Response blog · Feb 2025
Official announcement of Response’s $4M seed round, bringing total funding to $4.3M and naming Y Combinator, Twenty Two Ventures, and strategic angel investors from Flexport, Anduril, Ramp, and Scale AI.
Turn customer emails into ERP-ready orders.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Response is a B2B procurement and order-intake automation company that turns customer emails, PDFs, and other unstructured requests into ERP-ready orders while also helping teams manage indirect spend with approvals, vendor checkout, and spend controls.
Primary product
Inbox-to-ERP order intake and procurement automation platform
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Procurement software / indirect spend automation
Offices
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Business model
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Justin Ziniel
FND. Data Scientist
Renato de Vito Castro
Infra Engineer
Zachary Williams
FND. Frontend Engineer
André Araújo
DevOps Engineer
Becca Creger
FND. Product Designer
Rogers Pelle
Infra Engineer
Investors
Publicly stated values emphasize customer-first decisions, privacy around pricing data, responsible use of aggregated data, neutral supplier inclusion, and avoiding per-seat pricing that discourages collaboration.
Pricing
Tiered monthly subscription SaaS: Starter $599+/month, Pro $999+/month, Enterprise custom pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
~$2.1M ARR (2024 estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
11K
Response blog · Feb 2025
Official announcement of Response’s $4M seed round, bringing total funding to $4.3M and naming Y Combinator, Twenty Two Ventures, and strategic angel investors from Flexport, Anduril, Ramp, and Scale AI.
LinkedIn · Feb 2025
Keivan Shahida’s LinkedIn announcement reiterating the seed raise and positioning Response as a digital procurement officer for indirect spend.
TechCrunch · Aug 2020
Early public coverage of Response as a YC Summer 2020 company building a network for PPE and, later, broader procurement infrastructure.
Response blog
Customer case study showing procurement time reduced from 1 hour to under 10 minutes per session and monthly reconciliation time reduced from 16 hours to under 1 hour.
Response blog
A product-positioning article arguing that teams should automate procurement controls and centralize intake before hiring headcount for spend management.