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We just raised $200k to build the future of ERPs
A small round, a sharp focus: get operations-heavy SMEs onto ERPNext in weeks — with AI doing the work that used to take consultants months.
Yajat Gulati
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Today we’re announcing that Crator has raised $200,000 in pre-seed funding, led by gradCapital. It’s a deliberately small round for a deliberately focused mission: make enterprise-grade ERP something a mid-sized manufacturer or distributor can actually adopt — in weeks, not months, and without a six-figure integrator bill.
The problem we keep seeing
Walk into most operations-heavy SMEs and you’ll find the same thing: a business running on spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads, and one heroic ops person who remembers how everything connects. The companies that do buy an ERP often wait months for an implementation that lands late and fits awkwardly.
Traditional integrators are built for the enterprise. Their timelines and price tags assume a budget and a project team that a $5M distributor simply doesn’t have.
An ERP shouldn’t take longer to install than it takes to grow out of the spreadsheet you’re replacing. — Aarav Mehta, Co-founder
What we’re building
Crator is an AI-native ERPNext implementation partner. We map how your business actually runs, customize ERPNext to match it, and migrate you off your old system — with our own AI doing the heavy lifting at every step. The result is an open-source ERP you own outright, configured around your processes instead of the other way around.
Why now
AI finally changed the unit economics of implementation. The parts of an ERP rollout that used to need a room full of consultants — discovery, data mapping, configuration, training — are exactly the parts large language models are good at. We’ve spent the last year turning that into a repeatable engine.
What the round changes
The funding lets us do three things: bring more manufacturers and distributors live, deepen the AI engine that customizes ERPNext, and grow the team that sits alongside customers after go-live. We’re not disappearing once the system is running — that’s the part most integrators get wrong.
If you’re running operations on spreadsheets or a half-working ERP, we’d love to talk.
