Senior operators for a Manila startup before you can hire them full-time
You need people who have built companies before: leaders who add structure without slowing you down and show investors the business is run with discipline. We search our collective for them, vet them and match them to your stage, and they embed for the hours a lean startup can carry.
How the leadership gap grows in a Philippine startup
Leadership needs change at every stage, usually faster than the hiring budget:
Pre-seed: one person, every job
Finance, operations, product and sales sit with the founders. Every peso of runway counts, and strategy gets squeezed out by the day-to-day.
Seed: cracks appear
The team grows and traction builds, but reporting trails what local funds such as Kickstart Ventures and Foxmont expect, and sales still depends on the founders.
After the seed round: expectations rise
Investors want reporting, discipline and a commercial engine, while revenue is still a long way from paying for a full-time C-suite.
Approaching Series A
The data room has to satisfy local funds and perhaps a conglomerate venture arm, and the leadership team has to look credible in the room.
A fractional executive fits each of these moments: senior experience, embedded for the hours you need, matched to your stage, with our governance around the engagement.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Founders wearing every hat with no senior cover where it matters most
- Pre-seed to pre-Series A companies that need structure before they can fund it
- Teams that need investor-grade finance, reporting or operations at speed
- Startups scaling headcount faster than their processes can hold
- Founders who want to protect the cap table while adding senior leadership
Not for
- An idea with no product or traction to build structure around yet
- A role a capable full-time hire is already ready to own
- Founders looking to outsource a function rather than lead it
- A single deliverable an agency or contractor could hand back
What a startup gets from us
A search built for founders in Bonifacio Global City, Makati and beyond who need seniority before they need headcount.
Matched within weeks
A clear brief, a shortlist from our collective and an embedded operator, typically two to three weeks from first call.
Experience that opens doors
We match for operators who know the local investor and corporate scene, so the introductions and judgement they bring fit the Manila market.
Credibility with investors
A finance leader preparing the model and the board pack tells investors the company is being run properly, at a stage when that signal counts.
Peers on call
Your CFO can test infrastructure costs with a CTO in our collective, and your CMO can check positioning with an experienced COO.
Add leaders as you grow
Bring in a COO when the team reaches fifteen, add a CMO when acquisition is ready to scale. The structure flexes as the company does.
From first call to embedded operator
We move at startup speed.
Tell us your stage
Where are you in the journey? What are the gaps? What does the next 90 days need to deliver?
We match the right operator
From our vetted collective, we introduce the fractional executive matched to your stage, sector, and culture.
Embedded within weeks
Your fractional embeds with your team, begins the scoped work, and operates with real accountability.
Scale the stack
As you grow, add further specialists from the collective. We coordinate them so they work as a coherent team.
Which leader for your stage
The gap that slows a startup changes as it grows. Here is where most founders feel it first, and who owns it.
Which senior leader does your startup need first?
That turns on your stage and on which gap is costing you most right now.
Our operators have built and scaled at
