Lodestone Partners is built from operators who've led teams, closed rounds, scaled orgs, shipped products, and navigated the full arc of startup growth, from zero to revenue, to exit.
We don't hire consultants. Every member of our team has had their name on the org chart, run a P&L, and made the calls that founders can't delegate. That's the scar tissue that makes the difference.
Jordan has spent 12 years building and running executive offices for high-growth technology companies. She served as Chief of Staff to two unicorn-track CEOs and built operating systems from scratch for companies navigating their first rapid scaling phases. She brings a rare combination of strategic thinking and executional precision.
David is a repeat operator who has led operations for three venture-backed companies through significant scale milestones. He specializes in building the people, process, and technology infrastructure that turns early-stage teams into efficient, scalable organizations, without losing the culture that made them great.
Sofia brings 15 years of engineering leadership experience spanning consumer products, enterprise SaaS, and deep tech. She has a particular gift for diagnosing technical debt, aligning engineering cultures around velocity, and making the architecture decisions that set companies up for scale, not just the next sprint.
We let the outcomes speak. These are the words of founders and operators who engaged Lodestone when it mattered most.
Before Lodestone, I was the COO, CFO, and chief firefighter all in one. Within 60 days of engagement, I was finally able to focus on product again. That single shift unlocked everything else.
No composites. No embellishments. These are the unedited voices of founders who trusted Lodestone at a critical inflection point.
We'd been trying to raise for 18 months. With Lodestone's fractional CFO, we had a term sheet in five. They didn't just prepare our financials, they made us fundable. I genuinely don't know where we'd be without this engagement.
We were being taken advantage of because we couldn't evaluate what we were buying. Lodestone's CTO gave us the technical credibility, with our team and with investors, that changed everything.
I went from missing my own company's strategic conversations to actually leading them again. Our Lodestone Chief of Staff became the operating brain I never knew I needed.
When I tell other founders we got C-suite experience for 30% of the cost, they don't believe me. When I show them our results, they call Lodestone. That's the best endorsement I can give.
We scaled from 7 to 24 people in 12 months without a single mis-hire. That doesn't happen without a disciplined operational framework, and Lodestone's COO built it from scratch, in weeks.
Fractional felt like a compromise until we tried it. Now I wonder why we ever considered a full-time hire. The strategic depth from Lodestone's CFO outpaced what a 6-month search would have gotten us.
Our board was skeptical of a fractional CTO. Two quarters later, they're asking whether we can keep the engagement indefinitely. The technical credibility and team quality Lodestone brought was unmistakable.
They acted like partners, not consultants. Everything they recommended, they stuck around to implement and measure. That accountability to outcomes is why we renewed for year two without hesitation.
The leverage our CoS created was unlike anything I'd seen. I had capacity back for the first time in two years, and we closed 8 strategic initiatives in a single quarter that had been stalled for months.
Lodestone's CFO found $340K in annual inefficiencies in our cost structure that we'd been blind to for two years. That alone covered the engagement cost 4×. The fundraise was the bonus.
Ratings collected via post-engagement founder surveys across all active and completed engagements.
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