For founders and scaleups
Preparation decides the outcome. Investors form a view in the first meeting, often within minutes of opening your deck, and you rarely get a second first meeting. We make sure you arrive prepared.
The method
We work on the materials with you: we rebuild the model with your CFO, design the narrative and rehearse the investor Q&A.
Start from the round after this one: the milestones, metrics and team that will make it fundable. This round is sized to reach them, with a buffer.
Why this market, why now and why your team, told in a way an investor can repeat to their partners.
Customer references, cohort data, pipeline and unit economics that hold up under scrutiny. Every claim in the deck has its source in the data room.
A financial model tied to your operating metrics and a data room organised for diligence, ready before outreach starts rather than assembled under pressure.
A list prioritised by stage, sector, ticket size and fit, with meetings sequenced to build momentum.
A clear timetable, disciplined follow up and prepared answers to the hard questions, through to term sheet negotiation alongside your legal counsel.
Where to start
Two weeks · fixed fee, agreed upfront
Before you speak to a single investor, we review your story, model, evidence and data room against what investors will test, and tell you plainly what will hold and what will not.
What you receive
When to call us
Beyond the round
Senior help at the moments that decide a company's direction. We work alongside your legal, tax and licensed financial advisers, never in place of them.
Where to compete and how to win, decided on evidence: which customers pay, why they stay, and which few moves matter over the next 18 months.
Which market first, how to enter and with which partners. Our founder has taken companies into more than 30 markets across Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East.
Issues lists, negotiation strategy and positions on IP, exclusivity, service levels, liability and exit.
Partner selection, deal structure and the equity story, prepared alongside your legal counsel and licensed corporate finance advisers.
We take on a small number of fractional CSO roles by choice, where we can commit for the long term, often with part of the compensation in equity. Each starts with a defined time commitment, a 90 day plan and clear reporting to the board.
Selected engagements
A neobank with a European banking licence and an AI-driven lending platform, preparing a €40M growth equity round.
DisruptIQ engagement
A founder led clinical AI company moving from research to its first funding rounds, needing senior strategy capacity without a full time hire. Part of our fee is in equity, tied to the funding milestones. Targets: close the pre-seed round, then the seed.
DisruptIQ engagement
A technology licence at the heart of a strategic investment, between parties with different goals on control, exclusivity and economics.
DisruptIQ engagement
Decision tools
Ten questions across story, numbers, proof and process. See where you stand and what investors are likely to challenge first.
Tell us where the company is and what the next round must achieve. The first conversation is free, discreet and without obligation.
