Zora Chung

Founder @ ReJoule Inc.

Zora is the cofounder and CFO at ReJoule, a battery diagnostics and optimization company. Before founding ReJoule in 2017, she has spent 12 years in corporate finance at Clorox and Walmart eCommerce. She's created long-range strategic and financial plans, negotiated contracts, and evaluated new and existing business models and optimized them for scalable growth. At ReJoule, she manages their budgets and financials while bootstrapping a battery hardware startup. She's managed the pre-revenue startup through the COVID shutdowns through a combination of government grants, emergency loan programs, and a laser focus on managing expenses and risk. 

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