
In over two decades at Amazon, Dave Clark oversaw the transformation of the online retailer into a shipping and delivery giant, before rising to the No. 2 executive role alongside founder Jeff Bezos and eventually Bezos’s successor, Andy Jassy.
Now Clark is channeling that lifetime of experience, plus learnings from a brief, turbulent stint atop supply-chain startup Flexport, to bet on himself.
Clark founded a new AI-powered supply-chain startup called Auger this summer, and has raised $100 million in Series A funding entirely from the investment firm Oak HC/FT, he told Fortune in an interview on Monday. Clark’s aim is to help midsize enterprises with global supply chains—think the Fortune 500 outside of the top 50—integrate various supply-chain systems, and their data, from different providers into a single operating system that looks more like a consumer app than a clunky enterprise solution.