About Us

What if exited founders teamed up with companies changing the world to achieve their missions, faster?

Who We Are

As evolutionary entrepreneurs themselves, Supernova co-founders Barry Stamos and Christopher Staley have backgrounds as serial founders and investors who have experienced first-hand the difference between exceptional and sub-par operating partners. Through decades of relationship building, trust, and curation, they have assembled a network of world-class exited founders who are motivated to share their knowledge and capital with companies that matter. Today, more than 250 exited founders have come together through Supernova to deliver exponential impact to the companies they serve.

Our Values

We shine brighter together

Humanity

We exist to serve people contributing to the greater good.

Intentionality

We are building a culture of people making conscious decisions with compassion, sustainability and community in mind.

Collaboration

We bring the right resources together for collective genius and exponential impact when playing finite and infinite games.

Optimism

We lead with love, positive intent and abundance knowing we play a part in greater missions with universal support.

Evolution

We believe startups are birthing renewed life into their communities and can bring a better future forward.

Why Supernova Exists

We orbit around your needs as all-star advisory teams.

The founders’ journey is innately challenging; it’s why so few have the endurance to make it all the way through. Seeking and building a team of mentors to strengthen decision-making is a powerful way to increase the probability of success. Unfortunately, finding actual experienced startup advisors who can care for you and the mission is difficult. And if you do find them, how do you ensure that they are properly utilized and incentivized?

For decades, traditional advising for most founders and their companies has been essentially non-existent, or so informal and ad-hoc that it leaves something to be desired. Accelerators are mostly all focused on early-stage companies and Scaleups needs are super different. Boards can be helpful at a high-level, but rarely get hands-on to solve problems and implement solutions.

The perfect advisor does not exist, but a dynamic team that adapts to your current company challenges, and knows what you are going through because they too have been a founder is “the perfect advisor.”

Supernova is the future of startup advising. We are the first and only resource able to curate successfully exited entrepreneurs and adapt that team to serve the evolving priorities and challenges of your company.

Our mission is to accelerate the realization of the founder's vision from the only perspective that truly understands the journey, as founders ourselves.