We're building Mercator to eliminate the trillions in waste and emissions embedded in global supply chains.
MEET THE TEAM
We're software people obsessed with atoms over bits.
Megha spent five years leading cutting-edge AI efforts at Google across Gemini, ChromeOS, and TensorFlow. She launched state-of-the-art vision and language models into production across core Google products, and built everything from browser-controlling agents to AI systems embedded directly into the OS. She founded a partnership between Google and the Australian government to develop computer-vision tracking systems for invasive underwater species, work she later presented in the 2022 Google I/O Keynote.
Grace grew up in Kansas competing in math, but quickly realized theory falls short in the wild. At Google X, she developed the first system to recognize individual fish in the ocean. But one day, a suckerfish occluded the lens; that's when she realized the scope extended well beyond perception. She went on to build end-to-end systems that ran from calibration, through perception, to actually feeding the fish. Later, she built and led the engineering team for a supply chain moonshot, designing systems to make decisions under high uncertainty, conflicting incentives, and incomplete information.
OUR STORY
We met at Stanford and immediately connected over a shared obsession with the physical world. Through classes like Lean Launchpad and a summer fellowship sponsored by Roelof Botha, we plunged into supply chains and began incubating what would become Mercator. It quickly became obvious that there was an enormous and urgent opportunity to transform how supply chains are run while eliminating massive amounts of waste. We chose not to wait, dropping out of Stanford to pursue Mercator full-time.
We built Mercator to tackle the trillions of dollars of waste and unnecessary emissions that plague our supply chains in the form of unbought products. This is just the beginning, and we're looking for scrappy, audacious, interdisciplinary teammates to help reshape how the world makes and moves things.
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