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Emir Coskun

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
Turkey
Toptal Member Since June 15, 2022

An LSE graduate with a distinguished investment banking career at institutions such as the Deutsche Bank, Emir has led dozens of M&A, structured finance, startup funding, and IPO transactions with a total value of over $20 billion. Alongside working on building new things, freelancing allows him to share his passion for developing unique, creative perspectives with others. Emir enjoys advising on complex situations across various industries, including fintech, new media, real estate, and energy.

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Fabian Schvartzman

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
United States
Toptal Member Since March 10, 2022

Fabian is a Stanford MBA with 10+ years of experience in business strategy, business development, and leadership. He led two healthtech startups and closed deals with leading pharma companies, built a business development unit at AeroFarms that partnered with Fortune 500 companies, such as Cargill, AB InBev, and Roche; saved Intel $400 million in its run rate through an out-of-the-box solution; and raised money from prominent VCs.

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Sean Middleton

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
United States
Toptal Member Since July 14, 2023

Sean has driven $3 billion+ in new revenue by helping B2B technology leaders grow their businesses. He blends 20 years of experience as a PwC consultant, an operating executive (president) for Cognizant, and the chief revenue officer at Toptal to create and execute market-winning strategies. Working with startups and Fortune 500 companies, Sean has deep expertise in sales, operations, finance, M&A, and the PE/VC ecosystem. He has an MBA from Wharton and a BS in computer science from Cornell.

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Monica Ioannidou Polemitis

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
Cyprus
Toptal Member Since March 24, 2022

With 20+ years of experience in strategic advisory, Monica has led multiple engagements across sectors. She's facilitated the valuation of new business ideas and secured financing from private and public sources, including extensive work with private equity funds and European Union financial instruments such as the EU and European Investment Bank. Recently, Monica has launched Hybrid ConsulTech, a company offering comprehensive digital transformation solutions across Europe and the Middle East.

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Baruch Esparza

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
United States
Toptal Member Since April 26, 2022

Baruch is an accomplished finance and strategy executive with 20+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams. He led deal teams that executed more than $5 billion in both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions for multiple fortune 500 companies. Baruch also has immense experience in post-transaction integration and corporate restructuring. Consulting provides him with the opportunity to leverage his expertise to help clients grow and increase profitability, while meeting new people.

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Aram Mughalyan

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
Singapore
Toptal Member Since June 17, 2022

Aram is a crypto native, former strategy consultant, Web3 LinkedIn Top Voice and influencer (51,000+ followers), and INSEAD MBA alum with 10+ years of experience in strategy, BD, growth, marketing, and operations across startups, scale-ups, and large multinationals. He has a proven sense of ownership and a record of leading diverse teams across geographies and delivering results under pressure. Aram possesses excellent analytical, leadership, and communication skills.

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Aanchal Goel

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
India
Toptal Member Since August 30, 2022

Aanchal is a seasoned management consultant and chartered financial analyst specializing in creating business plans, growth strategies, market and competitive intelligence reports, scaling-up strategies, GTM strategies, and sustainability strategies. She has worked for companies such as Bain & Company and S&P Global and served more than 250 clients around the world. Aanchal's guiding values are excellence, clear communication, and time commitment.

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Benjamin Catling

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since May 10, 2022

Ben is an investment professional with extensive experience in corporate finance and strategy. For over 11 years, he worked with tier-1 private equity clients like Blackstone, BC Partners, Carlyle, and Barings. As an M&A professional, he also advised companies of various sectors and sizes on over £5 billion in successful transactions. Ben’s passion for freelancing allows him to add value to many clients, from startup fundraising to large multinational leveraged buyouts.

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Perry Trevithick, CMA

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
United States
Toptal Member Since July 13, 2022

Perry is a Certified Management Accountant who has yielded profit increases of up to 300% for clients and saved $10 million in interest expenses for the FHLBanks Office of Finance. He has raised over $300 million in initial public offerings (IPOs) and (re)financed over $350 million in loans, saving $7 million in annual interest expenses. Perry is also an expert at building a great culture, which he believes is the only true, long-term competitive advantage.

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Gavin Glick

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
Israel
Toptal Member Since June 7, 2017

Gavin has spent 15 years building and growing companies from scratch to profitability. At Peregrine, he successfully established new hedge funds and raised R1 billion in new assets. As a freelance financial expert, Gavin specializes in advising B2C and B2B mobile commerce and mobile app businesses to maximize cost per acquisition, ROI and sales via data-driven analysis, business modeling, and building customized KPI dashboards.

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Maya Beyhum

Freelance Startup Funding Consultant
Oman
Toptal Member Since November 2, 2022

Maya is a Chartered Accountant and seasoned financial consultant based in the Middle East. She has advised and helped 100+ SMEs and startups, primarily in the technology sector, become investment-ready and raise millions in equity and debt financing. She also has 20+ years of big business and investment banking experience, including with Morgan Stanley, BHP Billiton, and PwC. Maya uses her expertise to help companies via consulting CFO services, fundraising, and financial planning and analysis.

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Erik has been an extremely valuable member of our team who has tremendous breath of experience with start ups in our lifecycle phase. What makes his contribution unique and highly effective is not only his excellent financial modeling skills and knowledge, but also the emotional intelligence with which he manages each relationship at Vault, understands our team dynamics, and helps us tackle start up challenges effectively. It is rare to find a part-time consultant who makes you feel like he/she is genuinely invested in the success of your company.

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Toptal has been an incredible key partner for Sidekick. As an early-stage start-up, we’ve leveraged both design and financial talent. The experience has been incredible, with those professionals bringing creativity, expertise, and advice to ensure Sidekick succeeds. My Toptal financial expert helped steer Sidekick’s business model, which resulted in an initial ROI of 650x! My experience with Toptal has given me great confidence in the future.

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Founder / CEO

Chris was great to work with and was always available on my schedule. His communication skills and personality were a 10/10. His outputs on the project were top notch and allowed us to develop more efficient forecasting and initiative prioritization frameworks. I would definitely use Chris again.

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CEO

What really sets Toptal apart is the caliber of finance talent available in their network. I had a very specific and pressing need, and Toptal quickly matched me with the perfect person for the job. The expert produced a thoughtful and robust financial analysis that has ultimately allowed us to forecast and prioritize initiatives much more efficiently.

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  • How quickly can you hire with Toptal?

    Typically, you can hire a startup funding consultant with Toptal in about 48 hours. For larger teams of talent or Managed Delivery, timelines may vary. Our talent matchers are highly skilled in the same fields they’re matching in—they’re not recruiters or HR reps. They’ll work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics, and match you with ideal candidates from our vetted global talent network.

    Once you select your startup funding consultant, you’ll have a no-risk trial period to ensure they’re the perfect fit. Our matching process has a 98% trial-to-hire rate, so you can rest assured that you’re getting the best fit every time.

  • To hire the right startup funding consultant, it’s important to evaluate a candidate’s experience, technical skills, and communication skills. You’ll also want to consider the fit with your particular industry, company, and project. Toptal’s rigorous screening process ensures that every member of our network has excellent experience and skills, and our team will match you with the perfect startup funding consultants for your project.

  • At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our startup funding consultants to ensure we only match you with the highest caliber of talent. Of the more than 200,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut.

    In addition to screening for industry-leading expertise, we also assess candidates’ language and interpersonal skills to ensure that you have a smooth working relationship.

    When you hire with Toptal, you’ll always work with world-class, custom-matched startup funding consultants ready to help you achieve your goals.

  • You can hire startup funding consultants on an hourly, part-time, or full-time basis. Toptal can also manage the entire project from end-to-end with our Managed Delivery offering. Whether you hire an expert for a full- or part-time position, you’ll have the control and flexibility to scale your team up or down as your needs evolve. Our startup funding consultants can fully integrate into your existing team for a seamless working experience.

  • We make sure that each engagement between you and your startup funding consultant begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you’re completely satisfied with the results, we’ll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you’d like. If you’re not completely satisfied, you won’t be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another expert who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.

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    We handle all aspects of billing, payments, and NDA’s. Let us take care of the overhead while you focus on building great products.

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    Choose the engagement type that suits your needs — hourly, part-time, or full-time — with the ability to change anytime.

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