Seed, Entrepreneur, and Capital Corporate Network
Reducing the burden on founders via process, structure, and connections.
Raising capital is a lot harder than it looks. For example, last year a major capital source looked at 3,000 business plans and invested in 21 – roughly a 0.7% hit rate for the companies that pitched. Another well-known startup financier received 10,000 business plans and did 10 deals – a 0.1% hit rate – the odds are not in your favor.
Raising money is also a tremendous time commitment. It is not uncommon to spend 3 to 6 months of nearly full-time effort on a successful venture round. The money hunt often becomes an all-consuming distraction for founders at the very time they need to stay focused on building their companies.
We can help. We’ve been through the process multiple times; we’ve served as Investment Bankers, Chief Executive Officers, Legal Counsel, or Chief Financial Officers to clients that have successfully raised funding. Our work includes:
Pre-Funding Prep:
- Financing strategy within the context of business needs and objectives
- Positioning of the company in an optimal manner; pitch development and refinement
- Preparation of deal book, models, and due diligence binder
Funding Support:
- Investor research; Creation of target investor lists; Management of “electronic networking portfolio”
- Investor outreach and networking
- Generation of attraction and momentum strategies to accelerate the funding process
Venture Capital Consultants
Finding the venture capital you need for a new business is a challenge. While you are in the process of contacting and meeting with investment firms, you will find that you are being contacted by venture capital consultants. What are these companies, and will they help you get the financing that you need?
Venture capital consultants are companies or individuals that make it their goal to help a business find venture capital investors for its start up or seed money needs. These companies claim that they have the contacts in the venture capital industry that the business owner needs in order to successfully land the investment deal. They charge a fee for their service, and if successful, can save a business a lot of time and energy that would have been wasted searching the wrong way for the money needed for the business.
To choose the right venture capital consultant, find a person or company who will work at knowing your business and the industry it is involved in. Hiring a venture capital consultant, if you find a quality one, can save you much wasted time while searching for someone to invest in your business. Take the time to interview potential consultants until you find someone you are comfortable with, and who sees the potential in your business plan. The two of you will become a team, seeking the successful financing of your business.
Capital Corporate Network, headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, offers Venture Capital preparation and consultation services to entrepreneurs. We act as your strategic networking consultant in the overall design and implementation of your business or new business concept. Capital Corporate Network focuses on entrepreneur and early stage companies across a broad spectrum of industries. At Capital Corporate Network we will assist you in packaging your business technologies or industry innovation into a coherent, strategic, focused, and professional presentation to the venture capital, entrepreneur investor, and small business financing community.
Introduction
Capital Corporate Network specializes in funding, financing, consulting and deal flow both domestically and internationally. We assist companies large and small, private or public, in attaining their capital goals. Whether you are seeking capital, restructuring, acquiring companies or assets, going public, or wanting to expand, Capital Corporate Network’s diverse corporate networking platform offers options and services unequal to others. Our methodology is simple; focus on the solution to get the end result by networking corporate resources and capital.
The Capital Corporate Network team has developed a breadth of experience developed from participating in all facets of business transactions and capital funding. This experience comes from sitting on all sides of the table; advising and consulting on transactions (legally and strategically), and from our own involvement in buying, selling and acquiring capital for ventures in various markets and industries, both public and private.
Our team is knowledgeable in traditional and non-traditional capital source funding, mergers and acquisitions, including all corporate legal considerations as well as advising on operational and financial strategy. Our team’s creative philosophy and nature leaves no stone unturned, finding the best and most effective source of capital available that fits the needs of your business. Capital Corporate Network will advise and support your business strategy at a local or national level. Our team of legal and business experts can help guide you through the M&A process and negotiate the best outcome. We will help ensure you are protected during and after the transaction.
The team consists of financial professionals with over 80 years of combined experience. We’ve been in the trenches doing our own deals, sitting on all sides of the table. We know all the challenges, risks, and pitfalls and how to negotiate, mitigate risk and protect our clients. Our experience encompasses and is focused on:
- Capital funding (traditional and non-traditional)
- Private equity
- Legal, financial and business strategy
- Mergers and acquisitions
Capital Funding
Our goal is to match the needs of the business to the best available source of funding and strategy. We do this by taking a strategic networking approach – looking at all options (public and private financing programs) for our clients:
- Traditional Venture/ Equity Capital Fund Raising
- Alternative forms of financing
- Financial Review & Business Strategy
Capital Corporate Network understands that one size does not fit all and takes a consultative approach. We offer personalized service and bring the energy to each client as if the business was our own because we know and have been there. There are always challenges in any transaction, but, it is our approach to overcoming those challenges by focusing on a solution and making any project a success.
To set expectations, we bring a standard methodology to our clients and further adapt to fit the needs of the individualized business. Our methodology typically consists of the following steps:
- Initial free consultation – introduction to the Funding Readiness Process
- Engagement letter and development of goals/objectives and scope
- Business assessment
- Research alternative solutions
- Findings and recommendations
- Pursue funding options
- Navigate the transactional process and funding solutions
- Close the transaction and advise on future implications
Our goal is to match the needs of the client to the best available source of funding and strategy. We do this by taking a strategic networking approach – looking at all options (public and private financing programs) for our clients. We conduct a financial review and look at the business strategy to help determine the best source of funding. These include venture/private equity and other traditional sources.
We Want to Be Your Capital Network
As experienced and successful venture networkers, Capital Corporate Network will network to find the capital you need to launch and grow your business. Working as your strategic capital adviser, we develop a road map to guide you to your goal of getting funded. We offer strategic services that position your company for sustainable and scalable growth. With our network of early stage funding sources that include a large network of private capital entrepreneur investors, institutional small business investors, a variety of debt financing sources, and our deep experience, we are skilled at creating an integrated business funding plan and the strategy to execute. Whether you are at the seed stage and need to raise your start-up capital, preparing to present to an entrepreneur group in an entrepreneur investor network, raising venture capital or seeking growth expansion capital under a REG D 506c or REG A+, we will create a strategy that will fit your time schedule and budget. The team at Capital Corporate Network have the know how to put a capital strategy in place to fit a company’s strategic plan and we have the network and experience to implement your capital strategy.
Whether you are a sole owner or represent a sizable corporation, Capital Corporate Network can assist. As business owners ourselves, we understand all too well how challenging business ownership can be, which is why Capital Corporate Network’s Consulting and Advisory Services are made for business owners like you. Whether you are looking for consultations regarding mergers, acquisitions, capital funding, debt placement solutions, owner buyouts, or corporate restructurings, you can take advantage of our experience and networks and apply it to your unique situation.
The Capital Corporate Network team will help guide you through a variety of situations ranging from traditional financial solutions related to capital and funding needs, debt placement, owner buyouts, business roll-ups, and financial restructuring to supporting company growth initiatives, and even unsolicited buyout offers or merger opportunities. Our initial consultation will be at no charge until we can determine a mutually agreeable arrangement, with all discussions kept strictly confidential.
At Capital Corporate Network Partners, we measure our success in simple terms, your results.