Make the raise the easy part.
Companies here raise from venture funds, institutions, family offices and lenders. Each reads the business differently, and all of them read it closely.
Where raises slow down
The company is worth backing. Preparation is the gap:
One story for many investors
A venture fund, an institution and a lender each ask different questions, and the pitch answers one.
A model with soft assumptions
Numbers built to please rather than to be tested, and a forecast with no history of being right.
Governance that looks informal
Decisions made in conversation and not minuted, with a board that is the founding team.
The raise takes the founder away
Months of meetings, and the business runs without its leader.
A fractional executive prepares the company before the process starts: the model, the board papers, the diligence file and the answers to the questions each kind of investor will ask. During the raise they carry the detail so the founder keeps the business moving.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Preparing for a funding round in the next three to six months
- A data room or financial model that will not survive diligence
- Gaps in investor reporting, cap table or board resolutions
- A founder carrying every financial question personally
- Numbers and investor narrative that do not yet line up
Not for
- A business with no revenue or traction to diligence yet
- A one-off pitch deck or investor slide design
- A team that wants a document produced, not a leader embedded
- A round already closed that needs only bookkeeping
How we support a raise
We match the person who prepares the company, then stay close to the engagement until the first post-raise reporting is in.
Milestones we watch with you
We review progress against the raise timetable on a set rhythm, and say early when the preparation is falling behind it.
Investor questions tested in advance
Your executive can rehearse the model and the diligence file with others in our collective of 800+ who have been on the investor's side of the table.
A brief that outlives the timetable
If the executive leaves before the round closes, we hold the brief and the preparation to date, and we run both the replacement search and the handover.
Matched to your investors
Venture, institutional and family office money expect different things. We match for the investors you are actually meeting.
From gap to investor-ready
Calibrated to your round timeline.
Fundraise assessment
We assess your current financial infrastructure, identify gaps, and calibrate to your round timeline.
CFO deployment
Your matched Fractional CFO is embedded within two to three weeks and begins building investor-grade infrastructure.
Fundraise preparation
Financial model, data room, board pack, governance, built and stress-tested before you enter conversations.
Round support and post-close
Your CFO stays through the round and transitions to execution mode. Reporting infrastructure, milestone tracking, and board presence.
Before, during and after the round
What a fractional CFO owns at each stage of a raise.
A fractional CFO leads every fundraise
Most raises need only the CFO. When diligence probes operations or technology, a COO or CTO joins from the same collective.
Executives who have raised alongside
