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Lodestone Partners provides fractional executive leadership to early-stage ventures, helping founders scale with the experience they need, precisely when they need it.

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TechCrunch
The rise of fractional executives in the post-dilution era
How early-stage startups are turning to part-time C-suite talent to stay lean and move fast without sacrificing strategic depth.
March 2025
Forbes
Why more founders are hiring fractional CFOs before Series A
Operators who've been there before are becoming the secret weapon of venture-backed teams navigating their first institutional raise.
January 2025
Fast Company
Startup advisory is broken. Fractional leadership is the fix.
A new model of embedded executive support is giving early-stage companies the institutional muscle once reserved for funded scale-ups.
November 2024

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Lodestone Partners is a fractional executive consultancy serving venture-backed and bootstrapped startups from pre-seed through Series B. We embed experienced operators across Operations, Finance, and Technology, directly into founding teams, providing the senior leadership capacity that early-stage companies need to scale with confidence.

Our model is built on a simple premise: exceptional executive talent shouldn't be reserved for companies that can afford a full-time C-suite. By working across a focused portfolio of clients, Lodestone Partners brings hard-won institutional knowledge, cross-functional judgment, and a founder-first mindset to organizations at their most critical inflection points.

Founded 2024
Headquarters Minneapolis, MN
Focus Pre-seed through Series B
Services Fractional Finance, Operations, and Technology
Website lodestonepartners.net

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