KruFund

A family office of owner-operators.

Institutional-grade discipline, applied where it's scarcest — the earliest, most founder-controlled end of the market.

O-CFO & O-CIO

Advisory Kru

Outsourced Office of the CFO and Office of the CIO for growth-stage companies and their principals — institutional financial and investment leadership, without the full-time hire.

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Private Capital

KFI

Kruszewski Family Investments — our private investment practice. Public equity, private equity, and venture positions. Holdings are not publicized.

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About Us

Why we do this.

KruFund was founded and is run by our husband-and-wife principals and the investment team that supports them — a multi-strategy family office of investor-operators. We tend to do what we do for four core reasons.

I

Investing Is Fun

We're trained investment bankers, private equity professionals, and family office executives who want to keep studying new sub-verticals, research what works and why, deploy those strategies across investing and operating, and leave something for the next generation.

II

Excellent People Should Be in Excellent Roles

We love hiring good people to do what they're good at, and calling them to excellence.

III

Capital Can Enable Flourishing

We love putting capital behind excellent people, and pointing them at meaningful problems and markets with a chance at big outcomes.

IV

All of This, Too, Will Pass

We don't care just about capital. Capital is simply something that enables life and philanthropy while we're here — there's not a dime you can take with you. So we invest it, try to change lives, and try to give graciously with it while we can.

Advisory Kru

Two seats at the table.

We sit inside a company's leadership as its Outsourced CFO, or inside a principal's fund or family office as its Outsourced CIO — running both against the same frameworks our team has used to operate businesses and manage a complex, multi-strategy family office "endowment-style" portfolio.

Operating Executive

O-CFO

A full Office of the CFO function for growth-stage businesses — financial operations, modeling, capital raise strategy, and treasury, run against a single operating discipline.

Financial Operations & Reporting
  • Management of the Company's internal accounting resource(s) and oversight of third-party bookkeeping providers
  • Monthly financial close oversight and reporting
  • Budget-versus-actual analysis
  • Cash runway management and scenario planning
  • Payroll oversight and coordination
  • Establishment and maintenance of financial controls and processes
Financial Modeling
  • Monthly update and maintenance of the Company's operating financial model
  • Incorporation of actual results and refresh of the forward forecast
  • Runway and scenario analysis
Capital Raise Strategy
  • Strategic support for the Company's capital raise activities, including fundraise planning
  • Development of the financial narrative and review of investor-facing financial materials
  • Diligence readiness and investor Q&A support
  • Ongoing investor relations support
Treasury Management
  • Treasury strategy and oversight, including cash management and cash flow monitoring
  • Recommendations on banking structure and counterparties

O-Phil — Our Operating Philosophy

  • I Willing Sales
  • II Human-Centric, High-Quality Ops
  • III Fast Engineering
  • IV Early Exit Planning
Investment Office

O-CIO

The tactics used to build and run a ~$1 billion family office — direct public equities via shadow portfolios, hedge fund manager selection, and alternative fund investments across private equity, growth equity, venture capital, private credit, and real estate.

RIIDE with Winners — Manager & Fund Selection

  • R Record
  • I Integrity
  • I Incentives
  • D Downside
  • E Entry / Exit

I-Phil — Direct Investments (VC / LMM PE / ETA / Direct Sponsor)

  • I Market Diligence
  • II Executive Leadership Team & Job Descriptions
  • III Capital
KFI — Kruszewski Family Investments

Where I-Phil meets O-Phil.

KFI invests in businesses that sit at the intersection of Advisory Kru's own frameworks — companies we believe can clear the same underwriting bar we hold our operating and investment clients to.

Investment Fit

I-Phil

  • I
    Market Diligence Excellent potential to meet our market diligence criteria.
  • II
    Executive Leadership Team & Job Descriptions Ability to attract and retain the right people in the right roles.
  • III
    Capital A credible path to raise future capital.
Operating Fit

O-Phil

  • I
    Willing Sales An obvious, willing, and able-to-pay customer base.
  • II
    Human-Centric, High-Quality Ops Human-in-the-loop or white-glove service operations that enable flourishing.
  • III
    Fast Engineering A differentiated ability to push engineering to market fast enough to keep up with a distribution-led approach.
  • IV
    Early Exit Planning Attractive entry and exit dynamics, held with a value-investor mindset.