{"podcast":{"title":"The Good Tech Companies","slug":"the-good-tech-companies-6882802","podcast_index_feed_id":6882802,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-good-tech-companies","website_url":"https://hackernoon.com/tagged/good-company","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/X23h0VTY2caNa7VFhjEOIIx9mhUyM13ZaqyG6noHnYw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMTNl/MjgwMmI0ZmEzNThj/YmJiOWNiN2UyZmRm/MzY3My5qcGVn.jpg","author":"HackerNoon","episode_count":100,"summary":"Distributing the announcements and blogs posts by the the top software, crypto, ai, futurism and technology companies. An audio story feed by HackerNoon.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T22:19:00.701883+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802"},"episode":{"title":"Freehand Raises $75M to Put AI Agents in Charge of Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend","slug":"freehand-raises-75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-fortune-500-supply-chain-spend","published_at":"2026-07-29T21:11:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802/freehand-raises-75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-fortune-500-supply-chain-spend","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/b3e56066","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/b3e56066/f89588f7.mp3","summary":"This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/freehand-raises-$75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-fortune-500-supply-chain-spend . Freehand raised $75M from Battery Ventures and NewRoad to scale AI agents managing supply chain spend for Meta, Pfizer and J&J, recovering up to 10% of spend. Check more stories related to undefined at: https://hackernoon.com/c/undefined . You can also check exclusive content about #supply-chain-spend-management , #supply-chain , #ai , #freehand , #startup-funding , #procurement , #good-company , #software-engineering , and more. This story was written by: @ishanpandey . Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Freehand, the San Francisco agentic AI company whose autonomous agents manage supply chain spend for Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin' and Cardinal Health, has raised $75 million co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from former US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker's PSP Growth and Nexus Venture Partners. The company targets the gap between the $16 billion enterprises spend annually on supply chain software and the $348 billion they spend on people doing what that software cannot, inside a $20 trillion US supply chain operations base. Early Fortune 500 deployments report 5 to 10% of spend recovered in complex categories, workflows completed 5 to 7x faster, procure-to-pay cycles cut by more than 70%, and, per Forbes, 99% of decisions made without human referral. The core IP is the Category Context Graph, a compounding knowledge layer that unifies structured ERP data with the unstructured contracts, emails and chats where supply chain decisions actually live, giving…","meta_description":"This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/freehand-raises-$75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-fortune-500-supply-chain-s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":624,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-good-tech-companies-6882802/episodes/freehand-raises-75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-fortune-500-supply-chain-spend/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802/freehand-raises-75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-fortune-500-supply-chain-spend.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}