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Loop Raises $95M to Build Smarter Supply Chain AI Tools
San Francisco startup Loop secures Series C led by Valor Equity Partners; round includes 8VC, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, and J.P. Morgan's growth fund as global supply chains face mounting tariff and logistics pressures.
San Francisco startup Loop secures Series C led by Valor Equity Partners; round includes 8VC, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, and J.P. Morgan’s growth fund as global supply chains face mounting tariff and logistics pressures.
Loop, a San Francisco-based supply chain AI startup has closed a $95 million Series C round to expand a platform that converts fragmented logistics data into predictive operational intelligence for enterprise customers.
Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund led the round. 8VC, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, and Tao Capital Partners also participated, the company said in a press release.
The move comes as tariffs, supplier diversification costs, and elevated energy prices squeeze enterprises already operating on legacy systems with limited financial visibility. Loop co-founders Matt McKinney and Shaosu Liu, who met while working at Uber, said the capital will go primarily toward hiring engineering and AI talent.
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We see every day how much pressure companies are under to manage supply chains through constant disruption, and how often critical decisions are still being made on top of fragmented data and brittle systems. This investment lets us expand our platform and connect the financial and operational data that our customers need to make better decisions, faster.
Matt McKinney, Co-founder, Loop.
Loop’s platform centers on a proprietary AI system called DUX, a family of models and agents the company said combines document, data, and domain understanding with execution capability. The system ingests unstructured data, including PDFs without optically recognized characters and digital messages, then structures it to automate back-office logistics tasks and surface cost or supply risks.
The company said it is expanding DUX to handle supplier, trade, and compliance data, as well as warehouse, procurement, and inbound logistics data, while deepening integrations with enterprise resource planning, transportation management, and warehouse management systems.
Antonio Gracias, founder, CEO, and chief investment officer of Valor, said in a statement that Loop has built systems capable of turning previously inaccessible data into operational and financial intelligence.
That foundation extends into other operational and financial functions, which is why Loop is positioned to become the intelligence layer of the entire supply chain.
Antonio Gracias, Founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer, Valor.
Valor is a known backer of Elon Musk’s xAI, a detail Liu publicly cited as validation of the startup’s technical defensibility, according to a TechCrunch account of an interview with the co-founder.
Loop said it currently serves enterprise customers, including Outset Medical, Clemens Food Group, Olipop, Kendra Scott, and Dot Foods. The company did not disclose revenue figures or the total number of customers in its announcement.
The funding lands in a crowded field. Deliverr founder Harish Abbott raised an $85 million in Series A late last year, targeting freight automation. A startup called Amari AI, founded by former Google and LinkedIn engineers, emerged from stealth in February to modernize customs broker systems. Established players, including Uber Freight and Flexport, have also disclosed AI expansion efforts. Flexport founder Ryan Petersen is an early Loop investor, according to the TechCrunch report.
The company was founded on the premise that AI capable of performing predictive supply chain functions would not arrive until around 2030, McKinney told TechCrunch, a timeline he said has compressed considerably.
Loop said it began in freight audit and payment before expanding into its current platform configuration. The company’s stated goal is to serve as the foundational intelligence layer across logistics and supply chain decision-making.
Disclaimer: This news is based on publicly available information, including Loop’s official press releases.
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