inventory-optimization
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Manhattan Associates
The software behind a delivery promise has to reconcile a shelf, a warehouse, a truck and a customer in seconds. Manhattan Associates has spent 35 years turning that hidden choreography into an enterprise platform - and now it is teaching AI agents to help run it.
Datavations
Datavations is a New York-based, AI-powered market intelligence platform built exclusively for manufacturers and distributors in the building materials and home improvement industries. It aggregates granular, store-level and SKU-level retail data across thousands of stores to give suppliers the cross-retailer visibility they otherwise lack - helping them optimize pricing, inventory, and product assortment, and walk into merchant meetings armed with data their retail partners don't have. Founded in 2020 by Philip Odelfelt, the company raised a $17M Series A in July 2025 led by Forestay Capital.
Toolio
Toolio is a New York-based retail technology company that builds cloud-based, AI-powered merchandising software. Its platform replaces spreadsheet-driven planning with connected workflows for merchandise financial planning, open-to-buy, assortment planning, demand forecasting, and allocation. Founded in 2019 by ex-Walmart engineers Eytan Daniyalzade and Berk Atikoglu, Toolio helps modern retailers and direct-to-consumer brands decide what to buy, how much, and where to place it - managing over a billion dollars of inventory across more than 100 retail customers.
DeepVu
DeepVu (legal entity Vufind Inc.) is a San Ramon, California startup building AI planning agents for supply chain teams. Its platform pairs a supply-chain knowledge graph (VuGraph) enriched with macroeconomic and trade signals, a digital-twin simulator (VuSim), and reinforcement-learning decision agents (VuDecide) to make demand planning, inventory, procurement, production and logistics decisions more resilient to shocks - while trimming cost and carbon. Founded in 2016 by Moataz Rashad and Prof. Walid Aref, the company pivoted from computer-vision roots to focus on autonomous, shock-resilient supply chain planning for manufacturers and retailers.
ThroughPut.ai
ThroughPut.ai is a Silicon Valley-based supply chain decision intelligence company that turns time-stamped operational data into fast, profit-focused decisions. Its AI platform - anchored by an engine named ELI - detects bottlenecks, senses demand, rebalances inventory, and optimizes capacity and logistics so manufacturers, distributors, and industrial operators can free up cash from operations they already run. Founded in 2017 by operators and serial industrial-tech entrepreneurs, the company works backward from real customer demand to match it with actual capacity.
Mayan
Mayan is a growth automation platform for Amazon sellers, built by MIT data scientists and paired with human Customer Success Managers who are proven Amazon PPC experts. It blends machine-learning software with expert account management to automate advertising, bidding, pricing, listings and inventory so brands can grow revenue and profit on Amazon without drowning in the data.