Whitespace

<!-- hacklab:yc-profile -- YC company profile AI Operating System for Wholesale Distribution Whitespace builds AI agents that run the entire operation of supply chain businesses…

About Whitespace

YC company profile

AI Operating System for Wholesale Distribution

Whitespace builds AI agents that run the entire operation of supply chain businesses, starting with wholesale distributors. We give them self-improving AI agents that learn their business and do work like inventory planning and customer service.

We're building towards a world where all supply chain operations run through our agents, and all physical goods purchases can happen across businesses without human touch.

  • YC batch: Summer 2026
  • Founded: 2026
  • Team size: 2
  • Location: San Francisco
  • Country: US
  • Status: Active
  • Industry: B2B
  • Stage: Early
  • Tags: SaaS, B2B, Supply Chain, AI
  • YC partner: Jon Xu

Founders

Alex Tung — Founder/CEO

Founder at Whitespace. First non-engineer hire at Ankar (Index-backed), scaling it to 7-figure ARR in under a year. Previously BCG, deploying AI at F500 distributors. Cambridge Economics.

LinkedIn · X

Leon Yao — Founder/CTO

Founder at Whitespace. Previously Research Engineer at InstaDeep, running 7-figure supply chain AI deployments for F500 enterprises. UCL Machine Learning, publishing AI papers at IROS (top-3 robotics conference) as an undergrad.

LinkedIn

Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.