Raise on the model, not on the pitch.
Most rounds are won or lost on the second and third question. Investors in Dublin tend to test the answers, so the work is in being ready for them.
Why rounds stall
Irish rounds tend to stumble in the same places:
The model does not tie to the accounts
An investor opens the forecast, checks it against the ledger, and the conversation changes.
The investors are in three countries
A Dublin company raising from Irish, London and US funds meets three sets of expectations on terms, structure and reporting.
The data room is a folder
Contracts, cap table and filings are somewhere, and diligence finds the gaps before you do.
The founder is the whole process
Raising takes months. The business suffers while the founder is in meetings.
A fractional CFO who has raised before runs the process so the founder does not have to: the model, the pack, the data room and the questions. You keep the relationships. They keep the process moving, and keep the company running while you do it.
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 Dublin round
Investors deal with your CFO. Behind the scenes we hold the brief and the governance, and watch the timetable until the money is in.
With you to the close
We track the round alongside you and the CFO, and tell you early if the model, the data room or the timetable falls behind.
Views from other rounds
A US fund's term sheet or a grant body's reporting demand can go to peers in our collective of 800+ who have dealt with both.
The round keeps moving
If the CFO has to leave mid-round, we search again with the round's documents and history already gathered, and handle the changeover ourselves.
Matched to your investors
We match for where the money is coming from, Dublin, London or the US, and for how the founder handles 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 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
