# Auger raises $50M Series B for AI supply chain optimization

> Auger, a supply chain startup led by former Amazon operations chief Dave Clark, has raised a $50 million Series B led by Eclipse, with existing investor Oak HC/FT joining. The round brings total funding to $150 million for a company that wants to use AI to make supply-chain decisions faster and smarter in real time. The founder pedigree is central to the pitch. Clark ran Amazon's sprawling operations before starting Auger with his wife Leigh Anne Clark, and the roughly 130-person company has already landed sizable customers, including Meta's VR division, Fanatics, and Kimberly-Clark. Its stated ambition is audacious, to route half of US GDP through its platform by 2030. Supply chains are a natural target for AI, full of forecasting, routing, and tradeoff decisions that reward speed and pattern recognition. Auger is betting that operator credibility plus real enterprise logos can carry it in a category where incumbents are entrenched and the promised efficiency gains, if real, are enormous.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: GeekWire · Published Sunday, July 12, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Auger, a supply chain startup led by former Amazon operations chief Dave Clark, has raised a $50 million Series B led by Eclipse, with existing investor Oak HC/FT joining. The round brings total funding to $150 million for a company that wants to use AI to make supply-chain decisions faster and smarter in real time. The founder pedigree is central to the pitch. Clark ran Amazon's sprawling operations before starting Auger with his wife Leigh Anne Clark, and the roughly 130-person company has already landed sizable customers, including Meta's VR division, Fanatics, and Kimberly-Clark. Its stated ambition is audacious, to route half of US GDP through its platform by 2030. Supply chains are a natural target for AI, full of forecasting, routing, and tradeoff decisions that reward speed and pattern recognition. Auger is betting that operator credibility plus real enterprise logos can carry it in a category where incumbents are entrenched and the promised efficiency gains, if real, are enormous.

## Source

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