Tara Malik

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Co-founder & COO at Trellis Foods · product, automation

Trellis Foods
Leeds, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
12+ years experience
UCL
English
Raising
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Trellis Foods, working on AI agents for operations teams. Took Trellis Foods from zero to $10 million ARR. Before that: Sainsbury's and EY. Most at home with automation and B2B SaaS.

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Skills
automationfundraisingB2B SaaSLLMsproduct
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1M seed for energy audits for schools in tier-2 cities

Stage
Seed
Raising
$1M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
20 enterprise pilots after 21 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

20 enterprise pilots after 21 months. Looking for investors who know wealth management and can help with expansion into LatAm.

Leeds, UKllmsfundraisingautomation
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Trellis Foods · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Leeds, UK
    • Grew the team to 39 people across 5 countries.
    • Took Trellis Foods from zero to $6 million ARR.
    • Signed 128 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
  2. Finance Director
    Dec 2021 - Sep 2023
    Sainsbury's · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Leeds, UK
    • Saved $4 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  3. Controller
    Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
    EY · 2 yr · Full-time · Leeds, UK
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $141 million raise.
  4. FP&A Manager
    Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
    Unilever · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Leeds, UK
    • Ran diligence on 3 acquisitions.
  5. Financial Analyst
    Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
    Arm · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Leeds, UK
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 15.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2024

Built with automation and fundraising. 1744 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. UCL
    BSc, Business Administration
    2011 - 2014

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