From Spreadsheet to 1,400 Teams
Founded Tandem, found product-market fit with agencies and grew revenue without paid ads.
- Teams
- 1,400+
- MoM Growth
- 18%
- Raised
- $3.2M
Sample founder Raising Series A · 2027
Jamie Chen
Founder & CEO, Tandem
I’m building Tandem, a planning tool that makes a small team’s daily work easier to understand. Previously product and operations at two venture-backed startups.
- Product Strategy
- Team Building
- Fundraising
- Customer Discovery
- Go-to-Market
- Operations
Backed by and building with
- surge
- foundry
- arc
- lattice
- hatch
- orbit
What I Bring
Taking products from a hunch to a paying customer base with small teams.
- Customer DiscoveryProblem first
- Product StrategyIdea to product
- FundraisingPre-seed to seed
- Team BuildingFirst 20 hires
- Go-to-MarketFirst 1,000 users
- OperationsLean systems
Small teams deserve calm, clear planning.
Tandem turns scattered tasks, chats and docs into one weekly plan everyone understands. We are raising our Series A in 2027.
View Full ProfileTeams planning on Tandem
Weekly active customer teams since launch — no paid acquisition.
- 90Q1 ’23
- 260Q3 ’23
- 480Q1 ’24
- 720Q3 ’24
- 950Q1 ’25
- 1,180Q3 ’25
- 1,400Q1 ’26
18% average month-over-month growth · 4% monthly churn
My Story
I’m building tools that make a small team’s daily work easier to understand. My background in product and operations shapes how I test ideas, talk to customers and work with early collaborators.
Tandem started as a spreadsheet I built for my own team. Today it helps 1,400+ small teams plan their week. I write openly about what we try, what fails and what we learn along the way.
Fall in love with the problem, then let customers redesign your solution.
— Jamie Chen
Profile Match
92% match: Strong Match
Highly relevant for SaaS investors, design partners and early-stage founder communities.
- Repeat founder with an exit
- Strong organic traction
- Transparent metrics
- Actively fundraising
Ventures & Milestones
Problems worth solving. Products people use. Lessons shared openly.
Built and Sold a Delivery Scheduling Tool
First venture: scheduling software for local couriers, acquired by a logistics platform.
- Couriers
- 300
- Built
- 3yrs
- Acquired
- 2021
Writing Openly for 12,000 Founders
A weekly newsletter on product experiments, hiring and the honest side of starting up.
- Readers
- 12k
- Issues
- 140
- Open Rate
- 52%
Ways to Work Together
Investors, collaborators, early customers and fellow founders.
Founder Journey
- 2022 – PresentTTandem (Seed)Founder & CEO
Building a weekly planning tool for small teams. 18 people, 1,400+ customer teams.
- 2018 – 2021PParcelly (Acquired)Co-founder & COO
Built courier scheduling software from zero to acquisition.
- 2016 – 2018QQuickcart (Series B)Product Manager
Owned delivery-partner experience for a grocery delivery app.
- 2015 – 2016AArc ConsultingBusiness Analyst
Operations analysis for retail and logistics clients.
Investors & Customers
“Jamie is the rare founder who ships fast and listens harder. We invested after one customer call.”
Background & Recognition
- IITMIIT MadrasB.Tech. Engineering Design (2011 – 2015)
- SSStartup SchoolFounder Program (2022)
- Founder FellowshipSurge Accelerator
- 40 Under 40 in SaaSStartup Magazine
- Product LeadershipExecutive Education
- Verified FounderAliveProfile
Company Stack
- Notion
- Linear
- Figma
- Stripe
- HubSpot
- Mixpanel
- Slack
- Carta
- Intercom
Looking For
Fellow Founders
- Aditi Mehra Product & Ops Strategist Bengaluru · 12+ years
- Riley Park Design & Culture Creator Mexico City · 8+ years
- Jordan Lee Product & Engineering Mentor Singapore · 12+ years
Let’s build something useful together.
Talk to me about investing, partnering, joining the team or trying the product.