Mentium Lands $3.2M Seed Round to Bring AI-Powered Digital Workers to Freight Brokerages

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentium, the AI-native platform building "digital workers" for freight brokerages and the wider logistics sector, today announced it has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Lerer Hippeau with participation from Matchstick Ventures, Tower Research Capital, Antler, MBA Ventures, and angel investor Michael Witte, founder and CEO of Equal Parts.

Mentium's AI agents address one of the industry's most expensive and persistent challenges: fragmented, manual back-office work that slows operations, drains margins, and limits scale.

Mentium's AI agents:

• Integrate with any system to create a single source of truth — connecting TMS, ERP, email, phone, SMS, and third-party apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, Teams, and Slack.
• Create custom AI workers that use your tools to automate repetitive tasks — no coding, no pre-training needed, and they adapt to your rules.
• Eliminate manual work, errors, and revenue leakage — while boosting revenue. AI collects and processes invoices and BOLs, audits carrier payments to prevent fraud, and automates load booking and rate negotiations with voice AI.

Mentium's first product focus is accounts payable automation for carrier payments, a labor-heavy process and major source of revenue leakage for freight brokers and shippers. Once deployed, the platform allows customers to "hire" additional digital workers for other High-friction workflows such as carrier calls for load booking and rate negotiation, reporting, and customer–carrier communication. Early customers, including Baker Tilly (Panama), Sethmar, Heartland Logistics Group, Continental Expedited Services, are already seeing up to 70% of tasks completed with zero human touch.

"Freight brokerages are the backbone of the supply chain, yet they're stuck with expensive, outdated technology and thin margins," said Aziz Satarov, CEO and co-founder of Mentium.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."

"Our vision is to be the operating system for logistics," said Matthieu Berger, CTO and co-founder of Mentium. "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."

"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," said Ryan Brisbane of Matchstick Ventures.

The seed funding will accelerate product development, expand go-to-market operations, and grow Mentium's engineering team. The company has also established partnerships with Google, AWS, and NVIDIA to ensure enterprise-grade scalability and compliance.

About Mentium
Founded in 2023, Mentium is an AI-native platform that provides digital workers for freight brokerages and logistics companies. By automating manual tasks and integrating fragmented data sources, Mentium enables operations teams to work faster, smarter, and with fewer errors. The company is backed by top-tier investors and based in Austin, TX. For more information, visit mentium.io or contact [email protected].

About Lerer Hippeau
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital firm founded and operated in New York City. Our portfolio includes more than 400 leading enterprise and consumer businesses including Guideline, MIRROR, Blockdaemon, K Health, Warby Parker, ZenBusiness, and Thrive. Learn more at lererhippeau.com.

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