Austin-headquartered Mentium, an AI-native startup developing “digital workers” for freight brokerages and logistics companies, 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.
The company plans to use the new capital to expand its engineering team, enhance its product suite, and accelerate go-to-market efforts. Mentium has also partnered with Google, AWS, and NVIDIA to support enterprise-grade scalability and compliance.
Automating back-office tasks
Founded by Matthieu Berger and Aziz Satarov in 2023, Mentium automates back-office tasks that slow operations, hurt margins, and hinder scalability. Its AI agents handle repetitive work across transport management systems (TMS), ERP tools, email, SMS, phone, and various communication platforms, including Telegram, WhatsApp, Teams, and Slack.
According to the company, these “digital workers” require no coding or pre-training, adapt to each company’s rules, and help eliminate human error, prevent revenue leakage, and improve efficiency. Mentium’s AI processes invoices and bills of lading, audits carrier payments for fraud, and can automate load booking and rate negotiations via voice AI.
“Freight brokerages are the backbone of the supply chain, yet they’re stuck with expensive, outdated technology and thin margins. 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,” said CEO Aziz Satarov.
Focus on accounts payable automation
Its first product focus is accounts payable automation for carrier payments, often one of the most error-prone logistics tasks. Clients can later add AI agents for load booking, rate negotiation, reporting, and carrier–customer communications.
Early adopters, including Baker Tilly, Workrise, Sethmar, Heartland Logistics Group, and Continental Expedited Services, report that up to 70% of routine tasks are now completed without human intervention.
“Our vision is to be the operating system for logistics. 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,” said Matthieu Berger, CTO and co-founder of Mentium.
