Finding good people is harder than finding money
We help bring innovations
to the world.
World-changing innovations need two things: good people and capital. We help you find both, and we stay in it with you.
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Global
Teams
What we do
Three ways we stand with you.
Help develop the strategy
We help shape the plan that turns a bold idea into a fundable, buildable path forward.
Help execute the plan
We help do the work, not just advise it: real momentum from first move to next stage.
Bring the people to the table
We bring the good people, the founders, operators, and capital, who can help drive the vision.
Who this is for
Three groups we can help.
We work with science- and technology-driven companies at their next stage, wherever that stage finds them.
Investors & sponsors
Value creation across the portfolio
Founder-led companies
Build the bench to outgrow the ceiling
For private equity, family offices, search funds, and independent sponsors who need the team built to execute the plan.
Corporates & new ventures
Stand up what the core cannot launch alone
For corporate innovation arms and venture-building mandates that need a new unit, and its team, built from zero.
Our difference
Most help fills one seat. We help build the whole team around you.
We not only coach the leader, or bring one seat to the table. We can help build the whole team, and we bring the relationships to fill it.
Our network
When we bring people to the table, these are the people.
Behind every engagement is a web of relationships we have spent years building, and tending. The investors, operators, experts, and partners we know by name are the real engine behind “bring the people to the table.”
We do not hand you a list. We make the introductions, vouch for the fit, and stay in the room while the relationship takes root. That is how the right people actually find each other.
We think relationships are so important that we built a software platform to maintain and grow them: Konexons. It is proof of how we work: relationships first, tended on purpose.
How we work
Discovery, then Strategy, then Execution.
A clear, forward-moving path from understanding the vision to building the team that drives it.
Discovery
We work to understand the vision, the company, and the gaps, so the plan we build is the right one.
Strategy
We help assemble the plan: the path, the priorities, and the people the next stage will require.
Execution
We help execute the plan and help build the team to drive it, from first move to lasting momentum.
What we have done
We have built companies and managed investments.
A technically grounded track record in science- and technology-driven ventures. We have been in the room when it was hard, which is the credibility that separates building from
Companies we built
Kentucky BioProcessing
Biotechnology at scale, the deep technical build.
CSurgeries
Surgical technology, fractional-CEO team assembly.
Churchill Mae
Built and operated, commerce and analytics.
Unbridled
Network and innovation, the frontier thread.
Funds we managed
Kentucky Natural Products Fund
Emerging Venture Fund
An early-stage venture fund we managed.
Sheltowee Venture Fund I
Sheltowee Venture Fund II
Our core values
What we hold to.
We place values and principles above finances. We do not take a project solely based on the dollars. The money should never prevent an amazing innovation from reaching the world.
A clear, forward-moving path from understanding the vision to building the team that drives it.
Help others.
Act in a kind, ethical, and transparent fashion.
Honor those who assume the risk.
Expect a financial return on your interactions.
Our team
The firm that helps build your team is itself a team.
Ways to engage
How an engagement takes shape.
Every engagement carries a base, with board-approved upside where it fits. We work long-term, internationally, with a project on-ramp to get started.
On-ramp
Discover and Plan
A focused project to help assemble the strategy and the first critical hires at a decisive moment.
A clean entry point that converts to a longer engagement.
The spine
Ongoing fractional leadership
A long-term retainer where we help execute the plan and help build the team that drives it.
Base retainer, with board-approved equity or carry where it fits.
Supporting
Strategy & capital advisory
We help open the capital door once inside, and bring the people who can help drive the vision.
Capital facilitation in service of the innovation, never the sole reason.
Our difference
Let's find the good people. And the capital.
Tell us where you are trying to go. We will help you develop the strategy, execute the plan, and bring the right people to the table, and we will be alongside you the whole way.