Winter 2026

Palus Finance

Your startup's financial advisor

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What they do

fiduciary financial advisor for funded startups

How close to us

2, near

advice plus cash management for startup finance; adjacent to W7 but not margin leaks

Wedges

  • W7 Find and fix margin leaks adjacent
L1 Company brain (knows the organisation) 1, light
L2 Agent team (runs agents, tools, approvals) 0, none
L3 Does and learns (finishes, checks, measures, updates the brain) 1, light

Who buys

Firm size
sme
Buyer type
business
Role
startup founders and finance leads
UK
not known
Their own description (from YC)

After a fundraise, you want to focus 100% on scaling your company, but suddenly there's a mountain of finance and ops decisions you need to figure out. Though these tasks feel like distractions, making the wrong decisions here can literally kill your company.

Palus is your startup's financial advisor. We help you with the decisions that come with scaling: where to store your cash, how to think about runway, and how to optimize your company’s finance/ops setup.

Palus will save you dozens of hours on operations work, help you avoid making financial mistakes, and our cash management service can earn you $100s of thousands in extra yield on your fundraise without switching banks or taking on unnecessary risk. And you can reach us 24/7 via Slack.

What makes us an advisor and not another bank or finance tool is that we're an actual fiduciary, not a product with a salesperson attached. Mercury, Rho, and Brex can't legally give you financial advice; they hand you a dashboard and leave the decisions to you. Palus signs an advisory contract with you, giving us a legal fiduciary duty to act in your company’s best interest. This lets us give you actionable financial advice and optimize your cash to best suit your goals and company’s needs.

Sam and Michael are technical cofounders who met at Caltech. Sam previously built the AI research platform for a $3T AUM asset manager; Michael built quantum computers for the defense industry.

Full teardown

No full teardown yet. On the deep list.

Technical detail
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palus-finance
Lens hash
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Pass
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Stale
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