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💼 Investor-Style Startup Screening See your startup through an investor's eyes. 🚀 Most founders know their business deeply. Few know exactly how investors are likely to read it. I'm an analyst at DueCap, a Silicon Valley startup screening firm. We help investors review startup opportunities by analyzing pitch decks and supporting materials, identifying inconsistencies and information gaps, and preparing structured screening briefs. I offer founders the same investor-style perspective. ‼️ This is not pitch deck design, copywriting, or fundraising coaching. I will not rewrite your story. I will review your startup the way an investor is likely to - looking for missing information, weak assumptions, inconsistencies, unsupported claims, and the questions that naturally arise during an investment review. ✅ What you'll receive • Independent investor-style review of your startup • Analysis of your pitch deck and any supporting materials you choose to provide • Identification of inconsistencies, information gaps, and weak assumptions • Key questions investors are likely to ask • A structured written screening brief you can use before investor conversations ℹ️ What I need from you Just send me your pitch deck. That's enough to begin. If additional documents would materially improve the review, I'll let you know. Best for • Pre-seed, seed, and Series A startups • Founders preparing to raise capital • Teams preparing for investor meetings or demo days • Founders who want an independent second opinion before fundraising 👁️ Want to see exactly what the output looks like? A sample DueCap screening brief is included in my portfolio.

Former Vice President of Corporate Development, M&A and Strategy at Upwork. Corporate Development and Strategy executive with broad experience across the TMT sector – Enterprise Platforms, Fintech solutions, SaaS, and Ecommerce platforms. Skilled in the creation and execution of strategic corporate development initiatives across M&A, corporate venture capital investments, and strategic business development. I'm experienced in business analysis and strategy transformation/consulting. - Creation of business presentations and related documents - Analysis of business and identification of new strategic initiatives to undertake (big picture --> execution) - Financial and operational review, including process improvement recommendations - Competitive and industry analysis for PE and VC firms Recognized by Technowize Magazine as "Most Innovative People to Watch" and winner of the ABA Silver Stevie Award for "IT Executive of the Year." I also serve as an official Member on the Forbes Business Development Council. MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Who am I at a glance? I'm a PE Parter, who works with companies on a daily basis to strategize, plan, and execute their strategic growth initiatives. I am also a former CEO, COO, and VC Partner, and have close to three decades of venture formation, business transformation, and strategic growth leadership (BD, Sales, Partnerships) experience. I come with blue-chip management consulting foundations and am as close to a guru as you can get in market opportunity research, strategy formation, and planning. I've "been in the room" raising capital, launching ventures, and transforming businesses for three decades. I have a deep and nuanced understanding of how to build and grow businesses. Where can I add value? Results matter most. We all get this. But where do results come from? Over the last three decades - as a CEO, COO, Private Equity partner, a Strategy Consultant, a Market Researcher, and globe-traveling Chief Executive (5.3 million lifetime air miles so far!), I can offer this simple answer: Results come from performance, and performance comes from having a solid plan, smartly organizing one's resources, and managing well. Everything else is noise. This is what I do: * Bring Clarity and Focus - through situation assessments, market research, and competitive intel. * Secure the Right Resources - human, technical, systems, and investment capital raising. * Offer Hands-on Support and Turn-key Outsource Solutions for Planning, Organizing, and Managing. How am I different and an excellent option for you to consider? * A blue-chip management consulting and professional market research background (+10 years worth) means I have ready-to-deploy analytical frameworks, processes, and adaptable solution sets, along with lightening-fast analytics (mental horsepower) that surprises most people. (High-grade management consultants bring strategy, diagnostic frameworks, rapid problem-solving, and rollout expertise that many people value.) * Deep and nuanced perspectives that took decades to form. I haven't seen everything - but I've seen a lot - on-the-ground in 59 countries, work spanning 38 industries, hands-on at every maturity and technology level - from emerging deep-tech to tried-and-true brick & mortar - helping businesses and operations in the funded start-up, lower to mid market, private corporate, and the ultra-large +$1B ventures. Where consultants and advisors say "we need a 30-day discovery and diagnosis stage", I say "I've seen this before, here's what we can do about it" (Experienced experts with extensive domain knowledge can often solve complex problems faster and more accurately via pattern recognition and heuristics.) What kind of Performance and Results? +775 market research studies (in support of investment, rollout, and operating decisions) +58 private placements as the transaction manager (~$5.6b) +56 pitch-decks (with 97% success rate of getting to the next stage) +44 capital raising strategy and documentation preparations (thesis, decks, sources, term sheets) +41 carveouts/stand-up initiatives +31 business transformations (where the real value creation happens) All of these efforts have led to: +35% to 400% increases in revenue +15% to 125% improvements in Profitability/EBITDA +18% to 85% productivity gains (thanks to smart AI applications) +1.6x to 10x investor returns +a lot - and I mean a real lot - of happy founders, executive teams, employees, and investors All told, I have contributed to the arrangement and deployment of $104.3 billion in capital. What I'm like on the job: * I'm a Catalyst, Producer, Driver, and Guardian (I'm also Canadian-American, love pizza, am ridiculously educated, a well-trained diplomat, and make work fun). I am the person who bridges from vision to reality and turns strategy into action. * I'm very hands-on, collaborative, and coach-like, with a knack for breaking apart the toughest problems, overcoming every form of hurdle (including people hurdles), generating forward momentum, and leading with an overwhelming positive force. Who do I work with? I work with leaders, founders, investors, and teams to understand and define their opportunities, create strategies and game plans to capture those opportunities, accelerate their work, execute transactions, transform operations, and generate breakout performance results. (I've also spent time with four Prime Ministers, a couple of Kings, a U.S. President, and the Pope). I work globally and often in complicated and thorny settings - in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia - that others prefer to shy away from. I thrive in complexity, ambiguity, and high-pressure settings. If you seek a genuine catalyst, seasoned advisor, guick-acting trouble-shooter, a no-nonsense producer and driver of results, or simply a calm, steady hand, who can enhance your effectiveness and help your organization achieve excellence, let’s connect to explore how we might work together.

🎯 Founder@VCFO Solution (M&A, Fundraising&Fractional CFO) & Three Infinity (Hybrid Capital & Tech Advisory) 📚 CFA, CPA, CA, MBA (Ex-Big 4 Accounting Firm & Investment Banking & PE/VC & Corporate Finance Partner for companies at various stages and industries) 📍 15+ Years | M&A Due Diligence | Fundraising | CFO Services I operate at the absolute intersection of capital logic and Tech execution. As the founder of 3 Infinity and VCFO Solution, I provide "Plug-and-Play Transaction Services" for Search Funds, Private Equity, Strategic Buyers, and Growth Stage Companies. Backed by $18B+ in executed Wall Street transaction experience, I deploy tech-accelerated workflows to reduce fundraising, M&A and financial transformation timelines by 70%. ⸻ 💼 Core Expertise & Mandates ✅ Quality of Earnings (QoE-Lite) & M&A Diligence • Rapid EBITDA Normalization & Add-back validation • Working Capital reconstruction & Red Flag analysis • Converting messy target data rooms into audit-ready diligence memos ✅ M&A Financial Modeling & Valuation • Dynamic 3-Statement LBO & Acquisition modeling • Post-close integration & synergy tracking • Cap Table dilution & scenario stress-testing ✅ Exit-Ready Financial Infrastructure (Seed to Series D) • Board-level KPI & Unit Economics (CAC/LTV) modeling • Institutionalizing fragmented startup financials to survive VC scrutiny ⸻ 🔍 Why Partner With Me? You are not hiring a freelancer; you are partnering with an Tech-Accelerated Advisory Firm. By utilizing advanced data-structuring tools, I eliminate the bloated overhead of traditional advisory firms, delivering Wall Street rigor at venture speed. Note: While my consulting rate reflects the institutional expertise and transaction velocity I provide, I primarily operate on a flat-fee, project-based model (e.g., QoE delivery, M&A modeling, Fractional CFO) to ensure total alignment on timelines and outcomes. 💬 Message me to discuss your next project!

Lifelong entrepreneur, having built and scaled 3 successful startups, raised over $10M in venture capital, and sold my first company for 8-figures at age 25. I’m a coach and builder at heart - I love rolling up my sleeves and using my experience to help you get to the right answers faster. I’ve coached 50+ founders on product, design, growth, marketing, analytics, fundraising, consumer retention, and enterprise sales. Some of my highest leverage strengths are: ✅ FUNDRAISING: having built over 100 pitch decks and successfully pitched Sequoia Capital, a16z, Greylock, Benchmark, Accel, and many other Tier 1 VC's in the Silicon Valley. ✅ STORYTELLING: crafting your brand positioning, product marketing, features/benefits, and distilling your message to resonate with your core persona. ✅ PRODUCT: building a product development lifecycle, hypothesis-driven development and iteration, working cross-functionally to ensure design, engineering, marketing, are all aligned on moving your key metrics forward. ✅ GROWTH: built several consumer web/mobile apps, notably scaling to >1M users and >4M unique monthly transactions through both organic and paid-led growth strategies. ✅ STARTUP INFRASTRUCTURE: building the foundational processes to enable growth, including your performance marketing (e.g. Meta ad accounts), product analytics (e.g. Segment/Amplitude), financial models, bookkeeping, sales funnels, cap tables, etc. Currently CEO of Perspective, a rapidly growing AI startup based in San Francisco backed by many notable VC’s and angel investors. Reach out and let’s chat!

Unlock the funding your company deserves with a masterfully crafted pitch deck. As a seasoned expert with over 500 decks completed and more than $3 billion raised for my clients, my track record has earned me a place on Forbes' Under 30 list in Marketing and Advertising. My expertise has empowered clients to forge partnerships with elite investors, including: a16z, Accel Partners, Bessemer, Benchmark, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Initialized, Cowboy, Eniac, and more. Our work goes beyond just VC, and has been pitched to: Shark Tank, The United Nations, Government of France, Department of Defense, and Y-Combinator. If your groundbreaking idea needs a captivating narrative, I'm here to help. I'll immerse myself in your business, collaborating closely with you to create a compelling connection with potential investors. I hold degrees in Business Economics and Entrepreneurship from UCLA, and I've subsequently taught lectures to both Harvard and UCLA MBA students on decks. Together, we'll refine your value proposition and bring your dream presentation to life. I deliver unmatched responsiveness, rapid turnarounds, meticulous revisions, and a dedication to helping your business get funding. Thank you for considering me as your partner in this exhilarating journey! Ari