Tackle every growth stage with confidence.
As a founder, your responsibilities are endless. Chasing down your numbers shouldn’t be one of them. Make insightful decisions driven by your actual data, navigate with agile forecasts, mitigate execution risk, and get more time back in your day by partnering with us.
Whether you’re bootstrapped, venture-funded, or a corporate spin-off, our flexible, fractional model is right-sized for startups from ideation through exit.
Raising capital or planning for an exit? It’s a process… Don’t worry, we’ve been there — hundreds of times! Let’s team up to maximize your enterprise value and sail through due diligence like a pro.
“I would recommend SPRCHRGR to any founders that have raised venture capital or have raised any sort of capital.”
“It's not just the time saving value proposition, but also you're paying for the expertise that helps bolster your business.”
“SPRCHRGR's team stands up with respect to expertise against any of those in-house functions at Fortune 500 companies.”
“If we didn't have SPRCHRGR's expertise, I think when it came down to deal due diligence, we would potentially be exposed.”
Startup Services
Virtual CFO & Financial Analysis
SPRCHRGR was founded from day 1 as a virtual CFO consultancy, offering financial planning, analysis, leadership, board communication, systems & process design, and more.
Early-stage startups benefit from our fractional model to manage burn while scaling with confidence.
Growth-minded CFOs tag-team with our FP&A experts to accomplish more with less.
Bookkeeping & Controllership
From bill pay and payroll admin to reconciliations and monthly reporting, our US-based startup experts run the back office for our clients on a daily basis while keeping clean, GAAP-compliant books and audit-ready records with each monthly close.
Count on us for consistent, timely financial reporting, build credibility with investors, and stay close to your numbers with KPI dashboard reports that tie everything together.
Tax
Even if your startup isn’t yet profitable, it’s important to stay compliant with tax law. Investors and acquirers get cold feet if they discover gaps and risks in your tax compliance during due diligence, and the government can come after you as a founder for certain unpaid taxes even after your business is sold or shut down.
Count on our team of experts to stay ahead of deadlines and proactively help you build a sustainable long-term tax strategy. We’ve got your bases covered on all US tax compliance, including federal + state corporate income tax, state franchise tax, sales tax, business license tax, payroll tax, 1099s, etc.
We’ll help you put money back to your bottom line with R&D tax credits and other tax credit programs too.
Capital + M&A
Is a capital raise, acquisition, or exit on your horizon? Maximize enterprise value and unlock access to capital by partnering with us.
Then leverage our expert treasury management approach to mitigate risk while bringing extra profits to your bottom line by securing bank deposits in FDIC protected, high yield instruments that put your idle cash to work.
We play an instrumental role in attracting capital for our clients, from SAFEs + notes + traditional priced equity rounds, to venture debt, credit lines, grants, and other nondilutive capital.
Our team speaks the same language as investors, lenders, auditors, and board members to streamline the due diligence process on capital raises, debt deals, and M&A processes - for both buyers and sellers.
HR Advisory & Search
SPRCHRGR’s accountants are very accountable by nature, so they often cover general HR management functions of our small business clients.
But we also have a dedicated HR Advisory team available to every client, on demand.
Growing businesses also leverage our experience sourcing & screening thousands of candidates. Existing clients benefit from our economies of scale with search services priced at 25% below industry standard rates.
Business Acceleration
High-growth companies need more than cookie-cutter systems and traditional back office services.
SPRCHRGR’s tech-enhanced team thinks differently about our work and is always looking for opportunities to accelerate our clients’ businesses with streamlined workflows, systems, and custom-built solutions.
This philosophy is even baked into our firm’s name, SPRCHRGR, where we say, “cut out the vowels, get there faster!”
Mark Wald, Partner
Stacy Helgeson, FP&A Practice Leader
Lisa Moise, Lead Client CFO
Josh Berman, VP of Technology
Christina Reynolds-Hamilton, Accounting Director
Kip Henke, Client CFO
Industry Expertise
Why Startups Choose SPRCHRGR
“Tailorbird has grown rapidly over the last three years to over a hundred employees. It's been great to have a partner that can scale up with us.
We recommend SPRCHRGR to people who ask us for accounting shared services. We're happy to do that.”
Tim Cantwell, CEO @Tailorbird (B2B SaaS)
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Navigate With 360-Degree Vision
The leader of a growing company needs eyes in both the front and back of their head. You can't do a good job of planning for the future without clear insights about the past.
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Contribution Margin: The Hidden Key to Understanding Profitability
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The way your business refers to these expenses depends largely on whether you sell goods or services — but what really matters is how you use the information to maximize profits.
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Managing Business Travel Costs
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