Lio (formerly askLio)

The World's First Multi-Agent System for Procurement

Y CombinatorSummer 2023ActiveB2B

What they do

Problem

Enterprise procurement processes are slow and labor-intensive, requiring teams to handle vendor research, negotiation, approvals, and delivery tracking manually.

Solution

Lio provides a multi-agent AI procurement system where specialized agents run in parallel to manage purchase requests end-to-end, including vendor research, negotiations, approvals, and delivery tracking.

Who it's for

Enterprise companies, including Fortune 500 and Global 2000 procurement teams.

Founders

Vlad Keil

Founder

Vlad is the Founder and CEO of Lio (S23). He had a profitable startup by the age of 22. Vladi also co-founded the AI startup "Gabriel" back in 2021, that ended up partnering with the German FBI. In his last position he consulted enterprises on procurement. He's now on a mission to make procurement managers superhuman.

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Lukas Heinzmann

Founder

Lukas is an AI Engineer with a Master's from TUM in AI/ML. He joined as one of the first employees of a startup acquired by Audi to bring AI/ML into mobile Apps. As the technical lead for the myAudi app, he tripled its user base and improved its star rating. Following his entrepreneurial he left this job. He co-founded Gabriel AI to prevent telephone fraud using advanced AI algorithms and is now starting his second venture "Lio".

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Till Wagner

Founder

Till is co-founder and COO of Lio. Gained experiences in web & app design and product-building at various based AI-startups, one based in SF. Operational & analytic experiences from projects at Deloitte's biggest German client. Academic excellence: Best in class Bachelor, Master, Scholarships. While working at SAP he failed with buying equipment for his successor with their software, which inspired him to create solutions that people can actually comprehend.