Ayana Tiana Jones

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Founder & CEO at Axis Bio · fintech, rural distribution

Axis Bio
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
13+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
HiringRaising
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Overview

I started Axis Bio to fix agritech for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Axis Bio from zero to $3 million ARR. Previously built and sold a small agritech company. Cyclist - trying to do a century this year.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Questions about agritech
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  • Crypto token projects
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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
agriculturerural distributionsupply chainpaymentsfintech
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring our first product designer at Axis Bio - San Francisco

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$173k-$213k + equity
Team
Founding team, 10 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $163k-$223k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Francisco, CArural distributionfintechagriculture
Open
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $6M seed for data labelling for pharmacies

Stage
Seed
Raising
$6M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
4 enterprise pilots after 18 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

4 enterprise pilots after 18 months. Looking for investors who know mobility and can help with enterprise sales.

San Francisco, CAfintechpaymentsagriculture
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Axis Bio · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Previously built and sold a small agritech company.
    • Raised $17 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Finance Manager
    Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
    Google · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 2% for 9 straight quarters.
  3. Finance Manager
    Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
    ServiceNow · 3 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Closed the books in 5 days, down from 14.
  4. Financial Analyst
    Nov 2015 - Feb 2018
    Target · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 1% for 4 straight quarters.
    • Saved $3 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  5. Finance Manager
    Oct 2013 - Nov 2015
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Ran diligence on 12 acquisitions.

Projects

Write-up: agritech in practice
2022

A long-form guide to agritech for people starting out.

Open-source rural distribution toolkit
2022

A small library for agritech that 509 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. Northwestern University
    BA, Business Administration
    2006 - 2010

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