AI Operating System for Wholesale Distributors
Whitespace is the AI operating system for wholesale distributors. It connects to their systems and inboxes to build a living model of their business, then deploys self-improving AI agents to automate work like inventory planning, customer support, and order entry.
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Alex Tung
Former consultant at BCG; first non-engineer hire at Ankar (Index-backed), scaling it to 7-figure ARR. Studied Economics at Cambridge on academic scholarship. Co-founder of Whitespace (YC S26).
LinkedInLeon Yao
Founder at Whitespace. Previously Research Engineer at Instadeep, designing RL solutions for NP-hard optimization problems. First-author paper at top-3 robotics conference on autonomous navigation. Former CTO at Test and Tutor (1000+ users, 3 school partnerships). MSc in Machine Learning and BEng in Mechanical Engineering from UCL.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
