Jake Hawkins
SFounder, 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.
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- Early customers and design partners
- Working sessions on automation
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- Fundraising consultants
- Unpaid work or spec projects
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Skills
fundraisingLLMshiringB2B SaaSproductautomation
Experience
- FounderAug 2023 - PresentTrellis 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.
- ControllerDec 2019 - Aug 2023Reddit · 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.
- FP&A ManagerSep 2016 - Aug 2019Target · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Built the operating model the board used for a $43 million raise.
- ControllerJun 2014 - Sep 2016Zoom · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
- Ran diligence on 8 acquisitions.
- Finance ManagerOct 2012 - Jun 2014Lockheed 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
2026Built with automation and product. 4301 people used it last year.
Open-source fundraising toolkit
2024A small library for AI agents for operations teams that 676 developers star on GitHub.
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Education
- Columbia UniversityBA, Business Administration2008 - 2012
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