A fractional growth team for scaling founders

A team that takes you from SMB to enterprise value.

Scaling past organic growth takes moves most founders haven’t made before — acquisitions, integrations, complex initiatives. LevelUp+ gives you an established team to run them, fractionally or as a JV, without the cost and risk of building it yourself.

The re-rate
SMB → Enterprise
multiples, minus the years of risk
SMB multiple3–6×
Enterprise multiple10×+
Illustrative · the same company, structured to institutional standards
JV + Fractional
How we engage
M&A-ready
Acquisitions & integration
Day one
A team already in sync
Enterprise
The multiple we target
Experience from the teams behind
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Where our operators and advisors built their track records.
Representative work

Wins and current engagements.

Across the companies we’ve built, scaled, and sold — and the ones we’re scaling now.

Billions
In organic growth built
Billions
In M&A transacted
Billions
In capital raised
RealizedIndustrial processing

Ethos Manufacturing

Built an industrial biomass processor from concept to $50M+ revenue and 27 locations worldwide — scaled without debt or outside capital.

RealizedPrivate-label finance

MDCredit

Conceived, funded, scaled, and sold a private-label finance company for physicians — 100+ doctors in the first two years, expanding patient access to care.

RealizedFinance & modeling

Real Estate Developer

Cleaned reporting and modeling ahead of a corporate sale, and re-modeled an insurance claim into an $85M payment — up from a projected $30M.

ActiveRecruiting consolidation

Search Intelligence Group

Structuring a boutique executive-search platform that more than tripled recruiter payout per deal while removing nearly all of their admin load.

ActiveIT & security roll-up

levelup+IT · Experts Unlimited

Consolidating a fragmented IT & security market into an institutional platform — more reliable exits, on better terms, for owner-operators.

ActiveSecurity services

Pono & ROI

Scaling the only national guard-services brand headquartered in Hawaii — blue-chip clients and industry-leading reporting and supervision.

What we do

Programs and portfolio companies.

The ventures we build, back, and operate — and where the LevelUp+ team plugs in.

levelupIT
JVClubs
MSP owners

Group exit program for managed service providers. Eight to twelve complementary firms taken to market as one institutional-grade platform.

View the program →
levelupSIG Flagship
Executive search

Boutique executive search placing VP and C-suite leaders — HR, finance, technology, and marketing — for PE firms and growth-stage companies. 20+ years, 38-day average shortlist.

Visit joinsig.com ↗
levelupStaffing Clubs
Staffing · club deals

Aggregation exits for owner-operated staffing firms — the group exit thesis applied to the workforce solutions market.

Cohort forming
levelupcutie.fi Launching soon
Patient finance

Patient finance for plastic, orthopedic, and dental surgery — honest day-one rates and long, flexible terms so patients get more of the care their doctor recommends.

Visit cutie.fi ↗
How we work

How an engagement works.

01

Map the gap

We pinpoint where your growth goals outrun your current team — the acquisitions, integrations, and initiatives you’re not yet staffed to run.

02

Plug in the team

You add an established, cross-functional team — fractional or JV — that already works together. No hiring, no ramp, no assimilation risk.

03

Run the moves

We execute the complex growth work alongside you — M&A, integration, financing, and the operational scale that separates SMBs from enterprises.

04

Re-rate the company

You reach enterprise-grade structure and value — without the years of trial, error, and cost of building the capability alone.

About LevelUp Partners

Built by operators who’ve run the moves you’re about to make.

Acquisitions
Sourcing to close
Integration
Assimilation without the chaos
Financing
Structure & capital strategy
Fractional
The seats you need, when you need them

Organic growth rewards founder intuition — until it doesn’t. The moves that unlock the next level — acquisitions, integrations, complex initiatives, institutional financing — demand a team most founders don’t have and can’t easily hire.

Building that team the traditional way means hiring, financing, onboarding, and assimilating a group of strangers — slow, expensive, and risky, right when execution matters most.

LevelUp+ gives you the team instead — fractional experts and JV partners who already work together, plugged into your business with established relationships. You get the acquisitions, integrations, and enterprise-grade structure without the risk of building it yourself — and the jump from SMB multiples to enterprise multiples, without the years of trial and error.

The LevelUp+ team in a working session
From SMB multiples to enterprise value
A team

The right team for your aspirations.

Operators, finance, FP&A, treasury, legal, security, and admin — the disciplines organic growth never forced you to master. You get just what you need, just when you need it — a team built around where you’re headed.

Andrew Altholz
Strategy & finance

Finance and strategy executive with operating depth across credit, healthcare, real estate, and entertainment. Has placed every tranche of the capital structure — with first-hand founder experience.

Andy Crewell
Counsel & finance

Corporate counsel and finance director for early-stage and growth companies — building and running financial and in-house legal operations, focused on enterprise value creation.

Marie Bernardino
Managing Partner, Search Intelligence Group

CEO and Managing Partner of Search Intelligence Group, placing top-tier accounting, finance, marketing-analytics, and strategy leaders — nearly two decades of relationship-driven search.

Brian Galli
Founder & CEO, Xperts Unlimited

26 years building Xperts Unlimited into one of Southern California’s trusted cybersecurity and managed-IT providers. Now driving strategic consolidation with fellow MSP owners toward premium exit multiples.

Drew Golden
Founder & CEO, VURV

Founder and CEO of VURV, a full benefits platform delivering enterprise-grade healthcare access for brokers, TPAs, and employers. 18 years as Managing Director at Golden Capital Partners.

Brian Porter
Principal PM, Aerospike

Technical product leader — principal PM at Aerospike, ex-Amazon Alexa (shipped computer-vision features to 4M+ customers), and first product hire at Objective, acquired by Upwork.

Lior Gigi
Lior GigiAdvisor
CFO & Founder, Blue Oak Advisory

Built the complete finance organization at Golden Hippo, a $1B+ vertically integrated DTC enterprise with 20+ brands. CPA; now founder of Blue Oak Advisory, delivering strategic CFO services.

Chi Song
Chi SongAdvisor
Senior FP&A Leader

25+ years of FP&A and strategic finance at high-growth public SaaS, fintech, and PE-backed companies — 8+ years leading FP&A at BlackLine, with earlier roles at Green Dot, ADP, and PwC.

Dmitry Shteyn
Chief Technology Officer, VURV

CTO of VURV, building API-first, cloud-native health-benefits infrastructure for brokers, enterprises, and governments. Previously co-founded Webtechadvisors, serving as its CTO for 14 years.

Dan DeFay
Dan DeFayAdvisor
CMMC Advisor & Fractional CISO

Cybersecurity executive and Navy veteran — 20+ years across security operations, GRC, and the Defense Industrial Base. Founder of Cyber Control Group and of SmartFirm IT, exited via acquisition in 2023.

Contact

Ready to add a team?

Tell us where you’re trying to take the business and what’s standing in the way. We’ll show you how a fractional or JV team gets you there — and what the enterprise-value upside looks like.

Andrew responds personally within 24 hours.
andrew@levelup.ceo · No pitch, no obligation, 30 minutes.