Stanley Onyimba
Investor at First Round Capital
Stanley Onyimba
Investor at First Round Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President
2022 - Current
As a Vice President at CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, I enhance portfolio companies' go-to-market operations, product velocity, and top-line growth. Leading product and technology advisory networks, I leverage relationships and negotiation skills to influence executive stakeholders and resolve roadblocks. - Influenced Google Legal Team to adjust it's ads policy to accommodate bitcoin trust ads, unlocking significant revenue for Google and CapitalG portfolio companies. - Revamped AI offerings by organizing advisory sessions and trainings with DeepMind experts, launching new AI early access programs, and overseeing mentorship initiatives supporting over 1,000 portfolio company engineers and managers. - Overseeing CapitalG’s Advisory Board of ~30 Google Directors and Managing Directors. - Spearheading CapitalG’s Hiring Pilot, resulting in an 18X increase in traffic and job clicks, accelerating talent acquisition for portfolio companies.
Angel Track
2021
Head of Health Search Partnerships
2019 - 2022
Led Global Product Partnerships for Health Search and collaborated with key stakeholders in the top healthcare systems, NGOs, F500 companies and government agencies to deliver health information to billions of users. Received the inaugural Google Tech Impact Award and Search Tech Impact Award by Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, for steering COVID-19 vaccines partnerships and GTM strategy to help millions of users find vaccines. Led a cross-functional team of 90 strategic partnerships managers, spanning 20 countries to launch dozens of products in 180 countries. Testified before Congress and represented Google’s Health Initiatives as an external liaison at various industry events.
Co-founder, Ally - Area 120
2018 - 2019
Founded Ally, a fintech platform that connected emerging market startups to funding and expertise. Ally was selected and funded by Google’s internal accelerator, Area 120 (3% acceptance rate). Established product partnerships with equity crowdfunding platforms to enable investments in African technology startups and compliance with US equity crowdfunding regulations. Led Product strategy, developed investment thesis, and managed sourcing and due diligence processes. Sourced and activated a community of 200+ investors and mentors to support 80+ tech founders across Sub-Saharan Africa, driving significant business growth.
Financial Planning & Analysis
2015 - 2018
Revamped the annual planning process by partnering with Staffing, Product, Real Estate, and Corporate Finance leads to project three year Google seated headcount growth rates, phasing and geographic footprint. Developed an alternative approach to analyzing Staffing performance by adjusting cost per hire (CPH) to reflect demand signal shifts. Adjusted CPH analysis evolved into a monthly CPH forecast which drove Staffing leadership to re-prioritize initiatives and reduce 2016 full year spend by ~$13M.
Senior Associate
2014 - 2015
Led the business development team and expanded SeamlessDocs’ government forms platform by closing first of kind deals with municipalities across several key states. Partnered with engineering team to develop new products including the SeamlessDocs Portal.
General Management
2012 - 2013
Optimized order selection rates with assembly capacity to reduce work in process times by 20%. Built dynamic models to project customer order pace and expected returns on capital expenditures.
Equities Analyst
2010 - 2012
Increased revenue 17% yoy by identifying liquidity landscape and algorithmic trading enhancements. Managed relationships and negotiated futures execution rates for a $4 trillion asset manager.