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Founder Coaching and EcoSystem Partner Support That Gets Real Outcomes

Founder Coaching and EcoSystem Partner Support That Gets Real OutcomesFounder Coaching and EcoSystem Partner Support That Gets Real OutcomesFounder Coaching and EcoSystem Partner Support That Gets Real Outcomes


Decks, Models, GTM, Speaking, Sales, Product


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Two Ways I Help Leaders Move Faster

Founder Clients

Ecosystem Partners

Ecosystem Partners

If you’re a founder building something real, we’ll sharpen your narrative, numbers, and go-to-market plan, then rehearse the high-stakes conversations—investors, pilots, partners, pricing - so momentum shows up in meetings and outcomes, not just in ideas. 

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Ecosystem Partners

Ecosystem Partners

Ecosystem Partners

If you’re an ecosystem partner - accelerator, incubator, university, investor group, corporate innovation team, or economic development organization - I help you design high-signal programming, stronger founder pipelines, sponsorship narratives that convert, and events that deliver measurable value to founders and partners alike.

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Qualified Founder Coach With Silicon Valley Credibility

 If you’re building something real, you need more than inspiration, you need a clear narrative, credible numbers, a go-to-market plan you can execute, and the confidence to negotiate terms, pilots, and partnerships without shrinking in the room.


That’s exactly what we build together, whether you’re a founder pushing toward traction or an ecosystem partner creating the conditions for founders to win. 

Founder & CEO Oneva, Inc.

 •  Product owner of OnevaMe and OnevaPro mobile apps designed to book care using AI.

 

•  Blitzscaling founder; raised $6M+ and became about the 11th Black woman to raise $1M+


 •  Secured the first Microsoft corporate pilot in Silicon Valley; converted trust into a signed contract


 •  Applied granted US Patent and AI to deliver in-home care as an employee benefit accessible and focused on meeting enterprise standards for policies, policies and other service delivery prerequisites

Fortune 500 Executive

 •  Led strategy, annual planning, budgets, KPI forecasting, and exec reporting at AT&T, Seagate Technology, University of California at Berkeley, and Levi's Strauss & Co.


 •  Built a native-language ISDN customer order-entry system with Bell Labs, then applied AI to build the Oneva mobile apps with Microsoft Benefits

Award-Winner & Thought-Leader

Award-Winner & Thought-Leader

 •  Winner “TechCrunch Disrupt 2017" second place from a field of 5,000, a global competitive pitch and one of the most visible, competitive pitch stages in the Silicon Valley ecosystem


 •  Winner “Best Startutp Silicon Valley 2015 confirmed innovation, investability, the idea, the team, and the technology


 •  Served as technical consultant to Rand Corporation for foundational technical understanding of AI-driven innovations in Elder Tech

What Founders And Ecosystems Partners Say

A1 Academics Founder

  

“So she said, ‘Don't overthink, don't over complicate it. This is your story. If you focus on speaking from an authentic place and not concern with who all is in the room, but that you're there to give them a message and to share your story,  it will come off as authentic.’ And every person that gave feedback said ‘Whoever coached you must have done amazing with you and took their time.’ ."  - Allayah

LISC-LA Sponsors, Hosts and Pitch Contestants

"Anita energized the room with confident, warm stage presence and tight transitions that kept momentum. Her coaching tightened each pitch (clear opening, problem statement, ask), which made founders more compelling to investors and partners. On stage she connected each pitch to the FEE pillars, highlighted strategic next steps, and personally introduced finalists to sponsors and attendees after their presentations, creating immediate networking opportunities." Event Host

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Founder Coaching Services

Investor Decks

Investor Decks

Authentic founder storytelling with data, building investor-ready decks that get results


Model Building

Investor Decks

Build a model that holds up under scrutiny, makes unit economics legible, and shows you understand the levers well enough to execute 

Go-To-Market

Personas, positioning, pricing, channels, outreach, and tracking, built into a plan that’s realistic for your current team, so momentum shows up in your pipeline

Pitch Coaching & Executive Presence

Project confidence and authenticity with clarity so you sound like the leader of the outcome, not the narrator of the problem

Sales Pipelines & Pilots

Build sales pipelines and pilot programs that convert - targeting, outreach, terms, metrics, and rollout. 

Product Development

Build customer-centric products designed for ease-of-use,  with  AI-driven solutions, customer feedback loops, and privacy and security that works in the real world.


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Ecosystems Partner Services

Program and Accelerator Design

Events, Pitch Nights, and Founder Showcases

Program and Accelerator Design

I help you design programming that delivers measurable founder progress so your community delivers outcomes, not just activity. 


Sponsorships and Partnerships

Events, Pitch Nights, and Founder Showcases

Program and Accelerator Design

Collaboratively, we build persona-infused sponsor narratives, partner packages and stakeholder messaging that adds targeted future customers to your pipeline, in a way that positions your brand a a value-added partner 

Events, Pitch Nights, and Founder Showcases

Events, Pitch Nights, and Founder Showcases

Events, Pitch Nights, and Founder Showcases

From curation to coaching to judging frameworks, I help you run founder showcases that are fun, well-run, and professional, while giving investors, corporates, and community partners a reason to celebrate and return for more 

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Building Investable Wins

Step through the door to founder coaching and ecosystem partner strategy - pitch decks, go-to-market, enterprise pilots, and negotiation - so founders earn investable, blitzscalable traction and ecosystem partners run programs that reliably produce those wins. 

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