Rob Ogden

Alta Advisors is a San Francisco-based strategic finance and accounting firm serving frontier technology startups. We provide fractional CFO, accounting, capital raising, and strategic support as deeply embedded partners to visionary founders and their leadership teams. We have helped our clients raise over $375 million in equity and equity debt capital and support companies backed by leading investors including Lightspeed, Coatue, a16z, Eclipse, DCVC, Founders Fund and many others. We bring the financial discipline and strategic guidance required to build enduring companies capable of tackling the world's largest problems.

Venture investing syndicate for top tech CFOs & COOs Investing across stages with a focus on deep tech, applied AI and category-defining SaaS businesses.

Backed by Lightspeed, General Catalyst and Primary Ventures, Tabs is an AI-powered revenue automation platform that helps B2B businesses automate invoice-to-cash workflows like billing, receivables, payments, rev rec, and reporting.

Strategic finance and advisory services for high-growth venture-backed startups TSQ Advisors provides bespoke financial and strategic advisory services to high-growth venture-backed startups. Serving as an outsourced finance department, we work closely with Founders and executive leadership to deliver world-class financial operations including financial planning and analysis, full-service accounting, business intelligence, business model development, fundraising strategy and execution, board and investor relations, strategic thought-partnership and decision-making support. Our clients range from Pre-Seed to Series C, are developing disruptive products across industries including healthtech, greentech, robotics and more and are backed by world-class investors such as A16Z, Khosla Ventures, Tiger Global, Eclipse, Crosslink Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ENIAC, Pathbreaker, and Y Combinator among many others.

Networked perception for autonomous vehicles and robots Assembled a talented technical team including former Tesla, GM and Microsoft engineers, MScs and PhDs. Signed LOI for a pilot in Los Angeles. Accepted into Plug and Play Mobility Silicon Valley (2% acceptance rate) and NVIDIA Inception accelerators.

Platform for massively multiplayer interactive livestreaming events Assembled a team of full-stack web engineers and a former Uber product designer. Launched a Twitch extension MVP that generated 7k+ channel installs and reached 1.1M unique viewers.

M&A roll-up of marketing, communications and digital agencies founded by a former IPG leader Co-led M&A activity including strategy, diligence and deal execution. Acquired three companies totaling >$50M in run rate revenue. Managed >400% YOY revenue growth in core services business.

Social app that enabled friends to interact in the AR metaverse Developed a proprietary GPS optimization algorithm. Drove growth marketing strategies that generated over 1M organic social media impressions. Raised Seed investment from major VCs including General Catalyst.

Consulting and fractional CxO services for fast growing companies in tech and media Partnered with Founders of early and growth-stage companies in tech and media, serving as a consultant or fractional COO/CFO/CSO to tackle a wide range of business initiatives. Rapidly scaled businesses, executed M&A deals, helped startups get acquired and assisted in raising tens of millions in capital.

Media and metaverse company founded by Forbes 400 billionaire Gigi Pritzker Implemented a multi-divisional corporate strategy that fused traditional media production (film, TV, live events) with Metaverse (AR/VR) game development. Managed corporate venture investments in mediatech, metaverse and gaming startups. Nominated for multiple Oscars and Emmys and named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2017.