# Alfredo Diaz > Founder & CEO @ DarDen. | Samsara Capital Partners Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alfredodiaz Quant finance student turned product manager & designer then turned software engineer now product founder + VC/PE Partner tackling Ai automations for service businesses. ## Work Experience ### Founding Partner @ Polymath Solutions Holding Group, LLC Jan 2021 – Present | Scottsdale, AZ - Software: Technology Product Offerings and Services - Investment: Products and Services - Services: Consulting (Design, Eng, Sales) & Advisory - Insights & Research - Philanthropic initiatives Rolling venture fund under Regulation D 506(c) We invest in: Early stage startups pre-product market fit - Future of work / Service enablement across industries - Marketplaces - Biotech & Health tech - Development In LATAM and new Global Innovation Hubs - Design forward startups - Sharing economy - Applied Intelligence & Machine Learning - Moonshots ### LATAM-USA GTM Distribution Partner @ SURETI Jan 2026 – Present | Colombia PSHG.co is leading US GTM expansion for Sureti: a Software for Credit Unions, Regional and Community Banks to run their Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOCs) lending operations more efficiently using ai ### Managing Partner & CIO @ Samsara Capital Partners Jan 2025 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States Leveraged Multidimensional Private Equity fund, we roll up traditional legacy businesses that fit our target criteria, optimize & magnify them with our playbooks, shared AI, ops infrastructure, we then drive additional lift through tech equity, software licensing, and cross-vertical synergies ### Venture Partner @ Potentialist Capital Jan 2024 – Present | Japan Venture Capital Growth Fund backing series A & later startups with category defining products expanding into US, Japan, and APAC ### Ai Product & Growth @ Potentialist Global, Inc. Jan 2024 – Present | Japan Guiding strategic growth and design of Ai product for 3D Printing Homes motion in Japan ### Founder @ DarDen Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area https://www.DarDenApps.com Solo freelancers in Latinoamérica use our toolbox product 'Trato' to orquestarte personalized Ai assistants that leverage machine learning techniques to unblock precious time back, better manage & increase clients, keep projects updated and on time, and receive instant international payments in USD. Freelancers can also manage their retirement, savings, investment goals, taxes, and local personal benefits on autopilot with every payment as they come in. ### Board Advisor @ Boilerplate Jan 2024 – Present | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ### President & CEO @ kashew Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Kashew.com - Multisided marketplace for second hand furniture, buyers, consignment retailer businesses, and integrated delivery partners ### Founding Head of Product & Growth @ kashew Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product, Team Lead @ Lance Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Addressing youth-unemployment in Spain we launched Lance, a Provider/Client platform that allows for 2yr long contracts for project-based work. Through Lance employers discovered & matched with candidates based on skills and tool qualifications, then managed projects in multifaceted stages. We believe work to be a beautiful and crucial component of society's pillars, and as the nature of and functions in work evolve -with evermore functions streamlined & automated - so is the workforce. We participated on Hult Prize Challenge 2019 (http://www.hultprize.org/challenge/) Project challenge targeted meaningful opportunities for youth employment impacting 10,000+ lives ### Product Manager, Onboarding & Core Experience @ Evernote Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Increased conversion rate by restructuring the onboarding experience for new users, we developed a dynamic onboarding system by parcing dosens of datasets representing user activation and conversion then we extended free trials stocastically in poproportion to engagement metrics. - Analyzed and recommended to adjust product production based on user preferences from competing products’ market share for multiple features as avenues for Evernote to stay competitive - Developed roadmaps for 14 new key features by researching customer preferences across diferent personas and use cases in the product landscape by crossreferencing : location-based notes, mind map diagrams, content sharing tools, “for you” content explore page, experience controls, password protected notes, monetization tools for creators, bibliography converter, bubbled coments, people and topic tags, template creation tools, data tables, code sandbox, and smart note blocks for data dashboards. - Collaborated crossfuncionally on creating a mechanism to accelerate “user’s learning curve” by prompting and tracking a guided exploratory experience for users to learn main product functionality and come back where the user left off at their leisure. As well as a help chat bubble for collecting and analysing user success tickets - Ran a series of user research groups using multiple techniques then A/B tested 9 use cases for Object Character Recognition (OCR) functionality. ### SMB Management Consultant @ DDs International Consulting & Advisory, LLC Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Santa Monica, CA Bringing outdated small retail service businesses to the 21st century by consulting on matters of: - Transfer current processes into frameworks & digital tooling - Optimizing revenue creation processes (oftentimes restructuring pricing or service/product mix) - Raising efficiency in operations - Periodic assessments on clients’ progress and pricing ### Board Treasurer @ Square1 Foundation Inc. 501(c)(3) Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Let's talk about the Opioid Epidemic... https://ca.ltddir.com/companies/square1-foundation-inc/ -Engineered, Formed, Directed and supervised creation and operations of $5M endowment -Served as financial officer of the organization -Reviewed and approved quarterly and year-end financial statements and recommended for board action -Reviewed and approveed annual budget -Reviewed draft of Form 990 and Audit -Shared signature authority with the Executive Director on all Square1 accounts and contracts. -Advised on financial matters on an as needed basis -Made recommendations to the board on finance matters as needed ### Advisor (Product Strategist) @ LadyMarry Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ladymarry.com Drafted photo capsule feature for wedding attendees to share wedding photos with LadyMarry users then with CEO outlined add-to-my-wedding feature which feeds images from previous weddings as express checkout catalog for future users. ### Product Designer @ Torq Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Various projects (Torq/Veneer - WokeApp/Deduco) Was part of & lead a team of 3-4, worked on converting highly qualified potential customers from foot trafic to relevant local businesses while providing 3000x more acurate location tracking software than GPS for late stage Mobility & Transportationd startups. Learned significantly about location-based services, mesh networks, gps, bluetooth, geofencing, and location-based ads. (this was called WokeApp/Deduco) -- (Torq/Veneer) this was a subscription for accessing to exotic and luxury cars which aimed to change the traditional model of car ownership & manufacturer logistics for the high-end car market. With our app car manufacturers and dealerships could keep close track of inventory on the blockchain and provide select cars from their fleets to individuals on our monthly subscription. Individuals paid a base subscription plus a variable amount depending on car data and subscription term commitment allowing for a flexible model and an additional business line to the current model of car ownership From idea to conceptualization to Beta made: PRDs, MRDs, and FSDs, road-mapping, budgeting, wireframes, persona analysis, business planning, financial projections, 1st & 2nd hand research. ### Asset Allocation PM @ Silicon Valley Portfolio (Private Fund) Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | United States Reviewed reports and provided detailed input parameters to algorithmically allocate long positions in US Technology Equities that were deemed undervalued. The purpose of the portfolio is to capture value in the form of financial assets to subsequently use as collateral for business loans Provided strategy in trading option contracts -Factor Investing -Value Investing We part-took on these IPOs: -Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU) -Stitch Fix Inc (NASDAQ: SFIX) ### Venture Analyst @ Polymath Solutions Holding Group, LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Scottsdale AZ ### Investment Associate @ Bay Angels Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area http://bayangels.com -Review Deals and Startups -Bringing in and Sharing Deal Flow -Investor Relations -Events ### Performance & Duedilligence Researcher @ CannaAngels LLC Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Gathered and exposed data about performance of companies that received investment from the angel group to showcase and analyze their growth trajectories. ### Brand Marketing Coordinator @ 23RAWFISH.com Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Scottsdale Arizona We sold branded apparel and custom skateboards. ### Founder @ QuickClick, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Scottsdale Arizona Hyperlocal E-Commerce marketplace for time sensitive deals capitalizing on probability. Pivoted into GadgetDashboardz; as the backend compression of multithreaded processes served well to be the backend that keeps track of multiple predetermined tabs as browsers reopen ## Education ### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science and Interaction Design San Francisco State University ### Master of Finance - MFin in Entrepreneurial Finance Hult Ashridge Executive Education ### Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA in 2 majors: Finance And Entrepreneurship Hult International Business School ### Startup School - SS2019 Y Combinator ### High School in Explored my interesests in Business and Physics Chaparral High School ### Colegio Salesiano Anáhuac Chapalita (GDL, Jal) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alfredodiaz1 - Website: https://yoalfredo.com/portfolio - Website: https://www.notion.so/Le-Blog-Wrapped-in-thought-4a190867cf1342338b62cd2328c2f808 --- Source: https://flows.cv/alfredodiaz JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alfredodiaz/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05