Capital when it's needed.
Involvement where it helps.
Three ways
we back a business.
Every situation is different. Broadly, we show up in one of three ways.
Small equity cheques
Where a founder mainly needs capital and the occasional hand, we back the team and stay available without crowding the cap table. A more traditional venture posture.
Larger equity positions
Where we can move the needle, we commit real operating time alongside the cheque. This is the active model most of this page describes.
Debt financing
Growth capital for established, revenue-generating businesses. Lending structured around your cash flow, with no equity given up.
An active model,
backed by experience.
We prefer to invest once a company has found product-market fit, then support it through the stages that follow. This is where we tend to help most.
- Sharpen the commercial narrative and positioning
- Build the financial model and reporting a raise will need
- Set the metrics that prove product-market fit is real
- A fractional CFO to steer core scale decisions
- Hiring plans and key senior hires
- New products, locations and markets
- Commercial and reporting infrastructure
- Shape the story, the numbers and the data room
- Warm introductions to the right investors
- Support investor relations through the raise
- Board structure, cadence and reporting
- Financial controls and discipline
- Set up for institutional investors
- Map the buyer universe
- Build the data room and the equity story
- Position the business for the best outcome
- Manage the process with founder and advisers
- Negotiation and deal support
- Through to a clean completion
We don't advise from the sidelines.
We're in it with you.
The functions we step into when a company needs them, shaped around the gaps and held for as long as they're there. A sample of where we've done the work:
Provide an outsourced fractional finance department, reporting and controls, across roughly a third of the portfolio.
Board structure, reporting and cadence, setting businesses up for the grown-up requirements that come with scale.
Structure the pitch, get the business raise-ready, and guide founders through the process end to end.
Embedded as fractional Chief of Staff inside a portfolio company, driving go-to-market, customer success, governance and M&A.
Organisational design, hiring plans and HR audits, building the team a growth-stage company needs.
Founded a consumer business and provided a fractional CEO through its build years, to a clean trade-sale exit.
Reframed the commercial story for a trust infrastructure business post-raise, helping define a new category and accelerate adoption.
Worked alongside the founder and bankers through a portfolio company's competitive sale to a global acquirer.
On-the-ground AU support for a UK business expanding into Australia, from first hires to first customers.
We do the work.
Embedded alongside founders, not advice from a distance. The people who back you are the ones in the room when it counts.