Vetted Founders in Washington

“Serial entrepreneur with multiple startups and demonstrated VC fundraising experience, including raising $125K for a current business plan and building investor relationships across several VC firms. Driven by tackling difficult problems and assessing opportunities through a lens of solution creativity and team execution, while prioritizing sustainable quality of life.”

“Solo technical founder building LabInsights, a healthcare middleware platform aimed at reducing missed follow-ups for abnormal lab results by layering AI-driven flagging, patient-friendly education, and prioritized care-team workflows on top of existing hospital systems. Currently validating in Bangalore with a former hospital CEO advisor, focusing on unit economics and securing LOIs/paid pilots; attracted to a venture studio to fill GTM, fundraising, and ops gaps.”

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

Rachael Maruca

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Senior sales and account management leader specializing in SaaS renewals and growth

Vancouver, WA19y exp

“Senior SaaS sales leader with 10+ years of management experience across enterprise and strategic segments, most notably building and scaling ZoomInfo's enterprise renewal specialist organization. Managed roughly $70M in expirations, improved renewal rates by 10 points YoY, and led a team where every rep exceeded quota while earning President's Club recognition personally in 2024 and 2025.”

“Built a production AI-native internal onboarding feature that reduced manual product setup effort by combining barcode API data, product photos, structured LLM outputs, and a polished real-time camera UI. Demonstrates hands-on experience across the full stack of LLM systems: prompt/schema design, multimodal inputs, backend orchestration with SQS and vector retrieval, and production reliability through evals, telemetry, and drift monitoring.”

“Built an AI-powered stylist / outfit recommendation product end to end, spanning React/TypeScript frontend, Postgres data modeling, serverless backend flows, and LLM-driven recommendation/explanation systems. Stands out for combining hands-on full-stack execution with strong product judgment around ambiguity, UX polish, reusable primitives, and AI trust/explainability.”