Palus Finance

Palus Finance

Your startup's financial advisor

2 employees
Pre-seed · $500K

About Palus Finance

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.

Company details

Team Size2

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Sam Lushtak

Sam Lushtak

Previously built an investment research platform for an asset manager with over $3T AUM. Ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-Capital Group. Caltech alum.

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Michael Gonzalez

Michael Gonzalez

CTO @ Palus Finance. Distributed systems nerd. Previously wrote monitoring software that saved defense contractors $150M by optimizing uptime of multi-site fleets of quantum computers. Caltech alum.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.