Supply Chain Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2024

Founded in 2013, we believe trade can move the human race forward. That’s why our mission at Flexport is to make global trade easy for everyone. What the internet has done for bits and bytes, Flexport is doing for physical goods: giving every business the ability to connect to any customer, wherever they are in the world. That sounds pretty straightforward, but a fragmented and inefficient global supply chain has held the world back from untapped growth and innovation. By connecting everyone in the global economy we can unlock commerce, creativity, and human progress. To do so, we’re building the platform for global logistics—empowering buyers, sellers and their logistics partners with the technology and services they need to grow and innovate. Today, we work with more than 40,000 customers and their suppliers across industries like manufacturing, retail, electronics, consumer goods, tech, apparel, and beauty. Companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—used Flexport technology to move nearly $19B of merchandise across 112 countries in 2021. Interested in joining our team? Check out our open job postings on careers site and apply directly today! https://www.flexport.com/careers/jobs/

GrubMarket is the AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American Food Supply Chain industry. Our mission is to build and provide the eCommerce and software technologies to this industry, to transform this completely offline and highly manual industry into modernized online industry powered by software technologies, and improve the efficiency of American food supply chain.

EasyPost is the missing API that makes it quick and painless to integrate shipping into your application. Some of the biggest names in retail rely on EasyPost to ship faster, smarter and cheaper. We manage the headaches involved with dated carrier technology so our customers can focus on what makes their business great. Integrate once with EasyPost and seamlessly add carriers, generate shipping labels, track packages in near real-time and insure your shipments. EasyPost is growing fast! Check out our jobs page and join the excitement: https://www.easypost.com/jobs

The trucking and logistics industry provides the backbone of the economy, but the payments infrastructure on which it runs is broken; the existing suite of payment tools is outdated, difficult to use, prone to fraud, and saddled with hidden fee structures. AtoB is building Stripe for Transportation — modernizing the payments infrastructure for trucking and logistics, where capital movement occurs quickly and transparently. Our flagship product is the AtoB Fuel Card, a zero-fee fuel card accepted anywhere built for fleets of all shapes and sizes.

Nuvocargo is a digital-first freight forwarder and licensed US customs broker focused on helping shippers seamlessly move cargo over the road between USA and Mexico. Our goal is to make your life easier by combining exceptional service with beautiful software so that moving your products between USA and Mexico is less painful and more intuitive. We are the **one-stop shop** for shippers for everything they need in their USA/Mexico cross-border supply chain; this includes procuring freight in both Mexico & USA, customs clearance, insurance, trade finance, reporting, and more. We act as an extension of your team so you can outsource to Nuvocargo all the complexities & vendor management associated with your cross border supply chain.

Factored Quality is a digital QC management tool that brings all quality and compliance operations together in a single unified platform. We help 100+ brands like Brooklinen, The Honest Company, Dr. Squatch, and Canopy Humidifiers run QC, Supplier Audits, and Compliance Testing anywhere in the world.

We make it easy for commodity traders manage their shipments. The largest U.S. sugar trader uses our AI-automation platform to track thousands of shipments and process over a million shipping documents. Our team consists of an experienced commodity trader with 8 years of experience and two skilled engineers with a combined 13 years of experience from Samsara and Autodesk.

Mission: Provide people with the food they deserve. We accomplish this mission by building farm+restaurants to serve the world's freshest salads, wraps, and smoothies.

Flextock is a tech-enabled fulfillment provider in the Middle East & Africa. For local merchants, we warehouse the stock and deliver orders directly to their customers through our network of last mile delivery partners.

Reform makes it easy for logistics companies to build internal automation tools. We're like Retool built specifically for logistics software. Our customers use Reform to build internal tools that can automate tasks such as customs clearance filing, shipment processing, and customer onboarding.

Terminal is Plaid for telematics data in commercial trucking. Companies building next generation insurance products, financial services and fleet software for trucking use our Universal API to access GPS data, speeding data and vehicle stats. Raghav (CEO) and Connor (CTO) led product and engineering at a series b-funded neobank where they spent 2.5 years integrating middleware APIs like Plaid & Stripe. Before that, Connor spent 3 years building software for his family-owned logistics company which was acquired by a private equity firm. Raghav’s family is in fleet operations and owns an HVAC company in San Francisco where they operate a fleet of 13 commercial vehicles.

FleetWorks automates the 2B phone calls and emails that the freight industry makes every year. We use voice synthesis, generative AI, and integrations with logistics systems to solve the largest cost in this industry - people. When Uber Freight needs to ship a truckload of Coca-Cola going from Phoenix to Bentonville. They can use FleetWorks to call the driver to get an ETA, alert the receiver and shipper that the driver is running late, and reschedule the appointment - all with automated text messages, phone calls, and emails.

Forge makes procurement software for hardware companies. Trillions of dollars of purchases at companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and Anduril are managed across spreadsheets, emails, and meetings - we automate this. Emir and Haris are brothers with backgrounds in both software and hardware engineering. While developing rocket engines, Emir saw firsthand how poor procurement operations caused weeks to months of delay, bottlenecking the pace of development. Our product lets teams collaborate with manufacturers, track orders from quote to delivery, manage purchase approvals, and more!

BlueCargo provides real-time information for trucking companies that move cargo from marine ports to first warehouses. We are building a platform that will be a one-stop shop for truckers to dispatch, schedule their workload and move containers efficiently Our startup was founded by two female entrepreneurs, graduated from Y Combinator (2018 batch), and has raised a 4 million seed round. We are at the beginning of an exciting growth phase where we have already developed product-market fit, a working platform, and hundreds of daily active users. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to grow the team and deliver a product to bring us to the next level. If working to bring technology to the logistics industry sounds exciting, then we’d like to connect with you! We are looking for a highly experienced professional who has created several full stack web applications and has experience with AWS.

We’re building the best logistics system to empower businesses globally to automate their supply chain processes and ship all their products broker-free. When we succeed, 7.6B people in the world will buy products cheaper!

Vendease is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Now, instead of going through expensive - middlemen - vendors, or wasting productive man hours sending staff to open markets with hiked prices, restaurants can now get on our platform, click to order and get all their food supplies within 24hrs.

Guac accurately forecasts demand for grocery retailers, to reduce food waste and increase availability.

Every time workers in a warehouse box an order, they reference a 100 page manual with instructions like where to put the shipping label. RetailReady replaces the instruction manual with a tablet application.

Flowspace couples powerful software with its national fulfillment network to enable brands to offer consistently fast, efficient delivery from every channel. Integrated within a network of +130 fulfillment locations nationwide, OmniFlow software offers an ecommerce command center for brand operators, empowering them with the visibility and insights needed to control operations and drive success.

Trackstar is the Plaid for supply chain logistics. Our universal API provides a simple and well-documented way for companies to integrate with hundreds of warehouse management systems in minutes, not months.

ProdTrace uses AI to help companies building hardware manage their CAD files, bills of materials, engineering changes, and part procurement all in one place. With ProdTrace, engineers and supply chain managers save 10 hours a week. ProdTrace’s founding team has deep expertise building hardware and software across Google, a hardware unicorn, and the Stanford AI and robotics lab.

Experience cutting-edge route optimization with Zeo, a versatile platform designed for both mobile and web. Our innovative app, trusted by over 1 million drivers across 146 countries, revolutionizes last-mile delivery by minimizing delivery times and reducing costs. Zeo Fleet, an essential tool for fleet managers and businesses, offers a seamless, no code solution to manage and assign stops to drivers, streamlining setup in under 15 minutes. Join 5,000+ businesses that rely on Zeo for daily route planning. Zeo caters to a diverse range of industries including last-mile delivery, waste management, healthcare, home services (like lawn mowing, pool maintenance, handyman services, HVAC), real estate, building inspection, and national park service. Key features of Zeo include advanced stop assignment, efficient route optimization, real-time driver tracking, comprehensive proof of delivery tracking, effective load assignment, and precise geo-fencing for drivers. Choose Zeo for a smarter, more efficient routing solution.

We are building an on-demand Fulfillment network and all software tools in a central platform which is required for an Etailer to manage their eCommerce Fulfillment operations. Etailers connect all their stores to our platform and send us their inventory. Whenever an order is placed on any of the channels, our Decision Engine allocates order to the nearest Warehouse holding the inventory, and right courier partner to pick & deliver to the end customer.

Innovative hardware teams use Cofactr to scale their electronic hardware from BOM through production, replacing spreadsheets and shelves with insights and on-demand infrastructure. We're a Y Combinator W22 company with growing revenue and backed with significant venture funding from VCs like Bain Capital Ventures.

Fountain9 is a predictive inventory planning solution. We help food brands and retailers reduce food wastage and improve product availability by predicting their future inventory needs. Food wastage is a global problem that has both financial and environmental costs. An estimated $1.3 Bn tonnes of food is wasted every year and 7 - 15% of that is because of mismanaged inventory. We accurately predict future inventory imbalances which lead to out of stock situations or wastage, and also recommends best ways of minimising their impact. Our state of the art demand sensing and pricing engine takes into account several factors like historical sales trends, seasonality, holidays, markdown events and pricing changes to predict future inventory requirements and optimize prices. Predicted inventory demand is also aligned with supply side data to identify ideal suppliers and replenishment quantities that minimize chances of stock outs or inventory wastage.

Releaf develops novel industrial processing technology for African crops. Our pre-processing technology allows us to improve the quality and scale of raw materials provided to African food factories (>$200B market), 90% of which run under 50% of their installed capacity, primarily due to scarce quality raw materials. We target domestic demand in industries where we can develop pre-processing technology to increase the amount of addressable, quality raw material we can source directly from farmers, giving us a leg-up on competitors who rely on inconsistent traders with variable quality. The goal is to catalyze agro-based industrialization across the continent - no phenomena in the history of the world has moved more people out of extreme poverty and into shared prosperity than industrialization.

Sourcify is a profitable high growth sourcing platform that helps ecommerce brands and Fortune 500s manufacture products in Asia.

Our software allows drones to fly indoors and collect analytics, helping warehouses automate inventory collection.

Hardware companies use Jiga to centralize their RFQs, POs, and supplier communication in one place while automating their sourcing process. Instead of wasting hours on admin work and error-prone emails for quotes and orders, Jiga's customers get faster to market with optimal costs, quality, and lead times.

Getting clothes tailor-made is very common in India, especially for women. Saree blouses have to be tailor-made always due to their fitted nature & the non-stretchiness of typical Indian fabrics. The tailoring market however, hasn't evolved at all. It is highly fragmented with a low NPS. The end user experience demands a significant amount of the customer's time, involving visits to a physical shop & avoidable back & forth. This is increasingly unviable for busy urban Indian women. We make it super easy by letting women place an order online, get fitted at the comfort of their homes, help them with styling their fabric & deliver the made-to-measure clothes directly to their doorstep.

Problem: Indonesia has severe problem in multi-layered food supply chain food which are very harmful to farmers income and restaurants' raw material cost due to food price volatility. Eden's Solution: Cut through the multi-layer middlemen and bring stability to food price in Indonesia thus help stabilise farmers income and lower restaurants raw material cost. Farmers: We provide our farmers with revenue guarantee and demand forecast B2B Customer: Our B2B Customers consist of Restaurant and Cafes, we serve them with stable price and quality guarantee Eden's Tech: Ordering App: Collecting customer order, placing Eden's brand on our customers's desk everyday ERP: Processing supply & demand data to produce demand forecast and internal performance measurement Farmer's App: Collecting harvest data and communicating Eden's supply need to them.

Nextmv is a DecisionOps platform that accelerates optimization AI teams with tools for deployment, testing, CI/CD, collaboration, and management of decision models. With Nextmv, developers can create scalable, custom decision services complete with unique API endpoints and options to integrate with popular solvers and modeling solutions.

Response is organizing the world’s inventory – making it universally accessible and useful. We make it easy for businesses to shop all their vendors in one place - starting with warehouse and operations teams. We’ve built the largest catalog of industrial products in the US and service customers in 25 states - ranging from single location startups to public companies with dozens of facilities.

Movley is building Rippling for supply chain. Just like Rippling centralizes all your HR tools, we give Amazon & Shopify sellers one platform to manage their entire supply chain.

Alpas provides data-driven sourcing for procurement departments of mid and large-cap manufacturing companies. We use ML methods to provide 360° views of suppliers and supply chains, benchmark suppliers globally and assess geopolitical as well as supplier-specific risks.

Today, Retailers have to make 1000s of complex operational decisions every day, all impacting their bottom line.This problem is being currently tackled with excel or legacy systems, both no longer fit for purpose. We make a platform that lets retailers make optimal decisions, easily and quickly. We ingest a retailer's data, generate recommendations and then allow users to approve a given action. Our platform covers topics including product pricing, inventory replenishment and re-ordering with the goal of covering all operational processes.

There are billions of dollars of hospital waste caused by inefficient, disconnected supply chains and finance data. Today, clinics are facing unprecedented backorders, recalls, and purchase verticals (medical devices, SaaS, security, commodities). We are building a single product to 10x a fragmented industry with each tool built almost 20 years ago.

Kaso (formerly Elkaso) is the largest B2B ordering platform for restaurants and suppliers in the Middle East. Kaso connects restaurants and suppliers, to manage and improve the order process end to end to save time, money, and food.

Our platform fixes construction's broken supply chain. 70% of construction projects finish late or over budget; procuring and managing building materials is the number 1 reason why. Using DigiBuild, construction contractors can find, order, track and manage their materials from the supplier to the job site. We help customers save money, staff time, and improve construction project schedules. We work with the largest real estate developers, general contractors, and subcontractors in the US. We manage billions in building material volume annually in the 2nd largest market in the world.

Freterium is a collaborative SaaS platform that connects organizations, people and technologies in the logistics value chain to help them move things. Our connected cloud platform provides real-time visibility of shipments, elastic logistics infrastructure (in-house & 3rd party fleets), proprietary routing algorithms, productivity tools, and seamless collaboration that breaks down traditional organizational silos.

Intercept lets CPG brands challenge incorrect charges from retail chains. It ingests all of a brand’s fees across their retailer portals and emails, flags the fees that can be disputed, and automates away the mundane tasks involved in fee disputes. What previously took a team of people is now manageable by a single person.

Kontractify uses LLMs to help enterprises run RFPs. We generate questions, manage workflows, evaluate proposals, and facilitate reverse auctions.

Exo freight is a trucking marketplace for open deck shipping. Open deck shipping is how you transport large and odd-shaped loads and represents 20% of the 700 Billion dollar US transportation market

DimOrder - Restaurant POS system for Southeast Asia Founded in 2019, DimOrder is a Hong Kong-based technology company transforming the F&B industry. In addition to online payments, we allow restaurants to market to their customers, order food from their suppliers, and receive short term loans. Through one single platform, restaurateurs can easily manage their business and focus on their passion, we let the chef be chef.

Attain is a one-stop shop for convenience store owners to buy inventory across all their suppliers with higher reliability, price transparency, and product discovery. On average, store owners buy products from over 10-15 different suppliers each week. This painful process involves shopping in massive warehouses or spending hours working with wholesaler’s sales representatives (who sometimes don’t even show up). As a result, stores waste countless hours ordering products through extremely inefficient and tedious processes. These store owners are also severely impacted by inventory shortages and revenue loss which many times results in them downsizing their business or shutting them down completely. Attain solves this problem by providing a single app to purchase products across all of their suppliers, resulting in a one-stop shop for inventory. By aggregating inventory across a multitude of suppliers and wholesalers, Attain helps stores save significant time and money while allowing them to focus on what they do best - growing their businesses. Feel free to reach out at founders@joinattain.com!

Topship is the easiest way for African businesses to export/import cargo, freight and parcels to their suppliers, distributors and customers. We are building Flexport for Africa. Our goal is to build a Global Distribution System that makes delivery of parcels, cargo and freight easy for African businesses.

Overwatch Data offers real-time, actionable intelligence tailored for your fraud, security, and strategic insights teams. Our platform provides a comprehensive and contextualized view of opportunities and risks, drawing on the surface, social, and deep web, thereby enabling faster, data-driven decision-making.

AI for pharmaceuticals and biotech companies

Abridge is a digital freight forwarder for India. With Abridge, shippers (i.e. importers/exporters) can book freight, automate compliance documents, track shipments, and communicate with supply chain partners all in one place via Abridge's integrated online platform. 90% of freight logistics companies (i.e. the current alternative for shippers) still follow largely manual processes. By automating these processes, Abridge is helping companies with logistics activity in India run the modern supply chain of the future.

Africa has experienced robust macroeconomic growth over the last five years and was the second fastest growing region in 2019 with a GDP of $2.6T, a 3.7% increase on 2018. Nigeria makes up $0.5T, 50% of which comes from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – a huge number of these operate within large manufacturing supply chains. Starting with Freight Carriers Pivo makes financial services easily accessible for truck owners and truck drivers by providing a bank account, debit card and digital invoicing tools so they can get paid faster and avoid cash flow problems. This will be further augmented by more fundamental financial products such as credit, transaction management, and expense management, to improve their cashflow.

Lumi.com provides packaging and shipping supplies to online brands, from small businesses to leading ecommerce companies shipping millions of orders per month.