Software & Technology
Build the financial foundation you need to scale.
Complex contracts, revenue recognition, investor negotiations: these complexities have slowed down every SaaS company at some point. They don't have to slow down yours.
Tech founders we’ve partnered with
Why founders in tech build with Propeller
You're managing accounting operations that scale with growth, building financial models that hold up under investor scrutiny, and securing funding for what's next. Getting your budgeting and forecasting right is what makes all of this possible.
With Propeller, full-stack teams who've guided hundreds of tech companies from startup to acquisition handle your finance operations. You focus on expanding market share, improving retention, and driving the profitability that sustains long-term growth.
How our embedded teams support tech brands.
Accounting, FP&A, transaction advisory, and investor support built for tech companies at every stage.
Cash management
Gain clarity with budgeting and forecasting
We build and maintain your financial roadmap, giving you the tools to execute on growth plans with confidence.
Operations
Grow and scale effectively
Working with a flexible financial partner frees up your time and energy for priorities that drive the business forward.
Operations
Navigate industry compliance
Our team breaks down complex financial contracts to help you understand industry-specific rules and regulations, so you can operate your business smoothly.
Strategy
Connect with industry experts
Get expert advice from the Propeller team, who have worked with hundreds of companies that have taken their business from startup to sale.
Strategy
Secure funding
With a predictable financial trajectory in place, we help you connect with investors who align with your vision and negotiate better terms.
Cash management
Operate with confidence
Gain a thought partner you can trust to help you bring your products to market, make better-informed decisions, and future-proof your business.
Built for SaaS and tech.
Eighteen years of financial infrastructure for the brands that built this industry.
437
Clients served
11
Tech unicorns
83
Client exits
$14B
Capital raised
"Propeller has been valuable because of their fantastic skillset within the relative work as well as their ability to be a thought partner to me at this level. They push important things up to me and are my extra set of eyes and ears on the ground proactively helping me to see around corners."
Scott Cohn
CFO, Securly
Employee growth
310%
Annual recurring revenue (ARR) increase
$24M
Securly • Establishing firm footing
Foundational FP&A Groundwork Enables Success for Incoming Sr. VP of Finance During Company’s Scale and Acquisition
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1,500+
Clients served
18+
Years of experience
26
Unicorns partnered with
$100B+
Enterprise value created
$29B
Raised by clients
230+
Exits
1,500+
Clients served
18+
Years of experience
26
Unicorns partnered with
$100B+
Enterprise value created
$29B
Raised by clients
230+
Exits
FAQs
Questions your board will ask.
A fractional CFO is one person, part-time, with no team behind them. Propeller's embedded teams put a full finance function — CFO, FP&A, controllership, and accounting support — inside your company, working in your weekly rhythms and board prep from day one.
Fractional relationships reset when the person's calendar fills up or they move on; embedded teams are built to scale with you from seed to exit. The distinction isn't semantic, it's structural: you're not renting hours, you're building institutional memory that compounds.
AI can accelerate bookkeeping, but it can't yet run it unsupervised: when it comes to finance, 95% accuracy still isn’t good enough. Propeller's teams use finance-grade AI to handle data aggregation and pattern recognition, but every output is validated by people who know your business well enough to catch what the algorithm misses. The result is bookkeeping that's faster because of AI and accurate because of human judgment, not one or the other.
Context is what lets a finance team anticipate a problem instead of just reporting it after the fact. A CFO who's been in the room for your last three board meetings will catch a cash flow issue before it becomes a crisis; a new hire reading last quarter's reports won't. Propeller's embedded model is built around this: the longer we work inside a company, the more we understand its business logic, its decision patterns, and its blind spots — which is why context, not headcount, is the real asset.
The moment you ask this question you likely need more than a single hire can provide. Propeller provides an embeded CFO, FP&A, controllership, and accounting support working together, typically running 20-35% less expensive than a full-time CFO hire alone. Instead of choosing between "not yet" and "one very expensive person," you get the full function at the stage where you actually need it, and years before a solo hire would make financial sense.
Propeller works with venture- and growth-stage companies from seed through exit, typically in the $5M–$300M+ revenue range, with teams that flex up or down as you scale. Engagements run month-to-month rather than requiring a fixed minimum term, so the team you start with at Series A isn't the team you're stuck with at Series C.
