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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
Founder
2023 - Current
Building in B2B tax & compliance. Backed by institutional VCs, angels, CFOs, and founders in fintech. More here: https://blog.andrewrea.xyz/p/what-im-building-next
Angel Investor
2021
- Personal checks + SPVs in pre-seed/seed startups with my friend/partner Hunter - We’ve invested about ~$3M in 20+ companies. - Co-invested with firms like Sequoia, a16z, Accel, Forerunner, Spark Capital, First Round, etc.
Head of Finance & Ops
2023 - 2023
Temporarily head of finance & ops at one of the fastest growing food marketplaces in America. Stepped in temporarily until we could hire a real finance leader. Stumbled into the problems our current company is solving.
Head of Growth
2022 - 2023
Banking, fundraising, and payroll products for founders (fka Party Round). Acquired by Rho. Went for it with a bunch of other talented folks.
Capital is a financial technology company that offers software to founders to raise, hold, spend, and send funds.
Early Team - Operations & Growth
2020 - 2022
Raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, Tiger Global, & many others. Tried to disrupt YC, YPO, & and Stanford. Probably did too many things at once. Worked at first but didn't end up how we hoped in the end. Wore a lot of hats. Got promoted a few times. Succeeded, failed, and learned a ton. Made lifelong friends. Met my co-founder. Was a career-changing experience.
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Investor
2019 - 2020
Investing and incubating deep tech startups. Landed here after my first startup. Worked with some really smart people. Learned a lot about what matters and what doesn't.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2019
Started out building neighborhood EVs. Raised $1M+. Made a lot of mistakes + our original thesis was wrong. Pivoted around. Ended up manufacturing/distributing golf carts (long story). Sold to PE in 2020. Got the opportunity to build with and learn from people more successful than me. Didn't work out how we wanted but I learned and it put me in the game.