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Operators · Cohort 01

The people
you'll actually
build with.

Every partner has been an operator inside companies that sold, or built one from the founder seat. Nobody on this cap table is playing operator between board meetings.

MP · 01
Cupel Studio
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Managing PartnerEst. 2025
Founder · Managing Partner
Jack Gierlich

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 calls, owns the fund relationships, and is accountable for pipeline. Every founder in the cohort works with him weekly — not as a lecturer, but as the operating partner in their customer and investor calls.

The operating bench

Alongside the partners.

Founding engineers

A small bench of operators available for hands-on pairing in the first thirty days.

Sales team

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.

Design

One shared brand and product designer across the cohort. Not a design agency.

Legal

Delaware C-corp formation, the standard document kit, and the capture instruments.

Cohort 01 · Operating team

Named sales, engineering, and studio operators for Cohort 01 will be posted here as they close — with prior work attached. Cupel does not post placeholder cards.

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