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About The Startup Station

The Startup Station’s mission is to empower startup founders and business owners to use finance to drive their business forward and accelerate their fundraising process

We help you transform your dreams into profitable and fundable businesses.

We don’t fit the mold of the typical CFO who is focused on just numbers. Instead, we are forward-thinking strategists and skilled problem solvers. We specialize in creating innovative strategies for managing uncertainty, whether it involves navigating uncharted financial territory, managing swift or stagnant growth, addressing profitability challenges, tackling cash flow dilemmas, orchestrating a turnaround or executing a pivot.

Over the past decade, we’ve honed our expertise by collaborating with early-stage startups across diverse sectors. What sets us apart is our one-of-a-kind, industry-agnostic approach to modeling startups, even when historical data is nonexistent.

What we do:

Fundraising

We specialize in financial modeling and valuation for early-stage startups across various industries. Our expertise shines when we model ventures with minimal or no prior financial history.

Strategic Fractional CFO

Our team of experts is ready to assist you in crafting a financial plan that aligns every aspect of your business with your company’s strategy and goals. We also perform comprehensive strategic financial assessments to identify and address any weaknesses in a company’s financial framework.

Our Proven Record

  • We’ve helped more 1,000 early-stage startups secure funding more quickly

  • Our clients have successfully secured more than $50 million in funding

  • We have extensive experience spanning more than 15 diverse industries

  • We’ve provided expert guidance to more than 150 entrepreneurs around the world

  • With a team with both computer science and MBA degrees, we speak the language of both technical specifications and business acumen; this proficiency enables us to facilitate seamless collaboration and bridge the gap for your venture

Who We Are

Victoria Yampolsky

Victoria Yampolsky, CFA, is a serial entrepreneur and an experienced business and finance executive with extensive startup experience. She is the President and Founder of The Startup Station, a CFO advisory and finance education platform for startups and small businesses.

Victoria founded The Startup Station in 2013 after she realized that while startup founders had a lot of passion and technical knowledge about what they were doing, they rarely had business acumen about how to bring their idea to market. Even more rarely they could analyze the financial implications of their decisions, let alone explain the business in financial terms to investors.

The Startup Station focuses on strategic financial modeling of startups and small businesses. We are fractional CFOs who know how to build and use financial models, or plans, as business intelligence tools. These tools translate the founders’ vision into an executable measurable roadmap. By properly implementing this roadmap in the financial systems, we can respond faster and more accurately to market feedback.

Victoria has also developed a comprehensive seven-course finance curriculum geared to entrepreneurs of early-stage ventures with little to no knowledge of finance.

She is also a speaker and an advisor to multiple startups as well as a founder of several ventures in media and entertainment. She has worked with numerous accelerators including Rockstart, Starta, Numa, Halo, and more and also teaches at Bank of America Institute of Women’s Entrepreneurship At Cornell, where thousands of women have been given the opportunity to take courses in all aspects of starting and running a business. Previously, Victoria worked for Deutsche Bank and was a technology consultant with CapGemini’s Financial Services Division.

Victoria holds a Bachelor’s Degree, Cum Laude, in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics from Cornell University, and an MBA, with honors, from Columbia Business School. Victoria also served on the Advisory Board of the Computing and Information Science (CIS) Department of Cornell University.

In July 2022 Victoria, together with her co-founder and childhood friend, Svetlana Zelenskiy, produced the World Unite for Ukraine concert. The concert raised humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees with the help of the US -Ukraine Foundation, a 30-year-old Washington-based do tank doing business in Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union. 22 artists, including Pink Floyd, joined the concert from 9 countries. The production was supported by over 100 volunteers from 11 countries.

In 2023 Victoria co-founded PowerUp, a new non-profit groundbreaking global program for seed-level female-led ventures. This program aims to bridge the gender funding gap worldwide and produce the next generation of female entrepreneurs who feel limitless. The program uniquely combines (1) 2-year training in strategic and financial planning to help companies scale, (2) weekly executive group coaching sessions to expand their mindset, (3) a global network of PowerUp ambassadors, already representing 25 countries on 5 continents, to improve access to capital, and (4) rigorous monitoring of results to change the perception of risk.

Victoria also represents New York State as part of the Leadership Council of the National Small Business Association (NSBA). In this role, she advocates for fair access to capital for women in the United States.

Clarence (Hamp) Hampton III

Clarence (Hamp) Hampton III is Head of Fundraising Strategy, Co-Founder of PowerUp and the CEO of Guerrier Consulting , a consulting firm focused on Go-To-Market planning and building scalable sales processes.

Hamp is a C-Suite sales & marketing executive, trade show speaker, player/coach, enterprise sales manager. Entrepreneur with experience in scaling and building startups and early growth stage companies. Board Advisor to several start-ups.

Three time startup CEO with two exits; CRO for two tech companies that scaled sales from $10 to $50 million respectively; National Sales Director for a Privately held Medical Marketing company that grew business 30% annually until company went IPO; Adjunct Professor for MBA program for Entrepreneurs at Metropolitan College of New York

Jill Greenwald

Jill Greenwald is Head of Strategy at The Startup Station. She is also a Program Manager and Investor at Astia, a network of investors that advise and invest in early-stage women-led high-growth ventures. She’s invested in 20+ early-stage startups. She facilitates at Bank of America Institute of Women’s Entrepreneurship At Cornell. where thousands of women have been given the opportunity to take courses in all aspects of starting and running a business.

Previously, Jill had a 25-year career investing in small public growth equities. Her last 15 years were spent at Fred Alger Management where she was an integral part of the firm’s rebuilding after the devastation of 9/11. Evaluating the potential of an equity investment requires a deep dive into a company’s financial history and projections as well as an analysis of the feasibility of their corporate strategy.

The best investments have a roadmap for profitable growth and a defensible competitive advantage. Jill’s top quartile investment returns drove the growth in assets from $500M to over $4 billion during her tenure at Alger. Accolades like winning the Lipper award in 2007 for the best fund in the entire asset class are a testament to her skills in financial analysis and corporate strategy.

She retired in 2016 as a firm partner and prior to her return to Alger, Jill had similar portfolio manager positions at J&W Seligman and Chase Asset Management. She has a BA in economics from Yale University, an MBA from New York University, and a CFA designation.

Francisco Marin

Francisco Marin is a global operations executive with extensive experience leading business planning, logistics, manufacturing and engineering teams and a strategic partner of The Startup Station.

Francisco led growth and turnaround strategies for products ranging from $1M to $500M in sales, with industry leaders like L’Oreal, Pinnacle Foods (acquired by Conagra), Gurwitch Products (acquired by Shiseido), Esteé Lauder, Movado, Lucent Technologies (acquired by Alcatel and later on Nokia), and Spanish based global engineering turn-key projects company Duro Felguera.

He is skilled in team building, business and go-to-market strategies, new product introductions, mergers & acquisitions integration, product portfolio lifecycle management, process improvements and technology systems design and implementation.

Francisco attended Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela and earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. He also earned an MBA with emphasis in Corporate Finance and Supply Chain Management from Penn State’s Smeal School of Business, where he was the recipient of the Dean’s scholarship award.

Yuliya Kolesnyk

Yuliya Kolesnyk is Head of Marketing at The Startup Station.

Yuliya holds a Magister degree in International Economics from the Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University. This academic foundation instilled a strong understanding of global economic principles, which has proven invaluable in her professional journey.

Since joining the Startup Station in 2020, Julia has become an integral part of the team, contributing to the success of various marketing campaigns.

In her role, Yuliya specializes in Email and Social Media Marketing (SMM), where she crafts compelling content, engages with audiences, and analyzes performance metrics to optimize strategies. She adepts market research skills have helped the company stay ahead of the competition and make data-driven decisions.

One of Yuliya’s standout accomplishments is her involvement with prominent online schools, providing a range of courses tailored to the needs of startups, copywriters, marketologists, doctors, psychologists, and more. Her expertise has been instrumental in developing educational content and marketing strategies, ultimately helping these online schools thrive in an increasingly competitive landscape.

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