We are Mountain Cutter.

A strategic finance and operations consultancy, focused on early-stage startups and scale-ups.

We've helped founders move mountains, raising over $500M in venture capital to scale operations and position our companies for hypergrowth.

Fractional CFO Services
- Fundraising and diligence support.
- Strategic and operational finance.
- Accounting oversight and coaching.
- Treasury / asset management advisory.
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Financial modeling.
- Budgeting.
- Reporting and analytics.
Fractional Operations
- Strategic Planning & OKRs.
- Business & Sales Operations.
- Organizational design & hiring support.
- People Operations / Fractional HR.
- Compensation Planning.
- Legal & Compliance oversight.
- Cross-functional communication & project management.
- Systems advisory, implementation & infrastructure development.
Fractional Accounting Services: Basic bookkeeping through Controller level services are available directly or through our preferred accounting partners.
Founder & Operator Coaching:
- Crafting a compelling investor narrative and preparing the company to raise capital.
- Navigating the journey from Founder to Executive, while building a great company and delighting investors.
- Designing hiring strategies that scale with growth.
- Creating a data-driven culture.
- Driving alignment and execution in distributed organizations.

mountain·cutter
from the German “Bergschneider” [ˈbɛrkˌʃnaɪdər]
Berg (“mountain”) + Schneider (“cutter” or “tailor”)

In 2021, Hunter Bergschneider founded Mountain Cutter to help early-stage startups raise capital and create the operating conditions for sustainable growth and margin. Since then, Mountain Cutter has worked with over a dozen early and mid-staged startups, as well as several venture capital firms to support due diligence efforts.

While Mountain Cutter draws from the experience of our founder, whose background includes private equity, big tech, and startup CFO leadership, our strength lies in the collective expertise of the team. Together, we bring a multi-disciplinary perspective to guide founders, operators, and investors through complexity and into clarity, growth, and scale.