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Grace Kim

Fractional VP Finance · Lumen Finance Studio

San Diego, CA, US

Fractional finance leader for early-stage startups who has been the first finance hire at seven venture-backed companies.

14+ years experienceEnglish, Korean

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14yrs

Operating leadership

Senior roles

Areas of expertise

5.0★

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What Grace is known for

Grace Kim runs a fractional finance practice that has served as the outsourced VP of Finance for more than 20 early-stage startups, where she is typically the first real finance hire founders bring on. She builds the foundational stack from scratch: the operating model, the metrics dashboard, payroll and accounting systems, and the board deck. Across her clients she has supported 12 fundraises and helped one company extend runway by nine months through a disciplined burn-reduction plan. Before going independent she was Director of Finance at Cobalt Labs, a Series-B robotics company. Grace is pragmatic and founder-friendly, fluent in the trade-offs of pre-revenue and pre-profit companies, and a calm voice in the room when the cash gets tight.

Expertise & sectors

Core expertise

Startup finance Financial modeling Burn management Board decks Fundraising support

Sectors

Technology SaaS

Experience

Founder & Fractional VP Finance · Lumen Finance Studio

2019 — 2024

Director of Finance · Cobalt Labs

2013 — 2019

Ways to work together

15-min intro

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Finance Stack in a Box

$4,800

Everything an early-stage company needs: operating model, KPI dashboard, accounting and payroll setup, and your first investor-ready board deck. Built in three weeks.

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Founder Finance Call

$350 · 60 min

A 60-minute working session on your model, your raise, or how much runway you really have.

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What people say about Grace

“Grace was our first finance hire on a fractional basis and gave us a model investors trusted. We closed our seed round two weeks faster because of her.”

EBEli Brandt · Co-founder, Northstar Robotics

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