Augment Raises $85 Million for AI Teammate for Logistics

Augment raised $85 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the development of its artificial intelligence teammate for logistics, Augie.

The company will use the new capital to hire more than 50 engineers to “push the frontier of agentic AI” and to expand Augie into more logistics workflows for shippers, brokers, carriers and distributors, according to a Sept. 4 press release.

Augie performs tasks in quoting, dispatch, tracking, appointment scheduling, document collection and billing, the release said. It understands the context of every shipment and acts across email, phone, TMS, portals and chat.

“Logistics runs on millions of decisions—under pressure, across fragmented systems and with too many tabs open,” Augment co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott said in the release. “Augie doesn’t just assist. It takes ownership.”

Augment launched out of stealth five months ago, and the Series A funding brings its total capital raised to $110 million, according to the release.

When announcing the company’s launch in a March 18 blog post, Abbott said Augie does all the tedious work so that staff can focus on more important tasks.

“What exactly does Augie do?” Abbott said in the post. “Augie can read/write documents, respond to emails, make calls and receive calls, log into systems, do data entry and document uploads.”

Augie is now used by dozens of third-party logistics providers and shippers and supports more than $35 billion in freight under management, per the Sept. 4 press release.

Customers have reported a 40% reduction in invoice delays, an eight-day acceleration in billing cycles, 5% or greater gross margin recovery per load and, across all customers, millions of dollars in track and trace payroll savings, the release said.

Jacob Effron, managing director at Redpoint Ventures, which led the funding round, said in the release that Augment is “creating the system of work the logistics industry has always needed.”

“Customers consistently highlight Augment’s speed, deeply collaborative approach and transformative impact on productivity,” Effron said.

In another development in the space, Authentica said Tuesday (Sept. 9) that it launched an AI platform designed to deliver real-time supply chain visibility and automate compliance.

In May, AI logistics software startup Pallet raised $27 million in a Series B funding round.

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