ABOUT THE COMPANYPhoton Commerce empowers supply chain industry leaders to capture data and manage suppliers at the speed of light. Used by leading eCommerce, fulfillment, and financial services businesses, Photon extracts and centralizes messy data like PDFs, invoices, and packing slips into a modern collaboration platform using AI. Teams collaborate around invoicing data, resolve exceptions, and achieve end-to-end visibility, reducing labor, blind arrivals, errors, and delays.
Photon is backed by the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and Village Global, a venture firm funded by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and other leaders of industry. Photon brings experience from Google AI, ServiceNow, and Amazon.
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Leadership: supply chain management, artificial intelligence, and enterprise SaaS
Michael Young, CEOMichael was founding CEO of Smart Focus, an AI and retail supply chain company spun-out from Stanford, backed by industry leaders in AI. Michael also co-founded Innova Dynamics, which was acquired by a major supplier to Apple after raising $30M. He and his work have been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, Economist, and the UN.
Michael is a subject matter expert in computer vision and supply chain management. He studied physics, engineering, and business at UPenn and Stanford. |
Jonathan Taylor, VP BDJonathan has successfully taken multiple eCommerce SaaS startups from 0 to acquisition or IPO. He was VP of Global Sales and Business Development at Passage AI (acquired by ServiceNow), Linc (customer care automation between brands and consumers), KWIK, Piqora Global Visual Commerce (acquired by Olapic), Retailigence, and Commtouch (IPO).
Jonathan has a striking skill to build thriving relationships with industry leaders, like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. |
Olaf Erichsen, DirectorOlaf is a subject matter expert in industrial automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing. He was Head of Europe at Passage AI, a conversational artificial intelligence that drives Kohls, BMW, Mastercard, SoftBank, and many other organizations.
Olaf holds an MBA from the University of Hamburg and is a lecturer for Machine Learning at the HSBA in Hamburg. |
Rob Eldridge, AdvisorRob was VP of Product Management - Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) and CFO of Amazon Asia and Emerging Markets. He was responsible for supply chain-related products used by FBA Sellers, including: Shipment Creation and Inbound Workflows, Inventory Management, Product Quality, Returns and Dispositions, Selection Expansion, and User Experience/Design.
Rob holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a BS in Chemistry from University of Washington. |
Albert Ho, TechnologyAlbert was co-founder of Y Combinator-backed Chaser, which was SaaS for revenue teams. He was an early PM at unicorns Checkr and Teespring, where he managed over $1M in shipments a day. Albert also co-founded Soom, a smart packaging platform for the medical supply chain that has grown to $xx millions of ARR.
Albert is a subject matter expert in eCommerce fulfillment, warehousing, and industrial software development. He graduated from Cornell in Electrical Engineering. |
Karan Gandhi, AdvisorKaran serves as VP of Operations at Boxed, a bulk e-commerce delivery service. As an early employee, he led several initiatives such as launching the B2B business, expansion of operational footprint and redesigning merchandising strategy and supply chain operations to drastically improve profit margin. Previously, Karan was a Product Manager at Amazon, and a Senior Associate at McKinsey.
Karan holds an MBA from Harvard, Masters in Engineering from Stanford, and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. |
TRACK RECORD
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$57M
Raised in VC funds for our previous founded companies |
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A quantum leap in the eCommerce supply chain The meaning of Photon Commerce comes from the photon being the fastest thing in the universe, by law. Our vision is to harness digital transformation and computer vision to enable modern eCommerce businesses to collaborate around supply & demand data, share intelligence, and achieve visibility at the speed of light. Computer vision uncovers insights never seen before in the digital supply chain. The quantum theory of light and electrons defined the human civilization in the 20th century (the atomic bomb, the transistor, the internet, the information age). All commerce is becoming eCommerce. All tech is becoming infused with intelligence. We believe the human experience this century will be defined by machine intelligence and vision. |
Values
VELOCITYDelivering speed and direction to eCommerce, distribution, and manufacturing leaders to stay ahead of the curve
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VISIBILITYUnbridled intelligence, communication, data analytics, and power to distributors, suppliers, and customers
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VISIONDocument understanding, thanks to breakthrough computer vision and natural language processing trained on the largest industrial datasets
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Our inspiration
Our inspiration
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Responsible for over $1M per day in shipments for leading eCommerce companies, we found ourselves spending an unreasonable amount of time resolving invoice-PO-packing list discrepancies and exceptions manually. While many have tried to solve this with EDIs and sweeping the rest of the problem under the carpet, we set out to design the ultimate vision system to deliver unprecedented efficiency. We meticulously forged the final framework that recognizes the realities of your world still ruled by paperwork, PDFs, errors, and legacy ERP systems. We optimized to that reality with unparalleled computer vision, exception handling, and digital transformation. |
