Abdur Rehman A.

I've helped 300+ founders across North America, Europe, and MENA raise capital and build businesses that scale with strategies backed by real market data and financial discipline. My corporate background runs through investments, public and private equity, and financial advisory, including equity analysis on US and Canadian public markets and due diligence on startups for PE firms. For over 8 years, I've been working with startups and SMBs on: - Business Strategy & Execution: from idea to business planing to eventually helping you launch - Financial Planning & Strategy: setting up financial architecture, to budgeting and planning, and eventually offering regular Fractional CFO services at a fraction of the cost of a full-time CFO). How I can help: – Investor-Ready Documents & Data Room Preparation: I work with founders to create investor-ready business plans, pitch decks, market research, 3-5 year financial projections, dynamic financial models, and one-pagers. I prefer a consulting engagement where both me and the founder work together over a set period of time to prepare these deliverables (as opposed to a doc prep project). I've sat on the fundraising side enough times to know exactly what investors dig into when they see your numbers. – Financial Modeling: Whatever the decision calls for, operating and FP&A models, fundraise and scenario models, valuations and EBITDA normalization, LBOs and waterfalls, unit economics, cap tables. Built fully linked, auditable, and founder-readable, structured to hold when an investor stress-tests the assumptions rather than break the moment someone touches a cell. – Fractional CFO: Runway, unit economics, pricing strategy, board prep, equity and shareholder-loan design, financial control, budgeting, trackers, financial planning & analysis, policymaking etc. The ongoing finance judgment most early companies can't justify hiring full-time, with enough context on your business that the answer's ready before you ask. Startup Strategy Consultant: Whether you are bootstrapped or have secured early stage funding, and are looking for a strategy consultant with proven experience working with early stage founders to fine-tune your strategy, create an actionable roadmap, and take you from planning to launch, I'm here to help. WHY ME? - My background spans both sides of the table: venture capital and PE deal analysis, corporate internal audit, and hands-on fractional CFO work with growing businesses. - I advise two incubators in Canada and partner with a European venture firm, building the investor-ready documents they take to their portfolio's investors. - Master's in Finance from McGill, BSc from NYU. Send a model, a deck, a plan, or just describe what you're up against. I'll scope it same day.