BREAKING — Blue Onion raises $10M Series A led by Viola FinTech ● Reconciling billions of transactions across 200+ brands ● Month-end close cut from 10 days to 1 ● Backed by Y Combinator + former Visa CEO Joe Saunders ● Trusted by Supergoop!, Studs, MERIT, BarkBox BREAKING — Blue Onion raises $10M Series A led by Viola FinTech ● Reconciling billions of transactions across 200+ brands ● Month-end close cut from 10 days to 1 ● Backed by Y Combinator + former Visa CEO Joe Saunders ● Trusted by Supergoop!, Studs, MERIT, BarkBox
Company Profile Fintech Est. 2020 · New York

Blue Onion.

The financial intelligence platform that reconciles every order, payout, fee and refund - from checkout all the way to the bank - so finance teams close their books daily with accuracy.

Blue Onion logo and tagline: the financial intelligence platform for e-commerce
BLUE ONION LABS INC. — The layered ledger. A New York fintech peeling back the tangled layers of e-commerce financial data, one reconciled transaction at a time.
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The Dispatch

Peeling back the layers of e-commerce money.

Every finance team at a growing consumer brand keeps a spreadsheet they are quietly afraid of. It is the one that ties orders to payments to the money that actually lands in the bank - and it breaks a little more each month. Blue Onion was built to delete that spreadsheet.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered at 800 3rd Avenue in New York, Blue Onion Labs Inc. builds an automated financial subledger for retail and e-commerce companies. Its proprietary data engine ingests transactions from order systems, payment processors, marketplaces and bank accounts, then reconciles every order, payout, fee, refund and deposit into a single financial foundation the company describes as one source of truth.

The problem it attacks is unglamorous and expensive. When a brand sells across Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop and its own site, a single bank deposit can bundle together dozens of orders, refunds, marketplace fees and reserves. Untangling that by hand is the reason a month-end close routinely stretches five to ten days. Blue Onion decomposes those bundled payouts automatically and books the entries, compressing the close to one to two days.

Where generic accounting automation stops at estimates, Blue Onion reconciles at the transaction level and encodes the finance logic e-commerce actually runs on: ASC 606 revenue recognition, gift-card issuance and breakage, chargebacks, partial refunds, cash-in-transit, channel mix, processor fees and foreign exchange. The company positions the result not just as bookkeeping relief, but as the clean, structured data layer that finance AI will need to be trustworthy.

That framing is the pitch behind its April 2025 raise - a $10 million Series A led by Viola FinTech that brought total funding to $17.6 million. It is a bet that the next generation of automated finance is only as good as the reconciled data underneath it.

“We believe there's a better way to process financial data. Blue Onion takes on that responsibility - providing finance teams with an automated, accurate financial data source from the outset.
Lyndsey Bunting — CEO & Co-Founder
Order to Cash

From checkout to bank, automatically.

Blue Onion follows the money across the entire order-to-cash journey - matching each step so nothing goes unaccounted for.

STEP 01

Order

Captures every order at creation across all channels.

STEP 02

Payment

Ingests processor charges, fees and refunds.

STEP 03

Payout

Decomposes bundled deposits into their parts.

STEP 04

Match

Three-way matches orders to payments to bank.

STEP 05

Book

Posts reconciled journal entries to the ERP.

The close, compressed

Days to complete month-end close · illustrative, per company figures
Manual / ERP
8-10 days
With Blue Onion
1-2 days
Source: Blue Onion product materials. Actual results vary by transaction volume and channel mix.
The Platform

Three modules, one ledger.

For Accountants

Close

Automates revenue reconciliation across sales channels and processors, posting daily summary entries so month-end takes hours, not weeks.

For Tech Leads

Fabric

Exposes clean, reconciled, AI-ready financial data through APIs and agent contexts - the data infrastructure layer for finance workflows.

For CFOs

Edge

Executive-facing financial visibility and insight built on the reconciled foundation. Announced as coming soon.

Under the Hood

Data Engine

Payout decomposition, ASC 606, gift cards, chargebacks, cash-in-transit and multi-currency FX - the reconciliation logic that powers it all.

What sets it apart

  • Reconciles transaction-by-transaction, not by month-end estimate
  • Traces money from order creation all the way to bank payout
  • Deep e-commerce logic: returns, gift cards, FX, ASC 606, channel mix
  • Decomposes bundled Shopify, Amazon and Stripe deposits automatically
  • Positions clean data as the fuel for trustworthy finance AI

Where it fits the market

  • Sits between fragmented commerce systems and the ERP
  • Serves high-growth D2C, retail and multi-channel brands
  • Alternative to manual spreadsheets and generic reconciliation tools
  • Competes in a field with Ledge, Numeric, A2X and HubiFi
  • Integrates with NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero, Shopify, Stripe, Snowflake
The Cap Table

Who's backing Blue Onion.

RoundAmountDateLead & Investors
Series A$10MApr 2025Viola FinTech (lead), Y Combinator, Entrée Capital, Green Visor, Vinyl Capital
Prior~$7.6M2020-2024Y Combinator, Entrée Capital, Green Visor, Joe Saunders (ex-Visa CEO)
Total$17.6Mto dateFinancial data infrastructure for AI-powered finance
“Blue Onion's subledger empowers companies to run their operations seamlessly, ensuring precision and efficiency in every process.
Noam Inbar — Partner, Viola FinTech
The Founders

Built by people who lived the problem.

Lyndsey Bunting - CEO & Co-Founder. Former VP of Finance at Birchbox and CFO at Resonance Companies; she built the reconciliation tool she wished she'd had.

Charley McMillian - Co-Founder. Part of the founding team bringing engineering and product depth to the platform.

Manav Malhotra - Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist. Leads the data science behind Blue Onion's matching engine.

~44 employees, headquartered in New York. In 2025 the company added a new CTO, Alec Carper, and advisor Scott Galit.

The Record

A short history.

2020

Blue Onion is founded

Lyndsey Bunting, Charley McMillian and Manav Malhotra launch Blue Onion Labs in New York to automate order-to-cash reconciliation.

2021

Y Combinator and early backing

The company joins the YC ecosystem and raises early capital, including from former Visa CEO Joe Saunders.

2024

Scaling across retail brands

Blue Onion grows to reconcile billions of transactions for a widening roster of e-commerce customers.

2025

$10M Series A

Viola FinTech leads a $10M round, bringing total funding to $17.6M, alongside a new CTO and strategic advisor.

2025

Platform repositioning

Launches the Close, Fabric and Edge modules as the financial data infrastructure layer for AI-powered finance.

Questions & Answers

The fine print.

What does Blue Onion do?
It is an automated financial subledger and reconciliation platform for e-commerce and retail brands. It ingests transactions from order systems, payment processors, marketplaces and banks, then reconciles every order, payout, fee, refund and deposit into one accurate source of truth.
Who uses Blue Onion?
Controllers, accountants, CFOs and finance and tech leaders at 200+ high-growth consumer brands, including Supergoop!, BarkBox, MERIT, Studs and SUNDAY RILEY.
How much funding has Blue Onion raised?
$17.6 million in total, including a $10 million Series A in April 2025 led by Viola FinTech, with participation from Y Combinator, Entrée Capital, Green Visor and Vinyl Capital.
How is it different from generic accounting automation?
It reconciles at the transaction level from order creation to bank payout, and bakes in deep e-commerce finance logic - payout decomposition, ASC 606, gift-card breakage, chargebacks, FX and channel mix - rather than relying on month-end estimates.
Who founded Blue Onion?
It was founded in 2020 by CEO Lyndsey Bunting, a former VP of Finance at Birchbox and CFO at Resonance Companies, with co-founders Charley McMillian and Manav Malhotra.
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