Purchaser.ai: AI-Powered Software to Finally Fix Manufacturing Procurement

September 25, 2024

Enhancing our country’s manufacturing capabilities requires rethinking every step of the process, from what we’re building, where it’s being built, how it’s built, and who is doing the building. Fortunately there are entrepreneurs rushing in to help. The Purchaser.ai team has deep experience in this industry, now coming back together to build solutions for manufacturing procurement processes.

Now that Purchaser has announced its seed round, we’re happy to share that Homebrew is a supporting investor, alongside our friends at Ludlow Ventures and Long Journey. We’ve long believed that industries that pre-date the PC will continue to reap the benefits of software transformation. But that building these companies requires founding teams who disrupt with love, not contempt, for the customers they serve. Alongside you need a time-to-value and scale of impact that makes your product adoption a priority, otherwise there’s too much to get done to just run innovation pilots.

In addition, we’ve been investing in vertical applications of AI for years and continue to believe there is massive opportunity for category-leading companies to be created where there is no incumbent software provider because simply increasing efficiency or improving workflow is only a nice-to-have. We’re confident that recent advancements in AI enable software to not just aid the worker, but do the work. Combining existing models with needed context from the customer and first party data can allow that work to be done. Purchaser team shares this perspective and their vision is to not just improve procurement workflows but to get procurement done.

If this sounds interesting to you, they’re hiring.