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OrderAhead

Order ahead for pickup

Y CombinatorWinter 2011AcquiredConsumerFood and BeverageCashierless CheckoutMarketplacePayments

What they do

Problem

Customers waste time waiting in lines or coordinating pickup orders with local merchants.

Solution

A mobile app for ordering and paying ahead so users can pick up from local merchants quickly.

Who it's for

Consumers ordering pickup from local merchants.

Founders

Jeffrey Byun

CEO, Co-Founder

2x YC founder (W11, P26), CEO of Akkari, and former bond trader. Previously scaled OrderAhead (acq by Square) to millions of users and BLADE to $1.2B+ in monthly trading volume.

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Henry A. Lee

Founder/CTO/Head of Engineering

Co-founder at Akkari; 2x YC; Stanford CS. Built OrderAhead (W11, acq by Square) to millions of users and thousands of merchants, then scaled BLADE, a crypto derivatives exchange to >$1.2B monthly trading volume.