Timothy Wells

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Founder at Drift Robotics · D2C food brands

Drift Robotics
Raleigh, NC · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Rice University
English
Raising
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Overview

I started Drift Robotics to fix D2C food brands for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Drift Robotics from zero to $4 million ARR. Signed 32 paying customers, 11 of them enterprises. Before that: Boeing and Goldman Sachs. I tinker with 3D printers.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
consumer brandssalessupply chainmarketing
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $2.5M pre-seed for cross-border payouts for landlords

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$2.5M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$436k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$6M ARR after 17 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$6M ARR after 17 months. Looking for investors who know agritech and can help with pricing.

Raleigh, NCsalessupply chainmarketing
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Drift Robotics · 1 yr · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Grew the team to 104 people across 2 countries.
    • Raised $21 million across 2 rounds.
    • Signed 390 paying customers, 23 of them enterprises.
  2. Finance Director
    Nov 2022 - Oct 2025
    Boeing · 2 yr 11 mo · Contract · Raleigh, NC
    • Closed the books in 5 days, down from 16.
  3. Finance Manager
    Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
    Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Closed the books in 3 days, down from 14.
  4. FP&A Manager
    Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
    Uber · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Saved $1 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Closed the books in 5 days, down from 16.
  5. Finance Director
    Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
    Ford · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Ran diligence on 10 acquisitions.

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Education

  1. Rice University
    BA, Computer Science
    2005 - 2009

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