
A fourth-generation trades story took a detour through Allianz, Google X and Cambridge. At Mercura, Lukas Bock is bringing that education home - one unruly bill of quantities at a time.
Mercura is a Munich-based YC W25 startup building AI software that turns messy sales requests - emails, tender specs, phone calls - into structured, spec-compliant quotes and orders for industrial distributors and manufacturers. It reads unstructured inquiries, matches them to catalog products, prioritizes margin, and pushes the result straight into a customer's ERP.