About
Tara Raffi was a consultant at McKinsey advising hospital systems, an early operations and marketing employee at location-data company Factual, and built McKinsey's internal technology incubator which managed $50M in global investments.
Founder at AlmondYC S22
Intro paths
YC
Tara went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Tara can intro founders to Almond's investors below.
Almond's investors · 1
Co-founders at Almond
CA
Carly AllenFounder
Experience
- AlmondFounder & CEOcurrent2021 — present
- McKinsey & CompanyFounding Lead and Portfolio Manager, McKinsey tech fund and incubator2016 — 2020
- Factual IncOperations Associate2014 — 2016Los Angeles, California, United States
- Office of the Quartet Representative, Tony BlairResearch Analyst2013Jerusalem
- McKinsey & CompanyBusiness Analyst2011 — 2013Los Angeles
Skills & more
Budgets6Program Management10Research13Retail4Public Speaking11PowerPoint6Marketing11Data Analysis8Business Strategy7Economic Development Research1Economic Development2
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Tara Raffi?
- Tara Raffi was a consultant at McKinsey advising hospital systems, an early operations and marketing employee at location-data company Factual, and built McKinsey's internal technology incubator which managed $50M in global investments.
- Where does Tara Raffi work?
- Tara Raffi is Founder of Almond.
- What companies did Tara Raffi found?
- Tara Raffi founded Almond.
- Where did Tara Raffi go to school?
- Tara Raffi studied at Y Combinator; University of California, Berkeley (BS, Business Administration).
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