— Who we are
Fifteen years of operating and go-to-market work at Toast, DoorDash, GlossGenius, and LevelUp. Andiamo is what we wished existed when we were on the other side of the table.
— Where we operated before Andiamo
Managing Partner
Sold his company at 31. Bought a manufacturing business at 33.
Charlie founded Andiamo. He was an early employee at LevelUp, where he helped scale the business to its acquisition by GrubHub, and one of the first employees at Toast — where he built out early teams and helped grow it from a basement startup to a public company. He left to build ecomALLIES, a marketing agency he founded, grew, and then sold in 2021. More recently he acquired Ozark River Manufacturing, a Tennessee-based business he owns today.
He started Andiamo because he wanted to be the kind of partner he wished he'd had when he was on the other side of the table — someone who'd actually run a business, treated the team that built it well, and played a longer game than the next exit.
Partner
Fifteen years building and scaling go-to-market teams. Two exits, one IPO.
Derek is Charlie's partner at Andiamo. He spent fifteen years building and scaling go-to-market teams at companies like Toast, DoorDash, and GlossGenius — running sales teams, launching new products, opening new markets. He's been part of two exits, one IPO, and is an active angel investor.
He's the partner founders call when they need someone who's actually carried a quota and made the hard calls about people, pricing, and priorities. What he brings to Andiamo is the operating muscle that turns a good acquisition into a great one.
— Why we built Andiamo
— In our own words
The most interesting businesses in America are not venture-backed. They're the companies founders have spent decades quietly building.
When those founders are ready for what comes next, they deserve a partner who has actually built something — not a financier with a spreadsheet.
So we built Andiamo. Two operators, partnering with founders and family-owned businesses on the next chapter of growth. That's the whole idea.