📍 Location: Prefer SF but can be Remote in the United States
💼 Employment Type: Full-time
🏦 Industry: Manufacturing • AI • Supply Chain Optimization
📈 Funding Stage: Seed
👥 Company Size: ~5 employees
🌐 Website: tenkara.ai
💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/tenkara-ai
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One-liner: Tenkara builds AI agents that automate back office functions for material manufacturers, revitalizing American manufacturing and driving up productivity.
Tenkara is an AI-powered supply chain optimization company that transforms concepts into market-ready products. The company is committed to revitalizing American manufacturers and driving productivity for all those that make products we depend on.
Tenkara was founded in 2024 by Benjamin Stern (Founder) and Sandra Rakutumalala. The founding team brings expertise in AI, manufacturing, and supply chain optimization to tackle one of the most critical challenges facing American manufacturers today.
Tenkara addresses a critical inefficiency in manufacturing: procurement teams waste 40% of their time on coordination instead of strategy. Through analysis of 200 hours of procurement work, Tenkara discovered that 82 of those hours were spent on copy-paste tasks.