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Logistics, the backbone of military superiority, SalesPatriot raises €4.2 million. To contact us: [email protected]. Recent conflicts have shown that a delay in the delivery of critical components can paralyze entire defense systems. To this reality is added an observation shared by armies and industrialists: military logistics remains one of the least digitized sectors. It is on this ground that SalesPatriot positions itself, a young Polish-American company that aims to modernize defense and aerospace procurement. Founded in 2024 by Nelson Ray, Benjamin Rhodes-Kropf, and Maciej Szymczyk, it develops a software platform that centralizes, cleans, and automates purchasing flows between manufacturers, suppliers, and public agencies. Its technology aggregates data from government portals, ERPs, Excel spreadsheets, or unstructured emails, in order to reduce order processing times and increase success rates on tenders. "Today's wars are won with supply chains as much as with platforms," emphasizes Nelson Ray, CEO of SalesPatriot. "We are building the infrastructure so that the West is ready." The company claims productivity gains reaching a factor of seven on processing times and states that its users now manage over €200 million in annual orders destined for the Pentagon. By choosing Poland as its European base, SalesPatriot aligns with an emerging trend: the anchoring of critical technologies in Eastern countries, both for talent reasons and strategic proximity. The company has opened the SalesPatriot House there, a space where engineers and founders cohabit to develop the platform. SalesPatriot raised €4.2 million in Seed funding from CRV, Pear VC, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Liquid2, and Uncorrelated Ventures, with participation from angel investors such as Paul Graham, Rich Miner, Mark Pincus, Steve Blank, and Mati Staniszewski. This round brings total funding to €5.4 million. Founded in 2024, the company employs ten people and plans to hire five more by the end of 2025. Its headquarters are established in San Francisco, with a technology hub in Warsaw.

SalesPatriot raises $5M to advance AI defence procurement. SalesPatriot is developing AI-driven procurement software to help defence and aerospace suppliers automate orders and increase processing speeds. SalesPatriot has raised $5 million for its AI defence procurement software. The seed funding round was led by CRV. Other investors included Pear VC, Y Combinator, and SV Angel. The Polish-American startup builds a platform to modernize how suppliers manage defence and aerospace components. Its software automates quotes and order management for distributors and manufacturers. This technology helps suppliers process work up to seven times faster. The system works by ingesting and structuring data from government portals, ERPs, and unstructured emails. It then uses dynamic workflows to remove manual overhead for users. SalesPatriot already supports teams handling over $200 million in annual Pentagon orders. Current customers include Jamaica Bearings Group and AllClear Aerospace. This new capital brings the company's total funding to $6.3 million. SalesPatriot will use the funds to expand into commercial aviation and enter procurement markets in Europe and Asia.

Warsaw-based SalesPatriot raises €4.2 million to modernise defense procurement and expand into Europe. SalesPatriot, a Polish-American startup building a next-generation procurement platform for defense and aerospace components, has raised €4.2 million in Seed funding to accelerate its mission of transforming how parts distributors and manufacturers buy and sell critical equipment. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Pear VC, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Liquid2, Uncorrelated Ventures, and a network of strategic angels including Paul Graham, Rich Miner, Mark Pincus, Steve Blank, and Mati Staniszewski. This brings SalesPatriot's total funding to €5.4 million to date. "Our vision is to become the default system of record for defense procurement - and eventually, all critical supply chains," says Nelson Ray, CEO of SalesPatriot. "Wars today are won with logistics and supply chains as much as with new platforms. We're building the infrastructure to make sure the West is ready." The funding of SalesPatriot comes amid a notable rise in investor activity around procurement, supply chain, and defence-related technologies across Europe in 2025. For instance, Mercanis secured €17.3 million in a Series A round to advance its AI-driven procurement platform, while Nvelop in Finland raised €1.2 million to develop an agentic-AI system for enterprise procurement. In the UK, Magentic attracted €4.6 million to automate supply-chain operations through autonomous agents, while Germany's 3D Spark raised €2 million for its manufacturing and procurement SaaS platform. France's Bonx added €7.3 million to expand its AI-ERP technology for manufacturing. Unlike these broader enterprise-focused startups, SalesPatriot's focus on defense and aerospace procurement distinguishes it within this trend, particularly as the only firm with operations anchored in Poland, a country less represented in this year's procurement-tech funding announcements. "We built SalesPatriot from day one to integrate with the messy reality of defense procurement - combining AI, structured data, unstructured communication, and legacy systems," says Benjamin Rhodes-Kropf, CTO and Co-founder of SalesPatriot. "Our workflows don't force users to change how they work - they remove the manual overhead. That's why our customers are already seeing 7x faster turnaround times and winning more Pentagon business." Founded in 2024 by engineers Nelson Ray, Benjamin Rhodes-Kropf, and Maciej Szymczyk, SalesPatriot was born out of frustration with outdated procurement systems. Ray and Szymczyk both studied at the University of California, Berkeley, while Rhodes-Kropf conducted AI research at MIT before joining the founding team. Ray experienced the inefficiencies firsthand while working at Aurora Defense Group. Rhodes-Kropf brought deep expertise in AI and systems engineering, while Szymczyk focused on scaling teams and tapping into European talent. Together, they have set out to modernise defense supply chains at a time when global security depends on speed, resilience, and better logistics. SalesPatriot structures data from government portals, ERP systems, spreadsheets, and even unstructured email communications. Its dynamic workflows automate quote processing and order management, enabling suppliers to process orders 7x faster. This is powering teams servicing Pentagon orders worth more than $200 million annually. In just over a year since inception, SalesPatriot has secured contracts with leading defense parts distributors including Jamaica Bearings Group, AllClear Aerospace, and STATZ Corporation. "Poland is full of world-class engineers who are eager to work on meaningful challenges," says Maciej Szymczyk, Co-founder of SalesPatriot. "With SalesPatriot House, we're giving them the opportunity to build mission-critical technology side by side with our U.S. team. This is just the beginning - we plan to grow our team here significantly and make Poland a key driver of our global expansion." The company currently employs 10 team members across engineering and business development, with plans to grow to 12-15 by the end of 2025. New hires will focus on full-stack development and scaling commercial operations. Alongside its U.S. operations, SalesPatriot has opened the SalesPatriot House in Warsaw to tap into Poland's engineering talent and build a launchpad for international growth. "The ability to build, source, and produce, efficiently and domestically, is what sustains American competitiveness," says Caitlin Bolnick Rellas, General Partner at CRV. "SalesPatriot understands that, and they're building the modern procurement engine for the next generation of defense manufacturers. We couldn't be prouder to be in business with this team." At SalesPatriot House, engineers live and work alongside the team, focused on two things: shipping world-class code and making customers happy. The company supports hires with housing and food, and offers a relocation path to join the team in San Francisco as SalesPatriot expands globally. Over the next 12-18 months, SalesPatriot plans to dominate the defense sector, expand into commercial aviation, and begin entering European and Asian procurement markets. Long-term, the company aims to become the trusted infrastructure layer for all mission-critical supply chains - from aerospace to energy. "SalesPatriot is what great talent looks like in action: deep problem insight, a relentless shipping culture, and an obsession with customer workflows," says Bartek Pucek, investor in SalesPatriot. "They turned a messy, mission-critical problem into software that accelerates real defense businesses. Wars are won with logistics; logistics today are won with software."