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At Halo TLV, we help companies set up and evolve their finance stack as they grow. Here is the framework we use based on working with dozens of Israeli hi-tech companies across every stage. Every CFO conversation eventually turns practical: which accounting software, which payroll provider, which reporting tool? The right answers depend on your stage, your operational complexity, and critically whether you are building for a near-term raise or a long-term organic trajectory.

At Halo TLV, building investor-ready financial models is one of the most common engagements we take on and one of the most high-leverage things we do for early-stage companies. A financial model is not a spreadsheet. It is a structured representation of how you believe your business works the assumptions behind your revenue, the drivers of your costs, and the capital required to achieve your plan. Investors do not evaluate models to validate your numbers. They evaluate them t

At Halo TLV, we build cash visibility frameworks for every company we work with because we have seen what happens when founders are surprised by their own runway. There are founders who run out of money and are surprised. There are founders who run out of money and are not. The difference between the two is not luck it is financial visibility. Cash runway and burn rate are not finance department metrics. They are the most fundamental measures of your company's survival, and e

The Israeli-American dual entity structure is one of the most common setups we work with at Halo TLV. It is also one of the most consistently underestimated. Here is what the founders we work with wish they had known earlier. You set up a Delaware C-Corp because your investors required it, or because you knew US customers and US fundraising were in the plan. Your Israeli entity is where the team lives, the product is built, and the costs accumulate. And somewhere in the middl

We know bookkeeping is not the exciting part of building a company. But at Halo TLV, we have seen how the companies that get this right early have one less thing to worry about and that mental space matters when you are trying to grow. You did not start a company to think about VAT filings and payroll compliance. Nobody did. But Israeli bookkeeping requirements are specific, non-trivial, and frequently misunderstood especially by founders coming from other geographies, or tho

At Halo TLV, the Series A-to-B transition is one of the most critical and most underestimated— inflection points we help companies navigate. Closing a Series A is a significant milestone. It is also the moment when the financial demands on your organization change fundamentally. What worked at seed a part-time bookkeeper and a spreadsheet model will not carry you through Series B due diligence. Investors at the Series B level are institutional. Their diligence is deep, their

At Halo TLV, we have prepared financial packages for seed rounds across dozens of hi-tech companies. The mistakes we see are consistent and fixable, if you catch them early enough. You have a compelling deck. You have traction. You have warm introductions. And then an investor asks to see your financials and the conversation stalls. This happens more than founders realize. Not because the business is bad, but because the financial package is not built to investor standards.

CFOaaS is the model Halo TLV was built around. Here is why we believe it is the right structure for most hi-tech companies and what a good engagement actually looks like. CFO as a Service (CFOaaS) is not a new concept, but its adoption among Israeli hi-tech companies has accelerated significantly. The reasons are structural: the cost of a full-time, experienced CFO in Tel Aviv's competitive talent market has risen sharply, while the financial complexity faced by early-stage