Raphaela Sapire is a founder and growth operator with a decade-plus track record of turning product-market insights into repeatable lead-generation and go-to-market engines for tech and enterprise clients. She co-founded Homestay, a venture-backed senior care startup, and now leads CedarFunnel, applying deep expertise in acquiring quality leads for the 35–70 demographic across PI and MVA verticals. Raphaela has scaled programs and operations at the Uniswap Foundation—building grants, finance, and people functions—and co-founded TLDR to support DeFi research, showing she moves fluidly between consumer lead gen and web3 ecosystems. Her background ranges from investment banking and VC diligence to hands-on startup ops and full‑stack engineering training, which helps her bridge strategy, product, and execution. Known for treating job creation as an outcome rather than a metric, she prioritizes the people and systems that sustain growth. Based in Austin, she brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to scaling demand and organizational infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack Software Developer Engineering, Fullstack Software Developer Engineering at Flatiron School
BA Urban Studies Economics, BA Urban Studies Economics at Columbia University
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