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

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.
The company in short.
- Founded
- 2022, Rotterdam
- Founders
- Bram de Wit and Yara Nasser
- Sector
- Applied AI
- First cheque
- Seed, 2023
- Our role
- Led the seed
- Partner
- Nell Farrow
- Status
- Active
- Website
- ostrel.ai
How Ostrel has moved.
Founded in Rotterdam with one operator as a design partner.
Rifatela led the $3M seed.
Deployed across 34 sites in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain.
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