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Mercura
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.
Conexiom
Conexiom is a Vancouver-based B2B software company that automates the capture, correction, and analysis of sales orders and trade documents for manufacturers and distributors. Its AI-powered platform turns unstructured purchase orders arriving as PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, faxes, and even handwritten notes into 100% accurate, ERP-ready data, removing manual keying and the errors that come with it. Backed by roughly $170M in growth investment from Warburg Pincus, ICONIQ, and Luminate Capital, Conexiom processes hundreds of thousands of orders representing billions of dollars in transactions each year for customers such as Fastenal, Graybar, Parker Hannifin, and Arrow Electronics.
Darren Bonnstetter
Darren Bonnstetter is the CEO of Conexiom, a Vancouver-based AI-native platform automating sales order processing for manufacturers and distributors. Appointed in August 2025, he brings a rare blend of mechanical engineering rigor (Iowa State, Stanford MS, Harvard MBA), turnaround consulting at AlixPartners, and climate-tech entrepreneurship - having co-founded and led 280 Earth, a Google X spinout that raised $50M to capture carbon using industrial waste heat. At Conexiom, he leads a 210-person company serving 16 of the top 20 distributors globally, with $170M in total funding backed by Warburg Pincus, Luminate Capital Partners, and ICONIQ Capital.