Supply Chain Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

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.

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/

Applied Kinetics builds and deploys specialized AI employees to handle the coordination work behind America's energy and data center buildout. Our agents chase suppliers, track equipment approvals and delivery dates, and flag delays so project teams can keep critical equipment moving without hunting for updates across emails and spreadsheets.

Lark builds specialized AI agents that automate manual workflows for wholesale distributors. Our agents work with existing ERP systems, learning from each distributor’s historical data and the team’s decisions. Together, these agents can run a distributor’s entire operation.

Tarifflo is the infrastructure layer for modern customs - AI-powered filing, tariff recovery, and customs intelligence on one platform. Filing should be free. Legacy ABI software charges you per entry, per user, per module. Brokers charge for every transaction. Tarifflo's filing software costs nothing - file directly with CBP under companies own filer codes. We make money when our clients do. 1 in 8 entries has an error that overpays duty - misclassification, tariff stacking, valuation, origin. Most importers never catch them. Our AI audits your entries, finds the overpayments, and helps file for your refund. Under both is the same engine, live tariff intelligence covering every HTS code, Chapter 99 program, exclusion, and rate change - so the duty you pay going forward is as right as the refunds we recover looking back.

SpaceFlow is an AI-native procurement services company for businesses that make, move and serve physical goods. We help procurement teams bring more spend under management, execute source-to-contract work and turn identified savings into realized savings without adding headcount or replacing existing systems.

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. Predicting escalation is what our team did for eight years before this - now we bring the same engine to logistics.

Derya deploys supply chain automations for startups, SMEs, and enterprises that fulfil their entire supply chain function, from prospecting and procurement to distribution of goods. Our mission is to rebuild the supply chain from the ground up, turning one of the world’s hardest coordination problems into an AI native system that moves commodities by being integrated into both the supply chain infrastructure and the customer. We work across robotics, commodities, and food & beverages companies; procuring goods and managing various operation functions for them.

Shielded connects companies’ internal and external data to map market shifts, tariffs, and disruptions directly to suppliers, products, and margins. We turn those impacts into real-time decisions that grow and protect the business.

The US Warehouse industry spends $75bn on labor each year. Yet, only 10% of US warehouses have any form of automation, because existing robotics are too expensive and hard to integrate. Manifold deploys autonomous robots that handle picking, loading / unloading, and palletizing — priced by pick. Integration in hours. No upfront costs. No retrofitting. No need to rebuild the operation around the robot. Our mission is to make it easy for any warehouse to adopt robotics.

Donkey is the AI-native trading company. Upload a buying list and we land the whole container at one locked, delivered price, tariffs included. You buy from Donkey: one contract, one company responsible for everything between the factory floor and your door. Our own people check the cartons before the factory gets paid, and the balance is due when the goods are accepted at your dock. Small businesses buy imports through three or four middlemen, each adding 15 to 30 points, because none of them can fill a container on their own. Big enough to buy pallets, never big enough to buy the box. Quotes float with freight, FX and tariffs and live 15 to 30 days. A trading company is rooms of people on the phone with factories, forwarders and brokers. Donkey runs that as one engine. It finds the real factory behind the customs record, stacks duty line by line, packs the container on weight and cube, and returns one number that holds from signature. Next comes the shared container: small buyers fill one box together at container prices, and every container earns better factory terms for the next one. Team in San Francisco and Wuhan, English and Mandarin. If your business buys pallets of anything imported, send us your buying list.

Whitespace builds AI agents that run the entire operation of supply chain businesses, starting with wholesale distributors. We give them self-improving AI agents that learn their business and do work like inventory planning and customer service. We're building towards a world where all supply chain operations run through our agents, and all physical goods purchases can happen across businesses without human touch.

GUILD is an AI-Native Defense contractor making aerospace parts faster and cheaper. We win defense contracts, automate manufacturing, and deliver to the government's door.

Haladir builds advanced AI systems for logistics. We sit on top of your WMS, TMS and ERP, turning their data into decisions across supply chain planning and execution: solver-grade optimization that decides what should happen, and AI agents that run the workflows. Today's AI brought intelligence. The next frontier is judgement.

Founded in 2023, GETASAP is a San Francisco–based technology and supply chain infrastructure company transforming fresh produce distribution and freight. GETASAP 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. It also operates an AI-native freight carrier and brokerage, delivering reliable reefer LTL and FTL services powered by VoiceAI dispatch, optimized scheduling, and real-time operational intelligence.

Maximal is building autonomous systems to plan and move the world's freight. Our first product is a context-aware algorithmic load planning platform for full truckload (FTL) carriers. Our agents plug into a carrier's existing ERPs and communication channels, using that context to generate holistically optimized load plans. The result: carriers earn more revenue-per-mile while spending less time planning. Our founding team * grew up in 3PLs and trucking companies * studied the math behind transportation science at Cornell, Columbia, and USC * developed the technology that optimizes Amazon's distribution and fulfillment center network

Food Supply Chain companies have been using legacy ERPs for decades. Everyone knows these are necessary evils that essentially run the business but take up a lot of operational capacity. They are not about to just rip and replace their existing system that runs their whole business with a system that takes years to implement. Imagine if they could implement AI that runs the ERP for them, in weeks? Burnt’s building an agentic OS for the Food Supply Chain with AI Agents for each department. Our AI Agent, Ozai, has started by replacing the whole order management job function at food distribution companies, so that sales and customer service teams can focus on what matters - the customer. Ozai monitors all incoming messages (emails, phone calls, voicemails, whatsapp, fax etc.), figures out if it's an order, learns each customer's habits, shorthand, and favorite products, picks up on any prep notes, and enters it straight into the existing ERP. It'll even go back to the customers on your behalf when it's not sure about something, clarify things and carry on working. The more it sees, the smarter it gets.

Fleetline is building the first complete-context algorithmic load planner for mid to large-sized trucking fleets. Today’s dispatchers face an overwhelming task: balancing regulations, customer demands, live fleet data, and individual driver needs, all while coordinating across siloed tools and teams. Mistakes run rampant, and each mistake is thousands of dollars. Even the select fleets using algorithms that have fleet-wide context struggle: the outputs are rigid, hard to interpret, and are blind to real-world nuances like driver preferences and schedule exceptions. Fleetline solves this by combining advanced optimization with LLMs that can easily adapt algorithms to each fleet’s needs and capture driver-specific information. The result is smarter planning truly optimized for every fleet and its drivers.

Over a million loads move via trucks in the US every day and even in 2026 they are still booked through endless negotiations over calls and emails. Lanesurf solves this with an army of AI agents that find nearby empty trucks, call/email them in parallel, negotiate rates, and book the best available truck. Live Demo: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7394069447327555584/ Our self-improving voice AI stack is built for the messy reality of logistics - noisy calls, compliance checks, constant exceptions and turns them into faster bookings at better margins.

DeepAware (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley, https://roboticscenter.ai/) is the fastest way for enterprises and researchers to get robots and robotics parts in the US — 72-hour delivery or Bay Area pickup. Beyond hardware, we help teams collect teleoperation data, build reinforcement learning environments, and deploy robots into production. Customers include AI labs, industrial operations, research teams, and event producers.

Rebulk builds AI-native software for rail, transload, and bulk operations. We help teams manage railcars and trucks, transloading, maintenance, yard switching, railcar tracking, bulk inventory, documents, customer reporting, and billing. Much of this work still runs on spreadsheets, paper tickets, phone calls, and disconnected legacy systems. That means teams spend too much time entering the same information twice, tracking down paperwork, figuring out where railcars and inventory are, and putting together reports by hand. Rebulk brings that work into modern software built around how each business actually operates. We’ve lived this problem, and we know how to build for it. Warren previously led product at a Series A supply chain software startup, where he worked closely with companies moving and managing bulk commodities. Cole was engineer #3 at Tropic, helping scale it from seed to Series B, and later led engineering at an AI startup. Rebulk runs operations at Venezia Transport, Usher Transport, Cicada Logistics, McDonald Farms, and TransloadX across transloading, rail maintenance, switching, railcar tracking, and bulk inventory.

Lumari is the world's first AI-powered procurement automation platform purpose-built for direct materials and supply chain execution. Backed 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. Founded by engineers from Google, Tesla, Amazon, and Stripe who have built and scaled supply chain systems serving millions of users. Built 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. No rip-and-replace, no supplier onboarding. Lumari handles the manual chase: quote follow-ups, PO confirmations, delivery status updates, and risk escalation. Lumari helps companies from Fortune 500s to fast-growing startups automate work from sourcing to delivery, streamline supplier communication and order management, and bring full visibility to their procurement operations. To learn more check out https://lumari.ai/

Trava is building AI agents for global trade compliance. Importers lose billions each year to duty overpayments and filing errors. Trava audits customs entries and automates classification to help importers protect margins and stay compliant at scale.

Vortexify is an AI app builder for full-stack, internal business apps. Businesses such as manufacturers, hospitals and logistics services use Vortexify to solve complex, operational problems such as scheduling, process optimization, forecasting, root cause analysis and scenario planning. Our agents encode business logic by mapping operational problems to the data in your systems and collaborating with domain experts. Operations teams can build apps without writing code. Engineering teams can edit and manage agent written code at any time. Vortexify builds applications beyond simple dashboards with native support for databases, scheduled tasks, optimization solvers, machine learning models, data pipelines, API calls and more. Our secure, managed infrastructure enables our agents to build quickly and get it right the first time. Solve your hardest operations problems today! Create a free account to get started. For additional technical services or support, contact us or book a demo.

Mobius is the safe spot market for electronic components like microcontrollers and capacitors. We help electronics manufacturers buy and sell chips quickly, safely & at market prices.

Lighthouz is a backoffice AI solution for freight brokers, to automate AP, AR, and Collections. Leading freight brokers are using Lighthouz AI to automate FTL (full truckload) and LTL (less than truckload) freight bill auditing, automatically filing disputes, and invoicing customers. With Lighthouz, 70%-85% emails do not need to be touched by humans. Hence, brokers using Lighthouz are invoicing customers 36% faster, getting paid 5 days sooner, and reducing back office costs by 40%. Lighthouz brings 25+ years of supply chain, logistics, and AI experience to brokers, with a AI Professor from Georgia Tech who taught 1000+ students, and team with PhD and MS in AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

Vendra makes it faster and easier to get custom parts manufactured in America. Submit one RFQ and Vendra turns your technical requirements into custom manufactured parts - routing work through qualified US suppliers, gathering competitive quotes, and managing production through delivery. We're ITAR registered and manufacture parts for American aerospace and defense leaders. Customers include Anduril, Mach Industries, Relativity Space, Castelion, and Planet Labs. Submit an RFQ at www.vendra.io to get started today!

The Forecasting Company builds planning systems based on our in-house foundation models for time series.

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.

Poka Labs builds an AI platform to help sales reps at chemical manufacturers respond to requests from customers and win more business. Our agents understand each companies product catalog, customer purchase behaviors, and tribal knowledge in order to price, quote, and win the business. Malay and Andrew met while pursuing at Harvard Business School and now are building for companies ranging from a few million in sales per year to billions.

No Logo is building the orchestration layer for creating viral consumer products. The manufacturing world is full of capable, underutilized overseas factories with the machines, tooling, and engineers to build winning products – but no way to connect them to the creators and brands with the ideas and distribution. As a result, bringing a new product to market has traditionally taken 6-12 months, tens of thousands of dollars, and a team of 20-30 people. No Logo collapses that. Using generative AI, we take a creator's product idea, visualize it, break it into core components and manufacturing processes, and match each step to the right factory in our network – turning an idea into a shippable product in just a few weeks.

The physical economy still operates without a common language. Enterprise systems, factories, trucks, and robots generate enormous amounts of data, but most remains fragmented across legacy software and incompatible formats. Without a shared understanding of what is happening, even the most advanced AI cannot reliably coordinate how goods are made, moved, and delivered. Oway is building that common language. Our protocol, IOI, connects enterprise systems and physical hardware, cleaning messy legacy data and live telemetry into a standardized schema that AI can understand and act on. Through a shared API, businesses can query their operations, identify inefficiencies, and automate actions across systems without replacing their existing software. Our first model, Juno, applies this intelligence to unused truck capacity. It tracks empty space on trucks and sells it at a 50% discount to businesses shipping in the same direction. By moving freight directly on trucks already making the trip, Oway reduces shipping costs, damage, and transit times while generating additional revenue for carriers. Every connected system and shipment expands our understanding of capacity, pricing, routes, facilities, and industrial operations. As this network grows, Oway is building toward a future where enterprise software, automated factories, self-driving vehicles, and robots can communicate and coordinate through one shared layer, making the physical economy programmable.

Cartage is the future of freight coordination. Transparent, tech-driven and eliminating the need for human coordinators.

Panora automates PO entry for distributors, manufacturers and wholesalers. Stop wrong shipments, block duplicates, reclaim ~80% of your order-entry time.

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).

We are building a safer supply chain. Cargo Theft has been increasing yearly, and the supply chain industry is urgently looking for ways to solve this. Using experience fighting fraud at the largest delivery marketplaces and logistics tech companies, we are building solutions to stop Cargo Theft and improve profit margins and revenue for warehouses and freight brokers.

At Reform, we’re building a platform for building and managing AI agents that perform high-stakes operational work. Some of the most critical industries today run on outdated systems, spreadsheets, and manual processes - creating friction across every handoff, contract, and invoice. We’re rebuilding this infrastructure from the ground up.

Forge manages international logistics for business around the world. We’re an AI native freight forwarder, customs broker, and tariff expert. We’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. Forge has raised capital from world class investors including Google, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures.

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.

Mandel runs the operational work across direct-materials sourcing and ordering - from RFQ through invoice - for manufacturers and distributors. It coordinates suppliers, checks orders and invoices against agreed terms, resolves discrepancies, recovers supplier credits, and keeps the ERP current. Working across email, supplier portals, EDI, and ERP systems, Mandel investigates issues and carries out the next steps within your team’s approval rules.

Trusted by independent grocers across America, Airgoods is the AI-native distributor transforming how stores discover, order, and sell the products their customers want. By combining proprietary data with automation across discovery, purchasing, receiving, and merchandising, Airgoods gives independent grocers the intelligence and operating leverage once reserved for the largest retail chains.

Guac accurately forecasts grocery demand to help supermarkets order and produce the right amount of inventory — reducing food waste and increasing availability.

Terminal builds telematics data infrastructure for the commercial fleet industry. Commercial auto insurers and fleet software companies, including industry leaders like Intact Insurance, depend on our platform to access GPS, speeding, and vehicle data from 330+ telematics providers. We recently raised our Series A led by Battery Ventures and are backed by Y Combinator, Golden Ventures, Penske Transportation Solutions, and Intact Private Capital. Our team works together in person in Toronto, combining early-stage speed with late-stage maturity while processing many terabytes of vehicle data every day.

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.

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 ("WMS") in minutes, not months.

Tank Payments is building modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. We offer payables automation software for logistics businesses that make hundreds of payments to trucking businesses every day. For trucking businesses, we provide a best-in-class banking platform, designed to meet the unique financial needs of the trucking sector.

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.

BiggerPicture, Inc. runs the largest freight scheduling network in the industry. It is a freight appointment network. Carriers, shippers, and facilities work from one shared shipment record, so the appointment a carrier requests is the same appointment the facility confirms and the shipper sees. Nothing to reconcile between systems, no email threads to chase. One workspace covers every scheduling channel: email, bulk email, and direct portal integrations. Automation handles routine booking and routes anything that needs a human into an exception queue. Every party is graded on one shared, published compliance standard rather than each provider's own unpublished metrics. Some of the largest brokers and carriers in the country run on our network. SOC 2 Type II. Women-led.

Our agents run tax, customs clearance, and supply chain workflows, helping companies navigate complex regulations and reduce the cost of international trade. By running these operations, Codexa becomes the natural platform for customers’ payments and foreign exchange. We execute transactions through our own financial institution, regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil, connecting operational workflows directly to financial infrastructure. Customers approve payments, and Codexa moves the money through traditional and stablecoin rails. Today, 51 enterprise customers use our agents, and 84% have adopted our financial products. We process approximately $800M in monthly financial volume, including $160M settled through stablecoins. Our customers include Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies.

Independent restaurants pay ~12% more than chains for the exact same food supplies because they buy alone. Kaso uses AI agents to aggregate purchasing demand from restaurants and negotiate chain-level pricing with suppliers.