Financial Infrastructure for Founders Raising Capital & Scaling
Fractional CFO support for Pre-Seed through Series B companies building the financial foundation investors expect to see before and after they write a check.
Who We Work With
We work with early and high growth founders who need investor-grade financial infrastructure without hiring a full-time CFO. Companies preparing to raise, managing runway between rounds, or scaling past the point their current books and models can support.
How We Help: Three Ways to Engage
Before you have the budget or need for a monthly retainer, we offer fixed-scope engagements that solve a specific, immediate problem and set the foundation for ongoing support once you're ready. No long-term commitment, just results and value delivered immediately:
A. Fundraise-Readiness Sprint
A fixed-scope engagement that builds what you need to run a raise: a diligence-ready financial model, an organized data room, the financial section of your investor deck, a SAFE conversion and dilution analysis, and a round structuring memo with a specific valuation anchor. Completed in 2–4 weeks.
B. Runway Extension Model
For founders watching cash tighten ahead of a raise. We identify and quantify non-headcount levers — AR, AP, SaaS spend, discretionary spend — and deliver a 13-week rolling cash flow with a board-ready plan to extend runway. Completed in 2–4 weeks.
C. Financial Health Sprint
A rapid diagnostic for founders preparing to raise or assessing their business performance in between one. We evaluate your historical data, model mechanics, and capital structure to flag diligence risks before investors do, build a KPI dashboard tracking burn, runway, and unit economics, and deliver a findings memo with prioritized recommendations, plus two weeks of complimentary CFO advisory to test the partnership.
Each engagement closes with a complimentary advisory window which serves as the natural point to scope an ongoing Fractional CFO engagement, bringing everything together into continuous financial leadership: monthly close, KPI tracking, scenario modeling, and capital allocation as your company scales.
How We Work
Every engagement is led directly by a partner or director at Evergold. No account handoffs, no automated reports. We work alongside your team to turn your operating model into numbers that hold up under investor diligence, then stay close enough to help you act on them.
Why you need Evergold as you scale
Financial chaos kills even the best startups.
Investors have been burned too many times by founders who had a “perfect” product but lost control of their finances, forcing them to suffer through catastrophic dilution, agonizing reorganizations, or total closure.
If you are hitting these walls, you aren’t just missing milestones, you are bleeding investor trust:
Missing Financial Milestones: You’re consistently trailing revenue, proving to investors that your growth plan is a guess, not a strategy.
Uncontrolled Cash Burn: You’re burning capital faster than your runway allows, leaving you with zero leverage at the negotiating table.
Poor Fundraising Timing: You’re pitching too late in a panic or too early without proof.
Strategic Indecision: You lack clarity, unable to scale, hire, or set compensation because you cannot see the financial impact of your next move.
Institutional Expertise. Founder-First Philosophy.
Hands-on, Consultative Support
Unlike traditional advisory firms or rigid software platforms that dump automated reports into your lap, we are a founder-first team built on real-world experience across institutional investment platforms, scaling startups, and complex financial environments so we know what investors are looking for when you walk in the room. We don't just hand you a spreadsheet; we work closely alongside you to translate your product and business model into an investor-ready financial narrative. We look beyond the accounting to focus on strategic finance, ensuring you can navigate investor conversations with clarity, authority, and confidence.
A Structured Path to Financial Readiness
Step 1: Understand Your Business - We deep-dive into your growth drivers, operational model, cash position, and capital needs to determine where you actually need support.
Step 2: Choose Your Engagement - Depending on what you're solving for, we scope a Financial Health Sprint, a Fundraise-Readiness Sprint, or a Runway Extension Model. Each fixed-scope and tailored to your stage.
Step 3: Build the Financial Story - We clean your metrics, build your model or dashboard, and organize the deliverables — data room, KPI tracking, cash flow, and deck financials that connect your strategy to defensible financial outcomes.
Step 4: Deliver Your Blueprint - You receive your diagnostic, model, or runway plan, plus prioritized recommendations to move forward with confidence and a complimentary advisory window to put it into action.
Step 5: Decide What's Next - With your blueprint in hand, we help you assess whether ongoing fractional finance support makes sense, there is no previous long-term commitment expected. Continuing the partnership into monthly close, KPI tracking, and capital strategy as your company scales.
Kendall McClain
Managing Partner, Evergold Advisory
Kendall founded Evergold Advisory to give early-stage and VC-backed founders the financial infrastructure and investor credibility that usually only comes with a full-time CFO, without the full-time cost. He works directly with Pre-Seed through Series B companies to translate product vision into a financial story institutional investors trust: clean models, defensible metrics, and a capital strategy that holds up under diligence. He advises clients as they approach increasing financial complexity, investor reporting requirements and regulatory scrutiny by building lasting financial infrastructure throughout all growth stages.
Kendall has sat on the finance function inside institutional investment platforms and complex, high-growth environments, giving him a working knowledge of what investors actually scrutinize before a term sheet gets signed. He brings that lens directly to founders building KPI dashboards, burn and runway visibility, cap table and equity structuring, and fundraising narratives that connect the numbers to the growth story.
Kendall applies his institutional knowledge and experience with a practical approach to early-stage companies to translate world-class financial practices with the needs of startups and founders throughout their growth journey.