Burnt

Backed byPenny Jar Capital

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Total raised$3.8M
StageSeed
Hiring pace1 roles / 90d
Founded2023
Team size1-10
HQSan Francisco, California
Industries
AI/MLSupply ChainSaaSEnterprise SoftwareFood Technology

About Burnt

Burnt is building the AI Brain for global supply chains, starting with the global food supply chain from farm to table. The company has automated $10M+ in monthly orders without humans in the loop and has raised $3.8M from Penny Jar and Scribble Ventures. Burnt plans to expand from food distribution into full enterprise deployments across the broader food supply chain, from freight to manufacturing to distribution, with its AI agents proactively helping to run the business. It aims to do for the entire supply chain stack what Salesforce did for CRM and describes itself as an AI Watchtower for global supply chains in a $10 trillion+ market. Burnt is currently building its founding team and hiring elite builders.

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Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, California
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Founders & Leadership

JJ

Joseph Jacob

Co-Founder @ Burnt | AI workers for Food Distribution | I’m from the industry, building for it

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CS

Chandru Shanmugasundaram

Co-Founder and CTO at Burnt

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RK

Rhea Karimpanal

Co-founder @ burnt (YC S25) | Automating the food supply chain | I'm hiring

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Leadership38%
  • Operations25%
  • Engineering13%
  • Sales13%
  • Other13%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.University of South Africa
  2. 2.HEC Paris
  3. 3.London School of Economics and Political Science
  4. 4.Duke University
  5. 5.Georgetown University

Team Worked At

  • Google
  • Sony
  • Teradata
  • ThoughtWorks
  • Accenture

Team Composition

7 people
  • Entrepreneurship3 senior3
  • Information Technology1
  • Operations1
  • Sales1

Culture & values

We are hiring elite, competitive builders to join the founding team and expand into enterprise deployments across the broader food supply chain.

Funding History

SeedSep 2025

$3.8M

raised

Burnt, an AI supply-chain automation startup for food distributors, raised a $3.8 million seed round led by PennyJar Capital with Scribble Ventures, Formation VC, and angel investor Dan Scheinman participating.

Penny Jar CapitalScribble VenturesFormation VC

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