One team for everything but the science.
A full-stack operations partner for early-stage life sciences and health tech companies. We run the operations, finance, HR, legal, engineering, talent and procurement work you need to grow.
Get in touchBased in San Francisco. Serving pre-seed through Series C companies across the US.
Narrow in who we serve. Broad in what we do.
Early-stage founders can neither afford nor justify full-time G&A hires. But the work can’t wait, and at this stage, mistakes in finance, legal, HR or hiring can be existential.
Built for your stage
We serve life sciences and health tech companies from pre-seed through Series C. We’ve built and run companies like yours, so we know how they work.
Built by operators
Our leaders have co-founded, scaled and taken life sciences companies public. Meet the team.
Every function, one team
Operations, finance, HR, legal, engineering, talent and procurement from one coordinated team, instead of a patchwork of vendors you manage yourself.
Tightly integrated
One accountable senior lead, one agreement, one shared Slack channel. We work in your tools and your systems.
Start with what you need. Add more as you grow.
Most clients begin with one service and add others over time. Advisory means senior leaders who run a function for you, billed by the hour. Action means programs with a defined scope that take a whole job off your plate.
Advisory
Operations
Executive operations and chief of staff support, plus executive assistants.
Finance
FP&A, investor relations, corporate development, treasury and cash management.
Human Resources
Fractional HR leadership and people operations, from org design and compensation to hiring plans and standing up a US entity.
Legal
Tight integration with Foundry Law to provide fractional general counsel and legal services.
Engineering
Fractional CTO and AI leadership: AI strategy, software delivery, engineering staffing and AI adoption.
Action
Talent
An embedded talent partner that owns hiring from plan to offer.
Outplacement
Job-search support for the people leaving, with an active effort to place them in their next role.
Procurement
The software and the people to run purchasing end to end.
Raise
Your fundraising operating team, from preparation through close.
BPO
Experienced professionals in established offshore markets, sourced, onboarded and managed for you.
Selected work
A sample of recent engagements. We don’t name clients without their permission; references are available on request.
AI protein design company
Built the talent function from scratch
Became the company’s embedded talent team, building its hiring process from the ground up and running 25+ open roles at once, from computational to wet lab. We also helped hire its first HR leader.
European biotech entering the US
Stood up a US subsidiary
Supported the launch of a US entity: PEO setup, first US payroll, benefits and 401(k), an employee handbook and early US hiring, with HR and legal working as one team.
Biology software platform
Embedded screening for a high-volume build
Worked alongside the client’s own recruiters across biologics and proteomics hiring, screening candidates and running the pipeline in their applicant tracking system, including computational hires sourced offshore.
Nonprofit research institute
Scientific placements
Placed scientific staff for a research institute, with hires onboarded and contributing.
Peptide therapeutics startup
A hire that grew into a lead role
Placed a chemist who has since been promoted to the company’s primary peptide chemist.
Talent should move as fast as the science.
In life sciences, good people lose their jobs through no fault of their own. Sometimes the science doesn’t work. Sometimes it does, and a company moving from discovery to the clinic needs a different team.
We help people move from one company to the next with less time between roles, so the market works better for the people and for the companies hiring them.
How it starts
Tell us who you are and what you need.
Have an exploratory call, with no obligation.
Sign one agreement, with a statement of work for each service, and add services as you grow.
Rooted in San Francisco
We host the Biotech Founders Dinner Series and Order of Operations. Meet the community.
Operations built to help you evolve.
Tell us where you are today, and we’ll show you where we can help. Exploratory calls come with no obligation.
Bharath Kumandan, Founding Partner