📝 Cavela raises $6.6M

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Cavela has raised $6.6 million in seed funding, a round co-led by XYZ Venture Capital and Susa Ventures, to accelerate its AI-driven approach to supplier sourcing at a moment when tariffs are pushing brands to diversify beyond China. Founded by Anthony Sardain — who grew up across Asia’s major manufacturing hubs — the company uses autonomous AI agents to act as a personal procurement team for small and midsize brands, ingesting product specs, blueprints, and images to identify manufacturers in more than 40 countries and instantly negotiate pricing, capacity, and lead times over WhatsApp, email, and text. As brands increasingly fear the complexity of building new supply chains in places like Vietnam, Cavela promises to collapse weeks of outreach into days and claims customers are saving an average of 35% on production costs by generating far more quotes than a human team could, a pitch that has already attracted companies like Western Welder Outfitting and The Longhairs — and put Cavela in growing competition with giants like Alibaba and upstarts like Pietra.

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