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penny. is a Saudi-based B2B SaaS company that digitizes the full source-to-pay procurement cycle on one cloud platform. It combines e-sourcing, RFQs, purchase orders, supplier management, spend analytics and AI-driven automation so enterprises can cut costs, tighten governance and speed up buying. The modular, customizable system is used by companies across 75+ countries and is layered with AI tools like the Bidly.ai sourcing assistant to make procurement faster and more transparent.
Downstream is a Dallas-based online marketplace that lets construction contractors rent equipment, book waste hauling, and order jobsite services - dumpsters, porta potties, scissor lifts, forklifts, fencing, mobile offices - from a nationwide network of vetted suppliers. The platform delivers real-time pricing, multiple competing quotes per job, consolidated billing, Net 30 payment terms, and AI agents that read a contractor's rollout sheets or invoices to procure automatically. Founded in 2022 (originally as Trash Gurus), the company raised an $8M Series A in November 2025 co-led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and Moneta Ventures.
Procol is an AI-powered procurement platform that automates the full source-to-pay lifecycle - intake, strategic sourcing, eAuctions, supplier management, and spend analytics - for enterprise procurement and finance teams. Founded in 2018 by Gaurav Baheti and Sumit Mendiratta, the company pairs autonomous AI agents with white-glove service to help large enterprises cut procurement cycle times and unlock cost savings. Procol says it serves 200+ enterprises managing over $20B in spend, including IKEA, Hershey's, Havells, Emami, and the Tata Group.
LevaData is an enterprise SaaS company that builds an AI-powered supply management platform for direct-materials procurement. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, its Cognitive Supply Management platform blends a company's bill of materials and sourcing objectives with real-time market data covering over a billion parts and tens of thousands of suppliers to recommend cost savings, flag risks, and speed up new product introduction. It counts manufacturers and OEMs among its customers and raised a $47M Series C in 2021 led by Banneker Partners.
Bundle is an Oakland-based, AI-powered materials procurement platform built for design and construction teams. It lets builders and suppliers quote, buy, and manage construction materials from initial quote through delivery in a single system - offering a live catalog of 50,000+ products, multi-supplier quote comparison, delivery tracking, a reusable materials library, and automated reordering. Founded in 2021 by Stanford MBA classmates Janna Colucci and Edison Ding, Bundle targets the SMB residential and ADU segment, aiming to run purchasing 10x faster and cut material costs 10-20%.
Hazel is a New York-based startup building AI-native software for U.S. government procurement. Its platform helps state, local, and federal agencies define requirements, draft solicitations (RFPs, RFQs, RFBs), run market research, and evaluate vendor responses in one place - compressing a process that often takes months into days while keeping agencies compliant. Founded in 2024 by Harvard classmates August Chen and Elton Lossner and backed by Y Combinator, Hazel counts the City of Dallas, City of Atlanta, PhilaPort, and the U.S. Air Force among its early adopters.
Pavilion (formerly CoProcure) is a San Francisco-based govtech company building the marketplace for public procurement. It lets state, local, and education agencies find and reuse contracts that other public entities have already competitively bid and awarded - a practice called cooperative purchasing or 'piggybacking' - so buyers skip months of paperwork and vendors sell more using contracts they already won. The platform is free for governments, and layers vendor search, smart intake routing, compliance guidance, and an AI Contract Hub on top of a repository of tens of thousands of shareable public contracts.
BRM is an AI-powered vendor management and procurement platform that gives finance, legal, and IT teams a complete, organized view of every vendor, contract, and renewal. Its AI 'SuperAgents' automatically discover vendors across a company's email, ERP, corporate cards, and other systems, extract contract terms, build a live renewal calendar, monitor compliance, and even help negotiate renewals - replacing the spreadsheets and manual data entry that procurement has long depended on.
Didero builds AI agents that automate enterprise procurement for manufacturers and distributors. Its platform sits as an agentic layer on top of existing ERP and procurement tools, reading the messy stream of emails, purchase orders, packing lists, and supplier messages, then executing the routine source-to-pay work - sourcing, quoting, PO lifecycle management, invoice reconciliation, and supplier communication - so supply chain teams can stop chasing exceptions and focus on strategic decisions.
Order.co is a New York-based AI-powered spend efficiency platform that consolidates business purchasing, approvals, payments, and reporting into one system. Founded in 2016 as Negotiatus and rebranded to Order in 2022, it helps mid-market and enterprise companies cut costs through AI-driven sourcing, a 17,000+ vendor network, and accounts payable automation, overseeing more than half a billion dollars in annualized spend for customers like WeWork, SoulCycle, and Hugo Boss.
Spendflo is an AI-native procurement platform that helps finance, IT, and procurement teams buy, manage, renew, and secure their SaaS stack. Co-founded in 2021 by Siddharth Sridharan, Ajay Vardhan, and Rajiv Ramanan, the company combines an intake-to-procure workflow engine with negotiation-as-a-service and a family of AI agents (collectively branded Flo) that automate contracts, approvals, vendor onboarding, third-party risk, and accounts payable. Spendflo has raised $15.4M to date, including an $11M Series A in 2023 led by Prosus Ventures and Accel.