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To add to that, trucks are expected to drive 57% more miles in the coming years to keep up with demand.\n\n### **But aren’t we expecting driverless trucks to solve this?**\n\nTo some extent yes, but fully driverless long haul solutions has its own constraints, new costs, new risks and require **major** operational changes to how freight is moved today (i.e. point to point, direct to destination). Driverless freight needs to be routed via hubs → 2x stops, 2x handoffs and offers limited operational flexibility / geographical reach. Most small and medium carriers need operational flexibility + geographical reach.\n\nSo if we look at driverless trucks as a tool, its clear they are necessary, but we need complementary solutions that seamlessly work for most.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nEngineer autonomy such that it makes our existing drivers most productive and happy. So, we are building autonomy software that’s designed from the ground up to tag-team _with_ human drivers.\n\nWe offer our solution as an end-to-end service: autonomous ready freight search, automated driving in service zones, effortless payments.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ohwis2MAaEYhyFZ_A7gxRCUgO6acSak3BzAD5rBNX5T5BDSrnaXTC9vZ9wx9U1AoU0H-rdrt5mfSS5_nxMY0m6f2JWq9UBQApkSzt_TmPPI_1nkfuc6TnjW0JwEa68r6pRSR98LHKrDAu1HHVTRRHrKlhLsj2wArEAh0aZkZfol97pO2knImqZliUBBlPw)\n\nFor truck drivers, having access to our software is like having access to a **second driver that drives on-demand.** This helps increase:\n\n* ⏳ **Productivity**\n* 🚛 **Trucking capacity**\n* 💰 **Driver and fleet revenue**\n\n### **How we are different?**\n\nWe’re _not_ building human-less trucks for a few large carriers.\n\nWe’re building the **most practical and driver friendly** autonomous system to serve 90% of the trucking industry\n\n* Using existing team driving model truckers are familiar with\n* Delivering both operational flexibility and geographical reach\n* _No need for_ new infrastructure, process changes or multiple hand-offs\n* In sync with current US [federal policy](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/04/fact-sheet-the-biden-administrations-unprecedented-actions-to-expand-and-improve-trucking-jobs/) related to trucker jobs\n* Similar monetary _savings_ for carriers, as driverless.\n\nOur tech stack’s architecture leverages advances in modern AI, making our dev 10x more capital efficient.\n\n### **About the founders:**\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/X6gKAXbkWpIjj_XRuOC_kTd3henCDJAnZNraOJGg1v6OfearPdJ1rUGqM9gtReiDo9PzeAnXXMvS6bRr-6ArDK_N4PoUazl5BK2N1pPmuPwiBPHSzKwQT9Grx8wyb2CszzCyR-OrlqQNduBd8WtyaToOy2qBNLjMljgMxw3-Mblqivn7RclfFEcCgOj0QA)\n\n[Addwiteey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/addwiteey-chrungoo-06693320/) met [Sandesh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeshgwd/) at Caterpillar where they helped bring the world’s largest autonomous trucks into production. 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We are on a mission to digitize the global supply chain – one API at a time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70084&key=user_uploads/1155870/53fd0b5a-6777-4d6c-94e5-a8057c816dad)\n\n### 🩺**The Problem**\n\nInnovation in the supply chain industry is stifled by the lack of accessible data. 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We help logistics companies scale with less headcount, reduce cost per load and eliminate data entry errors. Reach out at _[_www.vooma.ai_](http://www.vooma.ai)_._\n\nHello! We’re Mike and Jesse, and we’re building Vooma.\n\n### 🎊 Vooma: a backoffice automation platform for logistics\n\nVooma is a back-office automation platform for freight brokers and carriers that fully automates order taking from shippers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69872&key=user_uploads/887217/2a8f7b68-4b35-46d5-9e22-852e63f32c67)\n\n### 😰 Taking orders from shippers is still extremely manual\n\nToday brokers and carriers receive 60% of orders (\\~$200BN of freight) over email text, spreadsheets and PDFs and key them into their systems manually. The industry spends \\~$750M per year in salaries alone on this problem.\n\nOnly a fraction of shippers have transportation management systems, and a smaller fraction can send orders digitally.\n\nThere’s no good solution for logistics companies. 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Terminal (_[_withterminal.com_](http://withterminal.com)_) is a Universal API for Telematics that makes it easy for these teams to integrate all of the top telematics platforms into their application without needing to worry about the complex underlying details._\n\n## 😰 **Problem**\n\nOur customers include (but are not limited to): insurance companies, fuel cards, invoice factorers, fleet management systems, digital freight brokers, load boards and transportation management systems. These folks need access to telematics data to support their end-users who are trucking companies and commercial fleets. Integrating telematics is often a must-have for them and there’s typically a direct correlation between their number of supported integrations and their sales closure rate.\n\nThe telematics market is fragmented, with hundreds of available platforms, each with their own type of integration (REST, SOAP, etc.), and documentation that is not always available. Companies that need to integrate into these vendors have large integration teams and are still unable to meet their customers' demand.\n\n## **🔮 Solution**\n\nTerminal's Universal API for Telematics enables companies to support all of the leading telematics platforms through a single integration. Similar to Plaid and Stripe - our mission is to increase the innovation velocity of transportation, logistics and fleet management through making fleet data more accessible.\n\nWe provide a white-labelled **User Interface** for fleet managers to grant access to telematics data like GPS, vehicle stats, driver hours and safety events.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/c7ebf48f-6014-4192-adc8-5eed6aef0aa9)\n\nOnce a fleet manager grants access, we extract, normalize, enrich, and sync the data for our customer. We also offer common data models, webhooks and access to raw telematics data to make it easy for customers to integrate. You can learn more about how it works in our [**API Documentation**](https://terminal.stoplight.io/docs/terminal).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/9b511455-57e1-4ced-a523-df860d3e67a8)\n\nCustomers also receive a **Support Portal** for managing their integrations, customer connections and data syncs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/42b9409c-1fbe-4a22-bb93-5d685c91598d)\n\n## **😇 Ask**\n\nIf you know any companies that currently integrate or are looking to integrate with telematics, please let us know at [**founders@withterminal.com**](mailto:founders@withterminal.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IrM-terminal-plaid-for-telematics", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2023-06-24T00:00:20.370Z" } ] }, { "id": 28880, "name": "FleetWorks", "slug": "fleetworks", "former_names": [ "FleetWorks", "Aproxy.AI", "Aproxy" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/09046cf3a124fcba9a014250e15826670a9a3e1b.png", "website": "https://fleetworks.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "FleetWorks is rebuilding the $1 trillion freight marketplace with AI.\r\n\r\nEvery year, companies spend over a trillion dollars moving freight across the U.S. — but the system for matching trucks with jobs is still slow, manual, and fragmented.\r\n\r\nFleetWorks is fixing that. 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Our AI-powered platform can leverage email or use a human-like voice to make tracking calls, cover loads, and reschedule appointments.\n\nHi everyone, we are Paul and Quang - we’re on a mission to help freight brokers and forwarders become more efficient\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74121&key=user_uploads/396582/2100c87b-c4eb-4d6c-a5a6-d3ac56e6338a)\n\n### **❌ The Problem:**\n\nGetting freight from point A to point B is still largely handled by humans. Digitized brokers have driven automation, but most day-to-day operations are still handled over phone and email between millions of humans around the world. Given this overhead, freight brokerages operate on low single-digit margins.\n\nThree roles in a freight brokerage spend a significant part of their day on repetitive tasks:\n\n1. **Track and trace agents** → Identify loads that are not being tracked automatically via apps, telematics, or aggregators. They reach out via phone or email to the driver or dispatcher for an update.\n2. **Load coverage and carrier sales** → Handle inbound/outbound calls to/from trucking companies that are interested to book loads. Information like weight, commodity, and appointment time is shared. Then the parties negotiate on price.\n3. **Appointment schedulers** → Set appointment times for unscheduled loads by calling or emailing facilities, or logging into customer portals. Due to unforeseen issues, 20-30% of appointments need to be rescheduled at the last minute resulting in even more work.\n\nTo illustrate this from a trucking company point of view, below is a short video that shows a dispatcher calling various brokers:\n\n\n\n### **✨ Our Solution:**\n\nFleetWorks sits alongside a broker’s phone, email, and transportation management system (TMS). Calls and emails can be triggered automatically or manually, and relevant information is automatically pushed to the TMS or email for operators to take action.\n\nFleetWorks can automatically \n\n1. **Book loads**: Share load details, discuss price, and book the carrier.\n2. **Track loads**: Call the driver and update the account team on issues.\n3. **Schedule appointments**: Email or call facilities that don’t have a booking portal.\n\n### **💲 The Opportunity:**\n\nThere are 150 large brokers in the U.S. (>$100M gross revenue) and they are taking share from small brokers. These brokers alone spend $11B on operational headcount and 70% of headcount is involved in repetitive work.\n\nThese operators conduct 1 billion phone calls per year to manage load execution. Today, these calls cost $5-15 depending on complexity. At a rate of $1 per successful call (10x cheaper than the status quo), we believe our near-term market opportunity is $1B.\n\nGiven the $11B of spend on operational headcount, FleetWorks provides significant margin expansion for our customers. \n\n### **🙏 Our ask:**\n\nIf you or anyone you know works in freight transportation, drop us a note at [founders@fleetworks.ai](mailto:founders@fleetworks.ai). 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This helps them order the perfect amount of inventory: enough to meet customer demand without sending tons of leftover food to landfill.\n\n### **🗑️ PROBLEM**\n\n* **Predicting future demand is hard**: product-level demand drastically fluctuates each day based on hundreds of factors like weather, road closures, and sports games. Yet, even the largest supermarket chains still use basic regression models or Excel formulas, which means … \n* **Tons of food waste and empty shelves**: which costs grocery retailers in Europe/US $188B and costs our planet 15 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.\n\n### **🥑 OUR SOLUTION**\n\n* **Industry-leading algorithm** that predicts order quantities for each item, each day, each store location. Our average forecast error (MAE) for our current customers is 0.95 units, which translates to a 38% reduction in food waste.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ib8L-X2brvq2yDx0i7QlNLakpS-1x79zlJSzMI5phoohO6II0KB9q3GhWEilhqDc6sXoBUm24rj4NXCX4O5sTa9susviyZFku6vb0YzC9_qIVa0Nbq-6YMHvuNaBx_P8_30I8wteFfbGtJu_3g5vdqo)\n\n* How?\n * **More than just ML**: Grocery demand is driven by real world events that ML models don’t know exist. So we inject 230+ external variables to actually capture people’s buying behavior …  \n * **_For example,_** _we found that sports betting odds help us predict beer sales. When a sports match is predicted to be a close game, it turns out more people watch the game, driving up beer sales!_\n * **Customized** for each store location: grocery stores located just 5 miles apart have different customer behavior.\n* **Inventory ordering optimization**: We then turn our hyper-accurate predictions into useful inventory order quantities, based on individual SKU-specific requirements: minimum order quantities, promotions, unknown loss estimates, shelf life, supplier lead times, and more.\n* **Modular integration:** We integrate our ordering recommendations right into the retailer’s existing inventory ordering softwares and workflow. Whether inventory ordering is done at the HQ-level vs. store-level, we fit into the retailer’s system, instead of forcing them to uproot their system to fit into ours.\n\n### **🙏 OUR ASK**\n\nWe’d love introductions to grocery chains (anywhere in the world), especially:\n\n1. Discount grocery chains, with tighter margins\n2. 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Our tech enables GLS, one of Europe’s biggest logistics companies, to speed up their deliveries by 2-10 minutes.\\\n\\\nHi! We are Ingo, Jan, and David and we believe that **the way how couriers navigate is broken.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74016&key=user_uploads/1295475/c9886fc5-f687-4973-b936-d2a54ddae884)\n\n“You Have Arrived At Your Destination!” — or so Google Maps thinks. In reality, the way couriers navigate is broken: No parking, hard-to-find entrances, and labyrinth-like apartment and office complexes can turn the last meters of delivery into a time-consuming puzzle.\n\n### **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74016&key=user_uploads/1295475/58631705-41f1-4a39-8f74-075582b6bdcb)\n\n\n[truemetrics](https://truemetrics-26059762.hs-sites-eu1.com/en/product-presentation) provides parking positions and entrance locations to enable faster deliveries. 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We were early engineers at Convoy (#12 and #50) and where there until the company was acquired by Flexport last Fall. Our broad and recent experience at Convoy has given us deep insights into the complexities of the freight industry. Manifold Freight is our response to simplifying a piece of the $800 billion freight industry. Our first target market is Asset Based Carriers - a radically underserved segment..\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79276&key=user_uploads/1114978/a0e2f5d7-5651-4bbd-8032-d0d267aed291)\n\n**The Underserved Large Asset-Based Carriers** 🚛\\\nOver the last decade, there has been a surge of tech investment into the freight industry (e.g., Convoy, Uber Freight) - but their focus has been maximizing the margin and capacity of smaller carriers (< 10 trucks). Medium to large Asset-Based Carriers, especially those operating with 50+ trucks, have seen minimal interest from tech despite representing more than \\~60% of the U.S. truckload capacity - roughly 2,600,000 trucks! ([data)](https://www.ooida.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Trucking-Facts.pdf)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79276&key=user_uploads/1114978/7b7c81c7-9724-4eba-adc4-bc4b21d048ab)\n\nNowhere is this more apparent than in the $100 billion spot freight market. Existing solutions don’t work well for medium and large Carriers. The spot freight market is fragmented across hundreds of load boards, thousands of brokers, and millions of shippers. For medium and large carriers, this fragmentation creates a logistical nightmare. Finding a single spot freight shipment requires a dispatcher to manually login, filter and compare each load against their fleet and availability. Sorting through thousands of emails, multiple load boards and making many time consuming phone calls.\n\nThe result? Dispatchers go the path of least resistance - large public load boards. They can’t take advantage of the much higher value, _shipper direct_ freight because it’s physically impossible to sort through them all every day. These public load boards take an 18-30% cut of the shipment price that otherwise could have gone to the carrier. For the average medium-sized carrier doing 50 spot loads a week, this represents almost $500,000 in lost yearly revenue (2,600 shipments x $700 × 24% = $462,280).\n\n**The Manifold Solution**\\\nManifold solves this problem by aggregating all available spot freight opportunities, including shipper direct spot freight, into one single dashboard. \n\nFinding and bidding on quality shipper direct freight is easier with Manifold than finding low quality loads on [DAT,](https://www.dat.com/) the current industry standard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79276&key=user_uploads/1114978/9b466bfc-653b-4a74-8947-999518a12251)\n\n**Asks**\\\nIf you have connections in the freight industry; whether they be Carriers, Brokers, or Shippers. Send them our way! 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It’s [Saif](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saifabuhashish/), [Omar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarabuhashish/), and [Pradhit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradhit/) here to introduce you to [Reform](https://www.reformhq.com/)!\n\n🤓 **TL;DR**\n\nReform is the easiest way for dev teams to build modern logistics software fast. Logistics service providers use our pre-built components and APIs to build software that can automate tasks such as quoting, shipment creation, and customs clearance filing. \n\nOne of the largest freight forwarders in Latin America is using Reform to automate shipment creation and invoice processing.\n\n\\\n**❌ Problem**\n\nLogistics service providers rely on dated, archaic ERP and transportation management systems (TMS) to manage their operations. These systems are rigid, closed, and opinionated. Oftentimes, they require customization, and hence, the need for logistics service providers to hire development agencies to build bespoke customizations and internal tools on top of these systems to make them easier to work with. \n\nAn alternative these companies resort to is to build an internal system from scratch to fit their business needs. However, such an undertaking is long, costly, and is oftentimes a distraction from their core business.\n\n\\\n**⚒️ Solution**\n\n**Reform is the sweet spot between buying a generic off-the-shelf TMS and building one in-house**. Our APIs and pre-built components allow logistics service providers to build the modern transportation management system they need - faster, better, and without the maintenance overhead.\\\n\\\nOur first product is an AI-powered API suite that allows logistics service providers to build custom automations for mundane tasks related to their TMS. \\\n\\\nOur APIs are used to power automation use cases including:\n\n🚢 Shipment and quote creation\n\n👮 Customs clearance filing\n\n🏭 Warehouse order intake\n\n🧾 Invoice reconciliation\n\n\\\n⚙️ **How it works**\n\n**Eliminate manual document analysis:** Our customizable AI-powered data extraction API, purpose-built for the logistics industry, allows you to extract data with high accuracy from incoming emails and documents including commercial invoices, BOLs, packing lists, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/b3cfab82-392b-4fee-853c-1adaed324808)\n\n\\\n**Integrate with any TMS**: Our Universal API allows you to plug extracted data into any system without the burden of building and maintaining integrations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/259bb079-8490-4260-b8b8-fc598221c91b)\n\n**Build beautiful interfaces:** Our headless UI components allow you to embed our APIs directly in your products and customer-facing dashboards.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/1200b04a-798a-44ea-8de9-0bbe694a316c)\n\n**Meet The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/28bdbda5-b565-4a50-8d9d-919bed1cac4f)\n\nSaif and Omar are brothers, born and raised in Jordan, before moving to the US to pursue a career in technology. Saif built warehouse robotics at Amazon, conversational AI at Capital One, and category-defining SaaS at Drift. Omar was a founding engineer at Altan Insights, followed by building 0 → 1 products at CoinTracker (YC W18). Omar was also Pradhit’s favorite co-worker at CoinTracker, where together, they led the new products team. Before that, Pradhit was at Microsoft where he built data pipelines to process petabytes of telemetry data.\\\n\\\n🙏 **Asks**\n\n* If you know any freight forwarders, 3PLs, or logistics software providers that might be interested in Reform, send them our way!\n* Think we can help, have questions or feedback? [Book a call](https://calendly.com/omar-abuhashish/20-min) or reach out to us at [founders@reformhq.com](mailto:founders@reformhq.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KYm-reform-the-fastest-way-to-build-modern-logistics-software", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2024-03-04T20:39:40.112Z" } ] }, { "id": 29499, "name": "Forge", "slug": "forge", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a8698407a8cb5928c428073e83afe6e5668d63c.png", "website": "https://www.forgehq.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Forge manages international logistics for business around the world. We’re an AI native freight forwarder, customs broker, and tariff expert.\r\n\r\nWe’re growing rapidly and support small mom and pop business to the Fortune 1000s, including companies like Allegiant Airlines, Malbon Golf, and R.E.M. beauty.\r\n\r\nForge has raised capital from world class investors including Google, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures.", "one_liner": "AI native freight forwarder and customs broker", "team_size": 7, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1705516248, "tags": [ "B2B", "Logistics", "Supply Chain", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/forge", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/forge.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/forgehq/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a8698407a8cb5928c428073e83afe6e5668d63c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1143293, "full_name": "Emir Sahmanovic", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Emir is the co-founder and CEO of Forge. 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Most companies don’t file for drawbacks because it can be complicated & cumbersome. We solve this by taking on all the work for our customers from organizing data to filing, and automating it behind the scenes. Reach out to us at: [www.forgehq.com](http://www.forgehq.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/89898/703a07d3-3dad-49eb-9cd3-1c80cd2719a9)\n\nHello everyone! We're Emir and Haris, two brothers and the co-founders of Forge! We’re here to help companies save money on their tariffs & duties.\n\nHaris (left) is the CTO of Forge. Before Forge, he worked at Facebook and Vanguard as a backend engineer. Emir (right) is the CEO of Forge. Previously he was a lead engineer with experience designing, building, and testing rocket engines at Blue Origin and Stoke Space. At Stoke, Emir was part of a small team that became the fastest to ever go from seed funding to engine hot fire.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/1181593/44c70c94-7705-4dd2-8c02-215f92c83d2e)\n\n🧩 **The problem:**\n\nLast year, the US collected over $85 billion in import duties, and that number will increase dramatically with the newly established tariffs. However, when a business imports goods, they are allowed to claim a refund on the taxes they paid if they later export or scrap goods - this process is called duty drawbacks.\n\n$6 billion dollars of recoverable duties go unclaimed every year, and that was before Trump’s new tariffs. Most companies don’t file for drawbacks because the process is extremely cumbersome & complicated. The biggest companies have compliance teams & specialized customs brokers supporting them on multi-million dollar claims, but if you’re a small or medium-sized business, you have no options. Supply chain teams don’t have the time to manage all the work needed to run a drawback program, and brokers avoid supporting claims under $500k.\n\n💡 **Our solution:**\n\nOur team provides duty drawback as a white glove service while leveraging AI and custom internal tools to automate the work. This allows us to serve more businesses, while also requiring little to no effort from our customers. We file all paperwork with customs, extract all necessary data, and do the work to maximize their refund. The best part: it’s free upfront— we only get paid when our customers get paid.\n\nSupply chain & logistics are hard. Tariffs & duties make it even harder. We are here to make it easy for businesses to claim the revenue they deserve.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/1181593/8a06bd8f-bb66-428f-a439-d9727f160284)\n\n\\\n🙏 **Ask: How you can help**\n\nConnect us to importers, exporters, manufacturers, DTC brands, and any business impacted by the tariffs in your network! Email [emir@forgehq.com](mailto:emir@forgehq.com)\n\n* Check us out and talk with us at [forgehq.com](http://forgehq.com)\n* Share this post!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NEU-forge-getting-companies-refunds-on-tariffs-duties", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-04-07T21:36:45.016Z" }, { "id": 77785, "title": "🛠️ Forge - Procure hardware and control spend on one platform", "tagline": "Collaborate with manufacturers, track orders from quote to delivery, manage purchase approvals, and more!", "body": "**tl;dr:** We’re bringing everything related to your team's hardware procurement under one platform. [Forge](https://www.forgehq.com/) makes it easy to get your parts made while also providing insight into your teammates' purchases, the status of their parts, and more. On top of this, we give companies the ability to set their procurement policies in a straightforward manner, making it simple for everyone to follow. **Request a demo at [www.forgehq.com](https://www.forgehq.com/)**.\n\nHello everyone! We're [Emir](https://linkedin.com/in/emir-sahmanovic-976b71b5) and [Haris](https://linkedin.com/in/haris-sahmanovic-438884126), two brothers and the co-founders of Forge! We’re on a mission to help hardware teams move faster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77785&key=user_uploads/1181593/f67f210b-2410-49ec-a452-9fa5eaf20b34)\n\nHaris (left) is the CTO of Forge. Before Forge, he worked at Facebook and Vanguard as a backend engineer. Emir (right) is the CEO of Forge. Previously he was a lead engineer with experience designing, building, and testing rocket engines at Blue Origin and Stoke Space. At Stoke, Emir was part of a small team that became the fastest to ever go from seed funding to engine hot fire.\n\n\\\n🧩 **The problem:**\n\nGetting parts into engineers’ hands sets the pace for hardware companies. However, procurement teams use email, spreadsheets, and phone calls to manage billions of dollars of spend. This causes huge coordination issues as many engineers don’t know whose approval they might need, when parts are coming in, and who ordered what. We saw it over and over again at companies of all sizes: poor supply chain operations cause constant delays and bottleneck the pace of development. In 2023, engineers were estimated to spend over 6 hours per week on procurement activities.\n\n**💡 Our solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77785&key=user_uploads/1181593/d75081e4-05ee-4d46-84c7-c0bf54dfac90)\n\nOur software allows you to request quotes from your suppliers, where you can attach drawings and CAD. We then organize the quotes into a format that’s perfect for comparing your options. Once a supplier has been selected, you can continue to work with them by messaging, sharing files, and getting feedback directly on Forge. All these actions are viewable by your teammates, ensuring everyone is on the same page without the need for time-consuming meetings or searching through documentation.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/ugOWDLKfrQ1vBzd6yGZ5v0K2sYRXfPy9B2clqANCArFWQZp_Ef68QtXryh9Nsrh5BGND-36ErJc2DUDj3QsBQIAY7SmXwNIdlX3ymAi9ycLecJm2Ir-iyzlNxJ6URwENwLBJ50xgGNFlqiG66AsGddU)\n\nMany companies struggle with unclear procurement operations. Forge offers a highly customizable tool for companies to publicly set their procurement flows in an easily readable manner. No more wondering who’s approval you need or what you’re waiting on. Even better - no IT team is needed for set up and changes can be made at any time!\n\nCombine all this with integrations into your other business software and you have a tool that makes collaborating with coworkers and manufacturers easier than ever before.\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hifUYQdYGJI)\n\n**🙏 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Connect us to engineers, procurement managers, or supply chain teams in your network! Email [emir@forgehq.com](mailto:emir@forgehq.com)\n* Check us out and book a demo at [forgehq.com](http://forgehq.com)\n* Share this post!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KEb-forge-procure-hardware-and-control-spend-on-one-platform", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2024-01-23T19:41:15.869Z" } ] }, { "id": 29517, "name": "RetailReady", "slug": "retailready", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/199d48c929434ddb64281cd83b9621eb37c3ed62.png", "website": "https://www.retailreadyai.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Every time workers in a warehouse box an order, they reference a 100 page manual with instructions like where to put the shipping label. 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We connect to shop systems and ERPs automatically.\n\nWith the platform, brands can automatically get:\n\nA library of machine learning forecasts per product and channel to optimize forecast accuracy combined with a collaborative environment to plan with multiple stakeholders.\n\nReplenishment optimization, considering\n\n* Inbound orders and shipments to any warehouse\n* Outbound (future) send-ins (e.g. to another warehouse)\n* Linear constraints such as dynamic safety stock, target coverage and lead times\n* Non-linear constraints such as MOQ are integrated\n\nWith that, we believe inventory management should transform into inventory optimization for everyone.\n\n**🚀 Our mission**\n\nWe want to create a world where stockouts do not exist anymore. Imagine any product at the right place, at any time — enabled by Spherecast.\\\n\\\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\nIf you happen to know supply chain managers at multi-channel e-commerce brands – we’d love to chat!\n\n* Book a demo [**here**](https://cal.com/leon-hergert) or contact us via [**leon@spherecast.ai**](mailto:leon@spherecast.ai)\n* Tell your network about inventory optimization for e-commerce and share this post\n* Check out our website [**spherecast.ai**](https://www.spherecast.ai/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82556&key=user_uploads/1600407/4201ebec-ac0f-4da5-9057-6476442cae53)\n\n_From left to right: Felix Grote (Founding Business Developer), Pascal Schindler (Co-Founder & CTO), Paul Dietrich (Co-Founder & CPO), Leon Voland (Founding Engineer), Leon Hergert (Co-Founder & CEO)_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LTY-spherecast-inventory-copilot-for-multi-channel-brands", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2024-07-30T13:53:19.366Z" } ] }, { "id": 29755, "name": "Pax", "slug": "pax", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/504c0f3948154b11b0ce8c13dc39653602f56d0a.png", "website": "https://paxai.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pax is the AI-native broker that automates and maximizes tariff refunds through duty drawback. 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Chris is a second-time founder and former software engineer at Amazon, Brex, and TikTok.", "one_liner": "AI Native Operating System for Global Trade", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1721770612, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pax", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/pax.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getpaxai", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/504c0f3948154b11b0ce8c13dc39653602f56d0a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/0c3484707e1eb633e31ce77edfbcb66fd3fbf86c.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 628376, "full_name": "Penny Chen", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Penny is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pax AI. She has designed and built algorithms for pricing, forecasting, fulfillment, and capacity planning to optimize workflows, costs, and quality across logistics and supply chain. She has extensive experience driving projects at MIT, Flexport, and Amazon, addressing real-world problems through a mixture of AI/ML, statistics, and optimization.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypinyichen/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f431f0efa67eafa93b1ccc29a90daccc701721e1.jpg" }, { "user_id": 809200, "full_name": "Chris Le", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Chris is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pax AI.\n\nBefore Pax AI, Chris worked on scaling up Amazon's supply chain network where he was introduced to the logistics space. After Amazon, Chris built the TikTok E-Commerce merchant systems from 0-1 and took that learning to build Kyros, a live streaming e-commerce platform in Singapore. Most recently, Chris built the financial rewards and billing systems at Brex.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ctle", "x_url": "https://x.com/chriiisle", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/12855c49c7d2c3ad8ead9885f9a789b29820786e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 103766, "title": "Software Engineer (Early Career)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pax/jobs/5Schb9r-software-engineer-early-career", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$130K - $150K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.40%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 106436, "title": "Software Engineer (Senior)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pax/jobs/5OwUx0O-software-engineer-senior", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$175K - $220K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Pax Raises $4.5M to Transform Duty Drawback | Pax AI", "url": "https://www.paxai.com/blog/seed-round", "date": "Apr 07, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 82827, "title": "Pax AI - TurboTax for Import Duty Rebate", "tagline": "We make import duty rebates a few clicks away, not months, with AI.", "body": "TL;DR - Billions of dollars paid on import duties are eligible for return every year, but the claim process is costly and time-consuming. That’s where Pax comes in. We turn complex regulations into algorithms, so importers of all sizes can reclaim the money that's rightfully theirs effortlessly. **We can give sub $50m sales ecommerce brands 3-5% back on their sales**.\n\nHi everyone, we’re Penny and Chris, aka the team behind [Pax](https://www.getpaxai.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82827&key=user_uploads/628376/ecb63d9f-1c1a-44f0-9918-ea5377851bdb)\n\n🧠 [Penny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypinyichen/): 8+ years in research, built algorithms for supply chain and logistics @ Flexport, Amazon & MIT. Chat with me about #optimization #sauna #Taiwan.\n\n🎯 [Chris](https://linkedin.com/in/ctle): 6+ years in software engineering, built financial systems and supply chain solutions @ Amazon, Brex & TikTok. Chat with me about #boxing #meditation #Vancouver. \n\n# Problem\n\nU.S. companies spend over $100 billion annually on import taxes. The good news is that Duty Drawback—a tax refund program—lets companies reclaim that cash! Astonishingly, $10 billion (80% of eligible refunds) goes unclaimed each year. Why? The process is a real headache.\n\nToday, dealing with the government and customs brokerages takes months, as they take 10-20% of the refund and refuse to work on claims under $100k. As a result, only large enterprises file drawbacks, leaving smaller businesses out in the cold. With trade wars heating up, duty drawbacks are more important than ever—new rules like Tariff 301 include an additional 25%- 100% duty on $50 billion of Chinese goods. It’s time to make the process simple and accessible!\n\n# Solution\n\nPax creates a [**TurboTax-like experience**](https://youtu.be/UkJRXpiqLTo?si=J_b6BbnXw9erlv-9), requiring no duty drawback expertise. Our product uses AI to handle the heavy lifting of collecting, extracting, and validating data and maximizes claim amounts with optimization algorithms. Pax democratizes duty drawback, enabling importers of all sizes to recover money that is rightfully theirs.\n\nUsing Pax, companies:\n\n* Save hundreds of hours dealing with manual data entry.\n* Reclaim millions of dollars spent on import duties.\n* Full in-suite dashboard and analytic reporting.\n\n😀 **Ask**: If you or any companies you know import goods into the U.S. (e.g., retailers like Nike or manufacturers like Zero Motorcycles) or customs brokerages, we’d love to chat! Please reach us at [founders@getpaxai.com](mailto:founders@getpaxai.com)! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LXv-pax-ai-turbotax-for-import-duty-rebate", "votes": 65, "created_at": "2024-08-07T20:17:42.933Z" } ] }, { "id": 29761, "name": "Distro", "slug": "distro", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/499bf69da05f9cd925def17274cd2ef5f91c8a22.png", "website": "https://distro.app", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Distro is the all-in-one AI-powered sales platform for counter staff and inside sales at industrial wholesale distributors (HVAC/R, plumbing, electrical, and more).", "one_liner": "The AI co-pilot for sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1715554333, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Manufacturing", "Supply Chain", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/distro", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/distro.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/distro-ai-app", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/499bf69da05f9cd925def17274cd2ef5f91c8a22.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 742025, "full_name": "Jason Sullivan", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Jason is the founder and CEO of Distro, the all-in-one AI co-pilot for counter staff and inside sales at industrial wholesale distributors. He is a repeat founder, having previously co-founded Vested. Before Vested, he was CTO at Elementus, Tech Lead at Coatue, and Senior Software Engineer at PeerIQ. In a prior life, Jason was a credit derivatives trader.\n\nJason holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford and a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jasoncsullivan", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/35952c32a6a1d405afe2380cfdf7314cc969603d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 80953, "title": "🏭🤖 Distro - Bringing point-of-sale AI to industrial distribution", "tagline": "The AI co-pilot for sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors.", "body": "[Distro](https://distro.app/) is the AI sales co-pilot designed for industrial wholesale distributors. We created Distro out of a passion for developing software for the “real economy,” and in particular for the trades. The Distro team is based in, and loves, NYC! 🗽\n\n### 😅 **The Problem**\n\nDistributors, particularly those mid-size and smaller, face a long list of point-of-sale challenges these days.\n\n_🧠 Brain drain_: the most experienced reps are at or near retirement and are taking a great deal of tribal knowledge with them.\n\n_🔧 Complex sales_: quoting entire systems, load calculations, replacing legacy parts and equipment.\n\n_📦 Inventory challenges_: growing SKU counts, supply chain disruptions, decreased inventorying by contractors.\n\n_🎓 Training and retention_: counter reps, in particular, are difficult to hire, train and retain.\n\nThese issues are amplified by the increasing importance of counter and inside sales relative to the rest of the sales organization–there has been a whopping 13 percentage point shift\\* towards counter staff and inside sales influencing purchasing decisions, moving away from territory managers/outside sales.\n\nTo top it all off, there is the ever-present and growing threat of larger players that have the resources to throw money and bodies at the aforementioned problems.\n\n_\\*_ 2023-2024 State of the Channel, HARDI (Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International)\n\n### 🔍 **Our Approach**\n\nWhat began as an academic curiosity about how to apply AI to distribution evolved into our team spending countless hours with distributor reps across the country over the course of a year, going deep on their day-to-day challenges, and building a distributor-centric solution from the ground up in partnership with several leading distributors. \n\nThis experience–fully immersing ourselves in a distribution vertical in order to go far beyond a superficial understanding of that vertical’s product universe and sales workflows–has shaped our product philosophy and overall approach. Some of our learnings:\n\n📍 _Meet reps where they are_: don’t try to push reps to adapt to a totally new paradigm. Adapt our workflows to how things really work at the counter.\n\n🚀 _Effortless onboarding_: distributor IT teams don’t need another tech project to distract them. Build solutions that avoid the need for long implementations.\n\n🔒 _Data sanctity_: distributors can spend a lot of time, energy, and money curating their data. Complete data security and privacy are necessary to protect that advantage.\n\n🛠️ _Enhance, don’t replace_: the human element is the key to a distributor’s value-add to its contractor customers. We’re building Iron Man’s suit, not the Terminator.\n\n### 💡 **Our Solution**\n\nOur platform helps counter and inside sales reps work more efficiently by transforming complex customer requests into real-time product information and quotes. With Distro, reps can quote faster, boost conversion rates, and increase customer retention. We support distributors in sectors like HVAC/R, plumbing, electrical, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80953&key=user_uploads/742025/a65bf5e8-d75d-422d-961c-0e3f049162f4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80953&key=user_uploads/742025/7ff364d0-e77c-4dc4-82d2-16db7e4cd9cf)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80953&key=user_uploads/742025/e80a0ede-809d-4ac0-b6c3-72b64f1c0e3e)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80953&key=user_uploads/742025/170c793c-6a8a-466a-8ea5-bb3623e8a427)\n\n### 🙏 **Asks**\n\n🤝 Connect with us: If you are a founder in the distribution, manufacturing, or contractor spaces, we’d love to share learnings.\n\n📣 Customer intros: distributors, contractors, and OEMs, particularly in HVAC/R, plumbing, and electrical.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L3h-distro-bringing-point-of-sale-ai-to-industrial-distribution", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2024-05-20T15:06:08.115Z" } ] }, { "id": 29773, "name": "Soff", "slug": "soff", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6da2b305915dd2f4090a9cd55210079b59c3095d.png", "website": "https://soff.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Distributors & Manufacturers use Soff to grow revenue through Soff's sales agents that process quotes, orders and handles all communication with customers, co-workers & suppliers.", "one_liner": "AI Agents for Distributors", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1721748598, "tags": [ "B2B", "Sales", "Manufacturing", "Supply Chain", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/soff", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/soff.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/soff-ai", "x_url": "https://www.x.com/soff_hq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6da2b305915dd2f4090a9cd55210079b59c3095d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1972623, "full_name": "Berni Hausleitner", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Soff. Building AI agents for supply chain teams at enterprise-scale industrials. Previously a Full-Stack Engineer on Tesla’s Autopilot team, developing AI tooling. Published AI Research at Stanford, holding M.Sc. in Robotics and Electrical Engineering from TUM. Licensed German car mechanic.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hausleitnerb/", "x_url": "https://x.com/itsnotbernhard", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fba17f57be97623da2f7009f7827c7b18cece629.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 109816, "title": "Business Development Representative (Founding GTM)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/soff/jobs/lBGDYxA-business-development-representative-founding-gtm", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$100K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 114414, "title": "Founding GTM ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/soff/jobs/dqNez2P-founding-gtm", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$80K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 114415, "title": "Sales Development Representative (Founding SDR)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/soff/jobs/ooqsshp-sales-development-representative-founding-sdr", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$80K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 114416, "title": "Founding Ops", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/soff/jobs/j50ICZH-founding-ops", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$80K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Supply Chain Operating System Startup for Manufacturers Joins CMTA | California Manufacturers & Technology Association", "url": "https://cmta.net/news/soff-joins-cmta/", "date": "Sep 24, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 90126, "title": "Soff: The AI-powered Supply Chain Hub", "tagline": "Automating procurement to save manufacturers time and money.", "body": "# It Is 2025\n\nTariffs are spiking. Contracts are collapsing. And manufacturers? They're fighting to keep the lights on while costs explode.\n\n📉 Fortune 500s have already lost **over $5 billion** to supply chain failures this year.\\\n📈 Tariffs are **hitting 145%**. Imports could plummet 20%.\n\n_So who’s left holding the bag?_\n\n**Procurement**. They need to keep raw materials flowing—fast!\n\nBut instead of focusing on supplier relationships or unlocking opportunities, procurement teams are stuck chasing emails, digging through spreadsheets, and losing time—and money—by the hour.\n\n# Enter Soff\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90126&key=user_uploads/1972623/f4436cc5-bc8e-4b95-8d0a-1ccdfa93e46f)\n\nSoff connects directly to your purchasing inbox, streamlining how manufacturers request, track, and approve supplier quotes—all in one place.\n\n1. No more chaos. Just **faster, smarter** procurement.\n2. **60% faster** procurement cycles.\n3. Teams freed up to do what matters: manage supplier relationships and **keep production running**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90126&key=user_uploads/1972623/25354546-6587-414f-a341-6414a4567cc1)\n\n# The bottom line\n\nYou can’t control global tariffs. But you **can** control how fast you respond. The manufacturers who win in 2025 will be the ones who move **quicker than the chaos**.\n\n👉 Visit [soff.ai](http://soff.ai) to see how.\\\n🎯 Know a manufacturer? We’re offering **free consultations** to navigate today’s tariff mess.\\\n⬇️ Hear what customers say about Soff.\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NRe-soff-the-ai-powered-supply-chain-hub", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-05-06T13:34:15.864Z" }, { "id": 83460, "title": "🚛 Soff: Supply Chain Operating System for Manufacturing Companies", "tagline": "Unify supply chain data and automate core workflows.", "body": "**⛓️ TL;DR**\n\n[Soff](https://soff.ai) is a supply chain operating system for manufacturing companies. We automate data entry, requesting quotes, comparing quotes, and issuing purchase orders. Our customers save dozens of hours a week spent on repetitive manual tasks.\n\n👬 **Team**\n\nWe met five years ago while studying at the CDTM in Munich. Most recently, [Berni](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hausleitnerb/) worked as a full-stack engineer at Tesla on the Autopilot team, whilst [Raban](https://linkedin.com/in/raban) finished his engineering master’s at Stanford. At Tesla, Berni built tons of internal tooling and saw the supply chain inefficiencies firsthand. During the batch, Raban worked as a purchasing manager for one of our customers.\n\n🌋 **Problem**\n\nSupply chain data is spread across multiple platforms, such as ERPs, custom spreadsheets, and email inboxes, leading to inefficiencies and a lack of visibility. Supply Chain Managers spend hours each week searching through emails and spreadsheets to track the status of parts procurement, from request to quote to award. This process is not only time-consuming but also prone to errors and delays. For example, changes in production schedules require Supply Chain Managers to follow up with all suppliers individually to adjust their purchase orders. Quotes that aren’t used are lost in the abyss of email inboxes. Suppliers are reluctant to upload quotes to yet another portal and often fail to notify about delays, leading to costly production standstills.\n\n🚛 **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83460&key=user_uploads/1755188/cacbe907-12f5-429f-9391-9ba957afa746)\n\nSoff connects suppliers, parts, and quotes into a single platform.\n\nWe integrate with ERPs and email to automate supplier communication, send RFQs, and issue purchase orders. We turn unstructured email and PDFs into SQL-ready data, injecting quotes directly into the ERP system. We eliminate the need for manual data entry and dedicated supplier portals, thus increasing supplier response rates.\n\nOur platform stores quote data, ensuring no loss of information when switching suppliers or moving from single-source to dual-source. It also tracks parts from the initial request through to the final receipt, providing a complete overview for supplier management.\n\nSoff enables manufacturers to deliver higher-quality products faster. Companies like SpaceX (Warpdrive), Rivian (Basecamp), and Apple (Incline) spend millions on building their in-house supply chain tools—we bring that level of efficiency to any manufacturer.\n\n**❤️ How you can help**\n\nIf you work in Supply Chain or work(ed) at a manufacturing company we’d love to connect. Send us a message at [founders@soff.ai](mailto:founders@soff.ai). 📨\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83460&key=user_uploads/1755188/a277625d-201c-471a-a6d4-5a9fa4c0a104)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Li8-soff-supply-chain-operating-system-for-manufacturing-companies", "votes": 84, "created_at": "2024-08-27T14:42:52.309Z" } ] }, { "id": 29791, "name": "Cartage", "slug": "cartage", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3d0afccc0962e52bb6440d323cf8b43f42b8a268.png", "website": "https://cartage.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cartage is the future of freight coordination. 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We replace brokers and logistics teams, cut costs by 30%, and embed visibility into shipping.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83370&key=user_uploads/1567005/0930f62f-8507-486b-a01b-846b7bceea4e)\n\n**🫠 Problem**\\\nManufacturers and distributors in North America spend $400 billion every year on third-party vendors to coordinate freight shipments for them. These vendors are inefficient and opaque and inflate freight spend by up to 50%.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83370&key=user_uploads/1567005/029b60ed-1218-4b77-ab82-d9e67e073503)\n\n**😁 Solution**\\\nCartage is a service-as-software system that coordinates freight shipments between shippers and trucking companies. We replace freight brokers and internal logistics teams. By requiring minimal headcount to coordinate freight, we afford margins traditional vendors can’t, reducing freight costs for shippers by up to 30%.\n\nIn addition to cheaper shipping costs, we embed technology into the shipping experience, providing all stakeholders visibility and transparency on shipments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83370&key=user_uploads/1567005/3986ca96-2699-4343-9aa8-03854af6c159)\n\n**😁 Impact**\\\nWe started by selling software to freight brokers, growing to $150k ARR in under 4 months full-time, but since pivoting to replacing brokers, we’ve received immediate love from shippers.\n\nWe’ve signed 8 shipper customers since launching in early August, and have acquired [Westcore Logistics](https://westcorelogistics.com/), [Canada’s fastest-growing logistics company](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/westcore-logistics-places-no-3-on-the-globe-and-mail-s-fifth-annual-ranking-of-canada-s-top-growing-companies--867532237.html) in 2023. 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[Harman Sahota](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmansahota/) (COO) founded Westcore Logistics, scaling it from 0 to $50M+ in revenue within four years.\n\nFun facts:\n\n* Abdul trained as a military pilot\n* Josh played water polo for Team Canada\n* Harman started brokering freight at 14\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83370&key=user_uploads/1567005/773960d0-c363-46a0-aca9-7b09af81e61b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lgg-cartage-autonomous-freight-operations", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2024-08-24T19:24:05.802Z" } ] }, { "id": 29848, "name": "Saldor", "slug": "saldor", "former_names": [ "Ovation" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/969e2ae0dfd7ddfac6d9c2979dffb8f5842af866.png", "website": "https://saldor.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Saldor is the AI-native procurement and accounts payable platform that takes every purchase from request to paid.", "one_liner": "Making procurement easy", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1722921255, "tags": [ "B2B", "Procurement" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/saldor", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/saldor.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/saldor", "x_url": "https://x.com/saldordotcom", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/saldor", "github_url": "https://github.com/saldor-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/969e2ae0dfd7ddfac6d9c2979dffb8f5842af866.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1733940, "full_name": "Jacob Bland", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Cofounder and CEO at Saldor. 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We’d love to talk.\n\n**The Offer**: We’re offering customers a white-glove pilot with no implementation fee.\n\nAfter a brief onboarding call, we’ll do the work required to configure Saldor, connect your existing systems, and load real company data so your team can evaluate it in a live workflow for a short period at no cost.\n\n\n\n**The Problem**\n\nBuying something at a company is rarely as simple as placing an order.\n\nAn employee submits a request. Procurement checks vendors, pricing, security, and lead times. Finance reviews the budget. Legal may review a contract. Someone creates a purchase order, follows up with the vendor, tracks delivery, and eventually matches the invoice against what was ordered and received.\n\nMany companies still manage this through email and spreadsheets, or procurement systems that are expensive and cumbersome to operate.\n\nThe problem gets worse for companies building ambitious physical infrastructure. 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Existing procurement systems could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement, required large teams to operate, and still slowed the business down.\n\n**Our solution**\n\nSaldor is an AI-native procurement and accounts payable tool.\n\nEmployees can request goods or services, and Saldor routes each request through the appropriate approval, security, legal, and finance workflows.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104430&key=user_uploads/1733940/50e219d2-f23a-4531-b6f6-1c4410b188d2)\n\nOur AI agent communicates directly with vendors to collect documents, follow up on quotes and delivery dates, and keep records updated automatically.\n\nSaldor can then generate purchase orders, track receipts, process invoices, and match bills against what was ordered and received.\n\nTeams can also interact with Saldor through MCP and connect it to their ERP, accounting system, or other internal tools.\n\n**The Team**\n\nJack and Jacob worked together as Crusoe building AI infrastructure before leaving to start Saldor. Jack (CTO) holds a B.S in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Jacob (CEO) holds a B.S in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104430&key=user_uploads/1733940/15b63775-05a7-4be6-89dc-30fc96fcb553)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RAM-saldor-helping-businesses-buy-goods-and-services-and-close-their-books-faster", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-07-01T17:01:59.082Z" } ] }, { "id": 29853, "name": "No Logo", "slug": "no-logo", "former_names": [ "Terra Labs", "Terra" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b5b06eac03359187ea4b158a471d8bc4ecb6c046.png", "website": "https://nologo.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "No Logo is building the orchestration layer for creating viral consumer products. 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Shopify solved the store. Stripe solved payments. TikTok solved distribution. Manufacturing is the one piece that never moved. Launching a single new product still takes 6 to 12 months, tens of thousands of dollars upfront, and a team of specialists. Most great product ideas die before they become something you can hold.\n\nWe are building the orchestration layer for physical product creation, bridging the gap between customer demand and manufacturing supply.\n\nIt works like this. You describe an idea. Our AI visualizes it with you, breaks it into components and manufacturing processes, and matches each step to the right factory in our network. We run production, QC, and fulfillment, going from idea to a growing brand in about a month with no upfront costs.\n\nWe are not putting logos on mugs. We create entirely new consumer products: a digital camera that clips onto a purse, a lava-lamp humidifier, a painting that glows like the sun. We are starting with creators whose audiences have already validated demand; production happens only after demand exists, not before.\n\nSo far we’ve launched hundreds of products, shipped tens of thousands of items, and reached creator audiences totaling more than 90M people. Every product we create makes the network faster and smarter for the next one.\n\nHave a product idea your audience keeps asking for? We'll make it real. [nologo.com](http://nologo.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103396&key=user_uploads/1864416/00357a42-8390-424d-88fd-cf378c0395fe)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qtg-no-logo-turn-any-idea-into-a-real-manufactured-product", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-06-17T22:59:32.498Z" }, { "id": 83615, "title": "Terra 🌎: Instant supply chain creation", "tagline": "Enter Terra, a new world of procurement.", "body": "# **TL;DR -**\n\nUse [Terra](http://useterra.com) as an all-in-one platform to seamlessly **develop, manufacture, and ship your products**. Discover pre-vetted suppliers and instantly create modular supply chains, all while having access to wholesale pricing regardless of order quantity.\n\n—\n\n# **The Team**\n\nHello all! We’re [Dylan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-mcfarland/) and [Lev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lev-glushkovskii/) from Terra, and we’re _really_ passionate about making custom manufacturing accessible to everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83615&key=user_uploads/1859401/1b3de9c2-aefa-40aa-aeeb-7243b3bec363)\n\n# **🚨 The Problem 🚨**\n\nWe’ve been working with suppliers globally since we were freshmen in high school. If you can think of a costly manufacturing or shipping mistake, we’ve likely already made it a dozen times over. But through our experiences building supply chains, we’ve routinely run into the same issues: \n\n⚙️ Way too many moving parts \n\n⚠️ The best factories have high minimum order requirements \n\n👎 Current software is either too rudimentary or ridiculously complex\n\n# **✅ The Solution ✅**\n\n* Forget spending weeks juggling multiple supplier group chats, spreadsheets of shipping quotes, and financial docs. Terra automatically matches you with the right partners through a single dashboard, allowing you to launch products in minutes.\n* We aggregate demand based on similarity, ensuring you’ll get access to the best pricing and factories regardless of order size.\n*  Our platform is completely modular. Build a supply chain entirely from our pre-vetted partners, onboard your existing suppliers, or use a combination of both. No constrictions, only flexibility.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83615&key=user_uploads/1859401/38054f53-5593-4f5e-8f1e-0e80ff948676)\n\n# **🤝 Our Ask 🤝**\n\nAre you or anyone in your network looking to launch/scale/streamline manufacturing processes? 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We developed a specialty for GPS-driven platforms, two of which were acquired. A third set the standard in the pig-tracking industry, supporting $11m in annual contracts. \n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpconsidine", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4a7674055d1c526e62b614d6b32dc404fcce9ad0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2249712, "full_name": "Mike Considine", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "At Getcho, I’m building software for streamlining and managing last-mile delivery at scale. 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Previously, I co-founded K-Optional, a software consultancy specializing in logistics platforms. \n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/evandronadal/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/959f35c399855644c668eddadd0c1783c7b934a6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 85363, "title": "Getcho - a local-delivery platform for high-value retail", "tagline": "Getcho: the local retail delivery platform for high-value products", "body": "We're [Evandro](https://www.linkedin.com/in/evandronadal), [Jack](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpconsidine/), and [Mike,](https://github.com/consofine) and we're building Getcho, a local retail delivery platform for high-value products. Getcho runs on top of third-party fleets, delivering $250,000 of merchandise per month.\n\n## The problem\n\nMerchants have embraced local / on-demand delivery—it boosts sales with urgent shoppers and is cheap, thanks to mega-fleets like DoorDash, Roadie, and Uber. But locally delivered packages are lost, misdelivered, or returned up to 10% of the time; some retail locations spend thousands of dollars each day replacing lost packages.\n\n## The solution\n\nGetcho prevents 95% of failed local deliveries. This saves merchants the costs associated with shipping replacements and, just as important, improves customers' perception of the merchant's brand.\n\nBy flagging GPS irregularities, using AI-assisted calls and texts to guide drivers at pick-up & drop-off, and scheduling around customer availability, Getcho ensures seamless and reliable deliveries.\n\n## Demo\n\n\n\n## About us\n\nJack and Evandro (\"Dro\") met in college. They started a software development firm called K-Optional that they ran for seven years. Mike, Jack's brother, joined K-Optional in 2021.\n\nThere they built logistics products that were acquired or continue to generate millions in revenue, including:\n\n* A [pig tracking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging) platform that uses hardware and GPS data to check diagnostics on massive oil pipelines.\n* A scheduling platform in the catastrophe insurance space that maps claimants to appraisal locations.\n\nThey spun Getcho out of a curbside pick-up application and went all in once they had delivered a million dollars of merchandise.\n\n## Ask\n\nIf you or someone you know is in retail operations, we'd love to connect & chat.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MCp-getcho-a-local-delivery-platform-for-high-value-retail", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-11-08T00:02:17.366Z" } ] }, { "id": 30225, "name": "Trava", "slug": "trava", "former_names": [ "Vora AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3d0be0347387260245589e1f25ed7b5d45b73488.png", "website": "https://www.usetrava.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Trava is building AI agents for global trade compliance. 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We can help you recover up to 10% of duties paid this year.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/6lKXDCIQj8k\n\n# **Problem**\n\nUS importers have paid **over $200B in duties** in 2025, an all-time high. A significant share of that is overpaid, and most of them never realize it.\n\nTwo shifts explain why this is accelerating:\n\n1. **Tariff volatility has exploded.** Duty rates and HTS rules now change constantly. In 2025 alone, there’s been a wave of Section 301 updates, Section 232 expansions, new IEEPA/fentanyl tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, and more. The systems importers rely on were built for a more stable trade environment and can’t keep up.\n2. **“De minimis” rollback is exposing millions of new SKUs to duties.** Brands that never paid duties before now need accurate HTS codes for every SKU, often with no internal expertise, dramatically increasing classification volume and the risk of costly errors.\n\n**The combined effect:** filing errors and misclassifications are more common than ever, leading to margin leakage, missed refunds, and rising audit exposure.\n\nAnd today’s mitigations fall short:\n\n* Large importers hire **expensive consultants** who audit filings only after duties are paid, tying up cash for months and missing most issues because they review only a small sample.\n* Many lean on their **customs brokers**, who are incentivized to clear shipments quickly, not optimize duty burden, find refunds or classify goods. And capacity is shrinking, as the workforce is aging and fewer new brokers enter the field.\n\n**Importers carry the liability but are flying blind — overpaying duties and holding compliance risk they can’t see.**\n\n# **Solution**\n\nTrava gives importers a system that continuously reviews 100% of their customs entries and product catalog for duty and classification accuracy.\n\nImporters see three core benefits:\n\n1. **Recover margin** by surfacing overpaid duties and missed refunds. Once integrated, Trava often prevents the overpayment entirely by catching issues _before_ duties are even paid.\n2. **Reduce exposure** by flagging underpayments and risky classifications _before_ they turn into penalties because of a surprise CBP audit.\n3. **Classify accurately** with a copilot that suggests correct HTS codes on every SKU, critical as rules change constantly and millions of products lose de minimis protection.\n\nAI handles the heavy lifting, and Trava’s trade specialists validate edge cases and final outputs.\n\n# **Team**\n\nPushkar was an engineering manager at Plaid, where he led Privacy & Risk Engineering and built compliance systems that scaled to thousands of customers and millions of consumers. Before that, he was an early engineer on Meta’s crypto/fintech team (Libra/Novi) building digital payments infrastructure.\n\nHe’s seen firsthand how compliance breaks under scale and regulatory volatility, and how automation with human oversight can turn it into an advantage. He’s now bringing that same approach to the world of trade compliance.\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nMessage [pushkar@usetrava.com](mailto:pushkar@usetrava.com) or visit [**usetrava.com**](http://usetrava.com) to request early access.\n\n1. **Importers:** We’re running a limited number of year-end duty and classification audits. If you oversee the P&L or compliance, we’ll show you exactly how much margin you’re leaving on the table, and help you classify products correctly.\n2. **Customs Brokers / Trade Consultants / Trade Attorneys:** We’re open to partnerships. Use Trava to offer deeper audits and classifications as a service to your importer clients.\n\n**Intros welcome!** If you know CFOs, compliance leaders, or brokers who’d benefit from this, an intro means a lot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95534&key=user_uploads/2380951/fc39120e-71b2-4372-a22f-7dc6cd7afd46)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oqs-trava-protect-your-margin-on-every-import", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-11-16T18:11:03.164Z" }, { "id": 88327, "title": "Vora: AI Recruiter for Hiring Managers", "tagline": "Top candidates, booked directly on your calendar.", "body": "**TL;DR:** **Vora gives hiring managers an AI recruiter.** Our AI agent identifies, engages, and books meetings with **top talent that actually respond** — so hiring managers don’t have to spend hours sourcing.\n\n👉 **Hiring founding engineers? Let Vora source and book candidates for you. Fill out **[**this form**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpjg68_IlN1c7xfXqEFsMMLLhxc3IYQpvjXNbdRQTFIWdAtg/viewform?usp=header)** for early access.**\n\n---\n\n### **🚨 The Problem**\n\nThe **best candidates aren’t actively looking** — they already have great jobs. But hiring managers **don’t have the time** to find and engage them.\n\n* **Recruiting software has historically failed** because it was built for **recruiters, not hiring managers** — which means more dashboards, more manual work, and little actual hiring.\n* **Existing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS systems) require too much effort** — hiring managers still have to search, craft outreach, and follow up.\n* **Recruiters and agencies are expensive and misaligned** — they optimize for placements, not long-term success.\n* **Spending on hiring has never been higher** — companies are publicly offering **$15K+ referral bonuses** just to find top AI engineers.\n\n### **⚒️ The Solution**\n\nWe give hiring managers an **AI recruiter** that automates sourcing and outreach. Instead of spending hours manually searching and messaging, hiring managers **assign the task**, and Vora **delivers**:\n\n* **Our sourcing agent** finds top talent (passive candidates who aren’t applying)\n* **Our research agent** crafts deeply researched emails that convert **5x better** than the basic personalization used by other tools today.\n* **Once they’re activated, our agent schedules them directly on the hiring manager’s calendar**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88327&key=user_uploads/2380951/39a04812-770c-4ac4-821e-6203bff527c8)\n\n_(Dashboard used by the internal Vora team)_\n\nBut here’s what sets us apart - we **sell the work, not just the software** - hiring managers don’t need to learn a new tool or spend time navigating dashboards. **They just get meetings booked with candidates delivered straight to their calendar.**\n\nHiring managers don’t need to log in to anything - they interact with **Rachel, our AI recruiter, directly in Slack**, just like a coworker.\n\nRachel **keeps hiring managers updated, asks for feedback, and refines searches — all in Slack.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88327&key=user_uploads/2380951/14407af6-d1f7-441a-ba9d-77120a6938b7)\n\n---\n\n### **💡 Our Wedge**\n\nWe help **fast-growing tech startups (Seed to Series B) attract the best engineers and hire faster.** Our early customers include:\n\n* **Early-stage startups** — Founders hiring their **first engineers** without an in-house recruiter.\n* **Scaling teams** — Hiring managers at **Series A/B companies** who need to grow their team quickly.\n* **VC-backed companies** — Startups competing for **top AI and engineering talent** in a competitive market.\n\n### **🚀 We’re already delivering results**\n\n* **Trusted by fast-growing AI startups** in SF & NYC (Seed to Series B)\n* **Multiple startups already running paid pilots**\n* **Hundreds of top candidates sourced & engaged**\n* **Dozens of hiring manager screens booked — directly on their calendars**\n\nHere’s a testimonial from an early customer:\n\n_\"In just two weeks, Vora booked six interviews with engineers we previously couldn’t even reach. It’s like having a world-class recruiter embedded in our team.\"_\\\n**—** Co-Founder/CTO @ AI Startup (backed by YC and General Catalyst)\n\n### **🤝 TEAM**\n\n**Pushkar** was an **engineering & hiring manager at Plaid**, where he experienced firsthand how **delays in hiring can prevent you from hiring the best people**. Previously, he was an early engineer on **Facebook’s crypto team** **(Novi)**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88327&key=user_uploads/2380951/1011e3a6-60d2-42ae-b4c6-48d27cd2b4c0)\n\n---\n\nIf you’re hiring and want top candidates booked directly on your calendar, hit us up at [founders@usevora.ai](mailto:founders@usevora.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Myd-vora-ai-recruiter-for-hiring-managers", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-03-07T17:07:48.578Z" } ] }, { "id": 30418, "name": "Kanava AI", "slug": "kanava-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8e470a808656775379182b4abad93b0d9dcb9e5b.png", "website": "https://kanava.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Distributors face a shrinking workforce and rising call volume.\r\n\r\nKanava AI builds voice-based agents that act like junior sales reps — starting with routine inbound calls, stock and price checks, field note logging, and CRM updates using live ERP data.\r\n\r\nAs the system learns from top reps and real workflows, it levels up: managing full sales calls, surfacing upsells, coaching teams, and reactivating dormant accounts.\r\n\r\nWe help distributors scale sales output without adding headcount — by automating the work reps shouldn’t be doing in the first place.", "one_liner": "Your First AI Sales Hire for Wholesale Distributors", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1747765211, "tags": [ "Sales", "Supply Chain", "AI", "AI Assistant", "Industrial" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2025", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kanava-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/kanava-ai.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8e470a808656775379182b4abad93b0d9dcb9e5b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2493431, "full_name": "Smit Dagli", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Automating sales for distributors using agents. 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We’re [Smit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smitdagli/) and [Vik](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikhyath-m-a00357128/) - the founders of [Kanava AI](https://kanava.ai/)\n\n**Problem and Opportunity:**\n\nThe wholesale distribution industry is massive: _$9T+ in annual revenue. 410,000+ businesses. 6 million+ employees._\n\nAnd yet — sales teams are drowning.\n\n* **A third of the workforce is over 55**, and replacements aren’t coming fast enough.\n\n (“Most of my sales reps are **retiring in the next 2-3 years**, I have **NO idea** what I’ll do after” - a medium sized electrical goods distributor from Indiana we met)\n* **Reps spend less than 30% of their time selling**. The rest? Answering repetitive calls (“What’s the price of this SKU?” “Which warehouse has it?”), digging through systems, and manual follow-ups.\n* **Over 25% of inbound calls never reach a human** — lost revenue, lost trust, lost time.\n\nThis isn’t just inefficiency. It’s operational drag at scale — and it's only getting worse.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1NVVxRnLL8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1NVVxRnLL8%5C%5C)\n\n**How’re we solving it:**\n\nWe’re building Kanava AI, a voice-based AI agent designed for wholesale distributors.\n\nIt handles repetitive tasks like **answering stock, price,** and **order status calls** using live **ERP** data and logging **field notes hands-free**, drafting follow-ups, updating the **CRM** all _automatically_.\n\nIt’s like a junior rep-in-training. It starts with the basics, but improves quickly by learning from the company’s best performers. Over time, Kanava takes on more:\n\n•⁠ **⁠Managing consultative sales calls** \\\n•⁠ ⁠**Identifying upsell opportunities** in real time \\\n•⁠ ⁠**Surfacing coaching insights** from rep conversations \\\n•⁠ ⁠**Re-engaging dormant accounts** with timely, data-backed outreach\n\nAnd by the time these reps are ready to retire, Kanava is **ready to fill the void they leave.**\n\nMost AI tools in this space fail because they try to do too much, too early, and distributors are famously late adopters. We’re taking a more deliberate path: start with low-leverage work, prove value, and scale responsibility as the system earns it.\n\n**Our Team**\n\nVik (CTO) and Smit (CEO) know each other since freshman year of college at UC Berkeley. Both of us studied CS, and worked as AI engineers at various startups before deciding to build our own thing and join YC.\n\n**Smit:** Built incident resolution agents at a series B observability startup called Observe. Previously worked at Abnormal Security and Salesforce.\n\n**Vik**: Built voice agents for numerical data entry and hands-free navigation for a data management platform called Uncountable. Previously worked at Uber and Amazon.\n\nWe’re both outsiders to the wholesale distribution industry, but we’re listening hard and learning fast.\n\nWhat made us really want to work together was being on the same ultimate frisbee team in the senior year of college - that team was a disaster, we lost every single game we played by huge margins, but despite that, we had a ton of fun and stuck together!\n\n**Our Ask** If you know any **distributors, field sales heavy businesses or IMR’s (Independent Manufacturer Reps)**, we’d appreciate a connection at [smit@kanava.ai](mailto:smit@kanava.ai) or [vikhyath@kanava.ai](mailto:vikhyath@kanava.ai). We’ll make their lives a lot easier and buy you a coffee ☕🤎\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90571&key=user_uploads/2493431/bdc2c377-20b6-4db8-ac56-448fb5adafa6)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NYp-kanava-your-first-ai-sales-hire-for-wholesale-distributors", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2025-05-20T20:55:42.407Z" } ] }, { "id": 30519, "name": "Hemut", "slug": "hemut", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0130d4e41d286011dbbf71e01781948525f98d90.png", "website": "https://www.hemut.com/", "all_locations": "Fresno, CA, USA", "long_description": "Next-generation truck management software to automate back-office operations for trucking companies. 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If you also happen to know anyone in the trucking industry (veteran trucker. investor, or dev), we’d love to be introduced!\n\n**Contact:** [cheema@hemut.com](mailto:cheema@hemut.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90499&key=user_uploads/89898/fd722801-3fb0-4651-b446-faffc18ea6d3)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NXf-hemut-ai-powered-truck-management-software", "votes": 129, "created_at": "2025-05-22T20:51:17.235Z" } ] }, { "id": 30526, "name": "chrt", "slug": "chrt", "former_names": [ "CHRT, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b277e76a793543c1eca6d025b35d9a2909a75cd2.png", "website": "https://chrt.com", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "chrt is a logistics platform for time-critical shipping. 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We’re helping businesses deliver and track their most critical same-day shipments.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/EJfOqCY06rw\n\n**🎯 Who is it for?**\n\n* Industrial manufacturers and healthcare companies that need white-glove, same- or next-day delivery with live tracking — for shipments such as life‑saving therapeutics or mission‑critical production parts\n* Courier companies and freight forwarders that want to provide their customers with end-to-end tracking and custom workflows\n\n**⛔️ Problem:**\n\n* Businesses shipping critical items depend on outdated freight forwarders\n* Two-thirds of these forwarders’ staff are call-center agents coordinating shipments across thousands of professional courier companies\n* Call center agents rely on phone and email to reach couriers\n* With no real-time tracking, shipment status is unknown, causing frequent failures and delays\n* Your life-or-death shipment? Tracked worse than a pizza\n\n**✅ Solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90745&key=user_uploads/1381778/dc006314-7ec3-4274-afff-89ca44a92b31)\n\nchrt is the all-in-one platform for time-critical logistics\n\n* 📦 Businesses place urgent shipments on [**chrt.com**](http://chrt.com)\n* 🚛 chrt matches a vetted provider for pickup and delivery\n* 📱 Couriers execute the job entirely through chrt’s mobile app\n* 📍 Real-time tracking and custom workflows provide complete shipment visibility\n* ⚡ Automation slashes overhead, delivering faster, cheaper, and more reliable service\n\n**🙋‍♂️ About us:**\n\nWe’re software engineers that became friends years ago at McKinsey. Kyle is an expert in time-critical logistics, having led strategy at a leading startup in the space. Aaron led gen AI deployment projects at Deloitte, launching AI projects for clients like the Department of Defense. 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We’ll help you ship your most complex and important orders same-day.\n\n📧 Email us: [**founders@chrt.com**](mailto:founders@chrt.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90745&key=user_uploads/1381778/7e53965b-b0da-4f03-b2fa-d57d74b931d1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nbd-chrt-logistics-platform-for-time-critical-shipping", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2025-05-27T15:37:13.489Z" } ] }, { "id": 30540, "name": "Lumari", "slug": "lumari", "former_names": [ "Rextly" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/12837739c0d64330042216a7aa87b32fd0deb815.png", "website": "https://www.lumari.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Lumari is the world's first AI-powered procurement automation platform purpose-built for direct materials and supply chain execution. \r\n\r\nBacked by Y Combinator, Lumari is a well-funded startup that deploys 100s of always-on AI agents that run sourcing workflows, manage RFQs, expedite purchase orders, and coordinate supplier communication end-to-end -- compressing cycle times and giving teams full visibility into active orders, RFQs, and supplier performance.\r\n\r\nFounded by engineers from Google, Tesla, Amazon, and Stripe who have built and scaled supply chain systems serving millions of users. \r\n\r\nBuilt to operate directly on top of existing tools and ERP systems, Lumari helps procurement teams move faster, eliminate operational bottlenecks, and build more resilient supply chains. 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We’re [Sam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarthlamba/) and [Eshani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshanimehta/), the co-founders of Lumari 🔥\n\n**TL;DR:** Lumari is AI-powered procurement automation for direct materials and supply chain. We deploy **100s of always-on AI agents** that run sourcing workflows, manage RFQs, expedite purchase orders, and coordinate supplier communication end-to-end.\n\n### **The Problem ❌**\n\nSupply chain teams are stuck in reactive mode.\n\n* Buyers spend their days copy-pasting between email, spreadsheets, and ERPs, chasing supplier quotes, following up on late POs, and manually entering delivery updates\n* Missed delivery dates and poor visibility lead to expediting costs, production delays, and revenue risk\n* Existing tools require suppliers to adopt new portals and force rigid workflows that don't reflect how teams actually operate\n* There's too much operational work and not enough time for strategic decision-making\n\n### **Lumari’s Solution ✨**\n\nLumari brings autonomous agents to supply chain and acts as a **force multiplier** for the team.\n\n* **Automates** the manual chase across the entire procurement lifecycle, from RFQs to PO tracking to supplier follow-ups\n* Compresses cycle times and gives teams full **visibility** into active orders, RFQs, and supplier performance\n* Operates directly on top of **existing tools** (ERP, email, Slack, Excel) with no rip-and-replace and no supplier onboarding\n* Teams are always in **control** with configurable guardrails and approval layers for every action\n* **Customize** your agent behavior and configuration in plain English\n\nWe **partner** closely with every customer to adapt our agents to their specific processes and systems, from **Fortune 500s** to fast-growing scale-ups.\n\n### **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90564&key=user_uploads/1755497/3a1a90ce-6ebb-49fc-8c0e-6b1cd98be8fb)\n\n[Sam Lamba](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarthlamba/) is an ex-Google engineering lead who led the development of AI-driven products that scaled to millions of weekly enterprise users, and has received 2 AI patents. Sam also previously worked at Amazon and Tesla and holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University.\n\n[Eshani Mehta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshanimehta/) was previously at Stripe leading payments intelligence products handling $XXX million in volume. She also previously worked at Robinhood and Snap and studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley. \n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* 📅 [Book a meeting](https://cal.com/team/lumari/lumari-demo) with us if this could be useful for you or your team\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lumari-io)!\n* Check us out at [lumari.ai](http://lumari.ai) or read lumari.ai/blog to understand the problem better", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NYi-lumari-ai-digital-workers-for-supply-chain", "votes": 128, "created_at": "2025-05-20T18:06:51.257Z" } ] }, { "id": 30598, "name": "GETASAP", "slug": "getasap", "former_names": [ "GETASAP ASIA" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/642bff7a1b26de3309aed7fc5200498a8dca5180.png", "website": "https://www.getasap.us", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Founded in 2023, GETASAP is a San Francisco–based technology and supply chain infrastructure company transforming fresh produce distribution and freight.\r\n\r\nGETASAP Fresh provides same-day delivery to thousands of restaurants and retail locations across the USA, sourcing directly from farms internationally and operating global cold-chain infrastructure. 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Then it goes to fulfillment\n\nThis process is repeated **every single day** and eats up to **50% of inside sales teams’ time** — time that could be spent on proactive selling and customer relationships.\n\n---\n\n### ⚙️ Our Solution\n\nhttps://youtu.be/yoii7pgK1GY\n\nWe built an AI-powered order processing agent that automates this end-to-end:\n\n✅ Forward any PO or RFQ to Comena\\\n✅ Our AI extracts header data, product descriptions, quantities, pricing, etc.\\\n✅ Matches the items to your product number (even from messy free-text)\\\n✅ Sales rep quickly reviews the output\\\n✅ Sends it to the ERP with 1 click\n\nWe support PDFs, Excel sheets, RFQs, email bodies — and integrate seamlessly with ERPs. 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Our drones and cameras scan your site and create a precise 3D reconstruction, so you always know exactly how much material is on the ground. We’ve got real-world experience and are already working with a major ag distributor. Know someone in ag, mining, or construction who deals with bulk materials? Send them our way: [founders@rebulk.com](mailto:founders@rebulk.com)\n\n**Problem**\n\nBulk inventory tracking is broken. Companies either rely on guesstimates or pay for expensive manual surveys which are still off by 20 to 30 percent. Without accurate numbers, it’s hard to plan logistics, like how many truckloads are needed. And it creates accounting issues by misreporting inventory value, hurting financial planning and leading to missed opportunities.\n\n**Solution**\n\nRebulk figures out what your inventory is, turns it into a 3D reconstruction, and tells you exactly how much you have, in both volume and weight. 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We solve this by combining advanced optimization with LLMs that can adapt algorithms to deliver intelligent planning for real-world operations. \\\nhttps://youtu.be/9LHYILVw6ks\n\n# **💥 The problem:**\n\nPlanning just one week of routes for a 50-truck fleet involves **more possible combinations than there are grains of sand on Earth**. For humans, consistently piecing together reasonable combinations is difficult. Making optimal ones is impossible. Dispatchers juggle:\n\n* Regulatory constraints, like drivers’ hours of service\n* Complex forecasts, like considering the likelihood of receiving a load from a flaky customer\n* And human preferences, like a driver’s disdain for a specific commodity\n\nThis complexity forces fleets to effectively **silo their operations**—assigning each dispatcher a subset of trucks to manage. **Instead of coordinating as a cohesive operation, fleets become mini-operations, resulting in load mismatches and under-utilized capacity.** For a low-margin industry like trucking, those inefficiencies are the difference between making or missing payroll. \n\nIn response, some fleets have adopted expensive load planning algorithms. While these traditional solutions are a marginal improvement over manual work, they fail to meaningfully solve the problem. \n\nRigid algorithms operate like complete black boxes, often leaving dispatchers with a lack of confidence in their decisions. Deterministic algorithms cannot be responsive to the soft preferences of either the fleet or the driver. For example, dispatchers may have to reshuffle their planning board because an algorithm cannot optimize for a driver needing to be home early one day for his daughter’s recital. \n\nThat means the algorithm's recommendations are largely not followed or, if they are, drivers are left unhappy. With an active driver shortage, fleets can’t tolerate the latter. \n\nTrucking is a trillion-dollar industry, yet its biggest players have no good option for load planning. \n\n# **✅ The solution:**\n\n**Fleets no longer have to choose between two existentially threatening options with Fleetline.** By combining traditional advanced optimizations with LLMs, we created a solution that allows fleets to optimize their schedules while being adaptive to soft preferences and surprises. All users need to do is prompt our AI agent with any changes / added constraints to include in the optimization algorithm, and the load planning is re-done. \n\nFor example, if a driver at a fleet needs to make it back home by 2 PM on a given Tuesday to see his daughter’s recital, instead of manually scrambling the planning board, our AI agent can re-optimize around the new constraint. \n\nWe’re already working with large fleets in California and talking to others across the country.\n\n# **🏋️‍♂️ The team:**\n\nSaurav and Veer are lifelong friends who have been working on projects together since they were 14. Saurav graduated from UIUC and has worked at Icon, Meta, and Nvidia, and is a previous founder (Blast AI). 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Ripping these systems out would take **years**, cost **millions**, and probably spark a small mutiny. Meanwhile, flashy e-commerce storefronts have flopped harder than day-old soufflé.\n\nBurnt deploys AI Agents directly inside these ERPs, starting with a Sales AI Agent that completely replaces the order management job function.\n\nWe’re working with large distributors across meat, seafood, and specialty ingredients - 97% of their orders now run end-to-end without people & 90% of order-entry staff shifted into sales.\n\nWe’re building supply chain superintelligence so that independent food distributors can compete with the US Foods and Sysco. \n\n\\____________________\\_\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nFood distributors that supply restaurants rely on decades-old legacy ERPs - critical to operations but slow, inflexible, and dependent on armies of people to run.\n\nPast attempts to automate these workflows have failed:\n\n* **RPA** works only for structured PDFs, not for the messy reality of food orders coming via emails, calls, texts, WhatsApp, and fax.\n* **E-commerce storefronts** have low adoption, 12-24 month implementation cycles and come at a high cost - both financially and emotionally - for distributors, while still failing to address the nuances of the industry.\n\nThis leaves distributors buried in manual work. Customer service teams are the perfect example of this issue -  they spend most of their time re-typing orders instead of building relationships.\n\n\\____________________\\_\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/hRgpT2I1XAk\n\nBurnt’s AI Agents operate inside existing ERPs - no rip-and-replace required.\n\nOur first agent, **Ozai**, monitors all incoming sales channels (email, text, voicemail, WhatsApp, fax – **even phone calls**), learns each customer’s shorthand, habits, and favorite products, interprets prep notes, and enters the order directly into the ERP.\n\nIf something’s unclear, Ozai asks the customer for clarification and continues processing without breaking the workflow. 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Most communication is still handled manually.\n\nThis creates two problems. First, teams waste hours on busywork instead of managing operations. Second, the noise makes it nearly impossible to spot issues that need attention until it's too late. A delayed pickup, missing document, or customer escalation only gets noticed when it's already urgent.\n\nThe real complexity isn't in data entry. It's in catching and resolving issues early: rerouting around delays, finding backup capacity, flagging exceptions before they cascade. Carriers need visibility and time to handle what matters, not endless manual updates.\n\nWe sat with dispatchers managing hundreds of shipments a day and saw their inbox and phone effectively act as their task managers.\n\n·   Many handle between 50 and 100 emails per hour, and most of them are repetitive.\n\n·   Teams constantly pull data from emails, PDFs, and portals into their Transport Management System (TMS).\n\n·   They often jump between ten or more tools that don't communicate properly with each other.\n\nCompanies end up paying skilled employees to move data between tools instead of running logistics\n\n**Our solution:**\n\nLunavo integrates into a carrier's existing systems as an AI teammate. When a new order arrives, it automatically extracts details, updates the TMS, and confirms with the customer. Dispatchers see: \"New order from Customer X confirmed and scheduled.\"\n\n**The system handles routine work while monitoring for exceptions** like delayed pickups, missing documents, or customer escalations, surfacing issues before they become urgent. It understands task dependencies and escalates only what needs human judgment.\n\nBecause logistics workflows often depend on implicit knowledge, our system can understand customer workflows and adapt to it. Our agents self-improve through dispatcher feedback, company documentation, and user-defined rules, automatically adapting to each customer's unique requirements without manual reconfiguration.\n\nLunavo manages to understand incoming documents, extract relevant information, challenges the inputs on plausibility and integrates them into the TMS. In case of anomalies, the system loops in the dispatcher:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95229&key=user_uploads/2331002/607a54fb-83cd-423d-8c36-312523817e4b)\n\n**_Before Lunavo_**_:_ A driver is delayed. The dispatcher has to (1) log into the GPS portal, (2) inform the customer with an update, (3) manually update the TMS, and (4) update the customer's portal for delivery time. This takes up to 15 minutes of work.\n\n**_With Lunavo:_** Lunavo detects the truck's GPS delay. It _automatically_ emails the customer, updates their portal, and sends a single notification to the dispatcher to keep him in the loop: \"Driver 5 is delayed 30m. Customer X has been notified. No action needed.\"\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95229&key=user_uploads/2331002/bdb58f1b-2c10-4e29-b485-d64718f81c6f)\n\nLunavo helps trucking companies scale operations without scaling headcount.\n\n**About us:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95229&key=user_uploads/2331002/531e2a61-c332-4ee9-ae0a-520a28e47341)\n\nWe're Felix and Niclas, founders of Lunavo. Together, we've spent the past years at the intersection of logistics and AI.\n\n·   **Felix** worked with logistics and supply chain companies at McKinsey and later built a robotics logistics company in Germany, spending five years deeply embedded in the industry.\n\n·   **Niclas** studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Waterloo, focusing on AI security and applied machine learning\n\n**Our ask:**\n\nIf you work in logistics or know someone running operations in road transportation, we would love to connect.\n\nYou can reach us at felix.loesch@lunavo.ai or visit [www.lunavo.ai](http://www.lunavo.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Olx-lunavo-the-ai-assistant-for-trucking-carrier-operations", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-11-05T22:21:16.901Z" } ] }, { "id": 31030, "name": "Haladir", "slug": "haladir", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6b1a47bf16f93d71a3d1f3af6d10a6c736e170b2.png", "website": "https://www.haladir.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Haladir builds advanced AI systems for logistics. 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We turn unreliable model outputs into **verifiable, optimal decisions** for industries like **logistics, critical software, and manufacturing**. We are working with one of the leading AI labs to bring our technology to post-training.\n\n**Launch Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPPFAmL8Iw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPPFAmL8Iw)**\n\n**The Problem**\n\nOperationally-complex companies (logistics, supply chain, etc.) need to make thousands of decisions a day under tight, real-world constraints. Even when given ample context, we observe that the top models often fail to understand these constraints when placed in difficult scenarios, providing suboptimal or confidently incorrect responses. Though they excel at individual tasks like coding and data analysis, optimizing across systems with millions of interdependent variables under hard constraints remains beyond what current models can do on their own.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nHaladir combines formal solvers with LLMs to give models a fundamental understanding of constraints rather than just semantic context. For logistics and supply chain companies, this means routing, scheduling, and resource allocation that AI can reason through rather than guess at.\n\nWe build at both the model training layer and the application layer. On the training side, we build solver-based RL environments and data pipelines for frontier labs. On the application side, we build model harnesses that allow deployed agents to operate within constrained, sensitive workflows and make optimal decisions. Decades of development in solvers like Gurobi and SAT/SMT have produced incredibly powerful technologies, but there's a growing gap between these tools and how AI is deployed today. We're here to close that gap.\n\nRead our research: [haladir.com/research](http://haladir.com/research)\n\n**The Team**\n\nIn high school, we published and were cited in IEEE and Elsevier Q1 journals for operations research and machine learning. We left Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, and UVA to build Haladir.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe'd love to talk with you if:\n\n* You work at a logistics, supply chain, or manufacturing company where AI isn't yet delivering on real decision-making\n* You work at or with frontier AI labs interested in solver-based training environments\n* You know talented people in operations research, formal methods, or applied ML\n\n👉 Contact us at [founders@haladir.com](mailto:founders@haladir.com)\n\n💼 Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haladir\n\n📱 Follow us on X: x.com/Haladirofficial", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pe0-haladir-building-operational-superintelligence", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2026-03-08T21:01:35.301Z" } ] }, { "id": 31112, "name": "Burt", "slug": "burt", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6a11400ce1b300bf129e9c9b8227340f5de10efd.png", "website": "https://www.burthq.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We're building for the people that keep the world moving. \r\n\r\nFreight brokers and forwarders operate on razor-thin margins in a relationship-driven business — yet most of their teams spend the majority of their day on manual, repetitive work.\r\n\r\nWe help freight brokers and forwarders build AI teammates that handle their repetitive, manual tasks so teams have time to focus on customers, carriers, and growing the business.", "one_liner": "AI teammates for logistics", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1766971540, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/burt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/burt.json", "year_founded": null, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/train-burt", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6a11400ce1b300bf129e9c9b8227340f5de10efd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Ankit Gupta", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ankit-gupta" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1212113, "full_name": "Bobby Zhong", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO at Burt\n\nStudied CS at UCI before dropping to join Pirros (YC W23) as their 2nd engineer. Then joined Replo (YC S21) to build coding agents and wrangle LLMs.\n\nGrew up in a logistics family and now trying to help in the space.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/bobby-zhong", "x_url": "https://x.com/bobbyzhong333", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5444a7b9e9b1785517fc66d0591b1f1397e3f0a9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1342955, "full_name": "Kurt Sharma", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CTO at Burt\n\nStudied EECS at UC Berkeley. Previously @ Replo (YC S21) building high-throughput data pipelines and sandboxed code manipulation systems.\n\nNow building AI teammates in logistics.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartavya-sharma", "x_url": "https://x.com/zerodaykurt", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6d595d5de2c6336d499109dbc763e04aa1d1a7c3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 98462, "title": "Burt - AI Teammates for Logistics", "tagline": "Agents that handle the manual, repetitive workflows for logistics teams end-to-end", "body": "We're [Bobby](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-zhong/) and [Kurt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartavya-sharma/), co-founders of Burt (W26).\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7XKdMwE1Q ](https://youtu.be/Jj7XKdMwE1Q)\n\n## **TL;DR**\n\nWe help freight brokers and forwarders build AI teammates that handle their repetitive, manual tasks so teams have time to focus on customers, carriers, and growing the business.\n\nWhether it’s tracking loads or chasing and processing documents, teams can build AI coworkers that follow their specific processes and work on top of their existing systems.\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nFreight brokers and forwarders operate on razor-thin margins in a relationship-driven business — yet most of their teams spend the majority of their day on manual, repetitive work.\n\nProblems like\n\n* **Shipment tracking and check calls**\n* **Document processing and data entry**\n* **Chasing PODs and rate cons**\n* **Finding and booking carriers**\n* **Invoice auditing and billing reconciliation**\n* **Quoting and building loads**\n\nAs volume grows, so does the headcount required to manage it. Teams burn out, service suffers, and growth stalls.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\nWe help freight brokers and forwarders build AI teammates that handle their most repetitive workflows end-to-end — check calls, document processing, covering loads, invoicing, and more — pulling in the right person only when they're actually needed.\n\nOur AI teammates work the way a human operator would: reading emails, making calls, logging into portals, and updating their TMS — following their specific processes and living on top of their existing systems\n\nTeams can take on more business without burning people out, cut down on costly mistakes, and get their best operators back on the relationships that actually drive growth.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98462&key=user_uploads/1212113/fc18a40d-718d-4b27-960f-f7ec2e97623e)\n\n## **About Us**\n\nWe both grew up in logistics families so we know how hard the people in the industry have to work and we genuinely want to be able to make an impact on the space. Bobby spent weekends at his dad's 3PL warehouse and Kurt grew up watching his uncle sell on Amazon FBA — where half the stress was always coordinating shipments and chasing freight.\n\nWe know how hard freight is and there’s no one else we’d rather build for than the people in it.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\nWe’d really appreciate any intros to anyone in the logistics space. Primarily freight brokers, forwarders, and carriers but we’re relatively new to the space so talking to anyone in the industry would be helpful!\n\nFeel free to reach out to us at [bobby@trainburt.com](mailto:bobby@trainburt.com) or find a time to chat [here](https://cal.com/bobby-zhong/30min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pc6-burt-ai-teammates-for-logistics", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-03-04T22:42:49.123Z" }, { "id": 97329, "title": "Burt - Train and Deploy Specialized Models", "tagline": "Build models that outperform general, closed source alternatives at a fraction of the cost and latency", "body": "We're [Bobby](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-zhong/) and [Kurt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartavya-sharma/), co-founders of Burt (W26).\n\n## TL;DR\n\nWe help teams train and deploy specialized models that outperform general, closed source alternatives while being **10x faster and cheaper**. \n\nIf you’re building AI agents and you have LLM calls that are either too slow, too expensive, or just not good enough, let’s talk!\n\n\n\n## The Problem\n\nAs good as general, closed source models are, they just aren’t built for your use case. \n\n* The fastest models are unreliable or still not fast enough\n* Your API costs are spiraling out of control \n* Your agent’s just not producing high quality or reliable enough outputs. \n* You have no control over a core piece of your product, leaving you with random regressions, service disruptions, and annoying rate limits\n\n## Our Solution\n\nWe help teams train and deploy custom models built specifically for their domain and use case. \n\nWe help with every step of the process, from data prep and evals to training and deployment. \n\nUsing the latest post-training and inference stack we’ve built in house, we deliver models that outperform SOTA while being a fraction of the cost and latency.\n\n## Case Study\n\nFor one of our customers (more details coming soon!), they had a model call that saw extremely high volume and had issues with it being too slow **even with gemini-3-flash.** \n\nTo solve that, we built a small vision language model (VLM) that’s **\\~3x faster** (p50) while being **MORE accurate** than gemini-3-flash/pro.\n\nNow we’re continuing to improve that model and closing that last 10%\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97329&key=user_uploads/1212113/030f2ca2-2274-45e8-84b2-7a88b0779104)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97329&key=user_uploads/1212113/1a7e0a22-91e5-4116-977e-edcaf27470a4)\n\n## Ready to Specialize?\n\nIf you’re building AI agents and either of the following apply, we’d love to help:\n\n* You have **high volume, repetitive LLM calls** that you want to significantly reduce cost and latency for\n* The agents you’re building just aren’t achieving the quality or reliability you need\n\nBook a chat [here](https://cal.com/bobby-zhong/30min) or email us at [bobby@trainburt.com](mailto:bobby@trainburt.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PJp-burt-train-and-deploy-specialized-models", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2026-02-02T02:11:07.791Z" } ] }, { "id": 31274, "name": "Khotan (formerly Pollinate)", "slug": "khotan", "former_names": [ "Polinate", "Pollinate", "Khotan" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b23ce152528185e61986e56941165e5686edcb24.png", "website": "https://www.khotan.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Khotan is the platform for forward-deployed engineers to rebuild operations as software and maintain them. It combines your context with the infrastructure harnesses need to deploy, share, and maintain each application.\r\n\r\nAcross procurement, supply chain, finance, and operations, we’ve rebuilt the systems businesses cannot afford to get wrong.\r\n\r\nLearn more at khotan.com", "one_liner": "FDE as a platform for rebuilding critical operations in software.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1769216179, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/khotan", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/khotan.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/104852164/admin/dashboard/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b23ce152528185e61986e56941165e5686edcb24.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Ankit Gupta", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ankit-gupta" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2733270, "full_name": "Adeep Mitra", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I’ve built and scaled an agency to 5 figures at 17, whilst driving community events with partnerships involving A-list artists generating 1M+ impressions.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adeep-mitra-b71030277/", "x_url": "https://x.com/adeepmi", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/51400c5226795247a26f2a31eca56732d6bbcaf8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2763766, "full_name": "Corey Berther", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Was sent to coding camps at 12 years old, ran an electronics business by 16 and a tech house by 18. \n\nDropped out of a rocket science degree, to reinvent forward deploying. 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Over half the workforce will leave this decade, and the knowledge in their heads walks out with them.\n\nYou cannot grow faster than you can hire. Service slows and relationships suffer.\n\n**The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102525&key=user_uploads/2767100/da1b1daf-476d-42f0-a878-007c6012dc36)\n\nHexa plugs into the systems you already use and brings AI agents natively inside the ERP. No rip-and-replace, live in days.\n\nHexa watches every channel a request comes in on and runs the full workflow:\n\n* Quoting: Reads the RFQ, matches the right SKU and pricing, and drafts the quote so it is ready to send.\n* Order Entry: Matches the incoming PO to the quote, creates the sales order, and writes it into the ERP.\n* Procurement & Finance: Sources out-of-stock items at the best cost, then reconciles AP/AR and catches discrepancies humans miss.\n\nReps review and approve instead of hours of admin. 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A transport planner sits down at 7am, spends 60 to 90 minutes dragging jobs onto trucks, and the plan is usually wrong by 10am. \n\nOur customers tell us they literally cannot hire and train planners fast enough. It’s a nightmare when one of those planners is off sick or has to go away on vacation. \n\nHumans are being asked to continuously re-optimise hundreds of constraints: vehicle capacity, weight limits, time windows, driver hours, live traffic, all in real time. It's cognitively impossible to do reliably.\n\nIf a fleet can complete just 10 more jobs a day, that's worth millions per year. The opportunity cost of bad scheduling is enormous and almost nobody in this industry has solved it.\n\n\n\n**What we've built:** Dayjob sits on top of existing ERP software. Our scheduling agent builds a full fleet schedule in about 60 seconds. 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President and founding team of the Claremont Accelerator; raised $124K from alumni, AWS, and Google to back student startups.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixpeng24/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/24129fee3f517ec726754cf95edd440bdbb62c6c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 110495, "title": "Peer: AI-Native Freight Brokerage", "tagline": "Peer brokers every load autonomously, from quote to delivery.", "body": "Freight brokerages in 2026 look like stock trading floors in 1989. Rooms of people on phones, quoting prices from memory, faxing paperwork across the country. Then electronic trading showed up and those floors emptied out. Peer (YC S26) is that moment for trucking.\\\n\\\n[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IsbGimgbdogUQdADAzDloIuPn9zQgEJi](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IsbGimgbdogUQdADAzDloIuPn9zQgEJi/view?usp=sharing)\n\nTrucking is a $900 billion industry, and 91.5% of American trucking companies run ten trucks or fewer. Nobody shipping freight can manage hundreds of those relationships, so they hand the load to a broker, who finds the right truck, in the right place, at the right price.\n\nPeer is an AI-native freight brokerage. A shipper sends Peer a load and agents do everything after that: price it, find and vet the trucking company, handle the paperwork, track the delivery, and fix what goes wrong on the road. Even the most tech-forward incumbents need thousands of people to run a brokerage. Peer runs on agents, doing far more loads with far fewer people.\n\nShippers want a fair price fast, a truck that is insured, and a trucking company that shows up. An agent quotes market rates in minutes instead of days of emails, because it reads the request the moment it lands. It catches a lapsed insurance policy before the freight moves, because it rechecks continuously, not once at signup. And it drops a trucking company that keeps failing, because it has no relationship to protect.\n\nAaron and Felix are both technical and both dropped out of Harvey Mudd to build Peer. Aaron built voice AI for trucking fleets at Waylens and researched AI agents at the MIT Media Lab. Felix worked in machine learning at Magnefy and shipped AI tools to the LA Department of Water and Power. Together they won the Google DeepMind Hackathon at UCLA.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SkB-peer-ai-native-freight-brokerage", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2026-08-14T19:32:27.384Z" } ] }, { "id": 32617, "name": "Whitespace", "slug": "whitespace", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d7ab9b902afa3fe0a37b3622022557a9cd82d082.png", "website": "https://whitespacehq.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Whitespace builds AI agents that run the entire operation of supply chain businesses, starting with wholesale distributors. 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UCL Machine Learning, publishing AI papers at IROS (top-3 robotics conference) as an undergrad.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/linghong-yao/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ef2cb473c4b76b2f791ba1cf0b953446391daa5e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 105676, "title": "Whitespace: AI Operating System for Wholesale Distributors", "tagline": "We help wholesale distributors grow 100x with AI agents that learn their business and do the work.", "body": "Hey everyone 👋 We’re [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexyctung/) and [Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/linghong-yao/) - cofounders of [Whitespace](https://whitespacehq.ai/).\\\n\\\nWhitespace is the AI operating system for wholesale distributors. It connects to their systems to build a living model of their business, then deploys self-improving AI agents to do work like inventory planning, customer service, and order processing.\n\n**Problem**\n\nWholesale distribution is a $60 trillion global industry that touches one in every five dollars of global output. Yet it still runs largely manually. At a typical wholesale distributor, 30-50% of staff are dedicated to back-office tasks.\n\nThey spend their days on email, spreadsheets, and legacy systems, relying on tribal knowledge in their heads. Businesses cannot scale without hiring, and training a new hire takes >6 months.\n\nA quote from one of our customers really brings this to life: “I have 6 reps typing 600 lines of orders from email into the ERP every day. Everyone is inside our ERP and spreadsheets, copying data from one place to another.”\n\n**Solution**\n\nWhitespace is the AI operating system for wholesale distributors. It connects to their systems to build a living model of their business, then deploys self-improving AI agents. \n\nWe’re already working with wholesale distributors in sectors including industrial supplies and building materials to set up agents for processes like:\n\n* **Inventory Planning.** Forecasts product demand, recommends reorder quantities against stock levels, and learns over time from actual demand.\n* **Customer Service.** Monitors inboxes for support queries, digs through systems to find answers, and responds with human oversight.\n* **Order Processing.** Monitors inboxes, enters orders into the ERP, flags exceptions to humans, and learns from their corrections.\n\n\n\n**Team**\n\nBoth our families ran wholesale distribution businesses, so we grew up seeing the inefficiencies and the opportunities firsthand.\n\n[Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexyctung/) advised F500 manufacturers and distributors on tech/AI at BCG, took a startup from launch to 7-figure ARR in a year as its first non-engineering hire, and graduated top of his college at Cambridge.\n\n[Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/linghong-yao/) built AI products for F500 logistics distribution companies at InstaDeep, published first-author RL papers at tier-1 conferences, and previously founded an EdTech startup that served thousands of users worldwide.\n\nWe’ve been best friends for 12 years since high school. We’ve lived and worked together, and are now tackling a challenge close to our hearts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105676&key=user_uploads/2335228/2d187648-e6e7-4b98-8101-407f5e7aefee)\n\n**Ask**\n\nWe would appreciate intros to wholesalers or distributors at [alex@whitespacehq.ai](mailto:alex@whitespacehq.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RUS-whitespace-ai-operating-system-for-wholesale-distributors", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-07-16T14:54:16.399Z" } ] }, { "id": 32753, "name": "Ekho Labs", "slug": "ekho-labs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8de6c5bf64155f5dfde0293d76560b38b3e3b46f.png", "website": "https://ekholabs.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Ekho predicts the wars, strikes and tariffs that break global shipping, and tells freight teams which shipments are exposed and what to do about them. 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Your clients hear about the disruption from you, not from the news.\n* **Manufacturers and retailers:** you know which inbound materials will miss the production run, launch, or retailer order - and the cheapest fix, from expediting to switching suppliers or lanes.\n\n**Proof we’re cool:**\n\n1. When the Strait of Hormuz closed in February, we correctly predicted ceasefire dates, duration, and next steps in the war ()\n2. 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A few crazy things Waybill was asked to source & order -\n\n1. A lifetime supply of an obsolete RF component\n2. Cessna aircraft. Yes, real airplanes\n3. Industrial Robots\n\nLaunch video: \n\n**Backstory**\n\nI (Rishi) ran operations at LAT Aerospace (Deepinder Goyal’s aerospace startup) as part of their founding team. On paper, that meant \"sourcing.\" In practice, it meant finding jet engines, flight controllers, high-density batteries, and satellite radios for a very ambitious aerospace program, then moving machinery and merchandise worth millions across borders, and finding and operating real estate you can actually fly aircraft from. I also handled government liaisoning, which is a polite way of saying I convinced the world's harshest bureaucracy to approve things it didn't have a form for, like taking off and landing an aircraft in under 50 meters.\n\nTushar has been working the other end of this problem his whole career. At WareIQ (YC S20), he built the autonomous inventory system behind 400+ Indian D2C brands - forecasting demand and making buying decisions across thousands of volatile SKUs without blowing up working capital.\n\nSo between us: I've spent my career buying hardware the hard way, and Tushar's spent his teaching machines to manage inventory. Waybill is both jobs in one system.\n\n**The problem**\n\nHardware engineers spend a big chunk of their week buying parts. They can't hand it off to operations folks, because only the engineer who specified the part knows which alternates are acceptable. And finding parts is genuinely hard: stock is scattered across distributor catalogs, resellers, and Alibaba listings, and packaging suffixes, obsolete part numbers, and regional inventory make the same part look like six different parts. It's a search, not a lookup.\n\nAll of this runs on email, WhatsApp, and spreadsheets. No system of record, and context dilutes at every handoff. Parts land late, arrive undocumented, or get bought twice. I know because at LAT, _I was the system of record_. It didn't scale.\n\n**What we built**\n\nAn engineer tells Waybill what they need. Our agents find every authorized distributor and manufacturer rep stocking that part anywhere in the world, request quotes and lead times, and rank the options by what the customer actually cares about. A defence company only wants suppliers from allied nations. A medical device company needs provenance. Everyone else wants the right balance of cost, lead time, and complexity.\n\nIf no distributor has it, our network in India, China, and Southeast Asia finds it. If a supplier can't ship to the customer's country, we pick up the box and ship it ourselves.\n\nOnce the order is placed, our agents prepare the customs paperwork, a licensed broker files it, parts are received into inventory automatically, and the invoice is automatically matched against the PO and import documents. 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Every existing option fails on the same axis:\n\n* **Internal teams:** expertise and judgment, fixed capacity. It takes years to build and when someone leaves, the tacit knowledge that keeps operations running is lost.\n* **SaaS:** automation and visibility without execution. The customer still staffs the operation, supervises it, handles exceptions, and owns the result.\n* **Outsourcing:** capacity, expertise, and accountability, permanently labor-linked. More volume, suppliers, and locations require more service-delivery headcount.\n\nThe unmet need is operating capacity that **takes responsibility for completing the work** while becoming faster, more consistent, and more profitable as volume grows.\n\n## The insight\n\n* **Software can recommend actions; it cannot assume commercial authority.** The customer keeps execution, exceptions, and supplier outcomes. Whoever owns the exceptions owns the expertise, and expertise is the entire product in procurement.\n* **Incumbents cannot follow.** Consulting and outsourcing firms store process knowledge in employees and grow revenue through staff hours. Automation directly cannibalizes that model.\n* **The economics are breakable.** Traditional services sit below software economics: Accenture at Rule-of-22.6, Genpact at 24.1. An AI-native operator can reach **Rule-of-60**.\n\n## What we built\n\n**The proprietary platform SpaceFlow uses to operate procurement for customers.**\n\n* A **process-mapping engine** converts interviews, SOPs, approval rules, and existing system configurations into executable workflows. A supply-chain consultancy estimates it cuts customer launch from **26 months to 4**, a 6.5x jump in deployment capacity.\n* It **executes procurement end to end**, from demand and production planning through sourcing, contracting, purchase orders, exception resolution, and reconciliation, across the customer's own systems.\n* Operating across companies in the same vertical turns cross-company experience into **proprietary process and supplier intelligence**, while pooled demand creates **group-purchasing power**: better execution, prices, resilience, and terms for every customer.\n* The same platform **monitors service levels, resolves exceptions, and remains accountable** for completing the operation. Per-action autonomy limits, approval queues, and an immutable audit log make every task provable.\n\n## Proof so far\n\n* **Live:** $400M a year of supplier spend under management, zero systems migrated. Multiple six figure contracts signed.\n* **Demand for delegation:** our first customer cancelled 3 planned procurement hires, the CSCO invested his own money, and two chains are signing to progressively outsource purchasing, one planning a procurement team 90% smaller by 2027.\n* **Results:** 3x faster RFQ cycles, off-contract spend down 42% at one customer, $120K a year saved at another.\n\n## Where this goes\n\nSpaceFlow will replace legacy service providers across the physical economy. Traditional service firms grow by hiring; SpaceFlow grows output faster than headcount, targeting **$1B in revenue with headcount capped at 100**. \n\n## What's in it for you?\n\n1. **You run a physical-goods company with $100M+ supplier spend:** send us 12 months of PO history and we'll map one lane and size the savings, free. [spaceflow.tech](http://spaceflow.tech) · [emre@spaceflow.tech](mailto:emre@spaceflow.tech)\n2. **You know an operator like that:** intros are gold. \n\n### **About the team:**\n\n**Emre Isik (CEO)**  studied computer engineering at the University of Cambridge and dropped the master's to build SpaceFlow full time. Before that he researched embedded AI for motor control at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, published a machine-learning paper on reasoning with small data, and trained with Turkey's international informatics olympiad reserve team at 15. \n\n**Ali Eren Aytekin (co-founder)** left engineering at Istanbul Technical University to build SpaceFlow.  He was Microsoft Imagine Cup EMEA runner-up for a genetic-signal classifier that hit 98.3% accuracy, and co-authored the published paper on low-data reasoning. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-eren-aytekin-6305a41aa/) . 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