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Sasha Novakovich
Founder of Alchemy Cloud
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Sasha Novakovich is the Founder & CEO of Alchemy Cloud, Inc., with a background in entrepreneurship and retail. With experience as a CEO and founder of multiple successful ventures, including TIZE, Inc., Sasha has a strong track record in strategic partnerships and product management.
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2017 - Current
Alchemy is an enterprise SaaS company that accelerates fundamental research and product development of applied science. Our ELN and LIMS enable companies to quickly digitize their unique scientific workflows, consolidate data silos, and run AI. Use of our software platform speeds commercialization and improves market responsiveness, driving top line revenue growth. Alchemy is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has Brazilian and European offices. To learn more, visit www.alchemy.cloud
CEO
2016 - 2016
TIZE was designed to digitize lab work requests and facilitate project management. The platform tracked critical metrics for projects and underlying operating processes throughout a project’s lifecycle to enable reporting and analytics. TIZE provided the means and the measurement system for turning lab requests into revenue and reducing the expense associated with wasted time and misallocated resources. In January 2017, I purchased tizecloud.com and started a new business focused on a broader opportunity in the specialty chemicals industry.
Angel
2007 - 2016
Primarily invested in success-driven female founders with differential knowledge or innovations that translated to go-to-market advantage. Hands-on investor and board member/observer/advisor who created equity value in partnership with founders. Portfolio companies: Attivio (acquired by ServiceNow), Barnraiser, Edgecast (acquired by Verizon), Happiest Baby, Joyable (acquired by AbleTo), Naya, Poshly (acquired by Suzy), PrettyQuick (acquired by Groupon), TiZE, and Volition.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
2007 - 2008
Provided advice and guidance to MBA students intending to start companies upon graduation. Published case on how serial entrepreneurs build and manage a board of directors.
Founder, President & CEO, Chairman
1999 - 2007
Founded software as a service (SaaS) point-of-sale startup that enabled retail, online, and call center customers to sell digital services to consumers. Raised $12 million in VC from Atlas Venture. Grew business from concept to over $23 million net revenue, $4 million EBITDA, 2.4 million annual orders representing over $2 billion in subscriber value. Led 80+ people in two offices. In 2006, transitioned management of company to new, non-founder CEO. Presided at monthly board meetings; was member of audit and compensation committees.
GCI is an online resource for connectivity services such as local, long-distance and wireless-phone service, Internet access, satellite.
Raised $21,075,000.00 from Vantage Partners, Atlas Venture and Asset Management Ventures (AMV).
Business Analyst, Senior Business Analyst Strategic Services
1994 - 1997
Performed competitive analyses, sized and segmented markets, developed marketing plans, determined product requirements, and project managed online product launches for multi-billion dollar technology company.
Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.