--- title: Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of... description: Freehand has raised $75 million in a round co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners to scale AI agents that autonomously manage supply-chain... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/freehand-raises-75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-supply-chain-spend-xazjrwvrw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend | daily.dev og:description: Freehand has raised $75 million in a round co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners to scale AI agents that autonomously manage supply-chain... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/freehand-raises-75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-supply-chain-spend-xazjrwvrw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XaZJrWvRW.png og:image:alt: Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Freehand raises $75M to put AI agents in charge of supply-chain spend **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Freehand has raised $75 million in a round co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners to scale AI agents that autonomously manage supply-chain spend for large enterprises. The startup's agents read contracts, negotiate supplier rates, catch overbilling, process payments, and reconcile data inside ERP systems — replacing legacy software and outsourced staff. Customers include Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer. Freehand's core IP is a 'Category Context Graph' that accumulates decision and transaction context to make agents more effective over time. Early deployments reportedly recovered 5–10% of spend and shortened procure-to-pay cycles by over 70%, though figures are self-reported. The company targets a market it estimates at $348 billion in human labor doing what supply-chain software currently cannot. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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