Nate & Co. Consulting

Startup & Business Consulting

Launch, elevate, or reinvent your company. We meet you where you are to bring your business to the next level of success.

From fundraising & operations to HR & team building, we work to strategically scale your business from beginning to end.

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Making work, work.

It is incredibly difficult to work on your passion while also establishing or maintaining the nuts and bolts of running a business. This means the structural and strategic work of building and growing a business is done after your day job, or worse, neglected altogether. This leads to burnout, less-driven teams, and a slowdown in velocity.

That is where we come in.

An investment in Nate & Co. is an investment in your time, efficiency, and cultural architecture. By working with our team, you get over 30 years of experience to create a framework for operations and people strategy that aligns with and drives your vision forward.

Meet the team

Our passion is to support your passion, really. We are a tight-knit team of compassionate professionals dedicated to launching and supporting your business. Led by our founder and seasoned consultant, Nate, our team combines expertise, empathy, and a shared passion for empowering startups. We are excited to leverage our expertise to maximize yours.

Nate

CEO & Startup Consultant

I began my startup journey as CFO and Founding Member of Animoto.com. In my 18 years of startup experience, I have raised over $35 million in VC and PE placements. I have advised startups on scaling strategies in organizational design, funding, and people growth. Clients have included FinTech, B2C SaaS, B2B SaaS, E-Commerce, Media Agency, and light manufacturing. I am a Consultant and Fractional executive, primarily in Operations and HR. I support organizations from ideation through beta to Series C funding.
Ingrid K. Studio is a photography studio founded by my wife and partner, Ingrid Meagher. Since 2011, we have been a photography duo with a studio in Jersey City, where we have built a creative space. I am the father to two incredible sons. We love to travel as a family and eat out!

Heather

People Operations Consultant & Executive Coach

Builder, optimizer, and coach. I am a people and operations leader who has driven transformative success across a diverse range of industries, including B2B SaaS, B2C CPG, real estate development, construction, and political consulting. Additionally, I have been on my own founder journey, opening a successful wine bar with a dear friend.
My greatest professional joy is helping businesses thrive. Whether it is helping you get your dream business off the ground, identifying and rectifying organizational deficiencies, ensuring streamlined operations and performance, or working through the complexities of managing your workforce– I love making work “work” so both businesses and employees succeed.
In my free time, I enjoy watercolor painting, yoga, and spending time with my husband and two young daughters on the Maine coast.

Our values

Serve Others
We leverage our expertise in service of our client's vision and dreams.

Be Authentic
Come as you are. Say what you mean; mean what you say.

Keep it Human
We are energized by human connection.

We drive business but not at the cost of humans.

Earn Trust
Earn it. Build it. Sustain it.

What to expect

Our Approach
There is no “one size fits all” template to working with us. We meet you where you're at. Whether you are a founder in the infancy of building your business or a well-established start-up, we start with exploring the clarity of your “why”. Understanding the why behind your business is the “north star” to curate culture and values that support the business and enable people to do their best work. From this starting point, we have a “choose your own adventure approach” to ensure that you maximize the value of your support for your specific needs.

Assessment
Assessments are designed to identify where Nate & Co. can best be leveraged to help your business. They can focus on one specific area or be an overview assessment of your entire company eco-system. Assessment types include, but are not limited to:

HR Assessment
Angel Funding & Community Investment Assessment
Executive /Leadership Team Dynamics Assessment
The Kitchen Sink Assessment

After the assessment is complete, you will receive a report of our findings along with actionable feedback. From there, we have a few adventures you can choose. See our services below.

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Nate & Co.

Our services

Our goal after your initial assessment is to support your success. Our role can take on various forms.

Fractional & Interim Leadership

Embedded c-suite support as a fractional COO or CHRO/CPO. This approach allows you to leverage our expertises in HR, Operations and Finance on an interim or part-time basis. Focused on strategic initiatives that support your company’s goals, there is flexibility on the duration and scope of this approach based on your needs. A cost effective way to have executive insight and strategic support without the commitment of hiring a full time executive.

Project Based

This track is best for clients who have specific short-term projects but need to leverage outside experts to strategically plan and execute (us!) This approach is time bound and with a very defined scope of work and deliverables.

Team Support

Executive leadership of your junior management team to execute your strategic plan. Weekly 1:1, on-demand phone-a-friend, and career development for your specific team(s). Leverage our team’s expertise to level-up yours. We want to support your people and coach ourselves out of a job.

Executive Coaching

Bespoke coaching for founders and executives. Ongoing executive phone-a-friend catered to your needs. Best for leaders who feel comfortable in the HR and Operations space but still need ad hoc support or simply someone to bounce ideas off of.