Seed round · 2026

Northwind

Warehouse forecasting for mid-market retailers who still run on spreadsheets.

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The problem

Retailers over-order by 20% because forecasting lives in spreadsheets.

Manual and stale. A planner rebuilds the same workbook every Monday from four systems.
No error bars. One number per SKU, no sense of how wrong it might be.
Cash sits on shelves. The average mid-market retailer carries 11 weeks of dead stock.

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What we built

Forecasts that update themselves, with the uncertainty attached.

Connect

Read-only sync

Plugs into the ERP and POS in an afternoon. No migration, no rip-and-replace.

Forecast

Range, not a guess

Every SKU gets a P10–P90 range, so buyers can see the risk before committing cash.

Act

Order proposals

Draft purchase orders land in the buyer's queue. They approve or edit — nothing is automatic.

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Traction

ARR, last six quarters

€120k

Q1 25

€260k

Q2 25

€410k

Q3 25

€620k

Q4 25

€810k

Q1 26

€1.05M

Q2 26

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The numbers

Where the business stands today

€1.05M

ARR, up 4.4× year on year

128%

Net revenue retention

7.2mo

CAC payback, blended

2.1%

Logo churn, trailing twelve months

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Landscape

How we sit against the alternatives

Capability	Spreadsheets	Legacy suite	Northwind
Live ERP + POS sync	No	Yes	Yes
Forecast ranges, not point guesses	No	No	Yes
Live in under a week	Yes	No	Yes
Buyer keeps final approval	Yes	No	Yes
Entry price	€0	€90k / yr	€18k / yr

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Roadmap

What the next four quarters buy

Q3 2026

Multi-warehouse

Transfer suggestions between sites, not just reorders.

Q4 2026

Supplier lead times

Learned per supplier, per SKU, instead of a static field.

Q1 2027

Promotions

Model campaign lift so buyers stop double-ordering.

Q2 2027

UK & Nordics

Localisation and two regional ERP connectors.

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“We cut dead stock by a third in two quarters. It paid for itself before the pilot ended.”

Marta K. · Head of Supply Chain, a 40-store retailer

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Team

Who is building this

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A. Muster

Co-founder, CEO

Ten years in retail operations. Ran planning for a 200-store group.

RK

R. Kaur

Co-founder, CTO

Forecasting systems at two logistics companies. Built the first model.

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T. Novak

Head of Customer

Took the first twelve customers live. Owns onboarding and retention.

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The ask

€3.5M seed

Use of funds. Eight hires — five engineering, three customer. Two regional ERP connectors. Eighteen months of runway to €4M ARR.

Already committed. €1.2M from existing investors, subject to a lead. Targeting close by the end of Q4.

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Let's talk.

hello@northwind.example
northwind.example
Berlin, Germany

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