# Sushanth Raman

> Sushanth Raman is the co-founder and CEO of Pallet, a San Francisco-based AI company building an autonomous workforce for the logistics industry. Drawing on family roots in food distribution and stints at Microsoft, Google, and Retool, he founded Pallet in 2022 with fellow Retool engineer Andrew Spencer. The company has raised $50M total — including a $27M Series B led by General Catalyst in May 2025 — and its CoPallet platform automates the manual back-office operations (order entry, quoting, portal updates, shipment tracking) that still consume billions of dollars annually in a $12 trillion global logistics market.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Pallet
- **Organizations:** Pallet, Microsoft, Google, Retool
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. Computer Science and Economics, Columbia University
- **Known for:** Raised $50M total across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds, Built CoPallet AI platform delivering 10x faster workflows and 50-70% cost reduction vs. traditional staffing, One customer reallocated 25 employees after deploying CoPallet

## Career timeline

- **2018** — Joined Microsoft as Product Manager; recognized as Charles Prescott Davis Scholar at Columbia (top 10% of engineering class); inducted into Tau Beta Pi honor society
- **2019** — Moved to Google as Product Manager
- **2020** — Joined Retool as early engineer, working across engineering and sales
- **2021** — Began extensive field research: 6+ months visiting warehouses, ports, truck yards, and dispatch floors across the US
- **2022** — Co-founded Pallet with Andrew Spencer (fellow Retool engineer); raised $3M seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures
- **2024** — Raised $18M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures with co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Activant Capital; reached $3M ARR with ~60 customers
- **2025** — Raised $27M Series B led by General Catalyst in May 2025; total funding reaches $50M; company scales to 130 employees

## Achievements

- Raised $50M total across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds
- Built CoPallet AI platform delivering 10x faster workflows and 50-70% cost reduction vs. traditional staffing
- One customer reallocated 25 employees after deploying CoPallet
- 90% of customer employees have platform accounts; 70% use it daily
- Charles Prescott Davis Scholar at Columbia University (top 10% of engineering class)
- Inducted into Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society (top 8% of Columbia engineering class)
- Featured speaker at FreightWaves and TPM/JOC industry events
- Led company to Series B without spending most of Series A capital

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Closed $27M Series B led by General Catalyst; total funding reaches $50M
- **2025-05** — Published blog post on the Series B and the math behind customer adoption of CoPallet
- **2025-05** — Discussed tariff-driven demand for logistics automation in TBPN interview on X
- **2024-10** — Raised $18M Series A; TechCrunch featured Pallet's AI-driven logistics modernization story
- **2024-10** — Company at $3M ARR with approximately 60 customers and 130 employees

## Links

- Website: https://pallet.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sushanth-raman
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SushanthRaman
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sushanthraman/

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Last updated: 2026-05-16