Interim CEO for Series B to Series C Transition
Between Series B and Series C is where most scaleups either professionalise or stall. An interim CEO for this transition installs the operating discipline investors expect at the next round, closes the gaps that would sink diligence, and hands over to a permanent CEO with a clean story.
What Series C investors actually check
- Repeatable revenue engine, not one-time deals
- Unit economics that survive scale
- Real forecast versus actual discipline
- A leadership team, not a hero founder
What the interim CEO owns
The operating layer between the founder and the next round: cadence, hiring, reporting, and the honest conversation about what has to change before the raise. Not the deck, the machine behind it.
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