Drew Calin

I build the sales system founders need before they hire a VP.

📍 Singapore, Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
Operator-angel🌍 Singapore
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Private Investor
2018
SuitShop is a US-based e-commerce suiting company–the first online brand of its kind, offering high quality, size- and gender-inclusive suiting at an affordable price point. With three brick-and-mortar showrooms in Denver, Chicago, and Philadelphia along with tech-driven online sizing solutions and best-in-class customer service, SuitShop is experiencing record growth and is excited to bring new Showroom Stylists onto the team. SuitShop is focused on career development, and all team members access unique opportunities to participate in and learn about all aspects of an apparel tech start-up. SuitShop offers $194 suiting made for anybody & every body. Originally named The Groomsman Suit, SuitShop was born out of co-founder and designer Jeanne’s (not-so-great) experience suiting up her own wedding group in rental tuxedos. Childhood best friend Diana, graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Business, joined to pioneer a new path in special-event suiting. Since then, SuitShop has secured a place amongst the leading wedding industry brands, expanded to serve special occasions beyond weddings as well as everyday suiting and more, and opened three physical showrooms. We’ve grown an incredibly strong online presence and suited up over 100k people. And we’re just getting started!
mid stageRetail
Private Investor
2017
DishDash is a technology-enabled corporate food management platform that empowers businesses to easily and cost-effectively manage all of their employee, client, and event food needs all via one portal. Whether catering for a 20-pax team meeting or providing all employees with daily meals, DishDash has you covered. Have a diverse group in need of halal, vegetarian, Asian, and Western options all in the same order? Not a problem. Want someone to curate and manage your company's pantry snacks and drinks? Consider it done. Tasked with throwing a fancy birthday party for the boss? Piece of cake! We work with highly rated and popular restaurants, caterers, and purveyors of fine foods such as Grain Traders, Luxe, HJH Maimunah, Swiss Bake, Blu Kouzina and hundreds more to bring you some of Singapore's most relished dishes suited for any budget. And we use state-of-the-art food delivery technology to keep the dishes our partners painstakingly prepare hot and fresh every time we deliver to you. DishDash - corporate catering made easy! "May the fork be with you."​
Member of the Board
Oct 2014
talenTtrust is about skills-based volunteering done right. We bring businesses, professionals and charities together to create sustainable and meaningful change. Get in touch with the talenTtrust team today to see how you can make a real difference to charities in Singapore.
Board Member, Interactive Committee
Dec 2010
The goal of ThinkLA is to connect, educate, and inspire the Los Angeles advertising, marketing, and media community. We promote and support world-class collaboration, innovation, and creativity among these industries in Los Angeles. As the preeminent nonprofit association, ThinkLA serves its constituents through initiatives that leverage members​ combined resources to accomplish objectives greater than each could reasonably expect to accomplish on their own. To that end, ThinkLA seeks to enhance the business objectives of its members via: · Elevating the image, identity and awareness of the Los Angeles communities among national marketers to attract more business, greater talent, and more spending to the market · Establishing and advocating industry standards and ideals, including philanthropic support of related charitable endeavors · Providing comprehensive educational and training support with an emphasis on diverse multi-cultural representation and improved knowledge of new, emerging media and marketing disciplines · Building pride and alignment throughout the various communities, resulting in enhanced affiliation and fellowship among like colleagues · Enabling members to network and build strong business and personal relationships
Experience · 6 entries
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2026
Founder
Jun 2026
Hire a VP of Sales too early, and youll burn $400,000+. Most founders try to fix sales by hiring a leader far too early. The problem is usually the lacking system. No documented motions, no hiring framework, no pipeline math, no operating rhythm. A VP would spend six to twelve months building all of it from scratch, on your payroll. Foundry GTM builds that system first, so you can hire second. Im Drew Calin. Ive spent fifteen years building sales engines from $0 to $40M, at LinkedIn, across multiple venture-backed startups, and as a former founder myself. Five startups. Three exits. Ive carried the bag, built the teams, and run global go-to-market across NAMER, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. Now I install that same operating system for founders before they make the expensive hiring decision. Heres the math. A B2B SaaS VP of Sales at $400K OTE costs roughly $33,000 a month, fully loaded. The Foundry GTM solution costs less than that, gets built in four to six weeks, and is yours to keep. When your VP arrives, they inherit a working system instead of building one. What you get: - A Commercial Engine Diagnostic across all 10 levers of your sales motion - A complete Sales Playbook: ICP positioning, sales motions & plays, comp, hiring & onboarding, pipeline management, and operating cadence - Single-lever Sprints when you need to fix one thing fast This is for founders with early product-market fit, venture-backed or bootstrapped, who are still on sales calls and cant forecast within 10% of their number. Start free. Take the Scorecard at drewcalin.co. In five minutes youll know which lever is breaking your team first. Stop guessing. Start building.
2018
Co Founder & CEO
Jan 2018
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Private Investor
2018
SuitShop is a US-based e-commerce suiting company–the first online brand of its kind, offering high quality, size- and gender-inclusive suiting at an affordable price point. With three brick-and-mortar showrooms in Denver, Chicago, and Philadelphia along with tech-driven online sizing solutions and best-in-class customer service, SuitShop is experiencing record growth and is excited to bring new Showroom Stylists onto the team. SuitShop is focused on career development, and all team members access unique opportunities to participate in and learn about all aspects of an apparel tech start-up. SuitShop offers $194 suiting made for anybody & every body. Originally named The Groomsman Suit, SuitShop was born out of co-founder and designer Jeanne’s (not-so-great) experience suiting up her own wedding group in rental tuxedos. Childhood best friend Diana, graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Business, joined to pioneer a new path in special-event suiting. Since then, SuitShop has secured a place amongst the leading wedding industry brands, expanded to serve special occasions beyond weddings as well as everyday suiting and more, and opened three physical showrooms. We’ve grown an incredibly strong online presence and suited up over 100k people. And we’re just getting started!
mid stageRetail
2017
Private Investor
2017
DishDash is a technology-enabled corporate food management platform that empowers businesses to easily and cost-effectively manage all of their employee, client, and event food needs all via one portal. Whether catering for a 20-pax team meeting or providing all employees with daily meals, DishDash has you covered. Have a diverse group in need of halal, vegetarian, Asian, and Western options all in the same order? Not a problem. Want someone to curate and manage your company's pantry snacks and drinks? Consider it done. Tasked with throwing a fancy birthday party for the boss? Piece of cake! We work with highly rated and popular restaurants, caterers, and purveyors of fine foods such as Grain Traders, Luxe, HJH Maimunah, Swiss Bake, Blu Kouzina and hundreds more to bring you some of Singapore's most relished dishes suited for any budget. And we use state-of-the-art food delivery technology to keep the dishes our partners painstakingly prepare hot and fresh every time we deliver to you. DishDash - corporate catering made easy! "May the fork be with you."​
2014
Member of the Board
Oct 2014
talenTtrust is about skills-based volunteering done right. We bring businesses, professionals and charities together to create sustainable and meaningful change. Get in touch with the talenTtrust team today to see how you can make a real difference to charities in Singapore.
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