Building a Finance Function from Scratch: A Founder's Playbook

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Vikas Singh

CEO & Co-Founder, DNA Growth

CFO Insights 10 min readMay 8, 2026
Building a Finance Function from Scratch: A Founder's Playbook

From your first hire to your first audit, here's the exact sequence of finance decisions that set fast-growing companies up for scale.

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CEO & Co-Founder, DNA Growth

Vikas Singh is the CEO and Co-Founder of DNA Growth.

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