Loop
San Francisco, US Β· 178 employees on LinkedIn Β· 11 known investors
Loop builds software to optimize supply chain finance and operations, using AI and data standardization to replace legacy back-office processes. The platform serves companies managing transportation spend and supply chain workflows.
Also known as Loop
Founders & leadership
Investors Β· 11
Also in the syndicate Β· 5
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$95M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds Β· 2022β2026
- $95MSeries CApr 2026 Β· 4 sources
Valor (lead), Valor Atreides AI Fund (lead), Valor Equity Partners (lead), 8VC, Founders Fund, Growth Equity Partners, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Tao Capital Partners
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Source: company announcements and press reports β follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Loop operates a verticalized, full-stack AI platform for logistics and supply chain operations. The product ingests unstructured and inconsistent transportation records β including PDFs without optical character recognition, paper documents, and digital messages β and normalizes them into a structured single source of truth that customers can query, report on, and automate against. Core capability areas include automated freight audits, flexible payment options, cost allocation, claim processing, parcel carrier contract optimization, analytics with custom alerts, real-time parcel shipment visibility, and claims management.
The company began in freight audit and payment and has since broadened into a wider logistics data platform. It is expanding into additional data types and use cases such as supplier, trade and compliance, warehouse, procurement, and inbound logistics data, and is deepening integrations with ERP, TMS, WMS, and order-management systems as well as data from suppliers and warehouses. Loop positions its platform for transportation, finance, customer care, and transformation teams inside enterprises, and states a longer-term goal of moving from diagnostic reporting to predictive and prescriptive supply chain recommendations.
Founding story
Co-founders Matt McKinney and Shaosu Liu met while working at Uber and Uber Freight, where they saw the difficulties of transportation spend management firsthand, and began working together on the problem in 2021. McKinney, a serial entrepreneur who studied engineering at USC and Stanford, became CEO; Liu, an engineer at Uber and Uber Freight with an engineering degree from the University of Illinois, became CTO. The founders assumed AI capability sufficient for their product would not arrive until roughly 2030, and built on that premise.
Business model
Enterprise software sold to companies that manage transportation spend and supply chain workflows, delivered as a platform that connects to customer systems (ERP, TMS, WMS, order management) and automates back-office logistics processes such as audit, payment, and cost allocation.
Sources describe an enterprise platform sold to shippers and logistics operators; specific pricing terms are not disclosed.
Traction
Loop reports customer outcomes including 5-7% spend reduction from audits, 15-20% contract spend reduction, and 7-20x first-year ROI, with implementations measured in weeks. Cited customer examples include 6% in identified transportation savings at GILLIG, scenario planning that identified $2.4M in quarterly (a stated $9.6M annualized) savings for a Fortune 500 direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical company by shifting volume between FedEx and UPS, and a Loadsmart workflow retrieving, categorizing, auditing and approving invoices within 13 minutes. The company was ranked No. 10 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list.
Latest developments
On April 17, 2026, Loop announced a $95 million Series C led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from 8VC, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, and Tao Capital Partners. Capital is earmarked for hiring, particularly AI and engineering talent, expanding the platform into additional enterprise use cases, and scaling customer impact. The company also announced recognition in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Freight Audit and Payment Providers.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Loop describes itself as the industry's first Logistics Data Platform and positions itself as an intelligence layer for the supply chain. It was recognized in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Freight Audit and Payment Providers for its audit, payment, and visibility capabilities, AI-driven data foundation, and expanding global footprint, and was named No. 10 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list. Coverage places it alongside AI-driven logistics entrants and incumbents including Uber Freight and Flexport, which are making their own AI investments.
The company focuses on the back-office areas of logistics where data is most fragmented and financially material, structuring that data before layering automation and decisioning on top. Investors cited defensibility from proprietary handling of previously inaccessible supply chain data; co-founders state the domain focus and rigor set the approach apart from generalist AI efforts.
Technology
Loop's platform is built around DUX, a family of models and agents designed for logistics and supply chain complexity, combining document, data, and domain understanding with execution to ingest, standardize, contextualize, and act on logistics data. Automation runs through a harness that coordinates multiple AI models, some developed in-house and some frontier models. The team describes an underlying "atomic task system" that decomposes workflows into smaller tasks, developed with a domain-driven approach as the basis of what the company calls the first LLM built for the supply chain.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales with demo requests through the company website, supported by customer case studies, published savings benchmarks, and analyst recognition such as inclusion in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Freight Audit and Payment Providers.
Enterprises with significant transportation and supply chain spend, and specifically their transportation, finance, customer care, and transformation teams. Named customers include Outset Medical, Clemens Food Group, Olipop, Kendra Scott, Dot Foods, Great Dane, GILLIG, and Loadsmart.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a growing global footprint across audit, payment, and visibility services.
History
The founders began working together in 2021. In 2022 the team built Loop's AI infrastructure, including its atomic task system, and raised a $30M Series A from Founders Fund, 8VC, Susa, Flexport, and others. A $35M Series B followed in 2023, backed by J.P. Morgan Growth Equity and Index Ventures. In April 2026 the company announced a $95M Series C led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund. Loop started in freight audit and payment and expanded into a broader logistics data and enterprise intelligence platform.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Timeline Β· 4
launches, deals, and filingsLoop announced a $95 million Series C led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from 8VC, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, and Tao Capital Partners. Proceeds are directed to hiring, product and engineering depth, and expanding the platform across enterprise use cases.
$95M source β
Loop described DUX, a family of models and agents built for logistics and supply chain complexity that combines document, data, and domain understanding with execution to ingest, standardize, contextualize, and act on logistics data.
Loop was named No. 10 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing companies.
Loop was recognized for expanded capabilities, its AI-driven data foundation, and growing global footprint across audit, payment, and visibility services.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
βΈResearch sources Β· 8
primary sources listed
- Looploop.us Β· web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Loop do?
- Loop is a San Francisco AI platform that structures fragmented logistics data for freight audit, payment, and supply chain visibility.
- Who founded Loop?
- Loop was founded by Matt McKinney, Shaosu Liu.
- Who are Loop's investors?
- Loop's investors include Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Valor Equity Partners, 8VC, Raptor Group, Susa Ventures.
- How much funding has Loop raised?
- Loop has disclosed $95M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Loop headquartered?
- Loop is headquartered in San Francisco, US.