Neha Manaktala Fundraising, Startups

Strategy Consultant, Business Development, Entrepreneur * Track record of business development, leadership and team building. * Successfully turned around branding and marketing for struggling medical university. * Developed strategy and financial modeling for a $1.5 billion investment fund in the Gulf. * Developed strategy and financial modeling for a $300 million micro-finance bank. * Provided strategy, research and modeling for IEEE the world’s largest technical organization- tasked to help develop new products that increase revenue by $100 million (including M&A). * Experience managing multi-million dollar R&D budget - with goal of developing new products, enhancing portfolio of products, vendor management and collecting reports and expenses from senior product managers. Uncovered over $200k in redundancies. * Created commercial finance brokerage at age 24 and advised in over $200 million in commercial financing products and strategies. * Experience presenting to and advising C-levels, Boards, HNWI's and large audiences.

Over $2B in capital raised for seed stage startups over the last 15 years. I've made 13 seed investments this year alone. I've spent the last 15 years in Venture Capital. 20,000 elevator pitchers heard. 5 seasons with Dragons' Den / 3 seasons with The Naked Entrepreneur. 2014 Mentor of the Year, Startup Canada

Partner at NCT Ventures, former financial services executive, sales force management and scaling, former CPA and CFO