# Eric Rea

> Eric Rea is a seed investor at Podium (Provo) backing SaaS and Enterprise Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Podium](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/podium-2)
- Location: Provo, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericrea
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ericwilliamrea
- Website: https://x.com/ericwilliamrea
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ericwilliamrea

Eric Rea is a seed investor at Podium in Provo focused on SaaS and Enterprise Software. Eric Rea is based out of Lehi, Utah and is the Co-founder & CEO of Podium. Eric previously worked at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a Software Engineer. Eric Rea attended the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business. Eric Rea has been named one of Utah Business’ 2018 Forty Under 40 honorees.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$6.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 50% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 33% |
| Productivity Tools | 2 | 33% |
| SMS | 1 | 17% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 67% |
| Mexico | 2 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OneSchema | OneSchema automates CSV & PDF workflows with AI. Enterprise operations, IT, and data engineering teams use OneSchema to replace brittle scripts and save countless hours of time manually cleaning messy files.Features like our schema builder prevent data quality issues and guarantee bad data never enters your business systems. AI-poweredtransforms in our no-code workflow builder are flexible and fast to configure on any file, empowering the entire operations team to work like data engineers.Companies like Toast, Ramp, Hippocratic AI, and Huron Consulting Group rely on OneSchema to run their most critical file integrations, with thousands of files processed every hour. | $6.3M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Zonos | Zonos provides scalable technology to simplify the complexities of international commerce, making it accessible to everyone. We create products that allow businesses to take full control of their cross-border trade experience. Our SaaS solutions alleviate the headaches of cross-border trade with APIs and software that provide businesses with thetools and data they need to scale globally, including the only true landed cost solution on the market.Our cloud-based software and APIs allow online retailers to calculate accurate duties and taxes, presenting true landed cost with the option to prepay at checkout, manage restricted items, receive foreign payments, mitigate fraud, and generate accurate international shipping rates in their localized checkout.Zonos technology can automate non-resident country taxation for online retailers by keeping track of thresholds for each country and collecting taxes at the appropriate time, making global trade compliance easy and relieving the burden many are feeling from this new tax trend, i.e. UK VAT, Australian GST, EU VAT, etc.Doubling in size every year since its inception, Zonos has become the leader in cross-border technology, helping thousands of businesses better serve their international partners and customers. Our team of industry and software experts is expanding rapidly, both locally and globally. | $69M | Series A | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Plerk | Plerk is an operator of an employee benefits management platform designed for booking and managing business trips. Their platform helps to organize business travel by aligning professional travelers and companies, managing travel quickly and efficiently, and ensuring an end-to-end travel solution, enabling companies, managers, and travelers tomanage their travel expenses. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| Bevy | Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events SaaS platform. It incorporates a variety of tools to plan, promote, and execute virtual conferences and community events. The platform is a flexible software solution that can be used to manage and host thousands of different types of virtual events. Built with enterprise-levelanalytics, integrations, and data security, the Bevy platform is used by a range of enterprise, consumer and education teams who want to host virtual events and turn them into thriving global communities. Featuring a deep permissions system and webcasting capabilities, community and field marketing teams can empower local brand advocates all over the world to build small local communities that collectively provide reach and scale.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $40M | Series C | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Nexu | Nexu is a financing platform used by car dealerships to offer to finance to more car buyers in a 100% digital and real-time experience. Nexu's platform uses AI, statistical algorithms, and technology automation. | $1.6M | Seed | Mar 18, 2020 |  |
| Postscript | Postscript is an eCommerce SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing. It allows users to easily create and manage SMS marketing campaigns with detailed analytics to improve sales and revenue. It plugs into eCommerce businesses and helps overcome declining email engagement by sendingcustomers targeted and customizable SMS marketing. | $4.5M | Seed | Dec 04, 2019 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1984 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1984-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arrebol Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrebol-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Podium

VC Fund · Lehi, United States

Podium is a computer software company that offers a customer communication platform for businesses that interact with customers on a local level. It features an interaction management platform that utilizes messaging features designed for businesses to interact with their leads, customers, and teams.The company was founded in 2014 andheadquartered in Utah, United States.

5 contacts available at Podium.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dennis Steele | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-steele-2 |
| Eric Rea | CEO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-rea |
| Brant Choate | Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brant-choate |
| Brian Spittler | Communications Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-spittler |
| Dennis Beatty | Senior Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-beatty |

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## FAQ

### What does Eric Rea invest in?

Eric Rea invests primarily in SaaS, Enterprise Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Eric Rea's check size?

Eric Rea typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$6.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Eric Rea participates in.

### When did Eric Rea last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eric Rea closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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