About Northstar
Most growing companies are stuck between bad options for finance help.
Hire in-house and spend a fortune building a team you have to manage. Outsource and get someone who files reports without understanding your business. Neither works. We built Northstar because we believe there's a better way.
We Get It
These problems sound familiar because almost every growing business has them.
Your accountant files taxes. That’s about it.
You get a P&L that’s three weeks late and tells you what already happened. Nobody’s helping you plan, forecast, or understand what the numbers actually mean for the decisions in front of you right now.
You’re managing the finance people instead of your business.
You hired a bookkeeper but you’re still the one catching mistakes. You tried outsourcing but the provider was so disconnected from your operations that the work was useless. Either way, you’re spending time you don’t have on something that should just work.
Your industry makes everything harder.
Cannabis operators fight 280E. Contractors juggle job costing and bonding. Healthcare practices navigate payer mix and compliance. E-commerce brands drown in SKU-level COGS. Generic accountants don’t get it, and the mistakes are expensive.
How We Believe It Should Work
Your finance team should feel like your team. Not a vendor you manage.
A business doing $2M to $50M in revenue doesn't need a part-time bookkeeper and a CPA they see once a year. It needs a complete finance function: someone recording the transactions, someone reviewing the books, someone building the forecasts, and someone sitting across from you helping you decide where to invest, when to hire, and how to get ready for whatever is next.
That's what we do. We deploy a full team, bookkeeper, controller, CFO, and tax strategist, and they work together as a single unit dedicated to your business. We call it a finance pod. Your pod knows your industry. They know your numbers. And they show up with the same focus and ownership as if they sat in your office.
The result is simple: you stop managing the financial side of your business and start using it. Clean books. Clear forecasts. A CFO who calls you when something matters, not just when a report is due. And a team that scales with you, so the financial infrastructure that supports you at $5M still works at $30M.
“Growing companies deserve the same caliber of financial leadership that public companies take for granted.”
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Businesses Served
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Years in Business
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Finance Professionals
$7B+
In Transactions Advised
From Business Owners Like You
Don't take our word for it.
“When I had my own in-house accounting team, I always used to look over their shoulders to make sure they were doing their job. Now that I have Northstar, your customer service is on such a high level that that's never a question anymore. I'm getting so much better visibility and insight into the business. I would never work anywhere else.”
Sam Seltzer
CEO, AutoMotion
“As a fractional CFO, I always need to scale up my services and ensure my clients have the proper accounting supporting them. Northstar has excelled in supporting us on every front. I recommend Northstar as your one-stop shop for anything accounting and finance.”
Tyson McDonald
Fractional CFO
“Northstar stepped in as our full controller solution during a period of rapid growth. They cleaned up our books, guided us through two annual audits, and built the reporting infrastructure we needed to plan our expansion with confidence.”
Dov Weisman
VP of Finance, Libertana Home Health
“If you’re looking for the best company to both strategize and implement self-sustaining financial systems, Northstar is it. From idea to execution, they put heart and energy into their work.”
Alex Lidow
CEO, Efficient Power Conversion
Who You're Working With
People who've sat in your chair.
Lorenzo Nourafchan
Founder & CEO
Lorenzo spent years as a CFO managing large in-house finance teams at companies like International Rectifier and Entertainment One. He saw the same two problems at every growing company he worked with.
The first: building an in-house team was brutal. Hiring, training, and replacing financial staff was expensive and slow, and for a company doing under $50M, the math rarely worked.
The second: outsourcing was cheap but useless. Providers were so disconnected from day-to-day operations that they filed reports without context and gave advice without understanding the business.
Lorenzo built Northstar to solve both problems at once: a fully integrated financial partner that works like an extension of your team, but on a fractional basis. That model has now served over 500 businesses. It works because it was built by someone who lived the problem firsthand.
Prior: CFO roles at International Rectifier ($3B sale to Infineon) and Entertainment One ($4B sale to Hasbro). B.A. from Yeshiva University. MBA in Finance from the Technion Institute of Technology. Part of Crete Professionals Alliance, a network of 46 premier accounting firms.
Luigi Gonzalez
COO & Head of Client Delivery
Luigi makes sure your finance pod runs like a machine. Before joining Northstar, he spent 10 years at PwC and 9 years at Accenture, building the operational infrastructure and client service standards that define how every pod operates. He’s the reason clients tell us they feel like our only client.
Libby Horn
Senior CFO, Healthcare Practice
Libby leads our healthcare engagements, bringing deep expertise in medical practice finance, provider compensation modeling, and practice valuation. She’s the CFO sitting across from practice owners once a month, translating complex financial data into decisions that actually make sense.
Let's figure out what your business actually needs.
Every engagement starts with a conversation. Tell us about your business, your industry, and the financial pain points that keep you up at night. We'll tell you exactly how we can help, and whether we're the right fit.
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