Mentium raises $3.2M in funding to bring AI digital workers to freight brokerages and logistics

Freight brokerages keep global supply chains moving, but their back offices are often stuck in the past — overloaded with manual tasks, fragmented data, and outdated systems. Mentium, an Austin-based AI startup, wants to change that. The company has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to bring AI “digital workers” into one of the logistics sector’s most operationally intense corners.

The round was led by Lerer Hippeau, with Matchstick Ventures, Tower Research Capital, Antler, MBA Ventures, and angel investor Michael Witte, founder and CEO of Equal Parts, joining in. The fresh capital will go toward product development, go-to-market expansion, and scaling Mentium’s engineering team, the company told TechStartups in an email. The company has also formed partnerships with Google, AWS, and NVIDIA to support its growth.

At its core, Mentium builds AI agents that take over repetitive, error-prone back-office work. The platform plugs into transportation management systems, ERPs, email, phones, messaging apps, and other third-party tools to create a single source of truth. Once integrated, logistics companies can create custom AI workers that follow their rules and workflows without any coding or pre-training. These agents handle tasks like processing invoices and bills of lading, auditing carrier payments to catch fraud, and automating load booking and rate negotiations through voice AI.

With $3.2 Million in Funding, AI Startup Mentium Sets Its Sights on Becoming the OS of Logistics

The startup’s first focus is on accounts payable automation for carrier payments — a process notorious for being labor-heavy and a source of revenue leakage for freight brokers and shippers. After deployment, customers can “hire” additional digital workers to take on other high-friction workflows, from carrier calls and reporting to customer–carrier communication. Early adopters, including Baker Tilly, Workrise, Sethmar, Heartland Logistics Group, and Continental Expedited Services, are already reporting that up to 70% of tasks are completed without human involvement.

“Freight brokerages are the backbone of the supply chain, yet they’re stuck with expensive, outdated technology and thin margins,” said Aziz Satarov, CEO and co-founder of Mentium. “We’re giving them the tools not just to survive, but to grow, replacing manual processes with AI agents that can be deployed in minutes and adapt to any customer’s workflow.”

Matthieu Berger, CTO and co-founder, sees Mentium as more than just an automation tool. “Our vision is to be the operating system for logistics,” he said. “Once we integrate, we’re not just automating tasks — we’re becoming their data lake, their single point of truth, and the platform where they can deploy automation across their entire business.”

Investors are betting that this approach can reset logistics’ operational baseline. “We’re incredibly bullish on Mentium’s ability to usher in an agent-driven future for the supply chain and logistics industry,” said Graham Brown, Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau. “They’re solving real operational pain points with a solution that’s both technically powerful and easy to adopt. This is the kind of technology that can reset an industry’s efficiency baseline.”

“Mentium is unlocking automation for one of the most complex, overlooked parts of logistics. Their AI platform is a game-changer, and we’re thrilled to back them as they scale,” added Ryan Brisbane of Matchstick Ventures.

Founded in 2023, Mentium is part of a growing wave of logistics tech startups targeting back-office inefficiencies with AI. By consolidating fragmented data sources and offloading manual work to digital agents, the company wants to give freight brokers and logistics operators a way to scale without adding headcount.

Mentium Founders Aziz Satarov and Matthieu Berger (Photo: Mentium)