Capital is nearby. Readiness is the hard part.
Geneva is surrounded by private wealth, family offices and lenders. Whether a round closes still depends on whether the company can answer the second and third question in the room.
Why raises slow down
Most stalled rounds trace back to the same few things:
The model gives way under questions
It works until an investor moves one assumption, and no one in the room can say what follows.
The data room is built during diligence
Which tells the investor exactly how the company is run when nobody is watching.
The round rests on one introduction
A single warm contact carries the process, and when the answer is no, there is nothing behind it.
The founders run it on the side
The founders run the raise on top of the day job, and both get less of them.
A fractional CFO with a raise behind them lifts the process from the founder, handling the model, the pack, the data room, diligence and replies to questions not yet put. We match for the investors you are actually approaching, whether private individuals, family offices, funds or lenders.
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
Our part in a Geneva raise
Investors deal with your CFO. In the background we hold the brief and the governance until the round is signed.
To the signature
We follow the process with you and the CFO, and say early when the model, the pack or the timetable falls behind.
Views from other raises
A family office's side letter or a lender's covenant may be new to your CFO; peers in our collective of 800+ have usually seen both.
A round that keeps moving
Should the CFO need to leave mid-process, we take the round's papers and history straight into a new search and run the changeover.
Matched to your investors
We match for the capital you are approaching, private, institutional or debt, and for how the founders work under scrutiny.
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 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
