Abridge is one of companies in Supply Chain, funded and backed by Y Combinator and founder is Vidhi Vakharia.
Abridge is a digital freight forwarder company operating in India. With Abridge, shippers (i.e. importers/exporters) can book freight, automate compliance documents, track shipments, and communicate with supply chain partners all in one place via Abridge’s integrated online platform. That is how Abridge makes life easier for Importers and Exporters.
Y combinatory has funded over 5,000 startups since 2005, including many that have become household names. Y Combinator is worlds number 1 accelerator and provided early stage backing through funding to many companies. Abridge is one of companies funded and backed by YCombinator and founder is Vidhi Vakharia.
Vidhi Vakharia is a Rice University Computer Science alumni and Pradhith Konduri launched Abridge —their shipping logistics startup in 2022, in Mumbai, where they saw the greatest need as Mumbai being hub for exporter and importers.
Abridge the Logistic Partner for Importers & exporters
90% of freight logistics companies (i.e. the current alternative for shippers) still follow largely manual processes. By automating these processes, Abridge is helping companies with logistics activity in India run the modern supply chain of the future.
Abridge is an intelligent logistics partner for importers/exporters who want to ship freight into or out of the APAC region. Abridge digitizes the full shipment lifecycle (online freight booking, optimized container load plans, automatically generated compliance documents, and online communication channels).
Services by Abridge
- Providing shippers an online freight booker and record-keeper of all shipments.
- Saving shippers money (5-15%!) on every container shipped by providing them with optimized container stuffing plans and minimizing wasted space inside the container.
- Automatically generating all shipping compliance documents, thus saving shippers ~3-9 emails/shipment in co-ordinating manually generated documents.
- Decluttering shippers’ email, messages, and phone lines by providing a shared online workspace for all shipment related communications with easy and intuitive referencing to each shipment.
Abridge Became Digital Logistics Partner
The pandemic revealed a lot of supply chain issues and bottlenecks as demand grew and importers and exporters both had many challenge to rise up to from documentation to processing of shipment to attending phone calls. That is when Abridge was formed and all process was in automated format. A lot of issues have been digitized and automated for every importer and exporter so that they can manage logistics as a separate entity along with other important work related to export and import.
The company is currently open for shipments into and out of India and one can sign up with Abridge to digitize requirements of Export and Import in india
The Idea of Abridge
Vidhi Vakharia’s family has been exporting auto-parts from India to the US, France, and Germany for the last thirty years. Although the main business is manufacturing, managing shipping logistics is an unnecessarily high-touch, highly manual overhead in the business’ day-to-day operations.
