Context held once
Your hiring plan, cap table, immigration timeline and communications calendar sit with one team. Nothing is re-explained for the fourth time.
About Us
Built to remove the drag on growing companies.
Panacea was incorporated in 2021 to solve a specific problem. The overhead of running a company consumes the attention of exactly the people who should be building it. We took the functions that usually get outsourced piecemeal and put them in one company.
01. Why we exist
The overhead nobody budgets for.
Founders account for the cost of their vendors. They rarely account for the cost of managing them.
Every outside provider needs context, and context is expensive. Your immigration counsel does not know your hiring plan. Your accountant does not know what you told your investors. Your PR agency does not know that a security incident is being remediated this week. The founder becomes the integration layer, holding all of it, and the work of actually running the company gets whatever attention is left.
We think that is the wrong shape. Consolidating these functions means the context is held once, by a team that sees the whole business, and the founder gets their week back. That is the thesis, and everything below follows from it.
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Specialists, not generalists
Each discipline is staffed by people who do only that. Coordination is centralized. Expertise is not diluted.
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Aligned through capital
We invest in companies as well as advise them. Where we hold a position, our interest in getting the operational work right is more than contractual.
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Scaled to the stage
What a five-person company needs from us is not what a hundred-person company needs. Engagements are sized accordingly and revisited as you grow.
02. Process
How an engagement actually runs.
Four stages, with a clear exit point at the end of each. You are never committed beyond the stage you have agreed to.
Stage 01
Diagnostic
One to two weeks, at no cost. We map what you currently pay for, what is falling between providers, and what is urgent. You get that map whether or not you engage us.
Stage 02
Scope and terms
A written proposal: which divisions, which named people, what it costs, and what success looks like in ninety days. Conflicts checked and disclosed before you sign.
Stage 03
Transition
We take handover from your existing providers, including files, filings, deadlines and credentials, and confirm in writing that nothing has been dropped. This is where badly run consolidations fail, so we treat it as its own stage.
Stage 04
Operate and review
Ongoing delivery against agreed measures, with a formal review each quarter. Scope goes down as readily as it goes up.
03. Who we work with
Where we are most useful.
Our work concentrates on technology and AI companies operating in the United States, most often at the point where informal arrangements stop holding.
Stage
Early, 1 to 20 people
No internal functions yet. We are the finance, people, immigration and communications team until it makes sense to hire one.
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Scaling, 20 to 100 people
First internal hires in place, gaps everywhere else. We hold what has not been hired yet and hand over cleanly when it is.
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Established, 100 and above
Specific mandates rather than whole functions: a market entry, a security program, a funding round, a communications problem.
Situation
Entering the U.S.
Foreign-founded companies establishing a U.S. presence: entity, banking, employer registration, visas, first hires, market positioning.
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Raising capital
Getting a business ready to be examined, and in selected cases investing directly or providing growth capital ourselves.
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Consolidating vendors
Companies holding six or more outside providers who want fewer relationships and one accountable party.
The founder should not have to be the integration layer.
Working with us.
Engagements begin with a diagnostic, not a pitch document. If you are carrying more vendors than you can keep track of, that is a good enough reason to get in touch.
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