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Emily Rakowski Has Spent 30 Years Making Procurement Less Painful
From Kearney spreadsheets to agentic AI, ORO Labs CMO Emily Rakowski has followed one stubborn question: why is buying at work still so difficult? Her answer is equal parts systems thinking, category craft, and care for the people caught between them.
Siddharth Sridharan
Siddharth Sridharan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spendflo, an AI-native procurement platform that helps fast-growing and enterprise companies manage SaaS vendor relationships and cut software spend. He co-founded Spendflo in 2021 after spotting a universal blind spot: CFOs had no centralized way to track or negotiate SaaS contracts. Backed by $15.9M in funding including a Series A, Spendflo has grown to 140 employees and operates out of San Francisco, promising guaranteed savings on software procurement through a hybrid AI-plus-expert-negotiation model.