# CEO Letter: Nuvocargo x Mentum

Deepak Chhugani · Founder & CEO

April 23, 2026

CEO Letter Today, I’m excited to announce Nuvocargo has acquired fellow YC startup Mentum and that their awesome founder & CEO Gustavo Trigos is joining our R&D team to help accelerate our roadmap for AI agents executing North America freight & logistics. Mentum, based in San Francisco, has been building AI agents for legacy workflows in the supply chain.

We partnered with Gustavo and Mentum for a few reasons:

### Accelerating our R&D roadmap  
Mentum has been building AI agents for legacy supply chain workflows, which is complementary to Nuvocargo’s roadmap for NuvoOS, our AI-native TMS for North America freight.

### Approach to AI agents  
Mentum’s R&D philosophy is aligned with Nuvocargo’s: build AI agents for tedious, repetitive work without requiring users to change and adopt new platforms (email, text, etc.) and allow humans to focus on deepening customer relationships.

### Production experience  
The Mentum team has worked closely with supply chain teams across mid-market manufacturers in the U.S., implementing AI agents that automate quoting, proposal, and purchase order workflows with suppliers. They’ve engaged with 300+ VPs and Directors of Supply Chain and visited dozens of factories to deeply understand their operational pain points.

### Team  
The team has a multicultural background across San Francisco and Latin America which is aligned with the culture at Nuvocargo.

### YC Founder DNA  
We’re excited to partner with Gustavo, based in SF, who brings an AI-native founder DNA and has been on the cutting edge of what’s possible with LLMs applied towards the supply chain & logistics industry.

This is our second acquisition in 2025 and our third acquisition since inception. Earlier this year, we announced our acquisition of Merge which expanded Nuvocargo from being a purely US<>Mexico focused company to being a full North America platform. Our momentum continues to accelerate across the board. We’re excited to welcome Gustavo and Mentum to the team to keep bending the curve.

Onwards, Deepak

[Learn more about AI Agents in Freight Execution: A New Operating Model for End-to-End Load Management](/content/blog-posts/ai-agents-in-freight-execution-a-new-operating-model-for-end-to-end-load-management/index.html).

Tagged:  
- Acquisition  
- AI Agents  
- M&A  
- Supply Chain Automation  
- Business  
- Innovation

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