We are the fractional CFO partner to Seed and Series A startups.

As CEO, it’s your job to have a clear, compelling narrative about how and why you’re building a massive business.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a technical, product, GTM, or ops-focused CEO - there’s no excuse not to nail your numbers. The financial picture has to match the story you’re telling.

We get in the trenches with CEOs and founding teams to +1 your financial story and operating discipline.

We work with startups who feel a gap in finance and ops, and we level up their management team to become better operators, fundraisers, and business builders.

Here’s how we serve our customers.

  • Do you have visibility into what’s around the corner? Our CFOs are experienced startup CFOs and investment bankers who have built and run companies before.

    • Financial modeling

    • Annual planning

    • Forecasting

    • Strategic planning

    • Hiring plan development

  • We’re in a new era of running startups. It’s the CEO’s job to make more out of less, and have an eye towards building a profitable business from the start.

    • Budgeting

    • Cash + runway management

    • Treasury management

    • Burn reduction strategies

    • Throttling growth vs. profitability

  • Our CFOs support the startup’s CEO and management team to build a compelling financial narrative and sophisticated model to match the vision of the business.

    • Board meeting prep + support

    • Seed, Series A, Series B support

    • Due diligence + data room prep

    • Pitch deck support

    • M&A support

  • While we’re not bookkeepers and can’t run day-to-day accounting, our CFOs are experienced ops leaders who can manage the finance, accounting, and ops functions of a business.

    • OKR / KPI definition; broader ops support

    • Management of in-house or outsourced accounting teams

    • Management/mentorship of junior finance roles - FP&A managers and directors of finance

Developing effective pricing and fundraising strategies is crucial for the growth of early-stage startups, but such specialized knowledge is frequently outside the expertise of the founding team. Early Stage Labs brought on an exceptionally skilled yet affordable fractional CFO who helped us build our first robust financial model. Opting for this support was one of the best decisions we’ve made this year!

Taylor Chartier

CEO, Modicus Prime

Our CFOs roll up their sleeves from day one and are an immediate extension of a startup’s management team.