Tailor, a headless ERP platform designed for modern retail businesses, has announced an additional closing of its Series A funding round, thereby increasing the total capital raised to $22 million. The new investors in this round include JIC Venture Growth Investments and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Plus, Y Combinator, which had previously participated in Tailor’s seed round, has augmented its investment.
This second closing highlights the growing global demand for flexible, API-first business systems that enable enterprises to overcome the limitations imposed by traditional monolithic ERPs.
Tailor provides mid-market and enterprise companies with the capability to swiftly and flexibly construct and evolve their own ERP stack. Its composable, headless architecture separates the data and logic layer from the user interface, facilitating highly customizable workflows and seamless integration with best-of-breed SaaS tools.
Using Tailor, companies can:
1.) Orchestrate cross-system workflows with customizable modules for inventory, purchasing, fulfillment, finance, and more
2.) Replace or integrate with legacy systems without re-architecting core infrastructure
3.) Give developers and AI agents programmatic access to business logic and operational data
4.) Deliver internal tools or customer-facing experiences with custom UIs
This new funding will support:
1.) U.S. go-to-market expansion with a focus on mid-market and enterprise customers
2.) Ongoing product development and extensibility across core modules
3.) Strategic partnerships and customer success investment in Japan
This milestone reflects growing confidence in Tailor’s ability to modernize core business infrastructure — and affirms the company’s position as a leading platform for agile, composable enterprise systems in a rapidly evolving global market.
KEY QUOTES:
“Legacy ERP systems weren’t designed for the speed or complexity of today’s operations. Operators need systems that evolve as quickly as their business does. With the continued support of world-class partners like JIC, NEA, and Y Combinator, we’re accelerating our mission to deliver a modular, developer-ready ERP that gives companies real control over how they operate.”
Yo Shibata, CEO and Cofounder of Tailor
“As a government-backed investment fund, JIC VGI is proud to support Tailor’s composable approach to ERP, which represents the kind of digital transformation that can improve long-term competitiveness in Japan. We’re excited to enable Tailor’s vision for strengthening business resilience and corporate competitiveness by building agile digital infrastructure.”
Takashi Kimura from JIC VGI
“Tailor’s platform serves an increasingly complex supply chain landscape and we believe Tailor has the potential to rethink the ERP systems that power global commerce and operational agility.”
Andrew Schoen, Partner Technology Investing Team, at NEA
