# Lyndsey Bunting

> Lyndsey Bunting is the CEO and co-founder of Blue Onion, a New York-based financial data platform that automates reconciliation and bookkeeping for retail and ecommerce brands. A Wharton-trained finance operator who served as VP of Finance at Birchbox and CFO at Resonance Companies, she started Blue Onion in 2020 to fix the messy, manual reconciliation work she lived through every month. The company went through Y Combinator, has reconciled more than $30 billion in transactions across 200-plus brands, and raised a $10 million Series A led by Viola FinTech in 2025 to build the clean data layer that AI-powered finance teams will run on.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Blue Onion
- **Organizations:** Blue Onion (Blue Onion Labs Inc.), Birchbox, Resonance Companies, Jefferies & Company, Peace Corps
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Accounting and Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Blue Onion, an automated financial subledger for retail and ecommerce, Grew Blue Onion to reconcile more than $30 billion in transactions, Signed more than 200 retail and ecommerce brands, including Supergoop!, BarkBox and a.k.a. Brands

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Began career at Jefferies & Company as an Industrials Investment Banking Analyst/Associate
- **2010** — Joined the Peace Corps as a Community Economic Development Consultant
- **2013-2018** — Held finance roles at Birchbox, rising to VP of Finance
- **2020** — Founded Blue Onion in May and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch
- **2025** — Led Blue Onion's $10M Series A, bringing total funding to $17.6M

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Blue Onion, an automated financial subledger for retail and ecommerce
- Grew Blue Onion to reconcile more than $30 billion in transactions
- Signed more than 200 retail and ecommerce brands, including Supergoop!, BarkBox and a.k.a. Brands
- Raised a $10M Series A led by Viola FinTech in 2025
- Completed Y Combinator (Summer 2020)
- Previously served as VP of Finance at Birchbox and CFO at Resonance Companies

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Blue Onion announced a $10M Series A led by Viola FinTech, bringing total funding to $17.6M.
- **2025-04** — Bunting gave a FinSMEs interview outlining her thesis on clean data as the prerequisite for AI in finance.

## Links

- Website: https://blueonion.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndseybunting/

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Last updated: 2026-07-15