EmergeOne | Fractional CFO services

EmergeOne is a leading consultancy providing fractional CFO support to venture backed tech startups from seed to Series B.

We help founders get the most out of their capital, streamline financials, and manage investor relations so they can focus on scaling. Examples of our support:

- Strategic Finance Execution and Oversight over finance operations
- Financial Planning and Analysis
- Board reporting, Investor relations and management
- Capital Raising, Fundraising Support, Due Diligence and Data room management
- Capital Management and Structuring
- Capital Allocation
- Financial modelling, forecasting, scenario planning, KPIs, metrics and reporting

Our clients are some of the fastest growing startups backed by funds like Hoxton Ventures, Stride, Playfair, Octopus, Outlier Ventures, Founders Factory and more.

Fractional CFO

Blue Ridge Partners

I've worked with DeepTech (mainly) founders for over 5 years, building the business and financial muscle behind their technology!

After exiting the angel group I cofounded, I found that I just couldn't stay away from startups, but I knew I didn't want to be a founder again...
So I started consulting for founders and quickly found that the business and finance stuff I knew so well was actually really hard for them. From deep in the weeds of building project management to creating and maintaining financial models to creating pitches for complex tech, I thoroughly enjoyed the nights-and-weekends work of supporting founders.

When my family moved from the US to the UK in 2022, I transitioned my "hobby" from nights-and-weekends into a real job, and now, I help founders make sense of their strategy, business, and finances full time!

DeepTech Fractional CFO and Venture Builder

Octiocor

Leading finance and product teams for AI image analysis start up spun out of Cambridge University.
Building product management function and larger company operations to translate academic research into commercial-grade technology
Projecting complex cash needs to inform hiring employees, onboarding contractors, fundraising, and completing grant applications.
Pitching with CEO to potential venture and angel investors for seed round fundraising.
Working with accountants to ensure all regulatory filings (e.g. VAT, R&D, etc) are accurate and timely to maximize cash in the bank.

Fractional CFO / COO

MCA funding company

Provided financial and operational leadership as fractional CFO of fast growing Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) funder.
Advised strategic changes to adapt to quickly changing economic conditions in high risk business lending environment.
Created detailed financial models to inform internal decision making and communicate business / economics to potential outside investors.
Created cash management systems to better understand cash inflows and outflows and better manage ongoing operations.
Led push for a data-first culture using analytics to make better decisions.
Informed strategy by identifying previously-unseen opportunities using existing data.
Guided and built full analytical stack, from data stores through visualizations.

Capital One

Intrapreneurially built and ran analytics function inside ~$80M Identity Services business unit from scratch.
Directly managed 4 analysts and influenced the work of 6 data scientists, 7 data engineers / analysts, and multiple tech teams; officially and unofficially mentored numerous team members.
Built and managed credit governance process for $10M's in marginal enterprise value from over 20 credit decisions. 
Product Manager for AI / ML team, influencing internal and external stakeholders on strategy by demonstrating value generated by and potential value from new products.
Represented Digital Identity analytics group in monthly VP+ Authentication Council Working Group; created and presented numerous data-centric VP+ presentations on strategy, value-added, enterprise partnership needs, etc.
Created and maintained data sets and visualizations sourcing data from across the enterprise, including customer, fraud, behavioral analytics, credit card transaction, click-stream / UI data, etc.
Worked extensively with product managers, fraud analysts, and tech teams to understand needs and deliver solutions.

Analytics Lead: CIO Tech Excellence award 2019 (top 3 of over 1,800 tech teams) 
Analytics Lead: Circle of Excellence award 2021 (top 2 of over 1,000 product teams)

Senior Analytics Lead - Digital Identity

University of Virginia

Taught entrepreneurial topics as adjunct faculty at UVA's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Lecturer for New Product Development and Entrepreneurial Finance courses, creating numerous adaptations and improvement to course curricula.

Lecturer

CAV Angels

Operationalized, managed, and grew UVA-oriented angel investment network.
Performed in depth due diligence on companies and write comprehensive memos on investibility of startups. 
Negotiated deal terms, execute investments, and lead ongoing efforts to provide support to portfolio companies in business development, hiring, additional fundraising, etc.
Formed and executed strategy for creating educational material for first-time angel investors.
Created and ran program to train and manage over twenty student fellows and interns responsible for augmenting due diligence efforts.
Built data-centric platform to manage deal pipeline, due diligence data, and member input; created roadmap to expand platform to scale to other universities and angel groups with the goal of using ML to automate portions of deal process.

Co-Founder, President

S&P Global

Leader on implementation team of newly launched product: semi-custom business intelligence software for regional and community banks. 
Co-created operational model and scrum set up allowing product to scale from 5 to 42 customers in under two years.
Advised C-suite customers / stakeholders on product adoption and usage as a technical project manager.
Advised management on reorganization of ~20 person implementation team.
Mentored and instructed tech colleagues in the nuances of the banking and finance industries.
Created custom and semi-custom ETL's and presentations to integrate disparate data silos into a single source of truth.

Manager / BI Implementation Consultant and Engineer

FI Consulting

Built multiple custom software systems in Freddie Mac's Multifamily division as technology and data engineer.
Owned deal management system organizing and analyzing data for over $20b in deals each year.
Interfaced with executive-level clients on application requirements, functionality, and enhancements.
Designed, developed, implemented, and maintained custom IT and reporting solutions.
Actively involved in SDLC, including system specification and design, programming, testing, documenting, user-training, deploying, and post-implementation activities.
Managed junior colleagues through multiple enhancement projects.

Technology and Data Consultant

Foxhall Capital Management

Member of Investment Committee managing over $750 million in quantitative investment strategies
Proactively identified and researched quantitative investment ideas using back testing and data mining techniques on large historical price datasets; presented findings to Investment Committee
Implemented quantitative investment strategies requiring monthly rebalancing of over 5,000 separately managed accounts and daily monitoring of global stock, bond, and commodity index prices

Portfolio Manager

I partner with world class researchers, visionaries, and entrepreneurs to turn their DeepTech technology into highly scalable startups.
From pre-formation to scaling, I come along side founders to augment their efforts, teach new skills, and establish rigor and structure.
Through fractional and project-based work, I have enabled my pre-Series A clients to raise over $30m combined through equity, debt, and grant funding.

David Sade, CFA

iScribeHealth

iScribe uses a combination of generative AI and speech-to-text to capture and complete documentation on the provider’s behalf, so they can put their time and energy back towards their patients. 

As VP of Engineering,  I focused on building a strong engineering culture, driving innovation, and scaling our impact through resilient technology and high-performing teams.

𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽, 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲:
• Integrated seamlessly with Athena’s ambient scribe system
• Bulletproofed our core architecture for scalability, high availability, and near-zero downtime
• Implemented our first version of our incident recovery pipeline from detection to communication
• Upgraded the platform to the latest .NET framework for performance and maintainability
• Migrated our authentication system to Auth0, improving security and flexibility
• Completed our first-ever penetration test and resolved 100% of high/critical vulnerabilities
• Overhauled recruiting processes across roles, resulting in faster, higher-quality hires
• Hired a Product Manager and Lead Engineer to strengthen cross-functional execution
• Reorganized the team structure to boost delivery velocity and code quality
• Defined the 2025 engineering roadmap, aligning tech strategy with business goals
• Implemented and delivered our first version of AI driven E&M coding suggestion, improving by 10-20% providers billing outcome

VP of Engineering

Crossroads Venture Studio

Provide the initial team, strategic direction to reach product-market fit, and execution to startup launch:
• 8+ projects, including automarketer.ai — see our portfolio: crossroadsventurestudio.com
• 62.5% success rate bootstrapping to first customer

Founder • General Partner

Heali

Co-founded a health-tech startup to help people with chronic disease to reduce their symptoms via personalized nutrition:
• Recruited and directed a team of 2-12 engineers, product designers, and UX researchers
• Architected and implemented AI-based nutrition technologies, supporting 200+ medical conditions
• $4M+ fundraised, 8 digits business valuation

Co-founder • Chief Science Officer • Head of Product

Snap Inc.

Tackled machine learning problems from Computer Vision to Natural Language Processing. 
• Published: privacy-preserving friend recommendation — 14% revival of dead users, 7% user engagement
• Designed: Bitmoji recommendation in the chat interface — 8% increase in user engagement

Senior Research Scientist

Supported Snap's research team's growth:
• involving 50+ researchers and engineers
• monitored 40+ projects impacting 188M+ DAU
• 10+ research domains, including face analysis, NLP, scene understanding, augmented reality, video analysis

Technical Program Manager

Amazon

Managed products related to data acquisition, data labeling, and big data management for machine learning applications:
• Blueprinted the visual search database, the annotation and evaluation platform — 12M+ images and labels

Technical Product Manager

R&D in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at A9 Visual Search, the team that develops the Amazon visual search technology.
• Spearheaded our mobile brand logo detection and recognition project — real-time performance at 100fps
• 10+ patents

Machine Learning Researcher

Google

Initiated and supervised the Suggested Edits project — an automatic system for poor-quality video detection and correction:
• Engineered and scaled the feature to the entire YouTube video corpus, impacting 94M+ DAU
• Created 10+ various video effects and filters

Machine Learning Engineer

Oregon State University

Teaching/Research Assistant at the OSU Computer Vision Lab under Professors Sinisa Todorovic , Alan Fern and Thomas G. Dietterich. My research mostly focused on 3D reconstruction, feature detectors and descriptors, spatiotemporal video segmentation, event recognition, and in general mathematical optimization problems.

Teaching/Research Assistant

Laika

Development of Maya plug-ins with the Maya API (Autodesk product). Perl scripting in movie production pipeline. I developed a rendering system for real-time visualization of heavy computer generated videos. The goal was to have a real-time light weight visualization of video scenes for directors to check and validate the animation.

Computer Graphics Technical Intern

ViewPlus Technologies

I developed a system for real-time brail document registration and finger tracking for blind people, using an off-the-shelf low-resolution webcam.

Research Scientist (in partnership with OSU)

Infineon Technologies

Projects:
- Test platform development and driver improvement in C and assembly language.
- Tests automation for electronic boards with TCL scripts + documentation.

Application Engineer

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🧬 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿. 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁. 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿.
  
I’ve spent 20+ years at the forefront of machine learning — 10 of those building products at Google, Amazon, and Snap that touch hundreds of millions daily. For the last 7 years, I brought that same scale and intelligence to startups and healthcare companies.

I combine deep R&D roots — PhD in AI, 30+ patents and publications, 2100+ citations — with startup grit, rapid prototyping, recruiting A-teams, and shipping fast. I lead with empathy, data, and vision, because great teams build great products..

🚀 𝗠𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: Simplifying complexity, and delivering intelligence to the front lines.

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