Loamy

AI-powered operations hub for the food supply chain, unifying inventory, quality, harvest planning, and sales.

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Field	Value
Name	Loamy
Tagline	AI-powered operations hub for the food supply chain, unifying inventory, quality, harvest planning, and sales.
Headquarters	Los Angeles, United States [Crunchbase]
Founded	2024 [Crunchbase]
Stage	Seed [Blue Book Services, October 2026]
Business model	SaaS
Industry	Logistics / Supply Chain
Technology	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	North America
Growth profile	Venture Scale
Founding team	Co-Founders (2): Charles Julius, Jason Pesek [Supply Change Capital, January 2026]
Funding label	Seed
Total disclosed	$10,000,000 [Blue Book Services, October 2026]

What an Investor Needs First

PUBLIC Loamy is building software for food supply chain operators who still run critical workflows across fragmented systems, and it merits investor attention now because the company has paired a recent $6 million seed announcement with an early customer narrative in a category where compliance failures and spoilage carry immediate economic cost [Blue Book Services, October 2026] [Supply Change Capital, January 2026]. Founded in 2024 in Los Angeles, the company was started by Charles Julius and Jason Pesek, who previously worked together at Motive, according to investor materials, giving the founding story a credible link to scaled operational software rather than a purely conceptual AI pitch [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026].

The product is described by the company as an AI-powered operations hub for growers, shippers, distributors, processors, and food manufacturers, spanning inventory, quality, harvest planning, order tracking, and financial workflows, with a stated focus on replacing manual coordination and disconnected tools [Loamy] [LinkedIn] [LinkedIn, December 2024]. The practical differentiation, based on public materials, appears to be workflow breadth inside a vertical market: Loamy is positioning as a system of record for food operations rather than a point solution for a single compliance or traceability task, although most product claims remain company-sourced and should be treated accordingly [Loamy] [LinkedIn] [AndNowUKnow, October 2026].

On team quality, the clearest public signal is domain transfer from prior roles in logistics and operational software. Investor and company-adjacent sources say Julius built Procore's Marketplace and led go-to-market and product strategy at Motive, while Pesek held senior product roles at Motive across compliance, mobile apps, and workforce management [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026] [Motive].

Capital formation is still early but tangible. Blue Book Services reported a $6 million seed round in October 2026 led by Zeal Capital Partners and said total funding stood at $10 million, while an earlier January 2026 post from Supply Change Capital disclosed its participation without naming round size, which leaves chronology only partially reconciled in public sources [Blue Book Services, October 2026] [Supply Change Capital, January 2026].

The business model is straightforward SaaS, and the nearest-term question is not whether the category exists, but whether Loamy can convert early wedge use cases in food safety and operations into durable multi-function adoption across larger accounts [LinkedIn, December 2024] [Loamy]. Over the next 12 to 18 months, the public markers worth watching are customer expansion beyond investor-named accounts, cleaner evidence on headcount and sales buildout, and third-party validation that the product is delivering measurable reductions in waste, rejections, or workflow friction at scale [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [LinkedIn, December 2024] [Wellfound].

Claim stands unchecked -- This section relies materially on company, investor, and company-adjacent sources, with limited independent corroboration beyond Blue Book Services.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Value
Stage	Seed
Business Model	SaaS
Industry / Vertical	Logistics / Supply Chain
Technology Type	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	North America
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (2)
Funding	Seed, total disclosed approximately $10,000,000

Inside the Company

PUBLIC

Loamy presents as a very young software company with a narrow, industry-specific brief: it is building operating software for food supply chains, with Los Angeles as its stated base and 2024 as its founding year [Crunchbase] [Loamy]. The public record is thin but directionally consistent on the basics. Crunchbase lists Loamy as a Los Angeles company founded in 2024, and the company website describes an operations hub that combines inventory, quality, order tracking, harvest planning, and financial workflows for food businesses [Crunchbase] [Loamy].

The early chronology is straightforward. A company-linked job post was live by December 2024 for a founding account executive in Los Angeles, which suggests the go-to-market build began soon after formation [Loamy, December 2024]. By October 2026, Loamy had published an About page that identified a broader leadership bench beyond the two publicly named co-founders, including Priya Srinath as CTO and co-founder and Marco Benetti as Head of Compliance [Loamy, October 2026]. The same public materials frame the business as cloud software for growers, shippers, distributors, processors, and food manufacturers, with an initial emphasis on food safety, compliance, and adjacent operational workflows [Loamy] [Loamy, October 2026].

Claim stands unchecked -- This section relies primarily on company website materials and Crunchbase, with limited independent public corroboration on team composition and milestones.

Under the Hood

Reported and inferred

Loamy is selling a fairly specific software proposition: one operating layer for food supply chain teams that still run quality, inventory, harvest planning, orders, and compliance across disconnected systems and manual workflows [Loamy] [LinkedIn] [Blue Book Services, October 2026]. Public company materials describe the product as a cloud-based platform for growers, shippers, distributors, processors, and food manufacturers, with functionality spanning food safety and quality, inventory visibility, order tracking, and financial workflows [Loamy] [Loamy Technologies, Inc. - Loamy Blog] [LinkedIn, December 2024]. Blue Book Services separately described the company in October 2026 as building an "agentic AI" operations platform for the food supply chain, which broadly aligns with Loamy's own LinkedIn positioning around AI agents working across field operations, sales, finance, and compliance [Blue Book Services, October 2026] [LinkedIn].

The evidence is strongest on workflow breadth, and weaker on technical differentiation. On the product surface, Loamy says it supports detailed quality inspections, real-time stock visibility, order tracking, on-time payment monitoring, multi-date harvest forecasting, pricing insights based on historical data, and customer credit limits intended to reduce overselling risk [Loamy Technologies, Inc. - Loamy Blog] [Loamy] [Harvest Planning | Loamy] [Order Management System & Food ERP Software Alternative | Loamy]. A LinkedIn post cited in the research attributes "real-time visibility and predictive intelligence" to the platform, and another cited profile references satellite imagery and automated compliance tools, but those claims appear in secondary social materials rather than a verified product demo or formal technical documentation, so they should be treated as directional rather than fully established product proof points [LinkedIn, retrieved 2026].

From an investor's perspective, the notable point is not novel model architecture, which is not publicly documented, but category fit. Food shippers and growers have compliance-heavy, perishable operations where rejected loads, documentation gaps, and poor inventory visibility can turn into waste quickly, and Loamy's public feature set is aimed squarely at those operational failure points [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026] [Blue Book Services, October 2026]. What remains harder to verify from public evidence is how much of the product advantage comes from automation depth, proprietary data, or implementation design versus a well-packaged vertical workflow system.

Claim stands unchecked -- This section relies heavily on company materials and investor descriptions, with limited independent technical verification.

Market Research

Market context

PUBLIC The market matters now because food supply chains are carrying more compliance burden, more perishability risk, and more workflow complexity at the same time, which creates room for software that can sit between field operations and commercial execution, if buyers will actually consolidate onto one system [Loamy, Unknown] [Blue Book Services, October 2026].

The public record here is thinner than it should be for a full market map. There is no cited third-party TAM, SAM, or SOM in the source set, so any sizing discussion has to stay qualitative rather than pretend precision. What is visible is the problem framing: Loamy is selling into growers, shippers, distributors, processors, and food manufacturers, with an initial wedge around food safety, supplier documentation, inspections, certificates, traceability, and compliance workflows [LinkedIn, December 2024] [Supply Change Capital, January 2026].

That wedge is credible as a buying entry point because the cost of operational failure in perishable categories is unusually immediate. The company and its investors repeatedly anchor on rejected shipments, recalls, waste, and missed coordination between inventory, orders, and compliance, which suggests demand is tied less to abstract digital transformation budgets and more to avoiding product loss and administrative friction inside day-to-day operations [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026].

The adjacent markets are easier to identify than the core market size. Loamy is described in different places as food supply chain management software, a food ERP alternative, a traceability and compliance platform, and an operations system spanning inventory, quality, harvest planning, sales, and finance, which places it at the overlap of ERP, warehouse and inventory software, food safety software, and vertical logistics tooling rather than in a single clean category [Loamy, Unknown] [LinkedIn, Unknown] [Blue Book Services, October 2026].

Market lens	Public evidence	Read-through for demand
Food safety and compliance software	Loamy's initial focus is described as food safety, supplier documentation, inspections, certificates, traceability, and compliance workflows [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [LinkedIn, December 2024]	Budget can be justified by risk reduction and audit readiness rather than only efficiency gains.
Vertical ERP / system of record for food operations	Loamy positions itself as an "AI-powered system of record" and a food ERP alternative spanning inventory, orders, and finances [Loamy, Unknown] [LinkedIn, Unknown]	The upside is larger wallet share, but the sales motion is harder because system replacement is slower than point-solution adoption.
Produce and perishable logistics operations	Blue Book Services places the company in produce supply chains and cites customers across produce, meat, and grain distribution [Blue Book Services, October 2026]	The near-term market likely starts in perishables, where spoilage and timing errors are expensive enough to force adoption.

The table points to a market that is structurally broad but commercially narrow at entry. The likely near-term addressable segment is not all supply chain software, but operators in perishable food categories that feel compliance pain and inventory volatility sharply enough to buy a workflow product before they buy a full operating system.

Demand drivers in the sources are practical rather than thematic. Buyers appear to care about real-time stock visibility, order tracking, quality inspections, harvest forecasting, supplier documentation, and payment controls, which together suggest that software demand is being pulled by fragmented back-office and field workflows, not only by interest in AI as a standalone budget line [Loamy, Unknown] [Loamy, October 2026].

Regulatory pressure is a meaningful tailwind, although the public evidence still comes mostly from company and investor materials. Loamy's October 2026 About page references certificate extraction and FSMA 204 compliance work, and the repeated emphasis on traceability and supplier documentation implies that regulation is one of the few forcing functions that can move conservative food operators toward new systems [Loamy, October 2026] [Supply Change Capital, January 2026]. A conservative read is that compliance can open doors, but broader adoption will still depend on whether the product also improves throughput, reduces rejections, or lowers spoilage in measurable ways.

Macro conditions also cut both ways. Food inflation, labor constraints, and waste reduction pressures should make workflow software more relevant for operators trying to preserve margins, especially in perishables, but those same operators can be slow buyers if software requires process change across procurement, quality, sales, and finance [Blue Book Services, October 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026]. For that reason, the more important market question is not headline category size, which is not established here, but whether Loamy can land through compliance and expand into broader operating workflows over time.

Claim stands unchecked -- This section relies primarily on company, investor, and trade-publication descriptions of the category and use cases. No independent third-party TAM, SAM, or SOM report was present in the provided public sources.

Competition and Substitutes

MIXED Loamy is positioning itself less as a point compliance tool and more as an operating layer for perishable food workflows, which places it against a broad set of substitutes even though the supplied record does not identify named direct competitors [Loamy, October 2026] [LinkedIn] [Blue Book Services, October 2026].

The competitive map is therefore clearest when broken by job to be done rather than by logo. On the incumbent side, Loamy is explicitly arguing that growers, shippers, distributors, processors, and food manufacturers still run critical workflows across disconnected systems and manual processes, especially in food safety, supplier documentation, inspections, certificates, traceability, inventory, and order operations [LinkedIn] [Loamy] [LinkedIn, December 2024]. That implies its practical competition today includes legacy ERP, spreadsheets, email, shared drives, and narrow compliance software, even if those vendors are not named in the public materials reviewed here [LinkedIn] [Loamy] [Supply Change Capital, January 2026].

The adjacent challenger set appears to be workflow software that can enter through a single pain point, then expand. Loamy's own materials point to quality inspections, harvest planning, pricing insights, customer credit limits, inventory visibility, order tracking, and financial workflow support, which is a wider product claim than a single-function compliance vendor would typically make [Loamy Technologies, Inc. - Loamy Blog] [Harvest Planning | Loamy] [Order Management System & Food ERP Software Alternative | Loamy] [Loamy]. That breadth cuts two ways: it can make the initial pitch more strategic, but it also means Loamy is implicitly competing with a patchwork of specialized tools and with internal operational habits that cost little in cash terms to keep using [LinkedIn] [Loamy].

Where Loamy appears to have an edge today is in founder-market fit and category framing, though the durability of that edge is not yet proven. Charles Julius and Jason Pesek are described by investor sources as having scaled products and go-to-market efforts at Motive, and Julius is also tied to Procore's marketplace work, which matters because both prior companies sold software into operational environments where workflows are fragmented and compliance matters [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026]. In a category where buyers often resist system replacement, that background may help Loamy package a multi-workflow product into a wedge that feels operational rather than purely administrative; still, this edge is perishable unless the company turns early customer usage into proprietary workflow data and repeatable deployments, neither of which is independently established in the public record beyond investor and company claims [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026] [Blue Book Services, October 2026].

The main exposure is that Loamy does not appear to own a distribution channel, a mandated network, or a publicly evidenced standards moat. The public evidence supports customer traction claims such as nearly a dozen paying customers as of January 2026 and names including ReadyPac, Evolution Fresh, Better Produce, and DeBernardi Brothers, but those references come from investor materials rather than independent operating disclosures [Supply Change Capital, January 2026]. If incumbent ERP vendors, established traceability platforms, or narrower compliance tools can meet FSMA- and audit-related needs with less process change, Loamy's broader system-of-record ambition could be harder to land, especially where customers prefer incremental adoption over platform replacement [Loamy, October 2026] [LinkedIn] [Loamy].

The most plausible 18-month scenario is a segmentation of the field rather than a winner-take-all outcome. Winner if execution holds: Loamy, if customers continue buying a bundled approach that links compliance, inventory, and sales-side decisions in one workflow and if the company can convert its seed financing into implementation capacity and reference accounts in produce and adjacent perishables [Blue Book Services, October 2026] [Supply Change Capital, January 2026]. Loser if adoption stays narrow: manual workflows, meaning the spreadsheet-plus-email operating model that Loamy is explicitly trying to replace; but if buyers only want point solutions for certificates, inspections, or traceability, then the loser could instead be Loamy's broader platform narrative, because the company would be pulled back toward a narrower compliance category it is trying to grow beyond [LinkedIn] [Loamy, October 2026] [LinkedIn, December 2024].

Claim stands unchecked -- This section relies primarily on company and investor materials, with no named competitors in the supplied public record and limited independent corroboration beyond Blue Book Services.

Opportunity

PUBLIC The prize here is not another point solution for food operations, but the chance to become the operating system that sits between growers, shippers, processors, and distributors as compliance, inventory, quality, and sales workflows move onto one shared software layer [Blue Book Services, October 2026] [Loamy] [LinkedIn].

The headline opportunity is straightforward. If Loamy can turn food safety and traceability, the most operationally sensitive workflows in perishables, into the entry point for a broader system of record, it could become default infrastructure for a meaningful slice of the North American fresh and food distribution stack [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Loamy] [LinkedIn]. That outcome is reachable, rather than merely aspirational, because the public record already shows three ingredients that usually matter at seed: a wedge tied to acute pain, early customer proof, and founders with direct operating exposure to large workflow businesses. Loamy's public materials and investor writeups consistently place the initial wedge in supplier documentation, inspections, certificates, traceability, and compliance, then extend into inventory, harvest planning, sales, and finance workflows [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Loamy] [LinkedIn]. Blue Book Services also reports a $6 million seed round led by Zeal Capital Partners and total funding of $10 million, which does not prove product-market fit, but it does suggest enough capital to keep building toward a broader control point in the category [Blue Book Services, October 2026].

The path to outsized scale likely depends less on a single feature and more on where adoption starts. Supply Change Capital said in January 2026 that Loamy had nearly a dozen paying customers, including ReadyPac, Evolution Fresh, Better Produce, and DeBernardi Brothers, while Slauson & Co. described Better Produce as an early customer that saw fewer rejections and higher revenue through improved operations [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026]. Those are company- and investor-sourced claims, so caution is warranted, but they do point to live commercial use in exactly the workflows where software can expand from compliance into planning, inventory, and commercial execution [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Slauson & Co., April 2026].

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst	Why it's plausible
Compliance wedge becomes system of record	Loamy starts with food safety, certificates, inspections, and traceability, then expands into inventory, orders, harvest planning, and financial workflows across the same accounts	A regulatory step-up in traceability and documentation requirements pushes operators to consolidate fragmented workflows into one platform [Loamy, October 2026] [Supply Change Capital, January 2026]	The company already presents food safety and compliance as the entry point, and its product surface now spans inventory, order tracking, forecasting, and financial controls [Loamy] [Harvest Planning \| Loamy] [Order Management System & Food ERP Software Alternative \| Loamy]
Perishable supply chain network expansion	A few anchor growers, processors, or distributors pull counterparties onto the platform because supplier documents, inspections, and order coordination work better when both sides participate	A category-tipping customer standardizes Loamy across supplier or buyer relationships, creating multi-party workflow gravity [Supply Change Capital, January 2026]	Named customers in investor materials span different parts of the chain, and Loamy's positioning explicitly targets growers, shippers, distributors, processors, and manufacturers rather than a single node [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [LinkedIn, December 2024]
AI workflow layer over legacy food ERP	Loamy becomes the modern workflow and decision layer for operators who do not want to replace every incumbent system at once, using AI agents and real-time operations data to sit above manual tools and fragmented software	Successful deployments where AI-assisted workflows reduce rejections, shrink delays, or improve sales and harvest decisions without a full rip-and-replace [Slauson & Co., April 2026] [LinkedIn]	The company is already framing itself as an AI-powered system of record that replaces disconnected tools and manual processes, and customer anecdotes point to operational improvement as the hook [LinkedIn] [Slauson & Co., April 2026]

What compounding looks like is a data and workflow flywheel. The first sale appears to come from painful, mandatory processes such as compliance, inspections, supplier documents, and traceability, where the cost of failure is obvious and often immediate [Supply Change Capital, January 2026] [Loamy, October 2026]. Once those records are in the system, Loamy can plausibly add adjacent modules, including inventory visibility, order tracking, multi-date harvest forecasting, pricing insights, and financial controls, each of which improves the value of the original compliance record because the same operational data is being reused across teams [Loamy] [Harvest Planning | Loamy] [Order Management System & Food ERP Software Alternative | Loamy].

That matters because software in fragmented operational categories tends to get stronger when it becomes harder to unbundle. A quality inspection record that also informs inventory, shipment timing, customer commitments, and collections is more than a narrow workflow tool; it becomes part of the account's operating memory [Loamy Technologies, Inc. - Loamy Blog] [Loamy] [Order Management System & Food ERP Software Alternative | Loamy]. The early signs of this flywheel are still company- and investor-reported, but they are directionally consistent: Loamy is not selling one isolated compliance screen, it is trying to aggregate field operations, sales, finance, and compliance into a single workflow layer [LinkedIn] [Supply Change Capital, January 2026].

The size of the win is best framed qualitatively because the provided public materials do not include a confirmed market size study or a directly cited public comparable valuation. Even so, if the "compliance wedge becomes system of record" scenario plays out across a meaningful share of growers, shippers, processors, and distributors in North America, this could plausibly become a large infrastructure software business rather than a niche vertical tool (scenario, not a forecast) [LinkedIn, December 2024] [Blue Book Services, October 2026]. The reason is visible in the product surface itself: Loamy is attempting to own workflows that touch quality, traceability, inventory, orders, forecasting, and financial execution, which together sit close to revenue protection and waste reduction for perishable supply chains [Loamy] [Harvest Planning | Loamy] [Order Management System & Food ERP Software Alternative | Loamy]. If a company owns those workflows with enough depth and switching cost, the upside can extend well beyond compliance software into core transactional infrastructure for an industry segment.

Claim stands unchecked -- This section relies heavily on company, investor, and company-linked materials for product scope, customer names, and early traction, with partial independent corroboration from Blue Book Services on the October 2026 round.

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