About Finascale

We’ve sat in the CFO chair. Now we build it for you.

Founded by a CFO who scaled a company from startup to acquisition to integration. We’ve been where you are.

The Pattern

We kept seeing the same pattern.

01
Post-revenue, pre-CFO companies scaling faster than their books.
02
Founders babysitting spreadsheets instead of building.
03
Reporting that doesn't hold up to investor scrutiny.
04
A close cycle that drags for weeks.

We plug in as the finance leadership and the team underneath it, in weeks rather than quarters.

Why Finascale

What you actually get.

01
Proven, Founder-Tested Systems

Playbooks refined inside founder-led companies scaling through their first serious inflections. Not academic frameworks.

02
Professional Experience, Minus the Overhead

Big-firm training and operating scars, delivered without the fees, the layers, or the deck-first culture.

03
Plug-In Speed

A scoping call in the first week and a team inside your tools the next. Value in month one.

04
Built for Your Next Move

Whatever comes next, a raise, a sale, an ERP migration, an acquisition, the function is shaped for it rather than scrambled around it.

Manifesto

Built by operators and backed by experience.

Just strategic execution and commercial calm when it counts.

Outcomes

What clients get back.

  • 01Faster, sharper decisions backed by real-time insight
  • 02Founders win time back to build
  • 03Capital raises with less stress and stronger stories
  • 04Teams scale with structure
Who we work with

The companies we’re built for.

01
Scaling businesses (post-PMF, need infrastructure)
02
Pre-transaction companies (raise, sale, or diligence ahead)
03
PE and VC portfolio companies (investor-grade reporting)
04
Founder-led businesses professionalizing finance before outside capital
How we work

Four principles.

01
Priorities over perfection
02
Clarity over complexity
03
Process over individual brilliance
04
Partnership over transactions
Leadership
Kiran Faruqi, Founder & Managing Director of Finascale

Kiran Faruqi

Founder & Managing Director

Chartered Accountant CPA, CA Ontario, PwC-trained; IFRS leadership at Sun Life; Head of Finance for Shared Service Rocket Internet (South Asia); eight years as Group CFO of Daraz Group (Alibaba) across five markets, with multi-fold topline growth, $200M+ in transactions with an Alibaba exit and fundraising and acquisitions with Rocket Internet, Ooredoo, and CDC UK; 20+ years across four continents; based in Dubai, UAE.

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