Capabilities
What we do
Five things you can do with capital — raise it, borrow it, protect it, grow it, structure it. Most engagements use several at once — a fundraise is a capital instrument plus diligence readiness plus the controllership to survive the questions.
Raise Capital
Everything between deciding to raise and money in the bank: readiness, the raise itself, and surviving the diligence that decides it.
Venture Capital & Private EquityInvestment readiness, fundraising strategy, diligence preparation and transaction support for founders raising institutional equity.Read more
Government Grants & SchemesIdentifying, applying for and staying compliant with the non-dilutive government funding a business already qualifies for.Read more
Pre Due DiligencePreparation frameworks that get a business ready before investor or acquirer scrutiny begins, not during it.Read more- Investor ReadinessThe model, the deck and the market case that survive a second meeting, prepared before the raise, not during it.Read more
- Data Room PreparationA data room that answers the question before it is asked, assembled before the process starts rather than during it.Read more
- Raising Private EquityPrivate equity for profitable, established businesses: a different process, a different buyer and a different set of questions from venture.Read more
Borrow Capital
Debt, blended finance and restructuring: funding growth without giving away more of the company than it costs.
Protect Capital
The finance function that keeps the money you raised: bookkeeping through fractional CFO, controls, and compliance treated as infrastructure.
FP&AFinancial planning and analysis frameworks that turn a budget into a decision-making instrument.Read more
ControllershipThe controls, reporting structures and governance systems that make a company's numbers trustworthy.Read more
CFO Tech StackThe technology architecture behind a finance function: accounting, MIS and planning tools that work as one system.Read more
CS – ComplianceSecretarial discipline and regulatory frameworks treated as business infrastructure rather than a year-end scramble.Read more- BookkeepingBooks kept to a standard that will survive diligence, not just the filing deadline.Read more
- CFO ServicesVirtual, fractional and outsourced CFO services: senior finance judgement at the fraction a company actually needs, without the fixed cost of a full-time hire.Read more
Finance Business PartneringFinance embedded in the decisions rather than reporting on them afterwards.Read more- Internal AuditIndependent assurance that the controls described on paper are the controls actually running.Read more
- Internal Financial ControlsDesigning, documenting and testing the financial controls a board and an auditor both have to sign.Read more
Grow Capital
Growth advisory and the operating structure behind it: market, pricing, org design, process, and the systems that make scale survivable.
Strategy ConsultingPositioning, functional alignment and the operating discipline that turns a plan into traction, for founders and boards past the validation stage.Read more- HR Business PartneringStrategic people operations that align org design and hiring with what the business is actually trying to do.Read more
- Market ResearchThe market as it is, not as the deck needs it to be: sizing, segmentation and demand evidence.Read more
- Competitor Analysis and BenchmarkingWho you are actually competing with, on what, and where the business stands against them.Read more
- Pricing AdvisoryWhat the market will pay, why, and what the current price is quietly costing.Read more
Go-to-Market PlanningHow the product reaches the buyer: channel, motion, pricing, and the numbers that say whether it worked.Read more
Growth StructuringStructuring a business so growth is survivable: what it takes to double without breaking.Read more
Market IntelligenceA continuous read on the sector: what is moving capital, regulation and demand, and what it means for this business.Read more- Organisational StructuringRoles, reporting and accountability designed around where the business is going, not where it has been.Read more
- Performance ManagementThe numbers a leadership team actually runs on, and the cadence that makes them act.Read more
- Process Standardisation and OptimisationMaking the way work happens repeatable, so it survives the people who invented it.Read more
- Business TransformationChanging how a business runs, not just what it reports, with the sequencing that keeps it trading throughout.Read more
- ERP ImplementationChoosing and landing the system the business will actually use, and the process work that has to happen first.Read more
Structure Capital
Deal advisory, diligence and public-market readiness: the shape of a transaction, and what it is really worth.
IPO Planning & ReadinessThe governance, financial reporting and internal controls a business needs in place well before a listing process begins.Read more
Due DiligenceEnd-to-end diligence playbooks covering financial, legal, operational and market analysis, for investors and for the companies being examined.Read more- Deal AdvisoryShaping a transaction and testing what it is really worth, on either side of the table.Read more
- Deal StructuringThe instrument, the terms and the downstream consequences: the part of a deal that outlives the headline number.Read more
- Deal Flow SourcingProprietary, screened deal flow out of an operating network rather than an inbox.Read more
- Portfolio ManagementThe finance and reporting bench behind a portfolio, so value creation is managed rather than hoped for.Read more
Not a sixth thing to do to capital
Strategy Labs
The programmes we run with accelerators, funds and ecosystem builders — for their portfolios rather than for a single company. Cohort partnering, scheme matchmaking, and the tools behind them.
Strategy SprintsShort, structured sprints that size the market, test the pricing and validate the model, before a long report or a raise.Read more- Cohort Venture PartneringThe financial advisory bench behind an accelerator, corporate venture arm or ecosystem programme, delivered to a whole cohort.Read more
- Government Scheme MatchmakingWhich Indian government schemes a company is actually eligible for, and what applying really requires.Read more
- Fundability AssessmentAn honest read on how fundable a company is right now, and the specific things standing between it and a term sheet.Read more
- Investor MatchmakingIntroductions to investors whose thesis, stage and cheque size actually fit the company.Read more
- Masterclasses and ClinicsWorking sessions and clinics for cohorts: the practical finance and capital knowledge founders are expected to already have.Read more
- Founder ToolkitsThe models, templates and checklists a founder would otherwise rebuild from scratch.Read more
Not sure which of these you need?
Most people arrive with a symptom, not a capability. Describe the symptom and we will tell you what we would do first.