Mike Tamaru
Managing Partner

Throughout my career, I have either built and scaled or fixed businesses.

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I've held leadership roles in technology companies in the Consumer, Enterprise and Industrial segments.   These include crowd-funded and seed-funded startups, hyper-growth companies that include Jawbone and Tonal, and Fortune 500 multinationals such as Cisco Systems and Philips Electronics. 

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My fractional CFO focus is on hardware startups in the Seed through Series B financing stages, and later stage companies in a turnaround situation.  My specialty is strategic, finance and operations support for connected hardware companies (Physical product component + Software/AI + Subscription and Service offering)   

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I help these companies with building infrastructure to scale for profitable growth, raising equity and debt, driving M&A activity, managing business planning, supporting implementation of supply chains and contract manufacturing relationships, implementing go-to-market plans, implementing G&A systems and processes, and  acquisition integration.     

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My clients include scale-ups and turnarounds in the AI/Crypto Semiconductors, Robotics, Wearable Tech, IoT, Enterprise Computing and Connected Home segments.  In addition, I support strategic acquirers, venture funds and other investors in these segments with strategy and due diligence.  Across my career in high technology, I've been employed by or consulted to over 40 tech companies, most of them in the connected hardware space.   As a result, I have exceptionally broad and deep domain expertise in connected hardware, which is unparalleled in the Silicon Valley.

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I received my Bachelor degree from UC Berkeley, an MBA from the University of Chicago and I hold the CPA certification (inactive status).   Prior to my technology career, I was a turnaround and restructuring consultant .    I am based in the San Francisco Bay Area.