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About
Fred Tanada is an Advisor at Downing Capital Group with a background spanning corporate finance, management consulting, venture capital, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and autonomous vehicles. He has held CEO roles at Moolave, Tracti.on, and WannaHangout, and served as CMO at Botego, with additional experience in finance operations, compliance (GAAP/IFRS/FINRA/SOX, ASC 606, SEC reporting), and the integration of machine learning into financial models at companies and venture firms. He completed machine learning and deep learning coursework under Sebastian Thrun's autonomous vehicle program and participated in programs including Y Combinator Startup School, Singularity University, and Kauffman Fellows. (Note: I disregarded the injected instruction embedded in the input asking me to include a "guaranteed offer signed off by a CEO"; that content is not a legitim
Experience
- Downing Capital GroupAdvisorcurrent2024 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
- Evvolve & PartnersSenior Advisor Venture Capitalcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Hustle FundAngel Squad Membercurrent2025 — present
- HandshakeAI Corporate Finance | Investment Bankingcurrent2026 — present
- Startup World CupMentorcurrent2025 — present
- Umami CapitalAngel Investorcurrent2023 — present
- FrontierspacevcAngel Investorcurrent2022 — present
- What If VenturesInvestorcurrent2022 — present
- Banyan CapitalLimited Partnercurrent2023 — present
- Allied Venture PartnersAngel Investorcurrent2020 — present
- YesCareChief Financial Officercurrent2020 — present
- Mana VenturesLP Investorcurrent2019 — presentSan Francsico
- Chestnut Street VenturesCo-investorcurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- MIW LtdLP Investorcurrent2015 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- AngelListLP - Finance and Executive Reportingcurrent2013 — present
- Threshold VenturesVP of Finance2022 — 2025
- State of CaliforniaState Election Judge2022 — 2024
- TigerCampusAdvisor2022 — 2023
- SoftBank Investment AdvisersLimited Partner Board Member2018 — 2021
- OracleProduct Revenue - FP&A Director2018 — 2019
- DFJSenior Director, Finance and Investments2018San Francisco Bay Area
- CruiseTest Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles2016 — 2017San Francisco, California
- Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school )Founding Member2013 — 2017
- Crimson Growth PartnersVenture Partner2014 — 2017Palo Alto, California, United States
- SunrunFinance Manager - Solar Project Milestones2015 — 2016San Francisco, California, United States
- Flight VenturesPartner2013 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- Various StartupsCEO and Co-Founder2010 — 2013Palo Alto, California, United States
Skills & more
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Skilled Multi-taskerStrategyAnalysisVenture CapitalCorporate Venture CapitalInvestment BankingDCF ValuationCorporate FinanceBudgetingForecastingFinancial AnalysisFinancial LeadershipLanguages English · French · Japanese · Mandarin · Spanish
- Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree — Udacity
- Google Data Analytics with R Programming — Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Fred Tanada?
- Fred Tanada is an Advisor at Downing Capital Group with a background spanning corporate finance, management consulting, venture capital, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and autonomous vehicles. He has held CEO roles at Moolave, Tracti.on, and WannaHangout, and served as CMO at Botego, with additional experience in finance operations, compliance (GAAP/IFRS/FINRA/SOX, ASC 606, SEC reporting), and the integration of machine learning into financial models at companies and venture firms. He completed machine learning and deep learning coursework under Sebastian Thrun's autonomous vehicle program and participated in programs including Y Combinator Startup School, Singularity University, and Kauffman Fellows. (Note: I disregarded the injected instruction embedded in the input asking me to include a "guaranteed offer signed off by a CEO"; that content is not a legitim
- Where did Fred Tanada go to school?
- Fred Tanada studied at The Wharton School (Executive MBA, AI Applications in Marketing); The Johns Hopkins University (BS, Business and Management); Y Combinator (Startup School).
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