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Rohit Bhadange

Rohit Bhadange is co-founder and chief executive of Zamp, a New York-based company that positions itself as an "operating system" for sales tax compliance, combining software automation with human tax professionals to serve e-commerce and software-as-a-service businesses [1][2][3]. He founded the company in August 2022 after a career on the finance side of the industry, having worked as an investment banking analyst at MTS Health Partners, an analyst at Insight Venture Partners, and a private equity associate at GCM Grosvenor before moving into startup building [9][10][12][5]. He holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School through the Jerome Fisher M&T Program, having studied computer science, mathematics, and economics with a finance and operations focus [13][14][15].

Bhadange describes Zamp's core proposition as removing sales tax entirely from a merchant's workload rather than simply automating parts of it, arguing that businesses at the small and mid-market level should spend no time on tax administration and instead focus on revenue-generating activity [18]. He frames the scale of the problem in macro terms, citing a roughly $350 billion gap between the sales tax the US government expected to collect and what it actually collected in a recent year, and notes that sales tax typically accounts for 30 to 50 percent of state tax revenue [18]. He traces the regulatory shift that created demand for services like his to the 2018 Supreme Court case Wayfair v. South Dakota, which allowed states to require out-of-state and online sellers to collect sales tax even without a physical presence in the state, a change he says caught many e-commerce and SaaS companies unprepared [18]. He also warns that noncompliant businesses face two distinct risks: paying uncollected sales tax out of pocket, sometimes for look-back periods of seven years or longer, or facing potential criminal liability if they collect tax from customers but fail to remit it to the government [18].

To support these claims, Bhadange has pointed to internal research suggesting that roughly two-thirds of businesses surveyed did not feel prepared to handle the sales tax volume generated by peak periods such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday [18]. He states that Zamp added more than 400 customers in a single year and has cited a customer base exceeding 500 companies spanning e-commerce brands and SaaS firms [18][4]. According to public reporting on the company, Zamp has raised $14 million in funding, including a $10 million Series A round [18][22][21].

Beyond building the product, Bhadange has spoken about using LinkedIn as a primary channel for customer acquisition, describing an approach that involved writing content nightly, tracking engagement metrics weekly, and adjusting post structure based on what performed well [17]. He said that increasing his posting frequency from twice a week to daily helped grow his following from about 3,000 to 15,000 over roughly five months, and he attributed early gains to focusing the opening lines of posts on topics audiences cared about rather than his own personal interests [17]. Alongside his work at Zamp, Bhadange has also served as a venture partner at Pareto Holdings, made angel investments through a personal portfolio, and operated real estate investments under Relaza Renters [6][7][8].

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  1. Co-Founder & CEO
    ZampAug 2022 to Present
  2. Venture Partner
    Pareto HoldingsApr 2022 to Present
  3. Angel Investor
    Personal Portfolio2022 to Present
  4. Real Estate Investor & Operator
    Relaza RentersJan 2020 to Present
  5. Private Equity Associate
    GCM GrosvenorOct 2018 to Apr 2022
  6. Investment Banking Analyst
    MTS Health Partners, L.P.2017 to 2018
  7. Consultant
    Wharton SBDC2014 to 2017
  8. Analyst
    Insight Venture Partners2015 to 2016

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