Wallis Run Holdings invests in and advises early and mid-stage businesses, bringing operator experience to the decisions that shape a company's next stage.
Wallis Run Holdings works with founders and leadership teams at the stages where decisions compound fastest: finding product-market fit, building the first real leadership team, scaling what works, and preparing for what comes next.
The firm is led by Frank Shultz, founder and former CEO of Infinite Blue, an operational resilience software company he built over eleven years through its 2024 acquisition by Thoma Bravo. The counsel here comes from having sat in the seat: raising capital, hiring and managing executives, navigating boards, and carrying a company from first customer to exit.
Engagements are deliberately few. Whether as an investor, an advisor, or both, Wallis Run works hands-on with a small number of companies at a time.
Every engagement is shaped to the company, but the work generally falls into three areas.
One-on-one work with founders and executives on the job itself: leading a growing team, managing a board, making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, and staying effective through the stages where the role keeps changing underneath you.
Clarity on market position, product direction, and the operating plan that connects them. The output is a plan the team can actually run: priorities, sequencing, and the metrics that tell you whether it's working.
Independent review of architecture, engineering teams, and product roadmaps, including AI scoping and training: where AI genuinely fits your business, what it will take to get there, and how to bring your team up to speed on the tools that matter.
If you're building something and want a partner who has done the work, get in touch.