Anti-Cacophony Partners
About Anti-Cacophony Partners
A fractional CFO/COO practice built for early-stage, venture-backed founders who need an experienced operator, not just an advisor.
Where the experience comes from
Startup finance & ops, end to end
Nearly two decades of experience working inside and alongside early-stage companies — from running finance for a venture-backed cardiac device startup through fundraising and a major recap, to serving as outsourced/fractional CFO for dozens of consumer tech, blockchain/web3, marketplace, and SaaS companies.
Equity & debt fundraising
Directly involved in raising equity and debt for 50+ venture-backed startups — building the models, the data rooms, and the board and investor narratives that get rounds closed.
Post-raise infrastructure
Specializing in the critical window right after a raise: clean financial systems, KPI and budgeting discipline, and reporting that holds up to real due diligence.
Venture studio experience
Partnering with venture studios to stand up financial and operational foundations across a portfolio, from new-venture validation onward.
Two ideas we keep coming back to
Control your destiny
Getting to — or at least within clear sight of — cash flow positive means a company can make decisions on its own terms: when to raise, when to grow, when to walk away from a bad deal. Most companies don’t die because they run out of ideas. They lose control of their runway. Our job is to make sure that never happens on our watch.
Bringing order to chaos
Every early-stage company is, underneath the excitement, a little bit of a mess — scattered systems, unclear numbers, too many priorities at once. Taking that noise and turning it into a clear, workable structure is what we love to do. It’s the whole idea behind the name Anti-Cacophony.
Companies worked with
| Company | Industry | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Ripple Foods | Consumer Goods | Raised $50M Series F |
| Swing Education | EdTech | Raised $38M Series C + additional venture debt |
| ClearMetal | SaaS | Raised $23M Series A + additional venture debt; executed sale to Project44 |
| Compound | Blockchain/Crypto | Aided with the launch of the COMP token; led through 1st audit of a crypto company & first DeFi offering to receive a credit rating from S&P |
| Wisp | Consumer Healthcare | Executed sale to Well Health Tech |
| Waggle Ventures | Consumer Tech | Guided wind-down and asset sale when fundraise inflection point wasn’t hit |
| Chewse | Enterprise Marketplace | Raised $5M Series B + additional venture debt |
| Prism Skylabs | SaaS | Raised $18M Series B |
| PaxVax | Pharma | Executed acquisition of $140M of vaccine assets |
| Astro Gaming | Consumer Hardware | Executed sale to Skullcandy |
What the back office actually runs on
A sample of the platforms used and evaluated across client engagements — spanning expense management, revenue, payroll, and cap table administration.
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