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Help develop the strategy
We help shape the plan that turns a bold idea into a fundable, buildable path forward.
Sheltowee Network · Helping innovators chart the course to their next frontier
We help bring innovations to the world.
World-changing innovations need two things: good people and capital. We help you find both, and we stay in it with you.
What we do
Three ways we stand with you.
We help develop the strategy, help execute the plan, and bring the people to the table who can help drive the vision. We do that side by side with you, not from a distance.
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Help execute the plan
We help do the work, not just advise it: real momentum from first move to next stage.
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Bring the people to the table
We bring the good people, the founders, operators, and capital, who can help drive the vision.
Who this is for
Three groups we can help.
We work with science- and technology-driven companies at their next stage, wherever that stage finds them.
Investors & sponsors
Value creation across the portfolio
For private equity, family offices, search funds, and independent sponsors who need the team built to execute the plan.
Founder-led companies
Build the bench to outgrow the ceiling
For founders at an inflection, from early-stage builders with skin in the game to established owners who have become the bottleneck.
Corporates & new ventures
Stand up what the core cannot launch alone
For corporate innovation arms and venture-building mandates that need a new unit, and its team, built from zero.
Our difference
Others bring one seat to the table. We help you fill the room.
We don't just coach the leader or bring one seat to the table. We help build the whole team, and we bring the relationships to fill the room.
Our network
When we bring people to the table, these are the people.
Behind every engagement is a web of relationships we have spent years building, and tending. The investors, operators, experts, and partners we know by name are the real engine behind "bring the people to the table."
We do not hand you a list. We make the introductions, vouch for the fit, and stay in the room while the relationship takes root. That is how the right people actually find each other.
Investors
Operators
Domain experts
Founders
Partners
Meet the people in our network →
We think relationships are so important that we built a software platform to maintain and grow them: Konexons. It is proof of how we work: relationships first, tended on purpose.
How we work
Discovery, then Strategy, then Execution.
A clear, forward-moving path from understanding the vision to building the team that drives it.
Discovery
We work to understand the vision, the company, and the gaps, so the plan we build is the right one.
Strategy
We help assemble the plan: the path, the priorities, and the people the next stage will require.
Execution
We help execute the plan and help build the team to drive it, from first move to lasting momentum.
What we have done
We have built companies and managed investments.
A technically grounded track record in science- and technology-driven ventures. We have been in the room when it was hard, which is the credibility that separates building from advising.
Companies we have helped build
Kentucky BioProcessing
Biotechnology at scale, the deep technical build.
CSurgeries
Surgical technology, fractional-CEO team assembly.
Churchill Mae
Built and operated, commerce and analytics.
Unbridled
Network and innovation, the frontier thread.
Funds we managed
Kentucky Natural Products Fund
An investment fund we managed in the natural-products sector.
Emerging Venture Fund
An early-stage venture fund we managed.
Sheltowee Venture Fund I
An early-stage venture fund we managed.
Sheltowee Venture Fund II
Our second early-stage venture fund.
Our core values
What we hold to.
Help others.
Act in a kind, ethical, and transparent fashion.
Honor those who assume the risk.
Expect a financial return on your interactions.
We place values and principles above finances. We do not take a project solely based on the dollars. The money should never prevent an amazing innovation from reaching the world.
Our team
The firm that helps build your team is itself a team.
We do not send one operator and call it a bench. We bring a group of builders, operators, and connectors, the good people who help good people find each other.
Alex Day
Founder & CEO
Tammy York
Strategic Advisor
Arvin Sampaga
Chief Technology Officer
Ali Buhay
Director of Operations
Mel Bandong
Director of Executive Services
Ways to engage
How an engagement takes shape.
Every engagement carries a base, with board-approved upside where it fits. We work long-term, internationally, with a project on-ramp to get started.
Discover and Plan
A focused project to help assemble the strategy and the first critical hires at a decisive moment.
A clean entry point that converts to a longer engagement.Ongoing fractional leadership
A long-term retainer where we help execute the plan and help build the team that drives it.
Base retainer, with board-approved equity or carry where it fits.Strategy & capital advisory
We help open the capital door once inside, and bring the people who can help drive the vision.
Capital facilitation in service of the innovation, never the sole reason.Free, no commitment
Not ready to talk? Start with a free Konexons Analysis.
Send us your pitch deck and we will score it 1 to 10 across four dimensions, then send back honest, useful feedback. No sales pitch, just a clear read on where you stand and what to sharpen next.
- Overall Presentation
- Founder & Team
- Product & Service
- Investor Interest
Start here
Let's find the good people. And the capital.
Tell us where you are trying to go. We will help you develop the strategy, execute the plan, and bring the right people to the table, and we will be alongside you the whole way.
Thank you. We will be in touch.
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