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Martin Adu-boahene

Analyst - Brazil Finance Team at Microsoft

Greater Seattle Area

Overview 

Martin Adu-Boahene is a seasoned finance professional currently working at Microsoft in the Greater Seattle Area, with a background in investment management and venture capital. He has held various roles at Microsoft, VU Venture Partners, DCVC, and other reputable organizations, showcasing expertise in financial analysis, project management, deal sourcing, and strategy. A notable highlight of Martin's career is his experience as a Senior Analyst at Microsoft, where he has contributed to the Azure Hardware Strategic Finance and Worldwide Commercial Finance teams. Additionally, his involvement as a Venture Partner/Fellow at VU Venture Partners demonstrates his proficiency in investment management and his commitment to supporting diverse founders and investors.

Work Experience 

  • Senior Analyst - Brazil Finance Team

    2024 - Current

  • Azure Hardware Strategic Finance

    2024 - 2024

    Cloud + AI Hardware Investment Strategy Team

  • Worldwide Commercial Finance

    2023 - 2024

    Modern Work, Commercial Devices and Security

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • Venture Partner/ Fellow

    2023

    Source and evaluate startups across all industries A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, and PropTech. We invest in Pre-seed through Series B rounds. Our initial investments range from $100K-$1M, and we will invest up to $10M in follow-on rounds. If you or anyone you know are raising capital for a startup, especially if it has huge potential, please don't hesitate to reach out!

VU Venture Partners is a multi-sector and multi-stage venture capital fund and is a scalable venture capital fund platform.

  • Summer Associate

    2023 - 2023

    Sourced and evaluated investment opportunities in AI Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Climate Tech Select Deal Experience: - Reality Defender (Series A) DCVC is a deep tech focused venture capital firm. Over more than a dozen years, we’ve backed brilliant entre­pre­neurs using compu­ta­tional approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world across a broad set of industries, especially those that haven’t seen material progress in decades. We invest in Seed through Series B rounds across all industries

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using deep tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.

  • Investments

    2023 - 2023

    Grid Connected Team

HASI is a financial firm that provides investment, energy transition, clean energy, and climate finance services.

  • Adjunct Director

    2022 - 2023

    Joined the leadership team as an Advisor to help build and strengthen the Kirchner Fellowship HBCU Program

  • Impact Investment Fellow

    2021 - 2022

    Fellow of the Inaugural HBCU Cohort Sourced and evaluated investment opportunities in food and agriculture sector The Kirchner Fellowship Program is designed specifically for identifying and training the next generation of impact capital allocators capable of understanding and investing effectively in the early-stage companies and innovations.

Kirchner Group has provided traditional merchant banking services since 1985.

  • Board Member - University Board of Regents

    2022 - 2023

    Appointed by the Governor of the State of Maryland to serve as a student representative and a voting member on the university’s governing board Morgan State University is governed by the Board of Regents, a 15-member board, as established under Title 14 of the Education Article, Annotated Code of Maryland. The Board appoints the University President, who serves at the pleasure of the Board. The Board also sets admission standards, reviews and approves university policies, budgets, and establishes the regulatory framework within which the individual units operate.

  • Investment Banking

    2022 - 2022

    Financial Institutions Group Select Deal Experience: - Advised Popular (BPOP) on the $219.8m sale of EVERTEC shares through a Secondary Public Offering and a Private Sale to EVERTEC

J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation provides commodity risk management solutions in both the physical .

  • Associate Analyst | Intern

    2021 - 2022

    - Fixed Income Research - Equity Research

T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm that focuses on funding technology startups.

  • Investment Banking

    2021 - 2021

    - Global Consumer & Retail Group - Global Technology Group Select Deal Experience: - quip's $100m Series B Growth Equity Raise (Aug. 2021)

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.

Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

  • Senior Fellow

    2021 - 2021

  • Fellow

    2020 - 2021

    HBCUvc is a student-led venture capital fund dedicated to Historically Black College or University student and alumni founders. We provide non-dilutive equity funding to a select group of high-growth technology-based startups every year.

HBCU.vc is a not-for-profit organization connecting and equipping the next generation of black and brown tech innovators and investors.

Raised $250,000.00 from MetLife Foundation.

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