained by fixed production capacities and existing catalog limitations. Scimplify, under the leadership of co-founders Salil Srivastava and Sachin Santhosh, earned Silver recognition for Startup of the Year in Supply Chain and Logistics (Tech/Innovation Focus) by pioneering a molecule-first chemical manufacturing operating system.
Scimplify decentralizes and digitizes specialty chemical production by mapping molecular synthesis pathways across a vetted network of manufacturing partners. Instead of locking customers into rigid factory schedules, the platform matches complex chemical contracts with specialized manufacturing facilities, ensuring high quality control, regulatory compliance, and transparent pricing. Shifting from plant-centric supply to molecule-first orchestration enables agrochemical, pharmaceutical, and specialty chemical enterprises to accelerate product commercialization while securing resilient, multi-node supply chains. Salil Srivastava and Sachin Santhosh continue to establish a new benchmark for tech-enabled chemical manufacturing globally.
Emerging Supply Chain Leader (Under 40) – Chiranjiv Mohanty (Licious)
Managing fresh protein distribution across complex geographies demands absolute temperature integrity, real-time inventory visibility, and tight cold-chain orchestration. Delivering farm-to-fork freshness without quality degradation requires managing continuous thermal monitoring, rapid turnaround times, and last-mile fulfillment speed. At Licious, Chiranjiv Mohanty was honored as the Emerging Supply Chain Leader in the Under 40 category for building operational systems that overcome these physical cold-chain constraints.
Chiranjiv Mohanty has led the operational scaling of Licious's cold-chain infrastructure, combining real-time Internet of Things temperature tracking, automated inventory prediction models, and synchronized distribution hubs. Managing an end-to-end temperature-controlled pipeline ensures that perishable goods move seamlessly from processing centers to consumer doorsteps with zero thermal breaks. This accolade celebrates Chiranjiv's relentless drive to build, solve, simplify, and render the operationally impossible possible. Building rigorous cold-chain execution frameworks demonstrates how operational leadership can turn perishable logistics into a predictable, high-margin competitive advantage.
Securing industry leadership across warehouse automation, specialty chemical orchestration, and cold-chain precision proves that capital-efficient, hard-tech execution builds resilient commercial moats. Re-engineering back-end physical infrastructure out of India sets a new benchmark for global logistics networks. We are proud to continue backing the extraordinary teams at Unbox Robotics, Scimplify, and Licious as they expand their operational footprint and build category-defining global companies.
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