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Valorant and the price of forgetting
A missed renewal can be an expensive clerical error. The procurement firm now called Zavo is building a business around making sure somebody remembers.
Tropic knows what the other buyer paid.
Software sellers have the price history. Buyers have a renewal deadline. Tropic wants to change the terms of that conversation.
SpendMend finds the money hospitals already spent
A missing gas cylinder. A missed vendor credit. A pharmacy order placed at the wrong price. SpendMend turns the overlooked details of hospital spending into money hospitals can use again.
Patrick Taylor and the value of an ordinary mistake
An early fraud hunt taught the Oversight co-founder to pay attention to the smaller things. His career has followed the feedback - from corporate spending to venture capital and Georgia Tech.
Labviva wants scientists out of the shopping aisle
A reagent can have a price, a supplier, and a place in a published experiment. Labviva puts those facts together, making the laboratory shopping cart a surprisingly useful place to improve research.
VIVA USA makes a business of the missing pieces
A recruiter, a software builder and a supplier-data specialist share one company. VIVA USA’s most revealing product is the one that still needs someone to pick up the phone.
The Trouble With the Little Things
Simfoni built its business around the purchases too small to command attention and too numerous to ignore. Its wager is that a useful spend insight should lead all the way to a better purchase.
SpendHQ Found the Missing Half of Spend Analytics: Proving the Money Was Actually Saved
Procurement teams rarely suffer from a shortage of spreadsheets. SpendHQ built a business by cleaning the mess, connecting insight to execution, and giving Finance a number it can believe.
Mohawk Medbuy Built the Hospital Supply Chain Nobody Notices - Until a Drug Goes Missing
Hundreds of hospitals pool their purchasing power through one Burlington organization. The clever part is no longer just negotiating a lower price - it is turning invoices, shortages and clinical judgment into shared infrastructure.
Part Analytics Bet Procurement Teams Were Done With Spreadsheets - Then Customers Rewrote the Product
Two former GE HealthCare operators built the electronics sourcing system they wished they had. Their useful trick was letting early customers pull it from a BOM tool into a broader operating layer for procurement - and the reported results explain why Altium bought it.
The Startup That Turned the Office Supply Closet Into Software
Kathryn Madden built OfficeLuv around a boring truth: someone always ends up ordering the paper towels. Her bet was that the someone should be software - plus a person who shows up.
penny.
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.
PERSUIT
PERSUIT is an enterprise SaaS platform that helps corporate legal departments scope, price, select and manage their outside law firms. Founded in 2016 by former DLA Piper partner Jim Delkousis, it runs competitive RFPs, structures alternative fee arrangements, benchmarks rates and - after its 2025 acquisition of Apperio - tracks legal spend from intake through invoice payment. The company built on a simple premise: clients value outcomes, not billable hours.
Procol
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.
Levelpath
Levelpath is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company building an AI-native procurement platform that unifies intake, sourcing, contracts, and supplier management in one system. Founded in 2022 by the team behind Scout RFP (acquired by Workday for $540M), Levelpath aims to make procurement software people actually enjoy using - mobile-first, fast, and powered by AI agents that automate the repetitive 'ugh' work of buying at large companies. It has raised roughly $100M total, most recently a $55M+ Series B led by Battery Ventures in June 2025.