Raise with the answers already written down.
Edinburgh companies raise from Scottish investors, public-backed funds and institutions in London. Each reads the company differently, and the one with its numbers in order sets the terms.
Where raises slow down
Raises tend to slow for the same reasons:
Investors from different worlds
A Scottish public-backed fund, a London venture investor and an institution each ask for a different view of the same business.
The model fails under questions
Assumptions untested, and a founder who cannot say why a number moved.
Intellectual property not tidied
Ownership and licence terms with a university or former employer that diligence will find.
A data room built under diligence pressure
Contracts, ownership papers and filings pulled together late, with holes an investor will notice immediately.
A fractional finance lead rebuilds the forecast, pulls the data room together in advance and coaches the founders on what will be asked. Your lawyers deal with the term sheet and the legal paperwork. We make sure the story holds together and can be believed.
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
What stands behind your finance lead
Scottish and London investors alike are used to a part-time finance lead preparing a round. They judge the preparation, so the engagement is built around it.
A timetable we track
We check progress against the round at agreed points and flag it early if the forecast or the data room lags.
A second view on hard questions
Intellectual property, grant terms or an institution's model: your lead can test them with other finance operators in the collective.
No restart if the lead changes
If your finance lead cannot finish the round, our notes on it shape the next search and we handle the changeover.
Matched to your investors
Public-backed funds, venture investors and institutions read differently. We match a lead who has worked with yours.
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
