Vyara Stoycheva
Fractional CFO

Modern finance infrastructure for VC-backed companies. Built by someone who knows what investors need to see.

For VC firms, funded CEOs, and founders preparing to raise.

Tell me about your situation:

ACCA Qualified London Business School MBA 100s of companies across 7 sectors

Your portfolio reporting is scattered across spreadsheets, emails, and inconsistent formats. I fix that.

You're chasing founders for numbers that arrive late, in different formats, with different levels of detail. Preparing for IC means manually pulling data from multiple sources. There's no single view of portfolio performance, and no way to benchmark one company against another.

I design and implement a reporting system across your portfolio using modern tools, so your companies report in a consistent format, on time, to the standard your IC expects. Not a manual process that depends on me being there. An actual system your team and your founders can maintain.

I have done this from the investor side. I know what you need to see, when you need to see it, and what format makes it useful rather than decorative.

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Typical engagement

  • Audit current reporting across portfolio companies
  • Design and implement standardised reporting system
  • Configure tools and integrations for automated data flow
  • Single IC-ready format with comparable metrics
  • Onboard founders and finance leads onto the system
  • Due diligence support on new pipeline opportunities
What you keep

A reporting system that runs without me. Standardised formats across the portfolio, automated data collection, comparable metrics for benchmarking, and a foundation that holds through follow-on rounds, co-investor reporting, and eventual exits. Your team operates it. I build it.

Vyara provided invaluable investment support when I was CEO of a portfolio company. Our projects focused on strategy formulation, financial modeling, and fundraising preparation. Vyara's expertise played a key role in helping us secure a £3.2 million funding round.

Paul Jones

CEO, Biotech Start-up (Early Revenues Stage)

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Your finance function is held together with spreadsheets and manual effort. It's time to build it properly.

You closed your round and the financial complexity multiplied overnight. Board packs, investor reporting, cash management, runway planning, compliance. You're either doing it yourself, relying on a bookkeeper who can't talk to your investors, or patching things together with spreadsheets that break when someone leaves.

I build a finance function that actually works: automated where it should be, connected to your accounting data, producing investor-grade outputs without manual intervention. Using the tools that exist today, not the ones from five years ago.

I have sat on the investor side of board meetings. I know what your backers want to see, how they read the numbers, and what triggers concern. I build the systems so your eventual CFO hire or internal team can maintain them independently and scale them confidently.

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Typical engagement

  • Ongoing support, typically 2-4 days per month
  • Finance stack design: accounting, reporting, automation
  • Automated AP/AR workflows and bank feed integration
  • Board packs and investor reporting connected to live data
  • KPI dashboards that update without manual work
  • Cash flow management and runway planning
What you keep

A deep understanding of your business fundamentals, stress-tested through a bespoke financial model that lets you monitor key drivers continuously. Clarity on cash flow and runway. Fluency in how investors read your numbers and where they zoom in. A finance stack built for your current stage that your next hire can pick up on day one and scale from there.

Vyara helped us on an interim basis. She analysed the financial status of the business efficiently and thoroughly, enabling her to give me practical, unvarnished advice. It was tremendously helpful to have confidence in the situation. Working with Vyara is very straightforward, facilitated by her direct and pragmatic delivery.

Chief Executive Officer

Series A Company

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You have built your model. Let me pressure-test it before your investors do.

AI tools can produce clean financials and professional decks. You may have already done that. The gap is not in the output. The gap is in knowing whether what you have is right for your specific raise: whether the assumptions hold, whether the story is credible, whether the numbers will survive the questions you'll face in the room.

I have spent a decade reviewing financials from the investor side. I can tell you where yours will get challenged, what's missing, and what to fix before it costs you time or credibility in the process.

This is typically a light-touch engagement. A session or two to pressure-test what you have. If you need more, we can scope it from there.

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Typical engagement

  • One to two focused sessions to start
  • Review and stress-test your financial model
  • Challenge assumptions before investors do
  • Assess fundraise materials and deck financials
  • Coaching on investor Q&A and financial presentation
  • Option to expand into deeper support if needed
What you keep

Clarity on where your financials are strong and where they are exposed. A model that has been tested by someone who has sat on the other side of the table. Confidence walking into the room knowing your numbers will hold.

Vyara provided invaluable investment support when I was CEO of a portfolio company. Our projects focused on strategy formulation, financial modeling, and fundraising preparation. Vyara's expertise played a key role in helping us secure a £3.2 million funding round. I highly recommend her to start-ups looking to strengthen their financial capabilities.

Paul Jones

CEO, Biotech Start-up (Early Revenues Stage)

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Investor-side experience. Modern tooling.
Systems that outlast my involvement.

Most fractional CFOs come from corporate finance. I come from the investor side. That changes what I build and how I build it.

01

I know what the other side of the table needs

I have reviewed deal flow, challenged assumptions in IC papers, and decided which numbers to trust. When I build your financials, I already know what investors will question and what format earns their confidence.

02

I build systems, not dependencies

The goal is infrastructure that runs without me. Automated workflows, connected data, documented processes. Your team or your next hire picks up where I left off. If the value walks out with the person, it was never properly built.

03

Modern tools, informed judgment

AI and automation have changed what's possible in finance. I use them to build functions that are cheaper to run and faster to operate. But the tools don't know what your investors expect, what reporting cadence builds trust, or which metrics matter for your stage. That's the judgment layer.

What I do

Engagements are flexible. From a single session to ongoing monthly support. We scope it to what you need.

Fractional CFO

  • Strategy formulation and business planning
  • Fundraise preparation and investor materials
  • Cash flow management and runway planning
  • Finance function setup and process design
  • Financial modelling and scenario analysis
What you keep A deep understanding of your business fundamentals, stress-tested through a bespoke financial model that lets you monitor key drivers continuously. Clarity on cash flow and runway. Fluency in how investors read your numbers and where they zoom in. Tools built and aligned for your current stage that become the foundation for your next round, your first CFO hire, or your next phase of growth.

Analytics and Reporting

  • Portfolio-level KPIs and reporting
  • Board packs and investor reporting
  • KPI frameworks tailored to your business model
  • Timely management reports to a format and frequency agreed with you
What you keep Clarity on where the business stands at any point, in numbers your investors trust. A reporting foundation that carries forward cleanly into audits, tax filings, and future due diligence. Not reports that expire, but a reporting discipline that compounds.

Investment Support

  • Due diligence (financial and commercial)
  • Investment Committee paper preparation
  • Board observer and CEO advisory
  • Post-investment value creation projects
What you keep A consistent reporting architecture across your portfolio. One IC-ready format, comparable metrics across the book, and a foundation that holds through follow-on rounds, co-investor reporting, and eventual exits.

Built from the investor side

100s

Portfolio companies supported across financial modelling, reporting, fundraise preparation and value creation

£60M+

VC portfolio value managed across the full investment lifecycle

7

Sectors covered from life sciences and healthcare to SaaS, sustainability and robotics

10+

Years of experience across the venture capital deal lifecycle

Venture Capital SaaS Life Sciences Healthcare Sustainability Robotics Built Environment

From first call to handover

No lengthy procurement. The explicit goal is that you graduate from needing me.

1

Free 30-minute call

We discuss your situation, what you need, and whether I can help. No pitch, no pressure.

2

Scoping

I propose deliverables, time commitment, and fees. Engagements range from a single session to ongoing monthly support.

3

Build

I work embedded in your team. I build the systems, templates, and processes. I train your people to maintain them.

4

Handover

You keep everything I have built. Documented, tested, and designed to run without me. Your team or next hire picks up where I left off.

Let's talk about what you need

Book a free 30-minute call. We'll discuss your situation and whether I'm the right fit.

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