# Matt Garippa

> Matt Garippa is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Order.co, the New York B2B purchasing platform formerly known as Negotiatus. A former fixed income trader who pivoted from Wall Street trading desks to building software, he and his brother Zach started the company in 2016 after a friend running a CrossFit gym complained about the grind of ordering supplies. Today Order.co helps hundreds of finance and operations teams - including WeWork and SoulCycle - consolidate purchasing, payments, and spend control, and Matt leads its business strategy, partnerships, and analytics, now centered on AI-driven procurement.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer at Order.co
- **Organizations:** Order.co, Negotiatus, Zicklin School of Business (Baruch College), Citadel LLC, Barclays Capital, JPMorgan Chase
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Finance, Marketing, and Mathematics, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, M.S. in Predictive Analytics, Northwestern University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Order.co (formerly Negotiatus) into a B2B purchasing platform used by hundreds of finance, operations, and procurement teams, Helped raise a $30M Series B led by Stage 2 Capital via a direct investment from MIT's endowment, with total funding reported around $82M, Helped grow the platform past $100M in annual gross merchandise value

## Career timeline

- **pre-2016** — Worked as a fixed income trader at firms including JPMorgan Chase, Barclays Capital, and Citadel LLC
- **2016** — Co-founded Negotiatus in New York City with brother Zach Garippa (and Thomas Jaklitsch)
- **2019** — Order integrated Lithic's card-issuing API to automate virtual card payments at scale
- **2021** — Company processed over $100M in gross merchandise value, double the prior year
- **2022** — Negotiatus raised a $30M Series B led by Stage 2 Capital and rebranded to Order.co
- **2025** — Announced Order.co AI capabilities, citing 5-10x hard-dollar savings for partners

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Order.co (formerly Negotiatus) into a B2B purchasing platform used by hundreds of finance, operations, and procurement teams
- Helped raise a $30M Series B led by Stage 2 Capital via a direct investment from MIT's endowment, with total funding reported around $82M
- Helped grow the platform past $100M in annual gross merchandise value
- Serves as an adjunct professor / chief analytics role connected to the Zicklin School of Business
- Built business partnerships onboarding hundreds of enterprise clients including WeWork and SoulCycle

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Announced Order.co AI capabilities, highlighting that partners using them have seen 5-10x hard-dollar savings.

## Links

- Website: https://order.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgarippa/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/matthewgarippa

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Last updated: 2026-06-03