Sophia Dunn

Founder & CEO at Cinder Pay | ex-Databricks

Cinder Pay

Denver, CO · MT (UTC-7)

12+ years experience

University of Florida

English

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Overview

Building Cinder Pay in Denver - B2B payments. Took Cinder Pay from zero to $5 million ARR. Before that: Databricks and Cloudflare. Most at home with B2B sales and product.

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Investors who back our stage and sector
Early customers and design partners
Questions about B2B payments

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Courses and coaching offers
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Skills

productB2B salesfundraisingfintech

RaisingRaising capital

closes in 3 months

Raising a $3M pre-seed for price monitoring for independent clinics

Stage: Pre-seed
Raising: $3M
Instrument: SAFE
Committed so far: Opening the round now
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: 6 enterprise pilots after 29 months
Use of funds: Go-to-market in two new countries

6 enterprise pilots after 29 months. Looking for investors who know healthtech and can help with expansion into North America.

Denver, COfintechproductb2b sales

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Experience

Founder & CEO
Apr 2024 - Present
Cinder Pay · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Signed 191 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
- Grew the team to 81 people across 3 countries.
Data Engineer
Nov 2022 - Apr 2024
Databricks · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Replaced 117 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
Principal Engineer
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Cloudflare · 3 yr · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
Engineering Manager
Sep 2017 - Nov 2019
Microsoft · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 652ms to 159ms.
Senior Security Engineer
Dec 2014 - Sep 2017
PwC · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Wrote the fintech service that now handles 5 million requests a day.
- Shipped 29 launches on the growth team without a rollback.

Projects

Open-source fundraising toolkit

2026

A small library for B2B payments that 799 developers star on GitHub.

Write-up: B2B payments in practice

2024

A long-form guide to B2B payments for people starting out.

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Education

University of Florida
BS, Business Administration
2002 - 2006

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