Didero has secured $30 million in Series A funding to bring agentic AI automation to global manufacturing procurement, aiming to eliminate the manual complexity that still defines much of the supply chain.
The round was co-led by Chemistry and Headline, with participation from M12.
Founded in 2023 by Tim Spencer, Lorenz Pallhuber and Tom Petit, Didero is building an AI-native layer designed to sit on top of existing ERP systems, automating communication-heavy procurement workflows for manufacturers and distributors.
From Manual Complexity To Agentic Automation
Tim Spencer first experienced the operational burden of procurement while leading Markai, an Asia-based e-commerce company he later exited in 2023. Managing thousands of suppliers across dozens of countries required extensive manual coordination, from sourcing and negotiating to tracking shipments and processing payments.
Global trade, he explains, still runs largely on unstructured communication – emails, phone calls, messaging apps, purchase orders and packing lists. Until recently, this information had to be manually processed and reconciled by procurement teams.
Didero’s platform ingests these fragmented communications and converts them into structured workflows. Acting as an agentic AI layer, it reads incoming messages, updates systems of record and executes procurement-related tasks automatically.
The ambition is to streamline the full cycle, from identifying a needed input to completing supplier payment, with minimal human intervention.
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Focused On The Industrial Supply Chain
While several procurement platforms such as Levelpath, Zip and Oro Labs focus on corporate purchasing workflows, Didero concentrates specifically on manufacturing supply chains.
Its customers are manufacturers and distributors that must source raw materials and components critical to production and distribution operations.
The company positions itself beyond narrower sourcing tools such as Cavela and Pietra, which primarily serve small and mid-sized brands and do not manage the entire procurement lifecycle.
Didero currently works with dozens of customers, including Footprint, a provider of plant-based packaging solutions.
Scaling Agentic Procurement Infrastructure
The new funding will support product development, platform expansion and broader market adoption as Didero advances its goal of placing manufacturing procurement on autonomous, AI-driven rails.
By embedding AI directly into existing enterprise systems rather than replacing them, the company aims to modernize one of the most operationally complex and communication-heavy functions in global trade.
