# Eric Rodriguez

> Eric Rodriguez is the CEO and co-founder of Vendorflow, a Los Angeles SaaS company building the communications layer for trucking and logistics. After a decade in venture-backed startups - spanning restaurant analytics, document-management SaaS, and clinical research - he landed in freight at NEXT Trucking, where he met his technical co-founder Greg Bujak. Vendorflow unifies voice, SMS, WhatsApp, and ELD messaging into a single shared inbox that sits on top of the TMS, so dispatch and operations teams can work driver and carrier conversations in one place. The company raised $1.3M in seed funding in October 2021, led by TenOneTen Ventures. A UC Berkeley Haas graduate with degrees in business and economics, Eric once invented a 'Strategic Philanthropy' course and pitched it from the TEDxBerkeley stage.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Vendorflow
- **Organizations:** Vendorflow, NEXT Trucking, Science 37, CapLinked, PitchMonkey, Copilot Labs, Bloomspot
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business, B.A. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley - College of Letters and Sciences
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Vendorflow, a unified communications platform for trucking and logistics, Raised $1.3M seed funding (Oct 2021) led by TenOneTen with project44 CEO Jett McCandless, Flock Freight CEO Oren Zaslansky, and others participating, At NEXT Trucking, led a ground-up rebuild of the core product and delivered an MVP in 4 months

## Career timeline

- **2008-2010** — Started career at Restaurant Gary Danko, the #1 restaurant in San Francisco (Zagat)
- **2010** — Co-Founder, Director of Sales and Marketing at Copilot Labs (later acquired by OpenTable); Sales/AP Analyst at Bloomspot (later acquired by Chase Bank)
- **2012** — Sole founder of PitchMonkey
- **2013-2016** — Senior Product Manager then Director of Sales at CapLinked
- **2016-2018** — Product Manager at Science 37
- **2018-2020** — Principal / Group Product Manager at NEXT Trucking, where he met co-founder Greg Bujak
- **2020** — Co-founded Vendorflow as CEO
- **2021** — Raised $1.3M seed round led by TenOneTen Ventures

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Vendorflow, a unified communications platform for trucking and logistics
- Raised $1.3M seed funding (Oct 2021) led by TenOneTen with project44 CEO Jett McCandless, Flock Freight CEO Oren Zaslansky, and others participating
- At NEXT Trucking, led a ground-up rebuild of the core product and delivered an MVP in 4 months
- Doubled annual recurring revenue and monthly deal volume in one year as Director of Sales at CapLinked
- Proposed the first-prize-winning 'Strategic Philanthropy' course in UC Berkeley's Curricular Innovation Contest; it ran for four semesters at Haas
- Spoke at TEDxBerkeley 2010 to a 700-person auditorium with 156,000 livestream viewers
- Cited as one of seven 'high-achieving graduates' at Haas School of Business 2009 commencement

## Latest updates

- **2021-10** — Vendorflow announced a $1.3M seed round led by TenOneTen Ventures to build the communications layer of logistics.
- **2024-05** — Vendorflow announced integration with Samsara ELD, extending its in-cab messaging reach.

## Links

- Website: http://ericrrod.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericrod/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP3ntNcELIU

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Last updated: 2026-06-24