Jake Hawkins

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Founder, Trellis Care - fundraising · product · LLMs

Trellis Care
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
14+ years experience
Columbia University
English
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Overview

Building Trellis Care in San Francisco - AI agents for operations teams. Grew the team to 100 people across 4 countries. Most at home with fundraising and automation. Kannada theatre fan.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Working sessions on automation
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Fundraising consultants
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
fundraisingLLMshiringB2B SaaSproductautomation

Experience

  1. Founder
    Aug 2023 - Present
    Trellis Care · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Grew the team to 111 people across 2 countries.
    • Raised $35 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Controller
    Dec 2019 - Aug 2023
    Reddit · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 6 straight quarters.
    • Closed the books in 4 days, down from 13.
  3. FP&A Manager
    Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
    Target · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $43 million raise.
  4. Controller
    Jun 2014 - Sep 2016
    Zoom · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Ran diligence on 8 acquisitions.
  5. Finance Manager
    Oct 2012 - Jun 2014
    Lockheed Martin · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Closed the books in 3 days, down from 15.
    • Ran diligence on 6 acquisitions.

Projects

Side project: a habit tracker
2026

Built with automation and product. 4301 people used it last year.

Open-source fundraising toolkit
2024

A small library for AI agents for operations teams that 676 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Columbia University
    BA, Business Administration
    2008 - 2012

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