One operator
on the record.
More to come.
Cupel is being built the same way we build companies: named operators only, added as they sign. Today that is the Managing Partner. Additional partners and the operating bench for Cohort 01 will appear here as they close, with prior work attached.
Fifteen years commercializing software in regulated healthcare, a market where enterprise sales cycles run twelve months and every buyer conversation has to be earned. An operator who still writes production code across the modern web and data stack.
At Cupel he sets the wedge thesis, makes the Day-90 verdicts, owns the investor relationships, and is accountable for pipeline. Every founder in Cohort 01 works with him weekly, in their customer and investor calls, until additional partners are named.
Around the partner.
Shared functions the studio runs for every company in a cohort. Individual operators on the bench are named as they sign for Cohort 01.
A small bench of engineers available for hands-on pairing in the first thirty days of a build.
A distributed sales bench, going live with Cohort 01, pointed at each company's target accounts from Week 5. Outbound sequencing, discovery interviews, and pilot conversion run through the bench. The founder shadows every stage until they can run the process alone.
One shared brand and product designer across the cohort.
Delaware C-corp formation, the standard document kit, and the capture instruments.
Sales, engineering, and studio operators for Cohort 01 will be listed here as they sign, with prior work attached. No placeholder cards until then.
Specialist advisors on call.
Advisors sit in on cohort reviews when their domain is relevant. They do not run the day-to-day; they make the Day-90 verdict sharper.
Clinical lens on healthtech go-to-market. Reviews buyer workflows and shapes pilot design within the right regulatory context for companies selling into care delivery.
Product and UX judgment for cohort companies. Helps founders turn wedge experiments into clean product decisions and build design systems that ship.