Transforming Businesses for Success
Who We Are
We are veterans of the corporate turnaround, startup, and VC space with decades of experience turning around companies, from publicly traded airlines to venture-backed deep-tech + AI/ML startups, demonstrating that we relentlessly:
- Save struggling early-stage companies, regardless of industry;
- Reposition them for growth; +
- Lead them to achieve successful funding rounds and exits.
We've helped lead some of the highest-profile turnarounds and workouts since the late 1990s, including
- Midwestern industrial companies,
- Boston-based software and IT companies, and
- Bay Area VC-backed AI and Bio-Techs.
Beyond these practical experiences, the credentials underpinning our team members include:
CFA®,
CPA,
Tax LLM,
Finance MBA,
PHR®,
BioChemistry MS,
Chemical Engineering Ph.D.,
Juris Doctor
Our SVP of Crisis Communications was the former Global Head of Communications for both Tesla and SpaceX (the latter's primary spokesperson), and one of our co-founders led Regulatory Affairs for a BioTech startup co-founded by a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
The unique combination of these skills and experiences are fundamental to providing the full-suite of services needed to get startups through the most challenging ends of the business cycles:
- Pre-Seed Stage through Scale where burn and runway affect growth every day, and
- Corporate Distress.
We're co-owned by a corporate law firm specializing in company formations, VC fundraising (from seed to scale), M&A, tax, deep-tech patent + IP, corporate reorganzations (including bankruptcy reorganizations, where appropriate). Their attorneys who possess dual degrees simultaneously work on our team, providing our clients with non-legal strategic matters, ensuring that all of a startup client's needs can be handled seamlessly by one integrated team of people!
Case Studies
We've helped lead restructurings and reorganizations across varied industries and stages, including:
- Early-stage VC-backed deep-tech & AI/ML startups;
- Delta Air Lines;
- Kaiser Aluminum;
- Singer Sewing;
- Delphi;
- United Air Lines;
- Allis-Chalmers / Allis-Chalmers Energy
- and more!
360 Degree View
Team members have served in the following roles:
- Special Situations & Distressed Situations Institutional Investor
- Public & Private Company Board of Directors Member
- Financial Advisor to Official Unsecured Creditors Committee
- Chair, Official Unsecured Creditors Committee
- Official Restructuring Committee
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Legal Officer to Public and VC-backed Private Companies
- Chief Restructuring Officer
Contact Us
Because we're a combination of prior successful businesses, we recently combined and are in near-stealth mode until officially launching Fall 2025, but should you need us, please don't hesitate to reach out, whether to learn more about our unique offerings and compensation structures for struggling startups and emerging enterprises, or to inquire about retaining our services.
Team members are available around the clock to assist clients.
Corporate Repair and Growth Strategies, Inc.
