Strategic Fractional CFOs When It Matters.
A strategic fractional CFO firm helping founders, operators, and investors across the United States navigate growth, capital, complexity, and consequential change. Headquartered in Greater Boston.
250+ Clients Have Relied On Ignition's Strategic CFO Team
Strategic Partnership for Founders, Operators & Investors
We work alongside the leaders responsible for building, operating, and investing in companies.
Founders & CEOs
Build the finance function needed for growth, capital, and control.
Operators & Owners
Create reliable reporting, planning, cash visibility, and decision support.
Investors & Portfolio Companies
Strengthen diligence, reporting, capital planning, and portfolio-company execution.
Problems We Solve
Capital strategy and readiness
Know how much capital you need, when to raise it, and what must be ready before lenders or investors begin diligence.
Forecasting and operating plans
Turn strategy into a defensible plan for hiring, pricing, investment, and changing market conditions.
Cash, runway, and cost control
See cash needs early, protect runway, and make cost decisions before constraints become emergencies.
Board and investor communication
Give stakeholders timely, decision-ready reporting that explains performance, risk, and the path ahead.
M&A, diligence, and succession
Enter transactions and leadership transitions with clean information, clear ownership, and fewer surprises.
Finance infrastructure
Build reliable closes, reporting, controls, and systems that scale with the company.
While traditional CFO services focus on historical reporting, our approach integrates financial insights with operational and market intelligence—transforming finance from a reporting function into a strategic enabler that drives confident decision-making across your organization. We bring Big Four sophistication with startup agility.
Why We Exist
Ignition is designed as a firm, not a collection of solo fractional CFOs. A senior CFO remains accountable while drawing on the specialists, systems, and accumulated experience of the broader team.
- Multi-disciplinary expertise on demand
- Knowledge continuity
- Costs balanced by ROI. Ensuring cost effective, efficient, reliable, scalable strategic solutions and support that grows with you
Senior CFO judgment remains accountable. Technology helps the team organize source information, test models, reconcile data, prepare analysis, and preserve operating context so more senior time can be spent on consequential decisions.
I built Ignition so I could work hands on with founders I want to help succeed, using the strengths I'd developed from my Big Four background. By design, Ignition is able to provide the financial infrastructure that ambitious founders and growth-minded leaders need at critical inflection points—without the constraints of traditional CFO models or the risks of navigating complex financial challenges alone.
Meet Craig, Founder
Learn MoreHow We Work With You
Understand Your Financial Challenges
We start by assessing what's holding your business back financially—from inaccurate reports to missing forecasts.
Team Approach
Because we take a team approach, when you retain one of our executives you gain access to the knowledge, experience and relationships of the whole team.
Build a Financial Roadmap
We create a plan tailored to your business, so you know exactly what needs to be fixed and improved.
Tailored Solutions
We bring Big Four expertise to companies of all sizes, by focusing on the unique attributes of each. With over 250 companies as clients, in industries ranging from emerging technologies to consulting and life sciences at all stages, we've established the Ignition Way to maximize our efficacy.
Execute & Drive Results
We work alongside your team to implement better financial systems, strategies, and reporting—so you can focus on growing your business with confidence.
Results Oriented
We are execution oriented with a focus on both short and long-term success. Our specialty is ensuring the right infrastructure, transferring knowledge to your team, and providing ongoing strategic guidance where it matter the most.
National reach. Greater Boston roots.
Ignition serves founders, operators, investors, and portfolio companies across the United States. Our Greater Boston headquarters gives clients throughout the region direct access to senior CFOs, local financial relationships, and in-person working sessions when the situation benefits from being in the room.