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Toptal Lets You Hire Now to Grow Now
Toptal experts help startup executives scale their businesses across all areas, including market analysis, financial modeling, pitch deck creation, pricing optimization, and more.
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Product / Market Fit
Business Plan Development

Market Sizing & Analysis

Competitor Benchmarking

New Market Entry Plan

Customer Value Analysis

Scaling
Fundraising Process Support

Financial Model Building

Pricing Analysis

Financial Process Development

Interim CFO/Controller

Process Development
Budgeting & Forecasting

Cost Optimization

Business Valuation

M&A Scenario Modeling

Due Diligence Support

Meet a Few of Our Startup Experts
Kelly Sickles
Customer Profitability Analysis
Customer Value Analysis
Financial Processes & Infrastructure
  • CFA and former VP of Investment Banking at Lazard
  • Raised $100 million Series C round as VP of Boxed, where she also led an intense strategic investment due diligence process and established KPIs and budgets for the core business
  • Served as Interim CFO for S'well Bottle
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Jeffrey Fidelman
Business Case Development
Fundraising Support
Investor Reporting & Board Decks
  • Directly executed over $500 million in transactions across real estate, private equity, public equity, and venture capital
  • Principal at AI Capital Advisors, which built a multi-family office that expanded to 10 families within 1 year
  • Formerly focused on wealth management at HSBC and Morgan Stanley
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Josh Chapman
Competitor Benchmarking
Fundraising Support
Customer Profitability Analysis
  • Former investment banker at Morgan Stanley and BlackRock that went on to found two startups
  • Founder of Katalyst, an eSports investing platform
  • Co-founder of SaaS company Centiment.io where he led efforts across fundraising capital acquisition, operations, financial modeling, and business development
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Michael Ang
Cost Reduction & Optimization
Market Sizing & Analysis
Customer Profitability Analysis
  • Financial consultant at Bain and Company
  • Led an early-stage product into the customer self-service market for a business that was later acquired for $185 million
  • MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management
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Irem Mertol
Business Case Development
Fundraising Support
Financial Processes & Infrastructure
  • Former Investment Professional at Andreessen Horowitz and Associate at Madison Dearborn
  • Managed the 2 largest clients at Burd Health and implemented over $6 million of healthcare savings initiatives
  • BA from Duke University and MBA from Stanford University
Work With Irem →
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How Toptal Works With Startups
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Speak with a Toptal Director of Finance

A Toptal Director of Finance will work with you to understand your goals, business needs, and team dynamics.

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Work with Hand-Selected Talent

Within days, we’ll introduce you to a few experts for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.

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The Right Fit, Guaranteed

Work with your new team member for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they’re the right fit before starting the engagement.

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Hire Experts with Flexibility and Confidence
Trusted experts only
Work with seasoned experts, ready to integrate and contribute right away.
Vetted talent
To join our network, all Toptal experts must pass our rigorous screening process. This allows us to ensure that you only work with the best.
Scale efficiently
Powered by a cutting-edge platform, our process enables you to expand and contract your team with absolute flexibility.
Seamless hiring
We'll take care of the overhead, while you focus on building great products.
Flexible engagements
Choose the engagement type and model that best suits your company's needs at any point.
World class support
Focus on your project while enjoying support from domain experts and a dedicated account executive.