Tim Cowart

Tim Cowart is a San Francisco Bay Area finance executive with roughly 30 years of multi-industry experience leading finance teams, raising equity and debt capital, and executing corporate M&A. He holds a B.S. in Finance & Accounting from Menlo College (1988) and an MBA from the University of Southern California (1993). He began his career in 1997 as Vice President of Corporate Development at PanAmSat Corporation, managing the corporate-development team and the company's financial advisors, and in 1999 moved to New Skies Satellites N.V. as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. Early in his career he was a co-founder of a publicly-traded European satellite-communications company that grew to more than $200 million in revenue within five years.

He later served as a financial consultant and CFO to numerous venture-backed companies in the Bay Area. In October 2017 he joined cannabis-science and testing company Steep Hill as Chief Financial Officer (and COO), where he developed and evaluated corporate financial strategy with an emphasis on long-term financial and operational planning, capital requirements, and shareholder value. This Steep Hill role is the source of the "CFO & Board Member / steephill.com" details in the supplied stub.

In 2018 he became CFO of Sunfolding, a maker of simplified pneumatic solar trackers, where he raised a $32 million Series B and restructured the finance and accounting team. In 2021 he joined Ubiquity Retirement + Savings, a San Francisco fintech offering small-business retirement (401(k)) plans, as Chief Financial Officer. There he works directly with the CEO and Board of Directors, raised $14 million in Series D funding, formalized long-term strategy and financial forecasting, conducts subscriber analysis, and advises on corporate governance, HR, and accounting practices.

Note: Cowart's public footprint is that of a serial company CFO rather than a professional venture or angel investor. His "investing" activity is best understood as raising and stewarding capital on the company side of the table.

• No publicly documented personal angel/seed investment thesis exists; the "Angel Investors – Seed Round" classification in the stub appears to be a CRM label rather than a sourced fact.
• As a CFO, his demonstrated focus is venture-backed Bay Area growth companies that need disciplined finance leadership and capital raises — spanning fintech/SaaS (Ubiquity), clean-energy hardware (Sunfolding), and cannabis science (Steep Hill).
• Stated professional emphasis (Steep Hill bio): "long-term financial and operational planning, capital requirements, and enhancing shareholder value."
• Track record skews toward companies raising Seed → Series D, with hands-on experience structuring equity and debt and running M&A processes.