ignite advisory

Consulting and Advisory for Smart Growth

✦ restaurant concepts ✦ foodtech ✦ CPG ✦ cleantech ✦ sales strategy ✦ operations ✦ you name it ✦

✦ restaurant concepts ✦ foodtech ✦ CPG ✦ cleantech ✦ sales strategy ✦ operations ✦ you name it ✦

What is our deal:

We are:

  • Super experienced and trustworthy - have grown, fundraised, and exited tech and hospitality companies (check out my bio below for some examples). Helping companies grow is the kind of work we know well. 

  • Surrounded by connected friends and associates - we have quite a crew who can be called on to help. 

  • Guided by a smart growth hypothesis - we relish being creative growth hackers

  • Fundraisers and dealmakers - getting to YES

  • General counsel experience and discipline - I evaluate contracts for red flags, shore up your contracting processes, and deal with past contract mistakes. 

  • Accountable - you know, honest and straightforward

  • Resilient and Calm

We do:

  • Growth Strategy

  • Investment help

  • Strategic Partnerships

  • Operations

  • Technology Review

We believe:

  • If you are a technical or creative founder, we will absolutely make your company smarter and better situated for growth and investment.

  • Together we can create a business that works with your lifestyle.

  • That you don’t need to be stressed out about the unknown.

Why is that our deal:

We exist to help entrepreneurs achieve success on their own terms. We offer expert strategic advice, create action items to achieve growth, and help close each action item out.

We help you move the needle. 

We believe growth and improvement makes life and business exciting and challenging. We’re always learning, growing, taking action, surrounding ourselves with smart, ambitious and inspiring people. Reaching new levels of personal and business success is what we’re all about.

Who runs the team:

Dan Unter’s passion is helping good companies achieve great things—from cleantech to marketplaces, and from startups to IPO.

Dan has a history of creating new revenue streams out of existing assets. The most recent example is his founding of Kitch, a marketplace connecting underused commercial kitchens with food operators. Dan was the CEO for two years and recently sold the business to a large multi-national ghost kitchen company.

Unter has been cooking professionally since he was 16 years old. He has worked in country clubs, Michelin-starred restaurants, and pizzerias. He is also an attorney, with a career as a general counsel for several mid-cap tech companies that have all exited, as well as stints as a media and entertainment attorney for several well-known musical clients.

Watch Dan lose his mind on the Closed on Mondays podcast, the Digestible Tech podcast, and the Troy Hooper Convo.

How we are helping:

Ignite can draw upon a team of experts to create and execute on a strategy that fits your needs. From strategy to launch we have you covered.

Advisory - Training - Operations - Sales & Marketing - HR

We project manage each action item to deliver top results on time and within budget.

All deliverables and costs are transparent. Our job is to make your life as easy as possible as it pertains to your projects with Ignite.

Past Consulting Work:

Helping multi-location sushi concept corporatize. Providing operational support and advice to add systems and processes - keeping the fun and creative entreprenurial spirit while getting the company ready for rapid growth and further investment.

Advising a young FoodTech company with great technology to create and actionable sales and biz dev strategy.

Helping a large PE firm explore the fine foods importing vertical and identify investment opportunities.

Offering strategic advice for a CleanTech company in identifying sales channels and partnerships.

let’s chat

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Testimonials:

Dan Unter and Ignite offered solutions to expand my business that were out-of-the-box and refreshing. We settled on a few ideas and they helped me develop and close out action items to get where I needed to get. 

We used Dan Unter as our fractional COO and went from 15 units to 23. He created processes that worked for our growing team, and developed an expansion team to solidify our approach. I liked that he appreciated we are a creative and scrappy team.