Relish – a leading provider of solutions for businesses to optimize procurement systems and processes – announced it closed a $10 million Series A funding round from Boston-based growth equity firm Volition Capital. Since being founded in 2020, the company rapidly established itself as a dominant solution provider that enables customers to optimize and maximize the value of their existing procurement software investments like SAP, Coupa, and Workday.
Consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare, and public sector businesses have invested heavily in enterprise software for managing procurement processes and spending. Relish fills the gaps in existing enterprise software functionality. And the company’s solutions are not meant to compete with or replace broader S2P suites, but instead to maximize the potential of currently deployed technology by protecting against third-party risk, validating supplier data, and automating invoicing.
Relish differentiates itself with its technology and approach with purpose-driven solutions within the broader procurement ecosystem. And large S2P application providers offer certain native solutions for intelligent business process automation and data management, but there has been a massive market opportunity to solve some of the software whitespaces with B2B integrations. Relish seized on this opportunity and is now an integral part of the technology partner and app ecosystems of Coupa, SAP, and Workday.
This investment and partnership from Volition Capital will enable Relish’s continued investment in AI capabilities that make enterprise applications simpler and more intuitive. And the company will continue to develop solutions that transform the way businesses handle their procurement systems and processes. Relish will also focus on talent acquisition and is on track to grow the team (currently 60) to 75 by the end of the year.
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“We founded Relish with over 20 years of experience selling, implementing, using, and consulting on enterprise software. During this time, we saw a pattern of the same critical business challenges that required a significant amount of customization work that frequently fell outside the original scope of work. The need for custom solutions for most enterprise software users was very apparent and our mission with Relish is to help businesses to maximize their existing IT investments. This partnership with Volition Capital will enable us to achieve our goals for continued sustainable and profitable growth.”
- Ryan Walicki, Relish founder & CEO
“While the dominant spend management platforms serve a critical role in enterprise procurement processes, they’ve hit an inflection point in terms of the ability to solve every single need from sourcing to payment. These large vendors are increasingly leveraging third-party developer ecosystems to fill in critical gaps and Relish is well positioned to lead this space. The leadership team understands the industry pain points and has a strong vision for how AI and intelligent process automation can fundamentally transform procurement.”
- Roger Hurwitz, Volition Capital
