--- title: "Celebrating Ordway's Success in its 1st Year - 2018" description: "Ordway's 2018 recap highlights key achievements including securing seed funding and significant customer acquisitions, detailing the teams that drove this early success." url: "https://ordwaylabs.com/blog/celebrating-ordways-success-in-2018/" type: "Post" publisher: "Ordway" language: "en-US" published: "2018-12-18T02:00:26+00:00" updated: "2026-09-23T07:01:55+00:00" author: "Sameer Gulati" categories: - "Blog" --- # Celebrating Ordway's Success in its 1st Year - 2018 Like a performance vehicle’s suspension, or the spine of a world-class sprinter, alignment is key to outpacing the competition. For businesses who want to change the world, it comes down to more than a great idea. It comes down to the alignment of three teams: internal, external, and home. The Ordway team here in DC recently celebrated a wonderful 2018 with good food and conversation about what we accomplished in 2018 and the opportunity that lays ahead for 2019. ![Ordway Team celebrating success at holiday party in December 2018](/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ordway-2018-celebrating-success-group-photo1.jpeg) Sameer framed 2018 by giving thanks to the entire team that makes Ordway success possible: * Internal team — the engineers, product managers, sales, and operations professionals that make our customers’ lives easier by eliminating manual workarounds in complex billing and revenue recognition processes. * External team — the advisors and investors who are betting that Ordway becomes the next DC Tech success. They’ve seen it all before, and provide timely advice on big decisions we face. * Home team — the friends, significant others, and family that support the Internal team as Ordway continues to attract world-class talent passionate about relieving growing companies’ billing pains. ![Ordway Team celebrating success at december 2018 holiday party](/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ordway-2018-celebrating-success-group-photo2.jpeg) We also want to thank fellow DC Tech startup Hungry for preparing an awesome spread for the team. We picked a DC based chef, Chef Ryan Hackney, who was featured on Beat Bobby Flay this past November. We had the amazing opportunity to taste Chef Ryan’s Smashed Cucumber Salad that the judges noted as “the star of the show” during the episode. All of his food lived up to his reputation! ![Ordway Team celebrating success at holiday party in December 2018](/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ordway-2018-celebrating-success-group-photo3.jpeg) In the end, 2018 was a great year for us. We now serve a wide range of customers in logistics, healthcare, technology, restaurant, real estate, and media industries just to name a few. 2019 will be even better knowing that we have the three pillars of our success — the internal, external, and home teams — aligned to take Ordway to the next level. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What does Ordway do? Ordway eliminates manual workarounds in billing and revenue recognition for growing companies across logistics, healthcare, technology, restaurant, real estate, and media industries. ### When was Ordway founded? Ordway was founded in 2017, with the company celebrating its first year of success in 2018. ### What are the three pillars of Ordway's success? Ordway's success depends on alignment of three teams: the internal team of engineers and product managers, the external team of advisors and investors, and the home team of family and friends supporting employees. ### Where is Ordway based? Ordway is based in Washington, DC and is part of the DC Tech startup community. ## About Ordway Ordway is an all-in-one billing and revenue automation platform for growing B2B SaaS companies, typically from post-Series A to pre-IPO. It combines [Subscription Invoicing](/products/subscription-invoicing-software/), [Recurring Billing](/products/recurring-billing-software/), [Metered Billing](/products/metered-billing-software/), [SaaS Billing](/lp/ordway-saas-billing/), [SaaS Accounting](/products/saas-accounting-software/) and [AI-Powered Revenue Management](/products/ai-powered-revenue-management/) to automate complex pricing models, streamline revenue recognition and accelerate the financial close.