Perth startup Indrus raises $750,000 to track logistics yards with AI

The yard as a bottleneck

Liebregts, the CEO, says the yard has been overlooked in warehouse automation. "For decades the warehouse got all the attention and the yard was an afterthought, but as warehouses have got faster and automated, the yard is becoming a constraint," he said. "The warehouse really starts at the gate, yet most yards have very little visibility of what happens out there."

Those blind spots ripple through the supply chain. "A delay in the yard never stays in the yard, and ends up as an idle dock, a missed appointment and an overtime shift," Liebregts said.

Traction so far

Indrus has deployed its technology with large logistics businesses in the US and secured a pilot with a major Australian port. It has logged more than 200,000 camera hours and tracked over 50,000 vehicles. Projects with Australian supply chain organisations in retail, third-party logistics and fast-moving consumer goods are scheduled to begin in 2027.

The company graduated from Curtin Accelerate in 2025, was selected for the Stanford-NATO accelerator in Switzerland and won the Curtinnovation Business Award.

Purpose Ventures managing director Derek Gerrard said the fund knew the founders before Indrus was formally established. "We've been impressed by how quickly they have gone from an idea to something operators around the world are paying attention to," he said, adding that the fund is excited to back the company's vision from WA.