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Transforms how grocery stores buy highly perishable foods.
Shelf Engine helps businesses increase sales by accurately predicting the perfect amount of perishable goods to order, thus reducing food waste.
Shelf Engine is represented by Crisp, a vertical AI retail data company that connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to generate real-time insights across the supply chain and drive outcomes such as reduced waste and improved shelf performance.
The platform ingests and standardizes retail data from retailers, distributors, and brands, creating a single source of truth. It offers data integrations and destinations, AI-powered agents, and an analytics suite for retail analytics, space planning, forecasting, order automation, and EDI services. Crisp deploys autonomous AI missions (AI Agents) that analyze daily store- and SKU-level data to automate actions like demand forecasting, replenishment optimization, assortment optimization, promotion management, and other supply chain decisions, with outputs delivered back into customer tools and systems.
Who it’s for: Retailers, distributors, and CPG brands seeking real-time data integration, analytics, and autonomous AI-driven actions to optimize supply chain, merchandising, and store-level execution.
Hiring and ongoing product expansion (AI Agents, data platform) and customer-facing features indicate active growth and traction in the retail data space.
YC alum (S18). My last company, Shelf Engine, scaled to 10,000+ grocery locations, raised $70M+, and exited in 2024. Now building Super Labs - AI that understands really complex work. Also co-founder of Massive Tech Ventures, writing $500k checks to back YC founders. Happy to help with enterprise sales, fundraising, or anything to help the best founders.
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