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Team

The people who prepare your raise.

Operators, ex-founders, and finance professionals who have been on both sides of the table — and who prepare your company the way investors actually evaluate it.

Juan Henao
Founder

Juan Henao

Great companies rarely fail to raise because they aren't fundable — they fail because they aren't ready. We fix that first, and earn the right to back them later.

Juan founded Sentinel Ventures to close the gap between strong companies and the investors who should be funding them. He works directly with founders on positioning, materials, and fundraising strategy, and personally leads investor targeting for the companies the firm takes on — building, in the process, the reputation and proprietary deal flow behind the fund the firm intends to become.

FocusFundraising strategy, investor positioning, deal sourcing

Elena Vasquez

Partner, Fundraising Strategy

Elena has led and advised on more than fifty early-stage and growth raises, first as a startup operator through two rounds of her own and later on the platform team of a European venture fund. She owns the strategy behind each engagement — the round, the timeline, and the target list — and turns it into a process founders can actually run.

Index Ventures (Platform)Ex-founder

Priya Nair

Partner, Financial Modeling & Valuation

Priya spent seven years in investment banking and corporate finance before moving to startup fundraising, where she has built the models behind dozens of Seed-to-Series-B raises. She makes the numbers defensible — the model and valuation logic that survive a partner meeting rather than trigger one.

Goldman SachsCorporate finance

Marcus Feld

Partner, Investor Network & Targeting

Marcus has spent a decade at the interface between companies and capital, mapping which investors actually write checks into which stories. He builds the qualified, well-matched lists of VC funds, family offices, and strategic investors that keep a raise focused — and makes the introductions when a company is genuinely ready.

LazardPlacement & IR

Sarah Okonkwo

Partner, Investor Materials & Data Room

Sarah leads the craft of the raise — the deck, memo, one-pager, and data room that read the way investors think, along with the Q&A prep behind them. A former Series B operator and communications lead, she has shaped the materials behind raises across fintech, infrastructure, and deep tech.

Ex-comms leadSeries B operator
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