Senior operations, finance, product and capital-raising help for founders and owners, from a team that runs its own portfolio of businesses on the same core.
Let's talkWhat worked for a small team is now slowing everyone down, and the founder is stuck holding it all together.
You need a core that holds the business together, so you can get back to growing it.
A kernel is the centre of a computer's operating system, the part that manages the resources so everything else can run.
Kernel Ops does that job for the businesses we own. Finance, operations, systems, admin and capital raising sit in one place, so each business stays lean and largely runs itself.
We keep adding to the portfolio by acquiring established businesses and plugging them into the core. And we bring the same core into other companies, so you get people who still run it every week in their own businesses.
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Pick one area or bring us in across all four. Either way you get senior people who set it up properly and keep it running.
We set up how the business runs week to week, so the founder stops being the bottleneck.
The CFO seat without the full-time cost, from the model to the month-end.
Digital and SaaS product shaped around what customers pay for and what the numbers show.
Investor-ready materials and a raise process that holds up in front of serious money.
A set number of days a week. Senior cover for finance or operations while you grow into a full-time hire.
A piece of work with a clear finish, such as a capital raise pack, a finance rebuild or a new operating rhythm.
Hands-on leadership for a set period, for a leadership gap, a restructure or a transaction.
Kernel Ops is a team of senior specialists across operations, finance, product and capital raising. Between us we have more than 20 years of building and running businesses, from global marketplaces and venture-backed scale-ups to the trade and e-commerce businesses we own today.
Each one is small, focused and largely self-running. They share Kernel Ops for finance, systems, admin and growth capital, and the portfolio is growing.
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