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Antti Uusiheimala
Former Venture Capitalist and startup CFO/Co-Founder
Uusiheimala worked as the Director of investments at Vision Capital, a leading New York based late-stage venture capital fund with $850m assets under two funds, where he sourced, analyzed, negotiated contracts for, and closed dozens of venture investments totaling $250 million and was involved with all 12 of the fund's portfolio company IPOs on NASDAQ. He published a book "Covenants Used in Venture Capital Financing in the Light of Contracting Theories" while in law school. He is an expert at ne…
Work
US onshoring and Series A to an overseas manufacturing company
Planned the asset purchase and contracts to tax efficiently transfer the IP from Japan to the US, incorporated a new USCo mirroring the overseas shareholders, and led the Series A $15m financing round capital raise and contract negotiations.
Experience
HALIFAX PARTNERS
Managing Partner
Oct 2015 - Present
Halifax is a venture capital and strategic advisory for early-stage companies.
- Raised several Series A and Seed rounds for startups across industries, acting as their in-house CFO/COO and capital raiser.
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO
Expert Consultant
Apr 2014 - Oct 2015
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm.
- Led the results of a team focused on reducing the firm's exposure to high-risk clients in a firm-wide retroactive client account securities compliance review.
VISION CAPITAL ADVISORS
Director of Investments, Legal, and Operations
Jun 2005 - Oct 2012
Vision Capital is a late-stage venture capital fund with $850m peak AUM across two funds.
- Sourced, analyzed, and made 30 investments across industries totaling $250 million, and managed the IPO process of 12 portfolio companies.
ACE LAW (merged with Nordia)
Associate Lawyer
Dec 2002 - Oct 2004
Corporate law firm focused on technology and media companies.
- Advised clients on several private and public placements of debt and equity, and led reorganization proceedings of Finland’s second-largest mobile phone manufacturer.
CRF HEALTH
US Business Development Manager
Nov 2000 - Oct 2002
Clinical trial software startup that achieved ‘unicorn’ status with $1 billion exit valuation.
- Ran the business development and acquired first US clients paving way for company’s Series A round.
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