{"id":102138,"date":"2026-07-10T23:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/102138\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:39:19","slug":"bellevue-ai-startup-raises-50m-in-series-b-funding-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/102138\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellevue AI Startup Raises $50M in Series B Funding | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bellevue startup <a href=\"https:\/\/auger.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auger<\/a>\u00a0has raised $50 million in Series B funding, bringing the company&#8217;s total funding to $150 million.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by former Amazon executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davehclark\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Clark<\/a> and his wife, Leigh Anne Clark, the company uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make faster supply-chain decisions. Clark was quoted as saying in a recent GeekWire article that while today&#8217;s AI can generate insights, running a supply chain requires a level of expertise for which general-purpose AI wasn&#8217;t built.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Auger developed software designed specifically to understand how supply chains work and make routine decisions automatically. Most other similar software alerts companies when there\u2019s a problem and waits for someone to respond, the GeekWire article noted.<\/p>\n<p>If a supplier misses a shipment, the platform can identify the shortage, determine which customers to prioritize, shift inventory where it&#8217;s needed, and update existing systems before an employee has to step in.<\/p>\n<p>That approach is already being used by sports retailer Fanatics, where Auger manages about 85% of supply-chain decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also working with several businesses through pilot programs and contract negotiations and was recently named a premier supply-chain partner on Microsoft Fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Auger plans to continue expanding as it brings new customers, with Clark setting a goal of having half of U.S. GCP flow through the company\u2019s platform by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bellevue startup Auger\u00a0has raised $50 million in Series B funding, bringing the company&#8217;s total funding to $150 million.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,53126,8828,2315,993],"class_list":["post-102138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-auger","tag-bellevue","tag-startup","tag-supply-chain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}