The Finance Stack for a Delaware C-Corp with International Founders
Accounting software is the easy part. The stack that matters for a foreign-owned Delaware C-Corp is the compliance layer most founders find out about late.
Accounting software is the easy part. The stack that matters for a foreign-owned Delaware C-Corp is the compliance layer most founders find out about late.
The first thing a U.S. VC asks about your Mexican subsidiary is whether SAT exposure reaches the parent. Three setup decisions determine the answer.
What separates a LATAM fintech that raises its first institutional round from one that stalls with angels: metrics, structure, and regulatory posture.
Mexican founders raising from U.S. VCs need a Delaware C-Corp parent. Incorporating S.A. de C.V. first costs 4-6 months and six figures to unwind.
The 14 specific deliverables a real fractional CFO ships in the first 30 days. If yours can not show you 10 of them by day 30, you hired the wrong person.
What burn multiple gets a Series A funded in 2026 (<1.5), what doesn't (>2.0), the 3 inputs founders calculate wrong, and 5 levers to fix it in 90 days.
A bookkeeper, a controller, and a fractional CFO solve three different problems at three price points. Hire out of order and you burn $50K to $150K.
Most startup runway numbers are off by 2-4 months. Trailing burn, lumpy timing, and gross-vs-net confusion. The cleaner method, from a fractional CFO.
$8K/month fractional CFO or $2,900/month controller? Most founders pick wrong — that's $4,700 a month wasted. How to choose the right finance hire.