Our firm
Built by operators. For founders.
We started Pratt Services & Co. because we were tired of consulting firms that had never built anything. Every principal on our team has founded, scaled, or exited a company.
Our story
Twelve years of building alongside founders.
Pratt Services & Co. was founded in 2014 with a single conviction: that the best consulting comes from people who have sat in the founder's chair. Our founding principal had just exited his second venture-backed company and watched too many peers get burned by advisors who spoke in frameworks but had never made payroll.
We started with three clients and a simple promise — we would only take engagements where we believed we could materially move the needle, and we would stay until the work was done. That promise has not changed.
Today, Pratt Services & Co. has advised over 40 startups across fintech, SaaS, consumer, and deep tech. We have helped our clients raise more than $200M in institutional capital, achieve an average of 3× revenue growth within 18 months of engagement, and build the operational foundations that let them scale without breaking.
What we stand for
Principals only
Every engagement is led by a senior principal. You will never be handed to a junior team member or receive a generic deliverable.
Ruthless honesty
We tell founders what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. Our value is in the clarity we bring, not in the comfort we provide.
Bias toward action
We are not a strategy-only firm. We build alongside you — in the data, in the room, and in the work — until the outcome is real.
Selective by design
We take on a small number of engagements at any time. This is not a constraint — it is a commitment to the quality of attention every client deserves.
Founding principal
James Pratt
Founder & Managing Principal
- —2× venture-backed founder
- —Former board member, 4 portfolio companies
- —Guest lecturer, Kellogg School of Management
- —Member, Young Presidents' Organization
James founded Pratt Services & Co. after a decade building and exiting two venture-backed companies in enterprise SaaS and fintech. He has been on both sides of the table — as a founder raising institutional capital and as an operator scaling teams through hypergrowth.
His work at Pratt Services & Co. focuses on growth strategy, capital formation, and the operational architecture that lets companies scale without losing what made them great. He has advised founders backed by Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Tiger Global.
Work with us.
Engagements are selective and limited. If you are building something worth backing, we want to hear from you.
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