Eric Youngstrom is Founder and CEO of Austin-based Onramp Funds, an innovative funding provider that supports the growth of eCommerce businesses. Eric leads a team steeped in eCommerce, providing financing and other resources to empower online merchants to scale their businesses and achieve their dreams.
Eric has been featured in eCommerceBytes, Austin Business Journal and quoted in the New York Times. He is a published thought-leadership author in trade and business media, including:
- Total Retail
- Supply Chain Brain
- Sourcing Journal
- eSeller 365
- Multi-Channel Merchant
- E-commerce Times
- The eComm Manager
- Parcel
- Retail TouchPoints
- MR Magazine
- Vitamin Retailer
- Small Business Currents
Eric has deep expertise in each aspect of a product’s lifecycle from strategic direction, product concept and development, marketing, Biz Dev, and operational implementation.
Widely regarded as the go-to source for early-stage eCommerce growth with specialization in SMB lending, shipping, and raising capital, Eric helped launch, scale, and successfully exit ShippingEasy, which was acquired by Stamps.com in 2016 for $64M in cash.