Helping you secure investment
Add over a decade of experience in raising investment to your team overnight, significantly improving your chances of successfully securing investment.
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What we do
Raising Partners is an innovative investment consultancy. We partner with businesses of all sizes to secure investment through angel networks, VCs and crowdfunding. We provide a comprehensive service for entrepreneurs, start-ups or established businesses looking to raise equity investment and deliver a tailored level of service with our typical project timeline ranging between four and six months. Our fees depend of the on level of service you need and include a consultancy fee and a success commission – ensuring we’re invested in the success of your funding round. You’ll always be provided with a full quote for your project prior to working with us and there will never be any hidden costs.
How we can help
Angel Investment
Once we’ve got you investment ready, we’ll help you find angel investors who are just as passionate about your business as you are.
Crowdfunding
We’ve worked with businesses of all sizes to turn customers into investors by marrying strategic investment with the power of the crowd.s.
Venture Capital
For businesses with more traction we can help you identify and connect with leading venture capital firms who can help you take your business to the next level.
What we do
Review your business
We start by reviewing your funding strategy and business growth plan, assisting you with:
- Creating your timeline to exit
- Applying for SEIS/EIS advanced assurance if you don’t already have it
- Assessing & setting the valuation of your business
- Selecting the right funding route for you and your business
We build your investment pack
Creating an investment pack that stands out from the crowd is critical to your success. Investors see hundreds of pitches a week – we make sure yours piques their interest.
We work with you to create:
- Executive Summary of your business
- 20-30 page slide deck (summary of your business plan)
- Full financial model for the next 3 years
- Campaign assets e.g. pitch video
- Water-tight answers to frequently asked investor questions
- A stellar in-person pitch so you feel confident in face-to-face meetings
Manage your campaign
Once your investment pack is ready we work with you throughout your funding campaign to:
- Ensure you maintain momentum throughout your funding round
- Create and execute a marketing campaign to bring not only investors, but customers to your business
- Monitoring and managing any online live campaigns e.g. crowdfunding
- Introducing you to our network of investors
- Ensuring you are choosing the right investors for you and your business
Close your funding round
Closing your round can be stressful, time consuming and expensive. We work with our trusted legal and accountancy partners to:
- Ensure that all of your legal documents, articles of association and term sheets are in shape
- Issue share certificates and file necessary documents with companies house.
Latest news
10 Things to Know About Crowdfunding
With all the recent hype surrounding successful Crowdcube campaigns, it’s easy to assume that crowdfunding is the easy route to raising investment. Cut through the noise however, and you’ll find that the latest statistics consistently show that 50% of small businesses fail in the first four years. If raising funds were so straightforward, surely these figures would be drastically lower?
AirBnB Pitch Deck
With AirBnB set to go public this year, it seems like now is a good time to revisit the accommodation giant’s Pitch Deck from 2008. Fast-forward a decade to 2018 and AirBnB was making over $1 billion dollars in revenue and it’s estimated that this figure will increase to $8.5billion by 2020.
Back in 2008 however, CEO Brian Chesky was projecting a much smaller figure of $200 million by 2011. Their Pitch Deck was convincing enough to raise the investment they needed, and they received over $2 billion dollars in venture funding in a combination of 7 rounds of capital.
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The Untold Truth about the Best Entrepreneurs
At Raising Partners, we know the challenges that face every business, regardless of its industry, as well as appreciating the burden of responsibility that an entrepreneur comes up against. The untold truth about entrepreneurship is that it is a balance between many skills and abilities and can, at times, be a numbers game.
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About us
Raising Partners is an innovative investment consultancy which partners with businesses of all sizes to secure investment through angel networks, VCs and crowdfunding.
How we can help you
We provide a comprehensive service for entrepreneurs, start-ups or established businesses looking to raise equity investment. We work with companies to deliver a tailored level of service with our typical project timeline ranging between four and six months.
Our results
We’ve raised millions for businesses around the world. From AI shopping platforms to raw dog food, we’ve got a wealth of cross-sector experience.
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