Drivepoint Raises $7M to Scale AI Finance Tool for Retail Brands

Drivepoint raised a $7 million Series A in 2025, bringing its disclosed financing to more than $9 million to date. The round was led by Vocap Partners and included Good Friends VC’s consumer-founder syndicate, along with returning investors Bling Capital and Vinyl VC. Investors framed the raise as validation of Drivepoint’s traction with direct-to-consumer and multi-channel retail brands and as capital to accelerate product development and sales. Austin Gardner-Smith remembers the month his first customer asked for something the spreadsheets could not deliver: a single place to run scenario planning across DTC, wholesale, and Amazon while still keeping the numbers flexible enough for a founder to tinker. Drivepoint looks to replace the brittle mix of Excel files, patchwork scripts,