Nathan Foos
Principal at Hale Capital Partners
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2024 - Current
Empowering national security efforts across four domains: cyber resilience and network-agnostic data transport, secure communications and data privacy, user-friendly autonomy and automated reasoning, and specialized commercial applications.
Board Member
2024
Quality assurance, data-driven decision support, and risk intelligence solutions for insurance, finance, and government sectors.
Interim CFO
2024
Principal
2024
Associate
2022 - 2024
Hale Capital Partners is a financial firm that offers investment strategies that include growth equity and direct lending.
Executive Chair
2024
Co Executive Director
2021 - 2024
Venture Partners is a nonprofit educational and career development organization on a mission to diversify the decision makers in venture capital and entrepreneurship by providing hands-on, practical education that eliminates traditional wealth and status entry barriers for individuals seeking a career in venture capital.
Advisor
2023 - 2023
CFO
2021 - 2022
The BFM Fund is a seed-stage fund investing primarily in Black-led and innovative ventures based in the United States. While industry-agnostic, BFM's strategy is to create partnerships with Series Seed to Series C industry-specific firms to ensure its portfolio companies are capitalized and resourced to scale.
Advisor
2022 - 2023
CleanTech Future is a nonprofit supporting early-stage clean tech companies developing innovative and scalable technologies.
Senior Portfolio Manager
2019 - 2022
Monitor portfolio of >100 companies and >$20M AUM spread across five funds investing in life science, technology, and consumer product companies. Responsible for sourcing and reviewing company applications from within the Keiretsu Forum network to support GPs and Investment Screening Committee, coordinating with Carta accounting team to prepare quarterly and annual reports, coordinating with legal team to negotiate side letters and conduct legal reviews, and preparing presentation decks and arranging for live updates from portfolio companies at annual meetings.
Keiretsu Capital provides access to proprietary deal flow to its investors.
Raised $3,600,000.00 from Keiretsu Forum and Puget Sound Venture Club.
Due Diligence Director
2019 - 2022
Facilitated company fundraising and member engagement through due diligence training, preparation, and management. Facilitated publication of >50 due diligence reports, averaging 1-3 per month, for companies in a variety of life science, technology, and consumer product industries, working with volunteer teams of investors. Created Due Diligence Workshop to provide due diligence education to investors and founders via lectures, guest speakers, and exercises meant to identify and brainstorm solutions to common risks that appear during due diligence. Lead the Term Sheet Committee to review financing documents and interpret term sheets, develop template term sheets, advise companies and investors on financing terms and best practices, and facilitate negotiation of deal terms. Assist in due diligence by collaborating with startups and investors to research competitors and exit comparables, validate and stress test financial model and exit assumptions, interview founders, assess gaps within a company’s management team and other company needs, review USPTO filings, etc.
Staff Auditor
2016 - 2020
Internal audit firm serving state agencies and nonprofit organizations to conduct financial reviews, fraud investigations, and internal control engagements. Responsibilities spanned planning through reporting, and included reviews of policies, procedures, and regulations; testing of procedures and internal controls; financial analyses and reconciliations; writing findings and drafting reports; and communicating findings and actionable recommendations to upper and executive management and audit committee members.
Accounting Technician
2018 - 2020
Significantly reduced accounting workflow by reducing manual data entry and automating report generation and reconciliations using Excel and VBA macros (including user forms). Generally responsible for improving and automating accounting procedures and providing recommendations to upper management. Daily accounting workflow included reconciliations, invoicing, recording revenue transactions, and recording accounts payable.
State of Oregon is a government organization that focuses on employment, businesses, education, recreation, and public safety.