Ventura

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AI Workforce for Distributors and Manufacturers

Winter 2026Founded 20252 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Distributor/Manufacturer AI WorkforceSaaSDistributors, manufacturers, wholesale companiesMedium competition

Moat

ERP integration + tribal knowledge learning scales across customers; self-improving with each task.

Key risk

Enterprise sales cycles long; ERP integration complexity; competing against legacy ERP vendors.

Why now

Labor shortages in quoting/ops; ERP APIs improving; AI capable of SOP learning.

Competitors

SAP, Oracle, Infor, legacy ERP vendors

About

Ventura builds the AI workforce for distributors and manufacturers, starting with quoting and order entry. It plugs into your existing ERP, follows your SOPs, and learns your team's tribal knowledge - getting smarter with every completed task.

From their website

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Ventura offers AI quoting and order entry designed for distributors and manufacturers, automating data entry from emails, PDFs, and calls into ERP systems. It aims to reduce manual data work, speed up quotes and orders, and provide sales insights and automation across existing systems.

Ventura reads incoming requests in various formats (emails, images, phone calls), matches products from the distributor's catalog, and generates professional quotes. It automatically converts purchase orders into ERP entries by extracting line items and pushing clean orders to the ERP. It can act as a silent note-taker during calls, transcribe conversations, and create the resulting quote or order directly in the ERP. The platform connects to ERP, CRM, email, and phone systems, pulls live inventory and pricing, and learns from user feedback to improve outputs without retraining. Users review and approve outputs, which then get pushed to the ERP in minutes.

Who it’s for: Distributors and manufacturers seeking to automate quoting and order entry workflows and improve sales efficiency

Features

AI-based quote generation from customer requests
automatic purchase order to ERP conversion
silent call transcription and auto-quote creation
real-time integration with ERP, CRM, email, and phone systems
live inventory and customer-specific pricing
user feedback-driven model improvement

mentions of SOC 2 Type II security, live deployments, and measurable productivity and win-rate improvements imply traction; references to onboarding within days and a dedicated account manager suggest active deployment and customer engagement

Founders · 2

Swen KollerFounder

BCG

Harvard

Previously founded and exited a B2B SaaS platform for wholesale distributors in Europe. MS Engineering + MBA, Harvard. Forbes 30 Under 30. Ex-BCG.

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Jack CollinsFounder

🎓 Imperial College

Founding Engineer at Develop Health, where I owned a product responsible for half the company’s revenue. We went 0 to $7M ARR in 14 months with a team of 5. Created magentic, an open-source Python framework for LLMs (2k+ GitHub stars). Irish Mathematical Olympiad finalist. MS in Computing (Machine Learning), Imperial College London.

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Mar 2026

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We automate quoting and order processing. Distributors win more business.

Ventura automates quote and order entry by interpreting inbound requests and drafting AI-generated quotes or orders for ERP submission, aiming to shorten response times and let distributors’ inside sales teams focus on selling rather to data entry. The product targets industrial distributors and seeks to reduce manual data entry in ERP workflows.