BrightZen Systems is a finance and operating-systems firm co-founded by John Zdanowski and 📝Jeff Abrams; public company profiles date it to 2011. It builds systems that 📝Instrument 📝rapidly growing companies — finance departments, financial models, governance, and underwriting — for founders and the investors behind them. Today the firm presents itself as BrightZen Capital, a family office built around a business operating system, based in Rochester, NY and Rancho Santa Fe, CA.
BrightZen packages its work as a set of bundled systems, described in 📝Our Systems and grounded in 📝Our Ethos: a 📝CFO System implementation, a 📝Fund Incubation System, a 📝Portfolio Governance System, 📝Technology Product Spin Out Services, and an 📝Entrepreneur in Residence program. Its founders' track record, summarized in 📝Our Experience and 📝Our Team, includes co-founding 📝Assembled Brands and 📝Weekly Accounting.
BrightZen is my own company. We build systems to help as many people as we can.