New York–based startup Didero has raised $30 million in Series A funding to scale its AI-agent platform designed to autonomously execute day-to-day procurement work for global manufacturers and distributors.
The round was co-led by Chemistry and Headline, with participation from M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, signaling growing investor confidence in agentic AI as a new layer of operational infrastructure for industrial enterprises.
From Dashboards to Autonomous Execution
Procurement remains one of the most labor-intensive functions inside manufacturing and distribution organizations. Teams routinely manage thousands of supplier interactions across ERP systems, email threads, spreadsheets, and portals, much of it still handled manually despite decades of digital investment.
Didero’s approach reflects a broader shift in enterprise software: instead of replacing systems or adding more dashboards, AI agents operate directly inside existing workflows, taking responsibility for execution.
Didero deploys AI agents that build contextual understanding across:
- Products and pricing
- Supplier policies and constraints
- Historical orders and exceptions
- Live communications and ERP data
Within weeks of integration, these agents begin handling supplier communication, order tracking, follow-ups, and exception management, reducing cycle times while improving real-time visibility across procurement operations.
“Procurement teams are being asked to manage increasingly complex supply chains with tools that were never designed for the pace or scale of today’s trade,” said Tim Spencer, Co-Founder and CEO of Didero. “Our AI agents handle the operational work, so teams can focus on strategic decisions instead of chasing emails and exceptions.”
Why Investors Are Paying Attention
Investors backing Didero point to a rare combination of fast deployment, measurable operational impact, and strong customer adoption — a contrast to many AI initiatives that remain stuck in pilot phases.
“Procurement has long been weighed down by repetitive, high-friction work that has proven difficult to automate at scale,” said Kristina Shen, Managing Partner at Chemistry. “Didero applies AI agents directly to that operational layer in a way that materially changes how supply chain teams work.”
Headline echoed that view, emphasizing Didero’s traction in traditionally conservative industrial environments.
“We haven’t seen many AI-native supply chain players with this level of deployment velocity and customer feedback,” said Taylor Brandt, Partner at Headline. “This feels like a turning point in a once-in-a-generation transformation.”
Agentic AI Meets the Enterprise Stack
Didero’s integration-first strategy has also aligned closely with the Microsoft enterprise ecosystem, where many manufacturers already run finance, supply chain, and collaboration workloads.
“Agentic AI unlocks a new level of automation in procurement that simply wasn’t possible before,” said Cheryl Cheng, Managing Partner at M12. “Didero is uniquely positioned to deliver this at scale within existing enterprise environments.”
Rather than positioning AI as a decision-support layer, Didero’s agents are designed to execute under defined guardrails, reflecting a growing enterprise appetite for systems of action — not just systems of insight.
Early Customer Impact
Didero was founded in December 2023 and is already embedded with more than 30 customers, a notable adoption rate for enterprise procurement software.
“Didero’s AI agents were autonomously executing mission-critical procurement tasks for us within weeks,” said Stephen Sharr, VP of Procurement, Logistics and Contract Manufacturing at Footprint. “I’ve never seen anything like the speed or impact.”
This rapid time-to-value is becoming a key differentiator as manufacturers look to modernize operations without long ERP transformation cycles.
What Comes Next
With the new funding, Didero plans to expand:
- Product development and engineering
- Go-to-market and customer enablement teams
- Enterprise sales and customer success
The company also intends to extend beyond procurement into adjacent workflows such as sourcing and payments, signaling a longer-term ambition to become a core execution layer across supply chain operations.
A Signal for the ERP and Supply Chain Market
Didero’s Series A reflects a broader trend reshaping enterprise software: AI agents are moving into operational roles, embedded within ERP and supply chain ecosystems rather than sitting alongside them.
For ERP leaders, supply chain executives, and CIOs, the message is clear: the next wave of efficiency may not come from new modules or analytics dashboards, but from autonomous agents that execute work across systems at machine speed — under human governance.
As global supply chains continue to face volatility, labor constraints, and complexity, procurement may be one of the first functions where agentic AI proves its value at scale.
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