About · Since 2017

Operators and investors, not just designers.

Stopwatch Creative is a Columbus, Ohio branding, marketing and growth agency founded in 2017 by Manny Larcher and Lenny Burkett. We help founders across the Midwest and worldwide with go-to-market strategy, fundraising support, branding, SEO, content, paid media and exit readiness, and we've worked alongside founders through two acquisitions totaling more than $50 million.

How we work

Strategy, capital and creative on one team.

We stay through the launch, the raise and the sale, because that's where the work pays off.

Co-Founder & CEO

Manny Larcher

Entrepreneur, angel investor and strategist. Manny was an early team member at telehealth startup Ardina, acquired by Cardinal Health in 2017, then spent three years as an analyst at an Ohio venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech and healthcare.

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Co-Founder & Lead Designer

Lenny Burkett

A multidisciplinary designer across illustration, animation, branding and web, whose path runs from freelance and agency work to UX/UI design at the Jaguar Land Rover incubator in Portland.

Milestones.

2017

Founded in Columbus, Ohio.

2019

Proteon Software acquired by Dark Rhino Security.

2022

Mahajan Therapeutics acquired by BayMark Health Services. Share Mobility raises a $12M Series A.

2023

Inc. Founders House at Black Tech Week.

Featured in

Inc.
Spectrum News 1
Columbus Underground
Bold Journey
Canvas Rebel
Shoutout Atlanta
VoyageMIA
Innovate New Albany
Inc.
Spectrum News 1
Columbus Underground
Bold Journey
Canvas Rebel
Shoutout Atlanta
VoyageMIA
Innovate New Albany

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