YC DATA · 6,287 COMPANIES · OCTOBER 2, 2026
FORMATION · FIRST SURFACED FALL 2025

Supply Chain and Logistics

Return to Signal
COOLED · FALL 202585% confidenceObserved October 2, 2026Source: YC industryRadar flagged this 6 months early
The count
0.71×

22/810 → 12/622; -0.79 percentage points of formation share.

S12W16S19W23S25S26
About this formation

What counts as "supply chain and logistics" in this batch has narrowed sharply from moving goods to automating the paperwork and phone calls around moving goods: Trava audits customs entries, Comena and Kanava AI replace manual order-taking and inbound calls, and Hemut and Lunavo target the back-office and dispatch layer of trucking rather than the trucks themselves. Even the load-planning entrants, Maximal and Fleetline, are converging on the same dispatcher's desk from opposite starting points, suggesting the actual hard problem left in freight is context-aware scheduling rather than tracking or booking. Physical-world sensing shows up only at the margins, with Rebulk applying LiDAR and computer vision to bulk commodities that never got barcodes in the first place. The formation's cooling to 0.71x share change reads oddly against Manufacturing accelerating at 3.24x, since these agents are largely built to sit on top of manufacturers' and distributors' existing order flow, implying the money is following production upstream faster than it's following the logistics layer that depends on it. None of this required new sensors or new freight infrastructure to become possible, just the 2023-24 jump in voice and document-parsing models good enough to handle messy customs filings and call center chatter, which is why a wave of these agent-layer companies all cluster in 2025 rather than earlier.

The companies behind the signal — 12
Fall 2025
Lunavo

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Summer 2025
Rebulk

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Summer 2025
Maximal

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Summer 2025
Fleetline

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Summer 2025
burnt

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Summer 2025
Comena

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Summer 2025
GETASAP

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Spring 2025
Lumari

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Spring 2025
Kanava AI

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Spring 2025
Hemut

Included in YC's Supply Chain and Logistics membership during the measured recent window.

Inside Supply Chain and Logistics

Supply Chain

A primary internal company segment within Supply Chain and Logistics, derived deterministically from the shared yc tag “Supply Chain”. This is a classification of current window members, not a causal layer or a separate time trend.

Logistics

A primary internal company segment within Supply Chain and Logistics, derived deterministically from the shared yc tag “Logistics”. This is a classification of current window members, not a causal layer or a separate time trend.

Other / unclassified

Measured-window members of Supply Chain and Logistics that could not be assigned to a narrower shared YC tag or industry without forcing a classification.

Outside corroboration — does anyone else see this?

No comparable outside activity is connected yet.

Citation

Cambrian Signal, “Supply Chain and Logistics,” publication yc-2026-10-02-semantic-v8, snapshot October 2, 2026.
cambrian.jafar.com/formation/supply-chain-and-logistics

Supply Chain and Logistics · Cambrian Signal