One net-new buyer clears every gate: StartupCFO of San Francisco, with a first-party founder route

Asked (summary):

Scout genuinely net-new U.S. fractional/outsourced-CFO practices with 1–15 staff that explicitly serve startups, SaaS/technology, venture-backed companies or growth SMBs — tech and startup specialists first — where the founder or managing partner is identifiable, the website is active, and a first-party email route exists.

This crawl screened 13 evidence-backed candidate firms (research date 2026-09-27, U.S. locations textual, sources spanning first-party sites plus LinkedIn, The Org, Caplight and industry media). Exactly one — StartupCFO (startupcfo.ai) — cleared the buyer and contact gates; the rest sit at hold, reject or duplicate.

Qualification funnel and candidate matrix

Pass — founder identified, exact first-party route · Hold — no first-party email route captured and/or size evidence incomplete · Reject — fails type, size or specialization gates · Duplicate — alternate entity of a firm already in the pool. Hover or tap a firm for its reason.

Pass: StartupCFO — startupcfo.ai

What the funnel cannot say alone

Evidence table — all 13 screened candidates

Firm	Disposition	Why	U.S. evidence	Size / roster evidence	Client fit	Sources

Method: qualification scout over 13 evidence-backed U.S. fractional/outsourced-CFO candidate firms, crawled 2026-09-27; one contact-qualified pass row with 3 first-party source pages. Dispositions grade founder identifiability, 1–15 staff, startup/SaaS/venture client fit, and an exact first-party firm-domain email route; the pass route is class 5 (observed on first-party pages, mailbox delivery not verified). Some repeated media URLs are syndicated press-release copies, not independent corroboration. Opportunity, outreach and suppression records were not available to this session; internal dedupe is still required before promotion, and no prospect contact is authorized. Long evidence strings are shortened in the table for space.

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