The model is the pitch.
The pitch opens the door. Rounds are won afterwards, in diligence: the model, the cap table, the data room and the entity structure.
Why rounds stall
The same few things slow a process down or end it:
The model cannot move
It stands only until an investor alters a single assumption, after which nobody can say what moves.
The cap table is untidy
Options, convertibles and old side letters that nobody has reconciled.
The data room is built during diligence
And the investor reads the company from it.
The founder runs the raise and the company
Both suffer.
A fractional CFO who has run a raise before takes the process off the founder: the model, the cap table, the data room and the investor conversation.
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
Help with a raise
The CFO is chosen for the round in front of you, and we stay involved until it closes.
Alongside you to the close
When the investor list changes mid-round, we revisit the engagement with you and update the brief.
A model checked early
A peer from the collective can try to break the model before an investor does.
No restart mid-round
If the CFO has to leave mid-round, we search again from the brief we hold and run the changeover ourselves.
At ease with investors
Investors test the numbers hard. We match for someone who answers calmly and in detail.
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
