Lisa Armstrong

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Founder & CEO at Umber Security · B2B payments · B2B sales, fundraising

Umber Security
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Umber Security, working on B2B payments. Signed 337 paying customers, 19 of them enterprises. Raised $36 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Starbucks and VMware. Coffee nerd.

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Skills
B2B salesfundraisingproductfintech
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Seed round open - inventory forecasting for hospital networks, $6M ARR

Stage
Seed
Raising
$6M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
$6M ARR after 20 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$6M ARR after 20 months. Looking for investors who know payments and can help with regulatory approvals.

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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jan 2025 - Present
    Umber Security · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Raised $37 million across 2 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small B2B payments company.
  2. Finance Manager
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
    Starbucks · 2 yr · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Ran diligence on 11 acquisitions.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 5 straight quarters.
  3. Senior Financial Analyst
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
    VMware · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Saved $9 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  4. Financial Analyst
    Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
    Johnson & Johnson · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $45 million raise.
  5. Financial Analyst
    Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
    Apple · 1 yr 7 mo · Contract · Atlanta, GA
    • Closed the books in 3 days, down from 13.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Economics
    2010 - 2012
  2. University of Michigan
    BSE, Economics
    2005 - 2009

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