Press

Taylor Davidson is a fractional CFO and the founder of Hemrock. Contact at hello [at] taylordavidson.com or +1 646 770 0052.

Bio & Headshot

Bio: Taylor Davidson leads financial operations and builds the systems that support them. His experience spans venture fund finance, investment strategy, financial planning, and product development. As a fractional CFO and founder of Hemrock, he combines financial judgment with hands-on development of models, software, and workflows. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer (part-time) of Laconia Capital Group and a private venture capital fund, and his financial models have been downloaded more than 90,000 times by more than 56,000 people worldwide.

Preferred Link: https://www.hemrock.com

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Selected Press

Angellist, How to make a Budget for a Rolling Fund, June 2021
Techcrunch, Internal rates of return in emerging US tech hubs are starting to overtake Silicon Valley, April 2021
Fast Company, Why The Great App Unbundling Trend Is Already In Trouble, December 2015
Time, The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming, August 2015
The Next Web, How cards are taking over Web design, June 2015
Nieman Lab, The next stage in the battle for our attention: Our wrists, March 2015
Intel Innovation Anywhere, AAAaaS: Anything-Anywhere-Anytime-as-a-Service, February 2015
Canvas8, Expert Outlook 2015, January 2015
Campaign Live, Apple takes iAd programmatic, November 2014
Campaign Live, With Apple Watch, it’s time for new ad designs, November 2014
Canvas8, How Uber Fulfils out ‘I Want it Now’ Culture, August 2014
Fortune, How Lytro shot and killed WYSIWYG, June 2014
MIT Technology Review, A Search Engine for the Era of Apps, June 2014
Digiday, 5 signs programmatic advertising is taking off, May 2014
AdAge, Ad Fraud Creates Worry For Some, Opportunity For Others, April 2014
ClickZ, Spotlight on kbs+ Ventures’ Taylor Davidson: How Roads Lead to Ad-Tech, March 2014
Wired, SXSW, i consigli di un venture capitalist per ottenere finanziamenti, March 2014
Crain’s, WhatsApp deal exposes NY’s soft underbelly, February 2014
Fast Company, How Facebook’s Mobile Ad Network Could (Finally) Upend A Backwards Industry, January 2014
Crain’s, Twitter: From sell to buy, November 2013
AdAge, Ad-Tech Startups Dwindle, But Dollars Keep Flowing, October 2013
MediaPost, KBS+ Simplifies Language Of Internet Marketing: Drops ‘R’ And ‘E,’ Focuses On Intent, September 2013
The Next Web, Taylor Davidson maps the photography industry landscape, May 2013
Forbes, New To The Whole ‘Startup’ Thing? You Must Read This Book, May 2013
AdAge, How to Retain Talent? Teach Them to Leave, Says KBS+, April 2013

Talks & Panels

Digital Media Licensing Association Annual Conference, Advances in Image Recognition, New York, NY, October 2016
LDV Vision Summit, Where will Computer Vision Be in 5, 10 & 20 years?, May 2016, New York, NY
Digital Media Licensing Association Annual Conference, Real Photography, New York, NY, October 2015
Do Lectures, Acknowledge Process, Payne’s Hut, Australia, March 2015
Photo Hack Day, December 2014
EyeEm Festival, Berlin, Germany, The Camera of Tomorrow, September 2014
Startup Iceland, The Internet of Things is about people, not things., Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2014
Digiday Programmatic Summit, The State of Programmatic Advertising, New Orleans, LA, May 2014
The Media Kitchen’s Digital Media Venture Capital Conference, Activating Entrepreneurship, April 2014
CEPIC, Dublin, What’s next? How will the stock media business evolve?, June 2010
SXSW, Everyone can be a Professional Photographer, March 2010
SXSW, Venture Capital for Long Tail Entrepreneurs, March 2009
PDN, October 2009

Lectures & Mentoring

Workshops, classes, guest lectures
Entrepreneur First
OnDeck Angels
Founder Institute
Techstars, New York, NY
Alphalab, Pittsburgh, PA
Entrepreneur’s Roundtable Accelerator, New York, NY
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013-2015
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2013-2015
General Assembly, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA and Berlin, Germany, 2012-2014
Women 2.0, 2012-2014