About Us

Missing Critical Data

Great information about business suppliers is hard to find. All companies track what they pay for services and products, but fewer than 1 in 1,000 consistently track the quality of their suppliers and vendors. It’s like shopping online without any reviews, except it’s your job to make good decisions about suppliers and partners.

Supplier Intelligence at Scale

VendOp was started to change that. We established ourselves as the most widely used B2B reviews community. Our first users were commercial buyers and engineers looking to share their insights about suppliers. Based on that foundation, we’ve developed a supplier intelligence cloud hub that makes it easy to generate and activate data about supplier and vendor relationships. With VendOp, you can search, rate and review suppliers and analyze your spend.

Connected Data

VendOp is the only company that connects crowd-sourced data from public reviews with internal company data and employee reviews. The more your company uses VendOp, the more intelligent VendOp becomes about the quality and performance of your suppliers. Best of all, we integrate with your existing systems, deploy in less than 30 days and require no employee training or IT support.

Team

Our Founding team brings together decades of experience in sourcing, enterprise software, data science and product development. We’re big believers in the value of data.

Jay Bartels - CEO; Proven technology executive, investor and advisor with successful experience leading, planning and executing enterprise grade product companies. Jay has a multi-year track record spanning large enterprise software, biotechnology and B2B companies. Previous efforts include companies such as CollabRx, Webify, and Zoho.

Dave Blado – CoFounder & CTO; Engineering Operations Manager turned Product Evangelist turned Entrepreneur. Worked at RedHat, deCarta and eBay. Passionate about bringing high quality products to market that fulfill a large user need.

Andy Kohm - CoFounder; 15 years experience with sourcing suppliers in medical devices and commercial construction. R&D for large companies and a small medical device startup. Supply Chain process development for construction companies of all sizes. MBA from Wharton and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Ohio State