Who Propeller serves

Built for companies at the stage where finance becomes foundational.

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Industries

Stages

  • Venture

    Full-stack finance from first round through Series B.

  • Growth

    Senior finance teams built for scale, M&A, and exit.

  • Case studies

    Proof of what embedded partnership delivers.

  • Insights

    Analysis and perspective on finance and AI.

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    Past editions of Propeller's newsletter.

  • Our Story

    Eighteen years, one mission.

  • Team

    The people behind the partnerships.

  • Careers

    Build the future of finance with us.

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Make finance your unfair advantage.

Expert teams that grow with you from seed to exit. Transformation services to help you scale. Financial intelligence built from 18 years of working inside 1,500+ companies that have created $100B+ in enterprise value, 26 unicorns, and 230+ exits. This is how great entrepreneurs build great companies.

Our story

Trusted by founders and finance leaders building what's next at venture and growth-stage companies.

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The Propeller difference

The future of finance isn't headcount. It's infrastructure that gets smarter over time.

The old model

Hire a CFO → Add a controller → Scale. It worked when finance meant compliance and reporting. What’s needed now is an operating system; one that learns continuously, validates AI against audit standards, and won't reset when someone leaves.

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Months lost to hiring and onboarding processes

$200K+

Loaded cost with an in-house W2 hire

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Single viewpoint and career experience

The new reality

Propeller is your full-stack finance function. Dedicated teams over contractors, agentic workflows over manual process, cross-portfolio benchmarking over silos. A platform shaped by 18 years of expertise and judgment no algorithm can replicate.

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Clients served and grown, including 24 unicorns

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A system that scales as you grow

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Full-time, in-house professionals

Embedded Teams

We deliver the full financial stack. Not fractional or part-time, but integrated, scalable, and accountable. Our teams embed as trusted partners into your operations, board meetings, and strategic decisions, with people and data that make your W2 teams flexible and scalable.

Embedded Teams

Financial Intelligence

Seasoned CFOs, controllers, and analysts orchestrating finance-grade AI that gets smarter with every interaction and compounds in value. Human judgment amplified and accountable, not replaced.

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Transformation Services

Build the foundation before you need it. Platform selection, implementation oversight, and AI readiness. Finance, redesigned for agentic workflows and amplified human insight.

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PropellerOS

Your built-in intelligence layer

With cross-portfolio data, AI-driven analysis, and milestone-based benchmarking, you always know where you stand: no matter which system runs your books.

Your ERP is your choice. Your intelligence layer is Propeller.

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Explore PropellerOS

Our fully configurable, AI-powered, financial intelligence platform

We're not for everybody. But for the companies where we're the right fit, we're the best partner in the world.

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Stores

2,300+

Funding

$47.5M

Who we serve

Multi-round fundraises. PE ownership. Complex verticals where one misstep costs months of momentum. Propeller is built for companies at the stage where finance becomes foundational

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