An alternative to the traditional model of investment banking services. Our products are tailored to start-ups, growth businesses, founders, boards and investors in a convenient way at a fair price.
Empowering the innovation economy
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Technology and Media.
Enterprise software. Fin tech. Climate tech. Frontier tech. Space tech. Deep tech.
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Consumer.
Fast Moving Consumer Goods. Apparel. Hospitality. Travel and Leisure.
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Life sciences.
Healthcare. Pharma. Longevity.
Private companies.
We advise private companies and their founders. From pre-seed funding to IPO. We strongly believe the smallest companies in the innovation ecosystem deserve the same level of service as FTSE100s. They are the future.
THINGS WE DO
Fundraising: business plan and financial model drafting; turning it all into an attractive equity story for investors, and an elevator pitch. Presentation drafting, training and rehearsals.
Investor Relations: investor targeting and investor selection, making actual introductions and supporting during pitch meetings. Negotiating terms. Comms and relationship building with existing and new shareholders.
Exits: planning scale up strategies organically and via M&A with focus on value realisation for founders and other investors. Sale side process and IPO readiness assessment, and support during execution phase.
Governance: NED appointment, and help with building effective boards and setting up corporate governance and reporting structures.
Introductions: lending bank, adviser, lawyer, financial PR selection processes that are fair and focussed.
Public companies.
We advise public companies and their Boards. Our service packages are mostly aimed at FTSE250s and AIM, but we are quietly confident that we can help any London-listed company.
THINGS WE DO
Investor relations: enhance your equity story in a very competitive market for capital via a independent review and rewrite. Investor targeting services and capital markets day preparations. Any other help directly to execs and board as ‘fractional’ IR team, or assistance to your internal IR.
M&A: formulate and present your M&A scale up strategy including financial analysis that will help drive the share price. Takeover defensive planning and mediation with activist holders. Help with originating and executing transactions.
P2Ps: UK Takeover Code expertise, as well as extensive track record of successfully navigating the public investor shareholder base to achieve good outcome for all stakeholders.
Fundraising: assessment and advice on sourcing growth capital, analysing returns for shareholders and formulating market comms. Support during fundraising process.
RFPs: no conflict approach to a fair selection of financial advisers, brokers, lawyers, accountants and financial PR.
Investors.
We can advise individual and institutional investors, including VCs and private equity funds on specific corporate action situations, but only where we know we can add value.
THINGS WE DO
Portfolio company relations: help with building strong, productive relationships with founders and their teams. Idea generation for investments and help with providing a pipeline within niche innovation sectors.
Board services: we can take board observer or full NED positions to help monitor and drive growth.
P2Ps: independent advice how to approach private or public companies, winning over existing holders and delivering a successful, seamless transaction.
Activism: a non-conflict, empathetic approach to advocating for strategy or governance changes that is more effective than traditional methods.