Mark Wald Presents Financial Modeling for Startups at UCLA's Venture Accelerator

At the intersection of innovation and mentorship, SPRCHRGR’s founder, Mark Wald, continues to give back to the entrepreneurial ecosystem and helps shape its future through his dedicated work with UCLA Anderson's Venture Accelerator Program.

As a seasoned serial entrepreneur and consulting CFO, Mark brings over two decades of hands-on experience in startups to aspiring founders. His involvement with the program isn't just about sharing knowledge — it's about transforming potential into tangible business success.

Mark presented "Financial Modeling for Startups" to the 2024-25 Accelerator Program cohort on February 11, 2025, at UCLA’s Anderson Complex in Los Angeles. He shared his deep experience on the topic, as well as how founders seeking investment can prepare themselves for a successful pitch and elevate their credibility. His presentation demystifies financial forecast models and shares valuable tips on how to effectively appeal to investors.

Beyond Advice: A Practical Approach to Startup Growth as a Mentor

Drawing from his rich background of building, advising, and investing in startups since the early 2000s, Mark provides founders with more than theoretical guidance. His mentorship focuses on:

• Decoding complex business dynamics
• Developing strategic financial projections
• Identifying efficient pathways to scale
• Understanding the intricate relationships between people, processes, and systems

"Half engineer and all business," Mark's approach is pragmatic. He helps startups and founders see beyond immediate challenges, encouraging them to model real-world scenarios with quantifiable metrics.

Impact by the Numbers: UCLA’s Venture Accelerator Program

UCLA’s Anderson Venture Accelerator boasts that 85% of the startups that go through the program continue to scale successfully. As a mentor, Mark's contributions play a critical role in supporting the startup ecosystem, bridging academic insights with real-world entrepreneurial experience.

Mark's Entrepreneurial Mindset and Background:

• 15+ years of startup ecosystem experience
• CEO and Founder of SPRCHRGR
• Fractional CFO to multiple startups
• Co-founder of multiple ventures
• Angel investor
• Mentor across top entrepreneurship programs

For founders seeking strategic guidance and actionable insights, Mark Wald represents the kind of mentor who doesn't just talk about success—he's lived it.  > Learn more about Mark Wald

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About UCLA’s Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

The Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation housed in the UCLA Anderson School of Management is the academic cornerstone of UCLA’s internationally recognized entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem and offers a wide range of resources to support the academic and professional development of entrepreneurial leaders.

About UCLA’s Anderson School of Management

At UCLA Anderson, we define the leading edge of business for the 21st century. We prepare leaders with a world view to make a lasting difference in organizations and communities around the world. Our community of 39,000 alumni, 1,800 students and 180 faculty is defined by three core qualities: sharing success, thinking fearlessly and driving change. Together, we look to discover and chart what can be; we Think in the Next.

About SPRCHRGR

SPRCHRGR (pronounced "supercharger") was built to address a challenge that many growing businesses face — they are underutilizing their numbers.

We believe that ambitious companies can achieve their goals faster with a team of tech-forward problem-solvers who know how to unlock the insights hidden in their data and supercharge their operations.

SPRCHRGR thinks differently, combining expertise in accounting and finance, reporting, data visualization and analysis, business process streamlining, and more to create automated workflows, synced systems, and custom-built technology solutions. Our services include assessment, business acceleration, transaction preparation, outsourced accounting, fractional CFO, and software optimization.

Whether your team is buried in spreadsheets or has all the right info in all the wrong places, SPRCHRGR has the experience and expertise to help you transform your data flow into actionable ideas and make better decisions — turning your data into a competitive advantage.