Boston, MA - August 2025 - Founded and co-led by Austin Gardner-Smith, Drivepoint has raised $9 million in new funding (including a $7M Series A round) to scale its AI-powered strategic finance platform for consumer and retail brands. The round was led by Vocap Partners, with participation from Bling Capital, Vinyl VC, Las Olas Venture Capital, Jefferies’ Family Office, Good Friends VC, and several high-profile founders across the retail space.

Turning Finance into an Advantage

Drivepoint helps brands move beyond backward-looking spreadsheets by combining real-time retail integrations with AI-driven forecasting and scenario modeling. Finance teams can simulate the impact of new channels, inventory changes, marketing spend, or pricing shifts - and immediately understand how P&L and cash flow will be affected. Customers like Graza, Oats Overnight, and Dose have already reported performance lifts ranging from 3–5% margin improvement to multi-million-dollar increases in EBITDA.

What’s especially striking - and where this becomes a valuable lesson for founders - is that Drivepoint never tried to compete with legacy finance tools on their terms. Instead of improving the old way of budgeting, the team reframed the role of finance entirely: from documenting what happened, to predicting what should happen next. That mindset shift is what moved Drivepoint from “better software” to a platform that actually changes how companies make decisions. And that’s the kind of product positioning investors immediately gravitate toward - because when you become the engine behind decisions, your value isn’t measured in feature count, it’s measured in how expensive it would be to operate without you.

Backing from Operators Who’ve Actually Built Brands

The round includes founders and operators from high-growth consumer brands like Allbirds, Oats Overnight, Caraway and Guardian Bikes. Their shared belief is that financial clarity drives sustainable growth - and that current tools don’t keep up with the pace of modern, multi-channel retail.

Joey Zwillinger (co-founder of Allbirds) called Drivepoint “one of those rare companies that instantly makes sense,” and highlighted how the platform gives operators a level of financial visibility they didn’t even realize they needed until they saw it in action.

Scaling the Platform

With fresh capital, Drivepoint will focus on three core areas:

• AI Product Development - More advanced forecast explainability, variance detection and scenario planning
  
• Market Expansion - Supporting enterprise-scale consumer brands alongside DTC
  
• Customer Enablement - Faster onboarding and deeper retail data integrations
  

Why It Matters Now

The retail landscape has become dramatically more complex - rising acquisition costs, volatile supply chains, and shifting consumer demand mean finance teams need to simulate multiple outcomes, not just update the budget once per quarter. Drivepoint allows a two-person finance team to think and act like a twenty-person team, with models that update as quickly as the business does.

Looking Ahead

Over the next year, Drivepoint plans to:

• Expand its customer base among mid-market and enterprise consumer brands
  
• Launch self-serve onboarding tools for growth-stage startups
  
• Introduce new scenario templates tailored to CPG and omni-channel retail
  
• Continue proving that real-time financial clarity increases profitability-often faster than operational cost-cutting alone
  

Drivepoint isn’t just helping brands keep track of numbers - it’s teaching them how to use those numbers as a strategic weapon. And increasingly, that’s the difference between brands that grow and brands that stall.