Empowering Founders

 Artus Advisors brings decades of experience working with startups to help them scale and succeed in their enterprise partnerships. We know firsthand that startup founders face a myriad of challenges that can make the journey to success daunting. While standard advice often sounds simple—identify a large market, assemble a great team, build and deliver a unique offering, and scale at pace—the reality of execution is far more complex: 

• Selling to Enterprises is Challenging: Enterprise sales cycles are lengthy, involve many stakeholders, and are often difficult to navigate.
• Prioritization is Critical: Making the right choices is tough, especially when each decision feels existential.
• Customer-Centric Focus: It’s easy to become product-obsessed and lose sight of customer needs.
• Agility vs. Foundation: Balancing rapid pivots with establishing scalable foundations is crucial to avoid growing pains.
• Maintaining Culture and Mission: Keeping your organization's culture, mission, and operating model intact as you scale is challenging.

Standard advice and “how-to” guides are abundant, but they don’t provide a blueprint for the tactical and strategic decisions you face daily.

Leveraging proven experience, we help our clients achieve success through:

• Founder Mentoring and Coaching: Serving as a sounding board, coach, and advisor to help founders navigate the complexities of starting and scaling.
• Go-To-Market and Sales Cycle Support: Refining strategies to accelerate growth, increase resonance, and improve conversion and LTV.
• Corporate Procurement and POCs: Helping navigate the corporate procurement processes and transitioning from proof of concept to paid production.
• Product Strategy and Roadmap: Crafting product strategies and roadmaps tailored to your clients and business needs.
• Growth and Scaling: Providing strategies and support for sustainable growth and scaling.

With decades of experience in corporate transactions, innovation programs, and mentoring startup founders, we understand what works and what doesn’t. We don’t claim to have all the answers, but we've been through these challenges hundreds of times. Our goal is to:

• Optimize Your Chances of Success: Leverage our insights to stay focused on what truly      matters.
• Share Proven Strategies: Provide guidance based on real-world experience.
• Enhance Efficiency: Help you achieve your goals more effectively.

We can't do it for you, but we can help you do it better, faster, and with more confidence.

Sean Livingston, the Founder and Managing Director at Artus Advisors. He has over 20 years of experience helping startups and established firms navigate the complexities of building new businesses, reinventing, and scaling existing businesses, and leveraging technology and partnerships to accelerate growth.

• Enterprise Partnerships: Proven track record of helping startups and enterprises form successful partnerships.
• Strategic Prioritization: Guided numerous startups in making critical decisions that balance near-term realities with long-term success and sustainability, ensuring focus on the most impactful activities.
• Customer-Centric Product Development: Launched digital businesses and helped firms remain customer-focused as they iterate through their product evolution.
• Scalable Foundations and Agile Pivots: Balanced the need for agility while establishing strong foundations, enabling startups to pivot rapidly while building scalable business models.
• Cultural and Operational Integrity: Building businesses from scratch, maintaining the cultural and operational integrity of organizations as they grow, ensuring that mission and values remain intact.

Prior to founding Artus Advisors, Sean held various CIO, Head of Operations, and Head of Innovation/Partnerships roles across the US, EMEA, and Asia. He led new market entry, digital transformations, and partnerships with regulators, startups, big tech, and universities to build and scale global businesses.

Sean’s extensive experience and hands-on approach have equipped him with unique insights into the startup ecosystem. He brings a wealth of knowledge to help founders navigate challenges, optimize their chances of success, and accelerate their journey to scale.