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.

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.

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of the economy, but the payments infrastructure on which it runs is broken; the existing suite of payment tools is outdated, difficult to use, prone to fraud, and saddled with hidden fee structures.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.

Mandel surfaces supply chain disruptions and supplier updates with email AI. We use AI agents that proactively extract data and email suppliers for order updates, building a real-time self updating supply chain source of truth.

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.

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.

Forge makes procurement software for hardware companies. Trillions of dollars of purchases at the most advanced manufacturing companies 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.

Keep your NPI programs on track and budget with ProdTrace. ProdTrace is a traceability platform that tracks changes across your PDM, PLM, ERP, emails, and documents. Don't miss another update to your design, lead time, or cost. 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.

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

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.

Pulse AI simplifies the procurement process for mid-market and large enterprises by utilizing LLMs to automate supply chain actions. Processing unstructured data in the form of emails, RFQs, PRs takes up over 40% of supply chain management time. Pulse AI develops recommendations from siloed communication with suppliers by integrating with procurement teams' existing tools—ranging from email, document suites, and ERPs. Pulse structures this data to build our search engine (think Glean for supply chain) and automates tasks such as purchase order management, invoice matching for accounts payable, and vendor communications.

Spherecast is an AI-powered inventory management software for multi-channel ecom brands, supporting supply chain managers with demand planning, replenishment, and inventory optimization. With Spherecast, brands know: 1. When to re-order 2. How much of their products 3. To which warehouse 4. At what cost Spherecast helps avoid stockouts and overstock, improve inventory visibility, and save time.

Lighthouz AI is building AI procurement specialists for manufacturers. 500,000 procurement professionals waste their entire day using emails to communicate with suppliers, and entering data on spreadsheets and 90s looking ERP software. That's $40B wasted annually. Lighthouz's AI procurement specialists change this. The AI agent automates all manual tasks of procurement -- data extraction from emails & documents, data entry on ERP systems. It 15x'es the productivity of procurement teams. Our AI agents will replace 500k jobs in the next 5 years. Our team has 20+ years of combined AI experience: - Srijan has been a GaTech CS professor, ex- Google, Stanford, UMD, IIT. He has built systems now in production at Meta, Home Depot, etc. He has written 60+ papers that are cited 6000+ times. - Sonali was a lead AI engineer at Progressive insurance, American Family insurance, Halliburton, did her MS at University of Washington, and undergrad at IIT.

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.

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.

Pax is an AI powered platform that streamlines import tax rebates for global trade companies, from retailers to manufacturers. We help file refunds in clicks, not months. Previously, companies had to rely on customs brokerage firms due to the complex, manual nature of the process. These firms often enforce a minimum threshold of $100K, rejecting SMBs. Pax’s technology democratizes this process, enabling companies of all sizes to file drawback claims. Approximately 80% of duties, amounting to about $10 billion annually, go unclaimed. Pax enables companies of all sizes to recover money that is rightfully theirs, ensuring they never leave free money on the table. By automating and simplifying the import tax recovery process, Pax is revolutionizing how global trade companies manage their finance and customs compliance.

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).

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.

Calii is building the future of grocery shopping in LatAm by delivering ultra-fresh produce and thousands of grocery items in less than two hours– with savings and less waste! Founded by Stanford engineers, Calii is taking a full-stack, tech-driven approach connecting directly with producers and brands, automating the food supply chain end-to-end, and delivering to users’ doorsteps via a network of micro-fulfillment centers. By cutting middlemen and inefficiencies in the food supply chain, users get ultra-fresh groceries with savings, meanwhile helping the environment by reducing waste by up to 3X. Even though COVID-19 increased the use of grocery delivery apps, grocery shopping remains largely offline (~95%) and represents a multi-trillion dollar opportunity. Calii is already cracking the $1T groceries market in its path to become the next-gen Amazon in LatAm.

Soff is a supply chain operating system for manufacturing companies. We unify supply chain data and automate core workflows, such as data entry, requesting quotes, comparing quotes, and issuing purchase orders. Our customers save dozens of hours a week spent on repetitive manual tasks.

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.

Zimi is a tech-enabled fulfillment provider that is bringing Amazon Prime-like delivery to exporters in emerging markets. We help merchants deliver to their international buyers in 2 days instead of 2 weeks, and at a fraction of the typical shipping cost (80% cheaper on average). Cross-border e-commerce is a $2 trillion opportunity by 2030, with 64% of that coming from emerging markets across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. However, merchants in these regions face major challenges like high shipping costs, lengthy delivery times, and complex logistics. Zimi solves these problems by localizing inventory, handling customs clearance and last-mile delivery, and streamlining the returns process. Our aim is to make selling internationally as easy as selling locally.

Expanding to other geographies and marketplaces is a massive growth lever for brands and manufacturers, but it’s complex and resource-intensive. Omnidock makes it effortless for merchants to sell on multiple marketplaces by acting as their merchant of record. Brands simply plug into our operating system, which reads their catalog, assesses marketplace eligibility, and auto-launches their products through our pre-vetted marketplace accounts. We handle all transactions on their behalf, removing the challenges and complexities of multi-marketplace selling

Enter Terra, a new world of product building. Connect with suppliers, expedite sampling, and track production in real-time, removing the uncertainties of overseas manufacturing.

The Forecasting Company builds planning systems based on our in-house foundation models for time series. We are starting with forecasting problems for logistics.

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.

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.

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.

Standard Data builds LLM connectors to integrate manufacturing data. At Palantir, we saw manufacturers spend hundreds of millions of dollars to solve this problem manually with legacy systems such as SAP and Oracle, but we realized this problem can be automated using LLMs.

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.

Poka Labs is developing an AI platform to automate operations tasks in chemical manufacturing, beginning with production scheduling. Traditionally, these tasks are performed manually using spreadsheets. Our software seamlessly integrates with existing data sources such as data historians, emails, and PDFs to automate analytics, scheduling, changes, and communication within a single platform. Malay and Andrew met while pursuing their MBAs at Harvard Business School. Malay previously worked as an engineer in the specialty chemical industry, saving his employers over $100 million across US, China, and German plants. Andrew worked as a software engineer on data infrastructure at Meta and optimization problems at a seed-stage startup. He also completed a Masters degree at Harvard specializing in Machine Learning.

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.

Sekilo - Poultry processing & supply chain for the SME foodservice industry. A category-first consumer food company is revolutionizing the poultry industry with innovative technology. At the forefront of poultry distribution and processing, our robust supply chain, fortified with stringent cold chain control, guarantees excellence from procurement to final delivery, setting a new industry standard. Our unwavering commitment addresses client pain points—ensuring unparalleled quality, hygiene, freshness, and multiple drops with a low MOQ. As a startup deeply rooted in logistics and supply chain expertise, Sekilo is the trusted partner for the diverse needs of the middle-downstream foodservice sector. Delivering cutting-edge solutions in warehouse management, inventory control, operations, delivery logistics, customization, and processing management, we cater to catering SMEs, HORECA chains, industry players, e-grocery startups, and D2C processed meat factories. Embracing technology, Sekilo optimizes Indonesia's poultry supply chain. With robust supply chain capabilities, customization, an efficient business model, and an unwavering commitment to consistency, Sekilo is reshaping the poultry distribution and processing landscape.

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.

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