Startup Founder

Co-Founder & CEO — AeroFlow Automation

Austin, TX | October 2023 – Present

• Secured $3.5M in Series Seed funding from top-tier venture capital firms, presenting financial forecast models and traction metrics to close the round within 4 months.
• Scaled annual recurring revenue (ARR) from zero to $2.8M by designing and executing a multi-channel outbound sales strategy targeting enterprise manufacturing logistics partners.
• Led product development for a cloud-based automation suite, reducing release cycle times by 32% while overseeing a team of 14 engineers and product designers using Agile tools.
• Established customer success workflows that reduced enterprise client churn to under 2.4% annually, increasing net revenue retention (NRR) to 114% over a 12-month period.

Co-Founder & COO — Vertex Logistics Solutions

Austin, TX | July 2020 – September 2023

• Managed day-to-day operations and a $1.2M operating budget, optimizing supplier agreements and software licensing contracts to increase gross margins from 58% to 74%.
• Recruited and onboarded 24 employees across engineering, sales, and operations departments, reducing average employee ramp-up time by 40% through structured training.
• Optimized marketing and client acquisition channels, reducing customer acquisition costs (CAC) by 38% while growing the active customer base from 15 to over 140 accounts.
• Raised a $700,000 pre-seed funding round from angel investors, establishing the legal, accounting, and payroll infrastructure to scale the business to its first institutional round.

Fundraising, Cap table management, Financial modeling, Strategic planning, Customer acquisition, Product-market fit validation, Team building, Operational scaling, B2B sales, Agile development, CRM platforms, Jira, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel

Automated Supply Chain Integration

Role: Co-Founder & Product Lead

Tools: Jira, HubSpot, AWS, Python

Led the development and launch of a logistics API connector, reducing customer setup onboarding times by 45% and growing pilot group engagement by 60% in 90 days.

Series Seed Capital Campaign

Role: Co-Founder & CEO

Tools: QuickBooks, HubSpot CRM, DocuSign

Orchestrated fundraising activities, preparing pitching decks and data rooms that attracted 14 angel and institutional investors to close the round 3 weeks ahead of schedule.

• Oxford Entrepreneurship: Venture Finance Programme (2024)
• Columbia Business School Venture Capital Private Equity Program (2022)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Startup mentor at local incubator for underrepresented founders (2022-present)
• Availability: Immediate