Walk in with answers, not a pitch deck.
Rounds are mostly decided before the meeting, by whether the company can survive the second and third question. That comes down to preparation, and preparation is something you can buy.
Why raises stall
Across Los Angeles raises, from a first round to a growth cheque, the same things slow the process:
The model breaks on contact
It works until an investor moves a single assumption, and then nobody can say what happens to the cash.
The data room gets assembled mid-diligence
Which tells the investor exactly how the company is run on an ordinary Tuesday.
Pitch and accounts tell two stories
The pitch promises one trajectory, the accounts describe another, and a good investor finds the gap in the first hour.
The money is not only equity
Production loans, receivables lines, inventory finance and family office capital each ask for a different kind of proof.
A fractional CFO who has closed a raise before runs the process for the founder: the model, the pack, the data room, diligence and the questions nobody has asked yet. The collective includes operators who have raised from venture funds, family offices, sponsors and lenders, and we match for the kind of capital you need.
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
Behind the raise
We match the CFO for the round and keep our governance around the engagement until the money is in.
A weekly read on progress
While the round is live we check in weekly and flag any slippage in the model or the data room.
Experience across capital types
The collective includes operators who have raised equity, production finance and receivables lines, available for a second opinion.
Continuity mid-round
If the CFO has to step away during the raise, we restart the search from our brief and manage the handover so the work carries on.
Matched to your capital
A family office and a growth fund ask different questions. We match on the money you are raising.
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
