Didero raises 30 million dollars to put manufacturing procurement on agentic autopilot

Direct material procurement is a manual graveyard where 86% of professional time is incinerated on reactive tasks, but a new wave of "agentic" software is looking to seize control of the factory floor. San Francisco-based Didero has closed a $30 million Series A funding round to scale its AI agents, which are designed to navigate the "manual maze" of global supply chains. The investment, co-led by Chemistry and Headline with participation from Microsoft’s M12 and Greycroft, signals a pivot in the enterprise AI war from passive chatbots to active agents that execute transactions.

For decades, the back-office infrastructure of the world’s factories has been held together by fragmented emails, WeChat messages, and spreadsheets. In an industry facilitating $32 trillion in annual international trade, the reliance on human data entry has created a massive bottleneck. Didero’s platform functions as an autonomous layer that sits atop legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP and Oracle, ingesting unstructured communications and autonomously updating records or triggering requests for quotes (RFQs). Unlike traditional software, these agents "read" the context of supply chain disruptions and act on them without human intervention.

The business case for this "agentic" shift is built on the exhaustion of the workforce. "Procurement has long been weighed down by the burden of operational busy work, spending hours each day chasing emails, reconciling spreadsheets, and manually updating legacy systems just to keep production moving," stated Didero CEO Tim Spencer. As manufacturing hubs fragment across the globe, the complexity of managing thousands of vendors has outpaced human capacity. By deploying agents to handle administrative triage, Didero claims it can resolve the "exception handling" that typically halts production lines.

The Series A brings Didero’s total funding to roughly $37 million, arriving just months after the company emerged from stealth. The rapid influx of capital highlights a broader venture capital trend: the death of horizontal AI in favor of "vertical" agents with deep domain expertise. In the high-stakes world of manufacturing, where a single missing circuit board can cost a firm millions in delayed shipments, the value of an agent that never misses an email is quantifiable.

With the backing of Microsoft’s venture arm, Didero is positioned to become the connective tissue for the modern factory. As global supply chains face increasing geopolitical and logistical volatility, the companies that win won't just have better data, they will have agents fast enough to act on it.