Carolina Yumi, 12+ years
Building Marketing for
Fintech, Crypto and AI.
Second marketer at Nubank, first at TrueLayer, built 0x's marketing from zero. I join teams with early product-market fit and scale the marketing: brand, positioning, go-to-market, growth. Mostly seed to Series C, across fintech, crypto, and AI, as part of the team or as an external advisor.
Work Experience
Here are the most relevant case studies, projects and deliverables I've had. More will be added as I curate the content.
Client / Advising Work
Astor AI ↗︎
Astor AI came to me with strong technical founders but no marketing function in the room. I helped them identify where to focus early, designed guerrilla growth tactics with high ROI, and brought in a trusted network to execute.
Zippi ↗︎
Zippi had strong product-market fit but needed to sharpen how they talked about it externally. I came in as a strategic advisor to help rethink their positioning, rebuild the website, and build out their design function, from sourcing candidates to running the hiring process. The designer I brought in as a contractor eventually became a full-time employee. Beyond the hands-on work, I acted as a senior marketing sounding board for the founders and marketing team, pressure-testing decisions.
Broad ↗︎
Broad wanted senior-level marketing input while staying lean. I served as marketing advisor for two years — shaping brand strategy and identity, and translating that into the website, social, newsletter, and broader comms. I also sourced content and design talent from my network and worked hands-on with the team through pre-launch and launch, drawing on experience scaling some of the fastest-growing fintechs in Brazil and Europe.
Consulting Engagement Options
I take on a small number of clients at a time so the work is actually meaningful.
Ongoing monthly support: a call, async input, hands-on reviews. Best when there's no marketer in the room yet.
Fixed deliverable, fixed timeline: positioning, GTM, brand, or a website. We scope it together up front.
Not sure yet? Start here: a free 30-minute call to talk it through, no commitment.
Get in touch →Share what you've got: product, goals, metrics we're moving, ICP, what's worked so far, hypotheses. None yet? We build them together.
What's working, what's not, what I'd fix first.
I suggest priorities, we agree on scope.
We start, either I execute or work alongside your team.
About
I'm Carolina Yumi, Brazilian, with Japanese and Italian roots. I've lived in Brazil, the US, New Zealand, the UK, France and Switzerland, which has given me a genuine feel for how markets, audiences, and cultures differ, and how to build marketing that travels.
I've spent my career at the frontier of financial technology, always joining early and building from scratch. What I love most about advisory work is staying close to the market across multiple products and challenges at once, and being able to help earlier stage teams avoid pitfalls and take the fast-track to the results they want. It helps when someone has gone through it before!
Those who work with me describe it as: I'm direct, I move fast, I think holistically but can zoom into executional details, and I care about getting the strategy right before spending money on tactics.
Writing and In the Media
Writing
In the Media
Contact me
Contact me to find out how I can help your company improve its marketing. Open to full-time, part-time and advising contracts.
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