Principals
Founder-led, by design.
Every STING engagement is run directly by the firm's principals — the people who built the model, own the research, and sign the report.
James Ingle
Founding Partner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James leads the research behind STING — the allocator universe, the program criteria, and the validation model at the core of the firm. His work is the discipline the model enforces: test every pairing, keep almost none.
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Owen Strayer
Founding Partner
Boston College
Owen leads client engagements from first inquiry to delivered report — scoping each mandate, confirming fit, and making sure the output is something a fundraising team can act on the day it arrives.
LinkedInWhy founder-led matters.
At most capital-introduction firms, your raise is handed to whoever has capacity. At STING there is no handoff: the principals run every engagement themselves — the scoping call, the model run, the curation, the delivery.
That is a deliberate constraint. It caps how many engagements the firm takes on, and it means the people accountable for your shortlist are the same people who built the system that produced it.
How we operate
The standards behind the name.
Principal attention
Every engagement is scoped, run, and delivered by a founding partner.
Limited capacity
We take on a small number of engagements at a time — selectivity applies to us too.
Confidentiality
Your strategy and raise are never shared, shopped, or reused.
No black boxes
Every match in your report carries the rationale for why it qualifies.
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Work directly with the principals.
Tell us about your fund and your target. A founding partner will reply personally.
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