# Alex Yakubovich

> Alex Yakubovich is the co-founder and CEO of Levelpath, an AI-native enterprise procurement platform. A Moscow-born immigrant raised near Cleveland, he began building web businesses in high school, co-founded restaurant-ordering company ONOSYS while at Case Western Reserve University, and later led Scout RFP through its $540 million acquisition by Workday. His career has followed a consistent operating idea: find a routine business process people avoid, study the users closely, and make the software simple enough that they choose to use it.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Levelpath
- **Organizations:** O-Web Technologies, ONOSYS, LivingSocial, Scout RFP, Workday, Levelpath
- **From:** Moscow, Russia
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
- **Known for:** Co-founded ONOSYS, which grew from a student-built restaurant ordering project to software serving thousands of restaurant locations before its acquisition by LivingSocial., Co-founded and served as CEO of Scout RFP through its $540 million acquisition by Workday in 2019., Led Spend Management at Workday after the Scout RFP acquisition.

## Career timeline

- **High school** — Co-founded O-Web Technologies, a Cleveland-area web design and development business, with friends Stan Garber and Oleg Fridman.
- **2005** — Built an online ordering system for Rascal House Pizza, the project that developed into ONOSYS.
- **2007** — Graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering; ONOSYS received a $500,000 investment shortly afterward.
- **2012** — LivingSocial acquired ONOSYS for a reported $18 million. Yakubovich continued with the business after the acquisition.
- **2014** — Co-founded Scout RFP with Stan Garber, Chris Crane and Andrew Durlak to simplify strategic sourcing.
- **2019** — Workday agreed to acquire Scout RFP for $540 million. Yakubovich joined Workday and later became General Manager of Spend Management.
- **2022** — Co-founded Levelpath and became CEO, returning to procurement software with a broader, AI-native platform.
- **2023** — Levelpath announced a $30 million Series A after an earlier $14.5 million seed round, bringing disclosed funding to $44.5 million at the time.
- **2025** — Levelpath announced more than $55 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, bringing total capital raised above $100 million.

## Achievements

- Co-founded ONOSYS, which grew from a student-built restaurant ordering project to software serving thousands of restaurant locations before its acquisition by LivingSocial.
- Co-founded and served as CEO of Scout RFP through its $540 million acquisition by Workday in 2019.
- Led Spend Management at Workday after the Scout RFP acquisition.
- Co-founded Levelpath, which announced more than $100 million in total funding by June 2025.
- Built companies with several recurring collaborators, including longtime co-founder Stan Garber.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Yakubovich wrote that procurement is attracting more talent and that AI is accelerating the function's shift toward strategy and execution.
- **2026-07** — He emphasized publicly that Levelpath's top value remains customer obsession and described customers as product partners.
- **2026-04** — Appeared on the AI for Founders podcast to discuss customer focus, AI-native product architecture and Levelpath's approach to procurement.
- **2025-12** — Discussed Levelpath's supplier-centric, AI-native procurement model and customer results in a published Unite.AI interview.
- **2025-06** — Levelpath announced a Series B of more than $55 million led by Battery Ventures, taking total capital raised above $100 million.

## Links

- Website: https://www.levelpath.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-yakubovich

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Last updated: 2026-08-17