Laz Fuentes

Serial Entrepreneur, Investment Banker, and Military Officer in New York

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Lazaro Fuentes (Laz) is a former Commander in the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army and a former Salomon Brothers investment banker.

Laz transitioned to being an operator in technology companies as an entrepreneur, building and/or exiting multiple VC-funded and public companies. He has since leveraged his startup operational success and investment banking experience to lead turnarounds at several enterprise entities, including Warner Bros, YouGov, Vertro, and others, creating outsized value and successful exits for investors, boards, and senior leadership.

Separately, Laz has sat on the board of multiple companies and has served as an advisor to venture capital firms globally, where he's assessed portfolio execution health and developed strategies to help achieve milestones and raise them follow-on rounds.

Laz is currently CEO and founder of SQOR.io, a platform developed to provide senior leadership, boards, and investors a way to easily and cost effectively monitor and score execution across all of the many SaaS tools at a company.

SQOR's patented algorithms take away the unknown and eliminates silos so leadership can act confidently, in-the-know, and encourages smart action by connecting the whole of the team at a company from within the application.

SQOR's vision is to to create a new standard whereby Execution Scores calculated by its algorithms serve as unbiased way for investors to rate which companies are to enter at the top of their pipeline funnel in an unbiased way, and to be the go-to tool for measuring what matters across portfolio companies: execution.

SQOR was recently accepted to Techstars 2022, and prior to that was selected to the World Economic Forum's “Global Shapers” initiative - OneRise, and to Bunker Labs.

  • Work
    • SQOR.io
  • Education
    • Columbia University