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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.

Founders · 2

Swen Koller
Swen KollerFounder
BCGHarvard

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

Jack Collins
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.

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.

Formerly Autola

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