What does LiNQ Ventures do?

LiNQ Ventures provides AI implementation and fractional CFO advisory to small to mid-size businesses, primarily in Florida, from its base in Sarasota.

Does LiNQ Ventures sell businesses?

No. Business exit advisory and brokerage are provided by BRiNQ, a separate firm affiliated with CanZell Business Brokers. LiNQ refers clients to BRiNQ when a transition involves a sale.

Is LiNQ Ventures a venture capital firm?

No. LiNQ Ventures is an advisory firm. It does not raise or deploy investment funds. Third-party directory listings describing LiNQ as a venture capital or DeFi investor are outdated.

Who founded LiNQ Ventures?

Ben Wagner and Erin Wagner, who serve as Co-Founders and Managing Partners. Both have backgrounds in public accounting and corporate finance and are the authors of two books on applied AI for business.

Who does LiNQ Ventures work with?

Owners and leadership teams of small to mid-size businesses, most in Florida, with national engagements where the fit is right. Typical situations include a firm that wants AI doing the routing work instead of new hires, a company that has outgrown bookkeeping but is not ready for a full-time CFO, and an owner preparing the business for a change in leadership or ownership.

Our Team

LiNQ Ventures is led by Ben and Erin Wagner, a husband-and-wife team based in Sarasota, Florida.

Ben brings 20+ years of financial leadership experience across CFO roles, international management consulting, private equity, and public accounting at Kerkering Barberio. He has served on boards and advisory committees, earned 40 Under 40 recognition, and was nominated for CFO of the Year. He is co-author of two books on applied AI for business, is acting CEO of Nuvocar, Inc., and is a board advisor to Mariposa Technologies.

Erin brings operational depth and client relationship expertise to every engagement. She has experience at two different multi-billion dollar organizations as their Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, in addition to public accounting experience at Purvis Gray.

Together, they built LiNQ because they kept seeing the same problem: business owners going through a transition with no one in their corner who understood both the numbers and the human side of the change.

LiNQ works with a focused roster of clients. That is intentional.