Ostrel

Ostrel schedules dock doors, labour, and cold storage in the same model, because in a chilled warehouse those three constraints are one problem.

Applied AI Seed 2023 Rotterdam Active
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Applied AI. Rotterdam.
Why we investedApplied AI / Seed 2023

What we saw in Ostrel.

Cold chain operators lose money in fifteen minute increments. A late truck warms a bay, an idle picker costs a shift, and the planner solving it has a whiteboard and twenty years of instinct.

Bram spent a decade planning those sites. The product encodes his heuristics first and only then optimises, which is why operators trust it in week one rather than month six.

We are wary of AI companies that arrive with a model and go looking for a workflow. Ostrel started at the other end.

At a glance

The company in short.

Founded
2022, Rotterdam
Founders
Bram de Wit and Yara Nasser
First cheque
Seed, 2023
Our role
Led the seed
Status
Active
Website
ostrel.ai
Milestones

How Ostrel has moved.

2022

Founded in Rotterdam with one operator as a design partner.

2023

Rifatela led the $3M seed.

2025

Deployed across 34 sites in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain.

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