Susan Ganje

About Susan Ganje

Fractional CFO | Capital & Scale Architect | Tech-driven Ventures & BiotechI work with founders and leadership teams to help translate innovation into scalable, sustainable growth. My work focuses on capital strategy, milestone design, and investor engagement, helping ensure that technical progress, scale, and funding are aligned at each stage of growth. This often involves shaping reporting frameworks, financing pathways, and governance structures that support long-term value creation.With 20+ years’ experience across the funding landscape — investor, lender, operator, and grantmaker — I have supported funding strategies from pre-seed through growth stage, including equity, grants, government-backed capital. Over my career, I have facilitated funding from $100K to $1B.Previously, I worked at the UK’s national innovation agency, supporting high-growth startups and scaleups and co-led the design of an early-stage investment model in collaboration with national Catapult centers, including Medicines Discovery Catapult and High Value Manufacturing Catapult. I have also built financial operations from the ground up as founding CFO of a pioneering deep tech company and created the credit execution team for BNP Paribas\' Commodity Finance group in New York.

Experience

1. Mentor

   Uf Innovate Accelerate

   Dec 2025 — Present

   Mentor at UF Innovate Accelerate / Sid Martin Biotech

Education

• Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Marseille-Provence

  International Business

• University College Dublin

  Bachelor of International Commerce and French

• SOAS University of London

  Master’s Degree