Bearing Line — Embedded Finance Executives for VC-Backed Startups

Proof

$40M+

combined 2026 ARR across our clients

10+ yrs

embedded alongside founders and CEOs

10+

CFO & FP&A engagements across AI, SaaS & Payments

Team fromMcKinsey, Evercore, Vector Capital, PwC, and more.
Experience asCFOs for companies up to 100+ employees.
Real operatorsOur founder built a $5M book of business from $0 in six months, prior to Bearing Line.
Clients inSF, New York, Austin, Scottsdale, DC, Seattle, and more.

Case studies

$8M · Series A · SaaS & AI

We replaced an outgoing CFO. By the first board meeting, we had:

72 days

to a full finance office

~100%

YoY growth

Moved to accrual accounting, reclassed the P&L, and added customer segmentation.
Built the company's first budget — exposing the hire plan, redundant software, and vendor ownership.
Put contractor transition agreements in place; met lenders and secured verbal indications of interest.
Built dual-approval AP, moved onto a Rippling PEO, and cleanly took over from the prior CFO.
409A complete, insurance renewed, and sales-tax exposure scoped with a remediation vendor lined up.

$2M · Series Seed · SaaS & Transactional

Came to us with under four months of cash.

66%

burn reduction

5×

cARR growth

Recovered months of unbilled revenue the prior team had missed.
Cut monthly burn from roughly $300K to $100K.
Renegotiated vendors and raised pricing across the board.
Put KPI dashboards and a weekly operating cadence in place.
The extension round closed.

How we work

Flat monthly pricing. We are long-term partners, so we don't want to nickel-and-dime you hourly.
Scope options: model, dataroom, book close, finance systems, payroll, AR, AP, and more.
Efficient. Recurring work is automated & offshored to keep our costs down.

Investment bankers don't know accounting, and accountants can't build models. So we staff both — the right expert handles the right task, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time equivalent.

Let's talk about your finance function.

Even if you're not ready to make a change, we love talking about finance and accounting — and we're happy to share our perspective on how to improve your org with the team you already have.

Or email us at hello@bearinglinellc.com.

The founder

Alexandre Ghadially, founder of Bearing Line

Bearing Line was founded by Alexandre Ghadially — a McKinsey alum and former investor at a SaaS and AI-focused fund, with over a decade working shoulder to shoulder with CEOs on the decisions that make or break a company. He built the team he wished founders could hire: senior, specialized, and embedded.

Behind him is a team of seven drawn from McKinsey, Evercore, Vector Capital, PwC, and startup CFOs — the people you actually work with, not a junior handoff.