Growth Partner for Startups and Small Businesses
Capital, Financial, and Growth Strategy for Founders Who Want Leverage Without The Overhead.
I help bootstrapped and early-stage teams structure their capital stack, model their growth, and deploy capital wisely.
Duncan Young is a strategic finance advisor and former private capital investor who helps founders make sharper capital and growth decisions. He’s enabled the deployment of over $20 million into small businesses and now partners directly with founders to structure clean cap tables, model smart growth, and stretch capital further, without relying on bloated finance teams or premature raises.
At Saorsa, our partners aren’t LPs, they’re our clients. We build alongside founders who want clarity, control, and strategic depth without the overhead of a CFO or the noise of the fundraising hype cycle.
Our Model for High-Leverage Partnership
Growth & Profit Strategy
Uncover the financial dynamics behind scalable, profitable growth. We work with you to analyze revenue streams, unit economics, and customer-level margin to identify where growth is truly accretive. Through pricing analysis, packaging tradeoffs, and scenario modeling, we help you align growth targets with financial outcomes so your strategy isn’t just ambitious, it’s economically sound.
Capital Planning & Allocation
Deploy capital wisely with a partner who’s helped deploy more than $20M into small businesses. We work with you to pinpoint the highest‑impact opportunities inside your company, then design a founder‑friendly capital stack, choose the right mix of debt and equity, and model how each raise affects your runway and returns. From investor‑ready reports to hands‑on guidance through negotiations, we ensure you invest where it counts and keep control of your equity.
Modeling & Forecasting
Turn your financial model into a decision-making tool, not just a fundraising artifact. We build investor-grade models that connect revenue, expenses, hiring, cash, and margin into one cohesive view. Then we maintain them as your business evolves — integrating actuals, testing what-ifs, and giving you the clarity to make confident calls and communicate your numbers with conviction.