Services
We apply the 5P framework, Plan, Prepare, Position, Promote, Perform, across three service pillars designed to turn opportunity into enterprise value.
Board-level counsel and growth strategy for ventures preparing to scale, enter new markets, or raise capital.
Hands-on commercial leadership that turns strategy into revenue, from GTM design to revenue operations and AI adoption.
Connecting the right people, capital, and partners so founders and ventures move faster with less friction.
Proprietary System
Outcome-based intelligent relationship mapping.
Developed and refined over 20 years, the Startup Growth Command Center is not a contact database, it is an operating system for introductions. It maps Phil Larmon's network of founders, investors, operators, bankers, and institutional partners against what each client is trying to accomplish, so every introduction is impactful, efficient, and effective.
The result is a warm, referral-driven pipeline where the right people enter the right conversations at the right time, whether the goal is capital, revenue, partnerships, or talent.
Every relationship is tagged to what a client is trying to accomplish, raise capital, land a partner, hire talent, enter a market, or close an enterprise deal.
Introductions are pre-qualified and contextual, routed through trust lines built over decades so the right people say yes faster.
Pre-seed, seed, growth, or late stage; venture debt, fund banking, or corporate development, the Command Center routes each need to the right counterparty.
History, timing, and trust dynamics inform who to bring into the room, when, and for what outcome, not just who is in the database.
VCs, private credit, family offices, accelerators, corporate development teams, sponsors, and strategic buyers mapped to client objectives.
Fast, qualified, compliant pipeline acceleration for innovation banks, venture debt providers, and institutional clients.
20+
Years building and maintaining trusted relationships.
$700M+
Partnership pipeline progressed through warm, qualified introductions.
Outcome-first
Every introduction mapped to a client objective, not a Rolodex.
Warm & qualified
Trust-based routing that accelerates capital and partnership conversations.
Startup & Innovation Banking Advisory
Trinity advises innovation-economy banks, venture debt providers, and their clients on client acquisition, ecosystem coverage, and relationship management across the full venture lifecycle, pre-seed through growth stage, fund banking through corporate banking. Phil Larmon serves as a Startup Innovation Banking Advisor, sourcing and qualifying founder and sponsor relationships, structuring introductions to capital, and partnering with bankers on deposits, treasury, credit, and capital-markets conversations.
The work sits where commercial banking, venture capital, and private credit meet: a warm, referral-driven network of founders, GPs, LPs, family offices, accelerators, and corporate development teams built over two decades, and the discipline to convert it into a qualified, compliant, revenue-producing pipeline.
Sourcing and qualifying founder, sponsor, and fund relationships through a referral-first network, not cold outreach.
Accelerator, VC, private credit, family office, and corporate development coverage that keeps the bank early in every round.
Deposits, treasury, payments, and credit conversations positioned around the founder's stage, burn, and runway.
Advising founders on venture debt, bridge facilities, and dilution trade-offs alongside their equity strategy.
Capital-call lines, management-company banking, and GP/LP relationship pathways for emerging and established managers.
Working with credit, risk, and compliance teams so pipeline quality, not just volume, drives the outcome.
$400M+
Enterprise revenue generated across commercial and capital-markets roles.
$100M
Fund formation prepared with OBP Development, including investor materials and pipeline.
$700M+
Enterprise partnership pipeline built and managed with Fortune 500 and institutional counterparties.
Techstars
Mentor and advisor to early-stage founders, with university advisory board and accelerator coverage.
The 5P Framework
The 5P's are not a slide deck, they are the operating system we use to move ventures from idea to outcome. Every engagement selects the right sequence for the stage and situation.
01
Define the strategy, map the opportunity, and align stakeholders around the outcome.
02
Build the assets, infrastructure, and relationships required before entering the market.
03
Sharpen the message, differentiation, and market posture so the venture stands out.
04
Activate the right channels, partnerships, and conversations to drive awareness and pipeline.
05
Execute with discipline, measure results, and optimize for sustainable growth.
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