CloudForge drives new customer acquisition, account expansion, and faster procurement for businesses across the metals supply chain using AI

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CloudForge, the AI-powered sales and procurement platform purpose-built for the metals supply chain, today announced it has emerged from stealth and raised $3.95 million in funding from Zero Infinity Partners, Resolute Ventures, and Bienville Capital.

“I honestly wouldn’t recommend it to people close to us because I don’t want them using it.”Share

Metal is the backbone of American manufacturing, powering aerospace, defense, automotive, energy, construction, medical devices, and industrial production. Yet the businesses that move metal every day (metal service centers, fabricators, and machine shops) are still forced to sell and source using spreadsheets, outdated CRMs, and overly manual processes. The result is a chaotic sales and sourcing process: demand goes uncaptured, accounts are under-monetized, follow-up is inconsistent, and slow supplier quoting and sourcing drags deal cycles and kills win rates.

CloudForge closes that gap by turning the metal market into a searchable, AI-driven operating system. Powered by a database of 165,000+ verified metal companies across North America, CloudForge helps teams find new buyers, expand existing accounts, and identify qualified suppliers, then provides built-in tools to run outbound sales, manage customers and vendors, and execute material sourcing. CloudForge is not a marketplace. It combines a proprietary market database with integrated sales, CRM, and procurement execution.

“The metal industry doesn’t have a demand problem, it has a discovery and execution problem,” said Ben Marans, CEO and Founder of CloudForge. “Sales teams struggle to consistently find new buyers and re-engage existing accounts, while procurement teams waste hours tracking down the right suppliers. CloudForge is the AI co-pilot that turns that chaos into a repeatable growth engine, helping businesses win more customers, expand accounts, and source rapidly without adding headcount.”

Early results are already proving the impact. Tri-State Steel in North Carolina signed a new customer contract within their first week on the platform. Other customers, such as Metals & Alloys, have been blunt about the competitive advantage: “I honestly wouldn’t recommend it to people close to us because I don’t want them using it.”

The new funding will accelerate product development, expand CloudForge’s AI capabilities, and scale the company’s engineering and customer success teams to support growing nationwide demand.

About CloudForge

CloudForge is building infrastructure technology for the metals supply chain, powering new customer acquisition, account expansion, and faster procurement with AI. CloudForge powers revenue growth for metal service centers, fabricators, and machine shops by instantly matching buyers and sellers, improving sourcing efficiency, and turning sales organizations into high-output revenue engines, while maintaining the speed and reliability required to source and deliver metal. Learn more at www.cloudforgesoftware.com. For inquiries, reach out to ben@cloudforgesoftware.com

About Zero Infinity Partners

ZIP is pioneering the infra-tech investing category. ZIP invests in founders and companies looking to deploy innovative technologies and business ideas in the global infrastructure sectors, including energy, power, mobility, logistics, data, water, and waste. Learn more at www.zeroinfinitypartners.com.

About Resolute Ventures

Resolute Ventures is a lead seed and “pre-seed” investor focused on backing and connecting a community of Founders who share an entrepreneurial spirit and energy.

About Bienville Capital

Bienville is an idea-centric platform investing across sectors and geographies in both public and private markets.

Contacts

Media Contact: Ben Marans

• Email: ben@cloudforgesoftware.com
• Phone: 201-888-6160

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