Stripes Scale

• Our high-performing execs have hypergrowth experience at companies like Slack, Twilio, Away, Warby Parker, Glossier, and more
• Lends deep expertise to our partner CEOs across sales, customer success, product marketing, engineering, digital marketing, brand strategy, and operations to our high-growth teams and brands
• Participates in Stripes-sponsored networking events with curated groups/entrepreneurs

• Sharon Rothstein
  Advised on digital and physical marketing strategy for branding in the US at Monday.com

• Patrick Keane
  Former EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at CBS Interactive

• Riadh Dridi
  Helped restructure product marketing to enable ACV expansion at FullStory

• Brigitte Kleine
  Helped Reformation identify new product category opportunities, including footwear and bag, and introduced team to trusted suppliers and manufacturing partners

• David Swinghamer
  Guiding Snooze at the board level on key strategic initiatives such as culinary innovation and real estate

• John Kinzer
  Calibrated pricing to better align with enterprise buyer values at FullStory

• Paul Melchiorre
  Structured best practices for sales representative compensation, pipeline management, and sales operations at HyperScience

We support our Executive Leadership Teams using a hands-on approach which includes leading executive searches, making customer introductions, creating and maintaining a strong portfolio community, providing benchmarks and best practices, and leveraging our expert network of advisors.

We’ve placed over 150 senior level executives across the portfolio with a focus on building out diverse and high performing teams.

Leveraging our database of over 13,000 executives from Fortune 1000 companies, we’ve created real commercial value through facilitating hundreds of introductions that directly result in sales or business partnerships.

We’ve created a strong community for our portfolio company function leaders to discuss best practices and common challenges at growth stage companies. Through Executive Summits, an online forum, and strategic cross-functional introductions, we help our companies share resources and learnings to create scalable, repeatable practices.

We’ve invested in differentiating technology resources to provide compensation data as well as recommendations for tools used for HR, Product & Engineering, and Finance.

We provide accessible expertise across digital marketing, ecommerce, brand strategy, B2B marketing, retail strategy and operations, B2B sales strategy, customer success, technology, and engineering, through our Advisory Network of seasoned executives. Our robust approach provides companies with resources beyond the point of hire.

• Logistics, supply chain, last mile
  
• E-Commerce
• Manufacturing (especially in technology)
• 1099 / Marketplaces
• Procurement
• Finance, operations, metrics, tools and processes
• Development, product and software
• International
  

• Debt Raises
• Equity Raises
• Sales

• 125+ Lender Relationships
• Database of Rates and Covenants
• Best Practices for Material and Data Room Preparation
• Execution Support including Term Sheet Negotiation

• 50+ Advisor Relationships
• Database of Fees and Terms
• Engagement Letter Negotiation
• Detailed Involvement throughout the Transaction

• Through our Strategic Development practice, Stripes strives to expedite go to market for our partner companies into new product categories and new geographies as well as facilitate corporate development

• Genuine relationships with the most relevant strategic corporates which serve as potential customers, partners and acquirers of our portfolio companies
• Insights into and dialogue with the leading legal, financial and operating advisors globally
• Ability to expedite go-to-market for portfolio companies into new geographies and new product categories