Supply Chain Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

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/

MarkIt builds AI agents that work directly inside the workflows trade professionals use every day — Excel, PDFs, broker portals, and more. From defensible classification, ACE report audits, and a self-updating system of record, it serves trade professionals end to end with agents intelligent enough to work in the complex environment. MarkIt brings reasoning, memory, and automation to global trade compliance, helping Suppliers, Brokers, and OEMs reduce errors, save time, and streamline operations in the growingly intense world of Global Trade.

Tesora builds AI-Native Software for Operations and Finance Teams at enterprises, manufacturers, distributors, small and mid-market businesses.

GETASAP is a tech-enabled, data driven, fresh-produce supply service for restaurants, small grocers, dark stores, and regional retailers in the US and Southeast Asia. We gather demand data from retailers of any size and watch what each location actually sells, keep one to three days of the right items (mainly fresh and confectionery right now) in nearby micro-fulfillment centers, and deliver within 8 hours. The core of our business is our demand intelligence software that processes demand data we receive from every store. We own the inventory, maintain cold-chain and lot traceability, and handle substitutions. The result is simple: higher in-stock on your top items, less waste, predictable pricing on staples, and fewer emergencies. We help many businesses eliminate overstocks and out of stocks completely and help them gain visibility to their inventory through demand intelligence software.

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.

Lanesurf helps freight brokers book shipments with vetted carriers at the best prices by negotiating rates across multiple calls in parallel. 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. With each booking, the AI learns from aggregated, anonymized lane and pricing data. As more customers use Lanesurf, this learning compounds, driving faster bookings at the best prices and powering a voice-driven freight marketplace.

Lumari enables supply chain teams to automate tactical work using custom-trained AI digital workers across supply chain procurement and sourcing.

Ovlo is a no-code AI platform for supply chain teams, building custom agents that automate critical workflows like demand forecasting, compliance validation, invoice reconciliation, and inventory optimization to eliminate manual errors and supercharge efficiency. As an AI layer connecting onto of your current tech stack, even email and Sheets, it creates streamlined end-to-end processes, empowering teams.

General Trajectory is building AI for the physical world. We are training vision-language-action (VLA) models across different embodiments to automate valuable labor starting with palletization, sorting, picking, and packing.

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 AI is a platform for building fully operational AI workflows tailored to supply chain operations. Deploy specialized, task-specific AI bots in days — not weeks. Our platform streamlines the creation of AI bots that can analyze millions of data rows, manage complex, long-horizon processes, and collaborate seamlessly with humans in the loop. Each AI bot comes equipped with custom tools maintained through AI-powered code editors directly within the Vortexify platform. Development teams can instantly generate dashboards, data pipelines, machine learning models, and custom functions — all contextualized to business goals and data requirements. Bots can operate in Co-pilot or Agent (autonomous) mode. They can be scheduled or triggered by real-time alerts and are governed by robust, natural language-generated guardrail templates that ensure safety, compliance, and reliability.

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 AI's AI agents solve the biggest problems in logistics - AR and AP! 3PLs, brokers, factors, and carriers lose billions every year to slow invoicing, manual invoice audits, and billing disputes. Manual AP & AR processes create errors, disputes, cash flow bottlenecks, late fees —hurting everyone in the logistics supply chain. 🚛 The Problem: - Factors: Auditing and verifying carrier invoices, timely invoicing - 3PLs & Brokers: Verifying carrier invoices, creating own invoices, and handling disputes and chargebacks. - Carriers: Timely invoicing, Submitting correct and complete paperwork, Dealing with late payments, incorrect deductions, and manual paperwork. - Shippers: Struggling with invoice error identification and resolution, delaying payments. 📉 The Impact: The U.S. freight industry processes over $1.2 trillion in transactions annually, yet 25% of freight invoices contain errors, leading to payment disputes and delays. 🔹 Our Solution is an AI agent that automates invoice audits, rate verifications, invoicing, and collections in the logistics industry. With Lighthouz AI agents, businesses 10x their AR and AP processes.

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

Manufacturers use Soff to grow revenue by auto-creating quotes and automating communication with customers & suppliers.

Spherecast is an AI-powered inventory management software for omni-channel CPG brands, supporting supply chain managers with demand planning, inventory optimization, and supplier communication. Spherecast tells brands when to reorder, how much, which warehouse to stock, and at what cost. It then autonomously executes these decisions by communicating with suppliers and manufacturers. Spherecast helps avoid stockouts and overstock, improve inventory visibility, and save time.

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.

Terra empowers creators and brands to design, sample, and bring their own products to market. Creators keep 100% of profits above manufacturing cost — all with no upfront cost or minimums, while manufacturing, fulfillment & logistics are handled in full.

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.

Forge helps companies recover tariffs and duties paid on imported goods that are later exported or scrapped by automating a process called duty drawback. Billions of dollars of eligible refunds go unclaimed every year. We take full ownership of the process from organizing data to filing claims so businesses can unlock this extra revenue with minimal effort.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our AI Agent runs the entire international trade operation: handles customs processes with government agencies and regulators, orchestrates cross-border payments, and provides credit solutions for trade finance. Built by ECSA, a Central Bank–licensed FX bank, the agent allows exporters and importers to move goods and money seamlessly across borders. Today it powers +USD 1b in annual volume across +17.000 transactions, cutting costs and eliminating regulatory friction.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

An autonomous logistics OS where AI agents handle transportation end-to-end, from procurement and planning to dispatch, tracking, and delivery, across any mode of transport. Continuously improving with every shipment.

Mentum helps procurement and supply chain teams streamline strategic sourcing with AI, transforming unstructured data into actionable insights for faster decisions and cost savings. Backed by Google’s Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator, we serve industries like CPG, energy, automotive, and aerospace.

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. We use LLMs to buy and manage building materials for large construction companies. With 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 top 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.

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.

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.

Jiga partners you directly with vetted manufacturers so you can communicate and get competitive, reliable human quotes. Our platform speeds up your workflow from request to delivery, so you can build great products faster than ever.

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.