Antti Uusiheimala

  1. Finance
  2. #strategy
  3. Startups
  4. Business Development
  5. Fundraising
  6. Valuation
  7. Due diligence
  8. Financial Modeling

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…

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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

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    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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