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Shielded

We help Fortune 500 companies hedge their supply chain risk

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.
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Shielded: The company brain for supply chain risk
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Shielded helps manufacturers understand and act on supply chain risk in real time.

As the world has become more volatile, businesses need a tool to monitor events and rapidly take action. Founder James Simon saw this problem first hand in commodities trading, in fact his whole job was to take advantage of other firms reacting too slowly as the world changed. 

That’s what inspired him to build Shielded, as an intelligence layer that integrates quickly, deeply understands your specific business, and turns volatility into clear, proactive decisions.

Shielded supports critical part and supplier management for leading defense companies, ingredient price audits for multinational CPG firms, and tariff impact analysis for global manufacturers.

With API, MCP, BOM, and spreadsheet integrations, every customer deployment to date has taken less than 72 hours.

Instead of simply receiving an alert when something happens, Shielded gives procurement, finance, and supply chain teams company-specific guidance on the impacts of external events, market shifts, and regulation changes, and recommends the right operational or hedging responses.

Shielded is your supply chain’s command center that never sleeps.

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Shielded
Batch:Summer 2026
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Jared Friedman
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