Asakana
Asakana is a YC Fall 2026 (F26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 4.
About Asakana
Summary
Asakana automates order entry for food distributors, converting orders that arrive by text, email, WhatsApp, voicemail, and WeChat directly into drafted ERP records. Restaurants routinely send orders through these informal channels, and distributor staff would otherwise retype each one manually. Anything ambiguous is flagged for human review before it posts, keeping the data clean without adding a bottleneck.
Business model
SaaS subscription sold to food distributors.
Go-to-market
Food distributors, starting with US seafood distributors, are the direct buyers; the product connects to existing ERP systems and activates through a demo-to-deployment process shown on the company's site.
From the Y Combinator listing
Automating away manual admin for food distributors: texts to ERP
Restaurants send orders to food distributors by email, text, and photo. Someone at the distributor retypes every one of them into the ERP. Asakana does that entry instead: orders land in the ERP already entered, and anything unclear goes to a person before it goes in. Live at US seafood distributors today, returning 40%+ of order-desk time to selling. Founded by a seafood distributor and a Gemini builder.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 4
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
- Yudai Matsuoka
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