Kenneth HaasVenture-focused finance

Hello.

Venture capital focus

Source the signal.
Build the case.

Across a $2–3M seed raise, 500+ founder-owned businesses screened, and nine mandates totaling $1B+, I built the sourcing, modeling, and investor infrastructure that turns a thesis into decision-ready evidence.

Venture-focused finance · sourcing · diligence · capital formation2021—2026

1,594

investor contacts · six channels

90

verified buy-side targets

Three capital contexts

Sand Hill Road → Main Street → Wall Street

  1. I

    Sand Hill Road

    Seed-stage fluencyA $2–3M seed raise, YC and 500 Global applications, and Venture Capital & Private Equity coursework.
  2. II

    Main Street

    Thesis-led sourcing500+ founder-owned UK HVAC businesses screened; 90 verified acquisition targets.
  3. III

    Wall Street

    Institutional rigorWork across nine concurrent mandates totaling $1B+, investment-committee diligence, and capital-structure modeling.

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Query the evidence

Ask about venture fit.

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01 · Venture-relevant experience

The venture toolkit,
earned in the field.

Evidence across seed fundraising, founder-owned acquisition sourcing, investment-committee diligence, and institutional outreach.

01

Limbic Capital

Investment Intern, Seed Fundraise & M&A Origination

Seed fundraise for Prime, an AI-native HVAC operating company ($2–3M target), and its UK buy-side origination.

  • Built the fund’s first capital-formation infrastructure: a 1,594-contact pipeline across six investor channels, codified in a 21-page handover with recorded walkthroughs.

  • Booked and completed the raise’s first four investor meetings within four weeks; one investor advanced to a second meeting.

  • Ran a 737-target Apollo, Clay, and HeyReach campaign with 45% connection acceptance (86/191), tracked in a self-built Excel/VBA system.

  • Screened 500+ UK HVAC targets against a founder-owned, £2–15M-revenue thesis and enriched a verified 90-company shortlist.

capital formationbuy-side originationinvestor outreachExcel / VBApipeline analytics

Thesis-led sourcing

90

verified acquisition targets

Enriched from 500+ UK HVAC companies against a founder-owned, £2–15M-revenue thesis.

02

Nova Capital Partners

Investment Banking Analyst, Emerging Markets

Origination, modeling, and investor outreach across nine concurrent mandates ($1B+ aggregate) in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

  • Audited and repaired BioVest’s $8M biomass-to-energy model, re-basing plant efficiency to 65% while modeled IRR held above 21%.
  • Built BioVest’s 30+ pipeline of DFIs, climate funds, and strategics under a same-day deadline; coordinated diligence with EPC partner Spantech.
  • Diligenced a Kazakhstani microfinance lender for investment committee, validating NPL ratios and recalculating ROE/ROA from source financials.
  • Modeled 5–12% IRR uplift on a 45–60 MW Zanzibar solar-plus-storage raise and quantified tax-holiday and VAT impacts.
  • Qualified 150+ institutional investors, expanding the active pipeline 30%+ and advancing 15+ dialogues.
IRR / MOICDSCRsensitivity analysisproject financeinvestment committee

Scenario analysis

+5–12%

modeled IRR uplift

Securitization, sale–leaseback, and split financing for a 45–60 MW Zanzibar solar-plus-storage raise.

03

Horizontal Land Partners

Director, Capital Markets & IR

Capital formation for a pre-IPO land-development platform operating on 12–16-month project cycles.

  • Structured a ~$50M Class A/B initial capitalization.
  • Authored the institutional IR deck and capital-formation plan.

Underwriting desk

Model logic, pressure-tested

audit → structure → decision
BioVest plant efficiencyRe-based operating assumption65%
Modeled project returnIRR where NPV(cash flows) = 0>21%
Active-pipeline lift(Expanded pipeline − base) / base30%+

Corrupted inputs restored, downside assumptions re-based, and DSCR, payback, and sensitivity cases kept decision-ready.

Capital across contexts

From venture model to public budget.

04

InfraAg.ai

Co-Founder & CFO

Developed the Utility-as-a-Service financial model and investor materials for a solar-powered-irrigation venture; authored Y Combinator and 500 Global applications.

05

Board of Finance & Taxation, City of New Britain

Appointed Commissioner

Secured a $1.8M budget increase for the city’s school district through line-item negotiations on a $250M+ municipal budget.

02 · Investment foundation

Venture coursework.
Broader judgment.

VC & PE coursework anchored by financial accounting, managerial economics, public policy, and a commercialization capstone.

Graduate degree

A.L.M., Management

Harvard University, Extension School

GPA 3.46

Venture Capital & Private Equity · Financial Accounting · Managerial Economics

Capstone AI-enabled pharmaceutical-commercialization assessment for BIP xTech (BIP Group).

Undergraduate degree

B.A., Public Policy & Law

Trinity College

GPA 3.40

Transferred from Tunxis Community College

Transfer foundation

A.S., High Honors

Tunxis Community College

GPA 3.70

Dean’s List ×6 · Phi Theta Kappa · Tuition self-financed with merit- and need-based aid