Taylor Davidson helps entrepreneurs and investors create and use financial models for business decisions through his template financial models and strategic advisory services at Foresight. His tools have been downloaded over 81,000 times from over 116 countries by entrepreneurs (helping with financial planning, projections, fundraising, valuations, and business strategy) and investors (assisting with investment strategy, portfolio tracking, capital planning, and metric reporting). He run classes and workshops for venture investors, founders, lawyers, and executives, focusing on financial modeling, revenue forecasting, venture fund modeling, and cap tables and liquidity waterfalls.

He is currently the Chief Financial Officer (fractional) for Laconia Capital Group, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage B2B software startups. Taylor has invested in and advised early-stage startups as an angel investor, venture capitalist, consultant, and mentor, and he was formerly the Director of kbs+ Ventures, an NYC-based early-stage venture investment arm of the advertising agency kbs.

He was previously a professional photographer, focusing on outdoor and business event photography. Clients included Clinton Global Initiative, The Economist, CNN, The Rockefeller Foundation, and many others, and he gave talks and spoke on panels about photography for PDN, CEPIC, SXSW, VII, and more.

Taylor was born in Virginia, lived in the Bahamas and England when he was young, and graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Economics and the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University with an MBA in Finance. He has previously lived in New York, NY, New Orleans, LA, London, UK, Chicago, IL and other places, and he currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

The best way to contact Taylor is at hello [at] taylordavidson.com.