The greatest health threats require more than an all-or-nothing approach. Nano represents a multi-layered set of solutions to usher in a new era in proactive, persistent health protection.

Created pitch deck, business model, financial projections and guided LYT through raising $4.5M in a seed financing in 2021.Provide ongoing strategic and financial guidance to the CEO.

Former execs from all disciplines that augment your team and help meet your looming milestones.

Portola Valley Partners is a legendary team of superheroes who are on a mission where everyone wins – founders, investors, acquirers. Higher valuations, faster liquidity, stronger exits!Portola Valley Partners’ unique approach to business acceleration, investment and M&A elevates our clients’ chances for success. Our “UpLevel” services help establish sustainable growth, build revenue and improve product-market fit while super-charging valuations more quickly.Our team of Silicon Valley luminaries have founded, bootstrapped, fundraised and exited successfully. We’ve also performed in corporate M&A/venture and held executive leadership positions at companies including Apple, Microsoft, HP, Dell, Snowflake, Lenovo, Yahoo!, LivePerson, Sun, BMC, CyberCash, Red Herring, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.We are a creative team of hands-on operators• In parallel, we address fund-raising, sales, product, strategy and marketing• We seed the market and make strategic introductions for acquisition and investmentIn our model, everyone wins – founders, investors and acquirers• We are founder- and VC-friendly and shape for liquidity and investment• We help founders by preserving their DNA and mitigating dilution

Advantary is a full-service Management Accelerator™.Advantary provides outsourced CxO services across the entire C‑Suite, including CEO, COO, CTO, CMO, CSO, CRO and CPO. (We partner with other firms to provide CFO services.) We augment your management team long-term or short-term, full-time or fractional.Whether you’re looking to expand, contemplating a fundraise or major transaction, seeing sales stalled, needing help while recruiting, just starting up, or any of many other challenges, we’re here to help.Why us? We’re experienced entrepreneurs who have started dozens of companies, raised hundreds of millions of equity capital, and had numerous exits with returns for our investors.We are stage-agnostic, working with pre-revenue to $1B+ public companies.

✓ Reinvented the company brand and core offerings to differentiate within the content delivery space, increasing sales pipeline 2X and closing over $3M in new sales inside of first year. Synthesized direction and priorities from across a broad spectrum into a powerful, clear course of action. ✓ Led comprehensive product line restructuring, implementing a significant increase in prices and far more effective marketing and positioning.✓ Improved cash flow through renegotiating creditor and vendor payment structures.

✓ Guided turnaround of at-risk company with powerful P2P technology with major challenges on the balance sheet/cap table and go-to-market fronts, rebranding as Nexo, Inc. and changing selling proposition from “unlimited secure email” to “most secure file sharing and sync.”✓ Innovated in the midst of a fluid, high-risk environment, including full redesign of new software application and alpha within 14 months, plus a focus on IP assets as a future growth driver.

✓ Provided analysis and advice on a potential acquisition. Created and presented numerous analyses covering market strategy, competition, branding and messaging, pricing and profitability, financials, product strategy, and growth potential. Included multiple visits with target company’s executive team.

✓ Advisor to the CEO on matters of fundraising, marketing, strategy, people and M&A. BlazeMeter was acquired by Computer Associates in 2016.

✓ Secured early market traction for Big Data startup with a patented algorithm for performing in-memory real-time analytics on streamed data from multiple CyberSecurity products. Raised $2M in angel and VC seed financing. Named "2014 Top 100 Big Data Company" by CIO Review Magazine.

✓ Maintained market leadership for $1B portfolio of products including Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, and Groups in the face of 30% engineering turnover and fierce competition from Microsoft and Google. Guided high-risk, high-reward growth and product improvement initiatives while establishing a new level of transparent communications with users. #1 Mail in the U.S, #1 in IM in Europe (new achievement), #1 in Q&A globally, and #2 in photo sharing globally. ✓ Led major upgrade of Yahoo! Mail through a dual-pronged emphasis on improved user experience and gaining permission to scan email messages to improve ad effectiveness. Developed a layered messaging campaign converting 93% of 283M users to the new offering (surpassing 90% target). ✓ Seized product expansion and parallel revenue generation opportunities to the tune of $70M in incremental annualized gain. Only division of Yahoo! that grew revenues in 2011.✓ Spearheaded development of Yahoo's mobile strategy, launching 46 mobile products across four platforms and growing mobile users by double-digits YOY (including 40% gain in 2011).

✓ Redefined company positioning, messaging and branding to accommodate the introduction of new marketing and Big Data product lines under the LiveEngage umbrella.✓ Revamped analyst relations program, resulting in a 20% increase in the stock price within one month.✓ Rolled out new messaging and positioning with a global PR campaign and launch of updated web site.

✓ Grew Enterprise Social software start-up to $40M in revenues inside of two years. Served as core member of team responsible for raising $90M in funding from Tier 1 VC firms such as Foundation and Oak, and successfully acquired five companies. Forged a key business partnership with IDEO to bring an innovative collaboration platform to market.

✓ Launched an award-winning content and data aggregation service within 6 months of company formation. Built widespread industry awareness through marketing and PR campaign (including coverage in Fortune and Red Herring's 100 Best Private Companies). Sold company to Ask.com.

✓ Transformed MSN.com and MSN.co.uk into the #2 destination on the Internet through build-out of dynamic home pages and deployment of a unique strategy for syndicating disparate properties into a cohesive network. Channeled targeted content to 50M users daily.✓ Closed more than $150M in advertising deals with major partners.✓ Secured $230M LinkExchange acquisition by garnering Gates/Raikes buy-in, guiding the merger process and closing the deal.

✓ Generated $4 million in advertising and subscription revenue in 1997, up from $250,000 in 1996.✓ Signed key content, distribution and technology partnerships with 31 leading Internet companies.✓ Responsible for PR, corporate communications and advertising. Conducted virtually all press interviews.✓ Served as lead negotiator for the $400M acquisition of Hotmail by Microsoft, turning an initial small-scale private label deal into a full buy-out.