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Andrew Rea
Founder of New Company
New York, New York
Overview
Andrew Rea is a successful founder based in New York, with a strong background in finance and entrepreneurship. Notable highlights include founding Loft Capital and Olympus LSV, as well as holding key roles in startups such as Head of Finance & Ops at a food marketplace startup and Early Team member at On Deck.
Work Experience
Co-Founder / CEO
2023 - Current
Sales tax solved for founders & finance teams at high-growth companies, saving you time, money, & headache on compliance. Customers include SaaS & e-comm companies like Pulley, Revv, Italic, Tilit, Pirate Wires, and more. Backed by Vinyl Capital, Recall Capital, J Ventures, Nomo Ventures, Siqi Chen (Runway.com), Justin Mares (Kettle & Fire), Mike Rosengarten (OpenGov), the founders of On Deck, & dozens of other founders, operators, accountants, & CFOs.
Head of Finance & Ops
2023 - 2023
Temporary head of finance & ops at America's fastest growing school lunch provider, serving kids + families in 30+ metros and 15+ states around the US. Fixed several tax, compliance, & ops problems that come with scaling fast, one of which being sales tax compliance which led me to what we're building at Taxwire.com.
Ordo is a K-12 lunch marketplace that pairs schools with local vendors.
Head of Growth
2022 - 2023
Banking, fundraising, and payroll products for startups (fka Party Round). Acquired by Rho. Went for it with talented people. Got a masterclass in brand building. Did a lot of growth hacking (like starting NY tech week).
Capital is a financial technology company that offers software to founders to raise, hold, spend, and send funds.
Ops & Growth
2020 - 2022
Early team. Joined after the Seed. On Deck raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, Tiger Global, & others and went from $1-20M in ARR in 12 months. Tried to build an online edtech business while also competing with YC. Probably did too many things at once. In retrospect, we were one of those hot COVID companies that went 📈 just to come crashing later. Not the outcome we hoped for but a strong community lives on with ODF. Wore a lot of hats. Got promoted a few times. Succeeded, failed, and learned. Made lifelong friends. Met my co-founder. Even though On Deck ultimately failed, the reputation and network I built was a big breakthrough for my career.
Investor
2019 - 2020
Investing in deep tech research spinouts from Midwest Universities. Landed here after my first business. Worked with a few smart people. Learned a lot about what matters, what doesn't, who I did/didn't want to be, where I did/didn't want to live, etc.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2019
Helped start a niche electric vehicle company (Neighborhood EVs & Golf Carts). Raised angel money + bank financing. Made a lot of mistakes. Fundamentally wasn't a great business. Sold to PE in 2020. My first "startup" experience. (more of a small business in reality).