Crosshaven Partners

What Crosshaven Partners does

Crosshaven Partners is a Boston-based boutique strategic advisory firm founded in 2020, with an additional office in Silicon Valley. The firm provides consulting services to venture and growth-stage companies as well as established enterprises on global workforce decisions, including Global Location Strategy (evaluating nearshore, offshore, and hub selection), US Market Entry Strategy (market feasibility, investor connections, Go-To-Market acceleration), and Economic Development (advisory for universities and government economic development agencies). Crosshaven operates with 1-10 employees under a partner-led model, with Partner Mark Johnston serving as the named operating principal; he brings 15+ years of West Coast investment promotion experience including a decade as SVP at Invest Northern Ireland in San Francisco.

The firm's core "technology" consists of a proprietary international workforce planning benchmarking tool used to compare nearshore and offshore headcount scenarios, layered onto a curated network of 300+ potential partners, customers, investors, and industry experts across US markets. Crosshaven earns revenue through custom professional services engagements rather than disclosed pricing models; no package pricing, SaaS subscriptions, or productized offerings are evidenced. The client base spans approximately 75 cumulative engagements and includes recognizable logos such as isolved, Planet DDS, Masabi, Eppione, Iterable, Nasuni, DailyPay, Black Kite, Axur, and historically eBay and Bazaarvoice.

Crosshaven pursues a sales-led, direct-engagement go-to-market leveraging personal networks, referrals, and partner relationships. Marketing channels include a Squarespace-hosted website, email outreach, LinkedIn presence, and earned media coverage from BBC, Scottish Enterprise, and IDA Ireland. No external funding rounds are disclosed, no parent company or institutional backing is evidenced, and the ownership structure appears to be founder/partner-held. The firm maintains strategic partnerships with MTU Rubicon Centre, Elkstone, and Údarás na Gaeltachta to broaden its inbound pipeline and ecosystem reach.

Name

Crosshaven Partners

Legal name

CROSSHAVEN PARTNERS

Website

https://crosshavenpartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Crosshaven Partners is a Boston-based boutique strategic advisory firm helping venture and growth-stage companies and enterprises with global location strategy, US market entry, nearshoring/offshoring decisions, and economic development advisory, leveraging a curated 300+ contact network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Strategic Advisory Consulting: Consulting engagements for global location strategy, US market entry, and economic development advisory. Services include market analysis, location shortlisting, operational planning, and ongoing strategic support.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Crosshaven Partners is a strategic advisory firm that helps venture, growth-stage, and enterprise clients make global workforce and market entry decisions. Its core offerings include Global Location Strategy (evaluating global footprint, identifying optimal hubs, and benchmarking nearshore/offshore headcount models), US Market Entry Strategy (market feasibility, product-market-fit assessment, and introductions to partners, customers, and investors), and Economic Development advisory for universities and government agencies on investment promotion.

Product overview

Crosshaven Partners offers a portfolio of three strategic advisory service lines: Global Location Strategy (helping clients evaluate and establish new hubs and develop global location strategies), US Market Entry Strategy (assisting companies with market entry, investment strategy, and connecting with partners/investors in the US), and Economic Development (supporting universities and regions with corporate partnerships and investment promotion). The three services are interconnected, enabling clients to scale globally by combining location strategy expertise with market access and economic development insights.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Global Location Strategy Strategic advisory service helping venture, growth-stage, and enterprise clients evaluate and optimize their global footprint, identify optimal locations for building teams, and develop resilient global talent roadmaps for scalable, cost-effective tech talent acquisition.
• US Market Entry Strategy Business development and strategic advisory service for companies entering US customer, capital, or talent markets, including product-market-fit assessment, location strategy, and investor introductions.
• Economic Development Advisory service for regions and universities focused on the intersection of business, universities, and government, including university partnerships, corporate partnership development, and investment promotion strategy.

Quantifiable outcome

• Enabled high-growth companies to grow faster and more effectively through nearshore/offshore models
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered notable.

• MTU Rubicon CentrenotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerMTU's campus-based incubator partnership for market access into the USA for portfolio companies, including connecting companies with angel investors for investment opportunities
• ElkstonenotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership supporting organizations to scale globally, leveraging Crosshaven's expertise and network
• Údarás na GaeltachtanotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerEconomic development partnership supporting organizations in Gaeltacht regions to scale globally through strategic advisory services

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Kearney: Global management consultancy whose well-known Global Services Location Index and Location Strategy practice directly compete with Crosshaven's Global Location Strategy offering for enterprise nearshoring/offshoring mandates.
• Cushman & Wakefield: Global real estate services firm with an established Location Strategy and Workforce Strategy practice that competes for the same enterprise site-selection and global footprint advisory work as Crosshaven.
• OCO Global: Dublin-headquartered FDI and trade advisory boutique helping companies expand internationally; directly comparable to Crosshaven on cross-border market entry and investment promotion advisory.
• Concentric: Boutique international growth advisory firm that helps companies expand into new markets across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas — overlapping with Crosshaven's US Market Entry Strategy and global expansion mandate.

Broad incumbents

• Deloitte (Global Location Strategy practice): Big Four firm with a long-running Global Location Strategy offering serving multinational enterprise site-selection and shared-services mandates, often competing with Crosshaven for the same wallet.
• EY (FDI and Location Advisory): Big Four firm providing FDI attractiveness and location advisory to governments and corporates; overlaps with both Crosshaven's enterprise market entry and its economic-development service line.
• KPMG (Global Location Strategy): Big Four firm with a Global Location Strategy practice serving enterprise site selection, shared services, and nearshore/offshore footprint decisions — directly competes with Crosshaven's core offering at the enterprise end of the market.
• JLL (Location Strategy): Global real estate services firm with a Corporate Consulting and Location Strategy practice that advises enterprises on global workforce and real-estate footprint decisions, comparable in scope to Crosshaven's location-strategy work.

Others

• Invest Northern Ireland: FDI promotion agency where Crosshaven's founder previously worked; comparable not as a competitor but as the type of public economic-development counterpart Crosshaven serves in its Economic Development service line.
• IDA Ireland: Ireland's inward-investment promotion agency; similar to Invest Northern Ireland, IDA is both a model for Crosshaven's economic-development advisory and an ecosystem counterpart rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/crosshavenptnrs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crosshaven-partners

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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