Retail brands were still sending people into stores with clipboards. Datasembly built a live map of the shelf, raised roughly $35 million, and joined SPINS - here is where its speed advantage works, and where it does not.
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.