StartupAces uses AI to match early-stage founders with battle-tested operators and advisors. Tell us what you need in 10 minutes. We'll find your match within 48 hours.
Advisors from the world's best tech companies
Two tracks, one platform — built for founders who need results and advisors who want to do meaningful work.
Get the right advisor, fast
Answer a 10-minute conversational interview about your startup, challenges, and what you need from an advisor. Our AI processes your answers to understand your specific context.
Within 48 hours, we surface one carefully vetted advisor whose background, expertise, and engagement style fit your needs. Quality over quantity — no scrolling through 200 profiles.
Your advisor receives an anonymized brief about your startup and decides if it's the right fit for them. No cold outreach, no awkward cold emails.
Once matched, you agree on scope, terms, and compensation model. We handle the agreement, payments, and keep everything on-platform so you can focus on building.
Do your best work, paid well
Submit a short application highlighting your expertise, past wins, and what types of startups you can best serve. Every advisor is reviewed by our team.
Set your expertise taxonomy, engagement preferences, availability, and rate range. Our AI uses this to match you with the right founders.
We send you a match request with an anonymized startup brief. Review and respond in your own time — no RSVP pressure, no cold inbound.
Platform-managed payments via Stripe. Set your rate, invoice automatically, and receive payouts directly to your bank. Less admin, more advising.
Every advisor is vetted by our team. No vanity credentials — only operators with a track record of helping startups grow.
Former VP Sales @ Salesforce • 3x Startup Founder
Built and scaled sales orgs from 0 to $50M ARR at two exits. I specialize in helping B2B SaaS founders land their first enterprise contracts and build repeatable sales motions.
ex-CTO @ Stripe • Engineering Leader
20 years building large-scale distributed systems. I help technical founders make the right architecture decisions early, hire great engineers, and ship product faster.
CFO Advisor • Former Partner @ Goldman Sachs
Helped 20+ startups raise Series A through Series C. I can serve as your fractional CFO, prep you for investor due diligence, and build the financial model that gets you funded.
These aren't testimonials — they're verified case studies with outcomes you can interrogate.
Sarah Chen
Seed • B2B SaaS
Challenge
A fintech SaaS startup had a great product but couldn't convert enterprise pilot users into paying contracts.
Approach
Rebuilt their sales process from scratch — defined ICP, created a mutual action plan template, trained the founding team on MEDDIC, and ran 6 live deal reviews.
Outcome
Closed 3 enterprise contracts ($240K ARR) within 90 days. Built pipeline that led to a $4M Series A.
Marcus Johnson
Pre-Seed • AI Infrastructure
Challenge
First-time technical founder was about to rebuild their entire platform in Kubernetes before getting product-market fit.
Approach
Three architecture review sessions. Identified the 20% of the stack causing 80% of the pain. Shifted from microservices back to a modular monolith, introduced feature flags.
Outcome
Cut infrastructure costs by 60%, increased deploy frequency from weekly to daily. Team shipped 3x faster.