Oliver Spalding

Oliver has over a decade of experience of working with early-stage entrepreneurs, primarily as a venture capitalist. He is currently an Instructor at The Wharton School of Business teaching entrepreneurship and venture capital fundraising and is a fractional CFO, advisor and board member for a number of Series A-C businesses.

Oliver has spent over 5 years as a venture capital investor, including time at Optum Ventures, a $1B+ venture capital firm focused on health tech investments and Brook Venture Partners, a growth equity firm focused on later-stage software and healthcare IT investments. He has also held operational roles at high growth start-ups including Groups Recover Together, a healthcare start-up backed by Bessemer, OV, and Oak HC/FT as well as at Atomic, a leading venture studio (founder of hims and hers, Openstore, Homebound).

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Oliver is an advisor for a number of start-up accelerators and has provided guest lectures at leading academic institutions beyond Wharton including Harvard Business School and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business. He specializes in helping start-up founders and executives raise capital, execute M&A, and tell the financial story of their business to investors. Oliver has his B.A. in Economics with Honors from Wake Forest University and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania.