Fragment, which uses AI to resolve purchasing and payment issues across manufacturing datasets, emerges from stealth with $56M from 8VC and others
THE SO WHAT
$56M out of stealth for Fragment is a bet that AI-native reconciliation across messy manufacturing data is now a standalone category. If you run complex supply chains, assume your vendors will soon be judged on how well they plug into this kind of cross-ERP resolution layer.
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