Luis Vasquez

Founder and Managing Partner

2024 - Current

We provide comprehensive financial and operational leadership for startups, freeing CEOs, founders, and technical teams to focus on what they do best and not incur the full expense of financial and operations leadership before it is absolutely necessary.

Director Of Operations

2021

Consultant

2018 - 2021

Associate Director, Venture Collaboration

2018 - 2021

Provide deal flow to venture investors. The deal flow is all technology sectors and includes UC-based intellectual property, university start-ups, UC Irvine alumni founded start-ups, top start-ups from Orange County ecosystem.

Consultant

2018 - 2019

Advisor - Business Development

2018 - 2018

Fundraising, strategy, and investment reporting. Also work within the local and regional technology, startup, and VC ecosystem to optimize deal flow for the firm and provide value-added connections to entrepreneurs and founders.

Vice President of Investor Relations

2013 - 2018

Managed relationships with the funds' investors. Also supported the funds' portfolio companies.

VP of Entrepreneurship, LaunchPad SBDC Director

2004 - 2013

I'm proud that I helped build OCTANe into the vibrant organization that it has become. In my primary role as a Vice President at OCTANe and Director of the LaunchPad SBDC, I developed LaunchPad's data-driven evaluation process. Under my direction, LaunchPad helped over 114 companies raise more than $300,000,000.

Project Consultant

2007 - 2008

I was part of the team from that created the US GAAP Taxonomy on contract with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. • Identified and created hundreds of new taxonomy labels, which included documentation, definitions, references, and properties. • Lead consultant responsible for Extractive Industries (Oil, Gas, Mining) Disclosure taxonomy • Worked on dozens of other disclosures. • Final US GAAP taxonomy contained over 14,000 reporting elements. • Project required ability to understand and interpret entire FASB and SEC financial disclosure requirements.

Project Consultant

2005 - 2007

Consultant – ModelWare Business Unit, Institutional Securities • Developed financial analysis content for ModelWare, Morgan Stanley's proprietary system for helping investors and analysts uncover value. • Wrote definitions for over 2,000 metrics to be used in financial services product targeted at equity/credit research analysts and institutional investors. • Project required ability to understand and interpret Morgan Stanley unique valuation models along with extensive knowledge of financial statement items, usage, and meanings. • Reported to Campbell Pryde, who is currently Chief Executive Officer at XBRL US.

Founder

2003 - 2005

Assist in the early development of a nanotechnology sensor start-up.