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Pilot Hire Names Pre-revenue
6 named clients Serves US
$1,750 per month
Fractional CFOs and finance coaching for pre-revenue companies
A founder of a pre-revenue company can hire a fractional CFO or learn the work and keep it in house. This page lists both: 5 firms and practitioners offering fractional CFO work and 6 programs on finance, fundraising and exit preparation for founders and CEOs.
Hire: fractional CFO
A fractional CFO owns cash, forecasting, reporting, banking and investor relations, and sits between the bookkeeper and the board.
$1,750per month, median published
- Hours4 to 16 hours a week
- Minimum term3 months
- Published fees$1,750 to $2,540
- Month oneAccess to the books, a cleaned-up close, a 13-week cash flow forecast and a first monthly reporting pack the CEO can read in ten minutes
- Firms for Pre-revenue5 firms
- Cost guideWhat a CFO costs
Learn: finance coaching for founders
You keep the work in house and learn to run it yourself, with a coach, a course or a peer group.
$300per hour, from
- FormatLive, self-paced
- Most common1-on-1 coaching, playbooks
- Free to join1 program
- Programs6 finance programs
Hire: fractional CFOs
First on the list are Pilot, ScaleWithCFO and VertexCFO. 3 publish a monthly fee, from $1,750 to $2,540 a month. The other 2 quote. Most fractional CFOs at a $1M to $50M company work 4 to 16 hours a week, usually one fixed day plus the close and the weeks before a board meeting or a raise. Month one is access to the books, a cleaned-up close, a 13-week cash flow forecast and a first monthly reporting pack the CEO can read in ten minutes.
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ScaleWithCFO Hire Names Pre-revenue
Serves UK
$2,540 per month, no minimum
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VertexCFO Hire Names Pre-revenue
2 named clients Serves US
$1,750 per month
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GrowthLab Financial Hire Names Pre-revenue
3 named clients 30+ people
Fee on request monthly retainer
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inDinero Hire Names Pre-revenue
5 named clients 150+ people
Fee on request monthly retainer, no minimum
Learn: coaching for founders
6 programs on finance, fundraising and exit preparation for founders and CEOs.
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Self-paced, evergreen Download
Free
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Live, rolling start Hourly
$300 per hour
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Live, rolling start Serves Global
Price not published
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Live, rolling start Serves US
Price not published
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Live, rolling start On demand
Price not published
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Self-paced, evergreen Serves Global
Price not published
How this page is built. The firms and practitioners offer fractional CFO work and say they serve pre-revenue companies. The programs cover finance, fundraising and exit preparation and name founders or CEOs as their audience. Each list keeps the published order. Full methodology.