Who We Serve
Decades spent helping businesses and their leaders gain control and clarity — to make timely decisions and lead with confidence. We've seen and learned a lot from doing the difficult work.
Who We Serve
Financial leadership for the businesses and moments where a generalist won't do.
Vessel Advisors serves owner-operators, PE-backed portfolios, VC-backed companies, and non-profits — across the industries and situations where the finance function has to carry real weight. Below: the industries we know cold, the situations we deploy into, and the investor-backed companies we run finance for.
Industries
We Know Your Industry.
Not Just Your Numbers.
Generic financial advice is easy to find. Your business needs an accounting and finance team that understands how the industry works — cash flow patterns, margin pressures, cycles, and the risks that are specific to this world.
Fractional CFO for Construction Contractors and General Contractors
Fractional CFO & Controller Services for ESOP-Owned Companies
Fractional CFO & Controller for Professional Service Firms
Fractional CFO for Manufacturing & Distribution Companies
Fractional CFO and Controller Services for Non-Profits
Fractional CFO for SaaS, Software & Growth-Stage Tech
Fractional CFO for Property Managers and Real Estate Developers
Situations
The Moments That Demand More Than a Generalist.
Some situations require accounting and finance leadership with specific experience — not someone learning on the job at your expense. We've been through these moments before, and we know what good looks like on the other side.
Investor-Backed Companies
The Operating Finance Team Sponsors and Boards Need.
Portfolio companies and VC-backed operators need finance leadership calibrated for the way capital and reporting work. We run the operating layer inside portcos and provide the fractional CFO discipline VC-backed companies need before they can hire full-time.
Private Equity Portfolio Companies
Fractional CFO Services for PE Portcos
Post-close finance integration, margin depth, sponsor-ready reporting, ERP selection and integration, add-on integration, exit prep. From the first 100 days through exit, executed by CFOs and Controllers who have lived it before.
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Fractional CFO Services for VC-Backed Companies
Founder-finance to board-ready. Runway and burn modeling. ASC 606 for SaaS. Investor reporting cadence. The finance discipline VC-backed companies need before they can hire a full-time CFO — and the bridge to when they do.
See the VC PracticeFiduciaries & Court-Appointed Officers
The Accounting Arm Behind Trustees, Receivers, and Restructuring Professionals.
When a court or a lender puts a professional in charge of a distressed company, that professional needs an independent, court-fluent finance team behind them. We are retained by the fiduciary — never the debtor in the same case.
Fiduciary & Court-Appointed Practice
CFO and Controller Services for Fiduciaries and Trustees
MORs, DIP budgets, receiver reports, book reconstruction, avoidance-action analysis, claims reconciliation, and distribution schedules — produced independently, on the court’s calendar, for the professional who signs them.
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