Biotech ● Diagnostics ● Healthtech ● Fintech
Helping entrepreneurs elevate their companies through experienced business creation, operation, & advisory.
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Helping entrepreneurs elevate their companies through experienced business creation, operation, & advisory.
Let’s ChatDMEM & Co. provides CFO, COO, & CBO Fractional Executive services to Seed, Series A, & Series B companies in varying capacities.
Operate externally & internally as CFO, COO, Venture, or Operating Partner. Establish operating rhythms with service providers & internal teams.
Develop fundraising strategy, materials, & investor targets alongside CEO & Management. Leverage team’s time by managing overall process.
Model source & use, fund allocation, company formation, successive milestone-based equity financing rounds, royalty, M&A, & option pricing / 409A.
Partner with Management on partnership deals, portfolio reviews, & strategic customer discussions.
Manage equity benchmarking, contracts & Carta / option pool. Develop scientific / advisory boards, job descriptions & org design.
Conduct financial forecasting & analysis, budget reconciliation, & financial storytelling.
Fractional CBO to an AI company partnering with biotech assets to form NewCos
Fractional CFO to AI company focused on automating hedge fund investing
Fundraising consultant to computational biology company focused on drug discovery
Fractional CFO & COO to fintech company democratizing venture investing for women
Consultant with a focus on corporate innovation, spin-outs & organizational structure
Fractional CFO & COO to an mRNA company focused on cardiometabolic & liver disease
Entrepreneur-in-Residence to Venture Firm, with a focus on company creation
Over 15 years’ experience as an entrepreneurial investor and operator in technical roles across the Fortune 500, product and financial roles at early stage companies, and company creation and interim portfolio company roles at venture firms. Engineer at heart.
Diana has incubated five companies which subsequently raised over $150M in venture capital financing and was co-founding COO of three. She has had a dozen fractional COO, CFO, and CBO positions for Seed, Series A, and Series B stage companies, involving company formation, fundraising, business strategy, operations, and financial management.
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Diana is an entrepreneurial investor & operator with domain knowledge in healthcare (biotech, diagnostics & health-tech), fintech, semiconductor, & enterprise.
LinkedInHarvard Business SchoolMaster of Business Administration
Stanford UniversityManagement Science & Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteChemical & Biological Engineering, Economics