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Fund Capital

We run the capital formation, and you keep what it builds.

Placement agents take managers whose raise is already probable. Everyone else raises from a personal network that runs out, and the next step on offer is usually a cold-email agency. We run a capital formation process we call PIPELINE, eight stages that carry a fund from how it is positioned through to the conversation with each limited partner (LP) and the re-up, which is the next commitment from an investor already in your fund. The market map, the materials and the execution system are built before any allocator is approached, and they stay yours when the engagement ends.

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Process

How PIPELINE runs

Eight stages, grouped in three. The first group establishes what is being sold and to whom, the second builds demand for it, and the third converts that demand and compounds it into the next raise.

Define & Prove

  1. PPositioningPhase 1
  2. IInvestor fitPhase 1
  3. PProof & materials systemPhase 1

Build Demand

  1. EExternal credibilityPhase 1
  2. LLP conversation mathsPhase 1 designs, Phase 2 runs

Convert & Compound

  1. IInvestor objections & sales trainingPhase 1 designs, Phase 2 runs
  2. NNext-step processPhase 1 designs, Phase 2 runs
  3. EExisting LP re-upsPhase 2

Phase 1: Institutional Readiness Sprint

Phase 2: Full Capital Formation Mandate

Phase 1 builds the first four stages and designs the conversation stages in the execution blueprint. Phase 2 runs the conversation stages live with allocators and adds existing LP re-ups.
01

Define & Prove

What the fund is, who it is for, and the evidence supporting both, settled before an allocator sees any of it. Most raises that stall were never defined tightly enough to begin with.

  • PPositioning.What the fund is, why it exists now, and what it is competing against for the same allocation.
  • IInvestor fit.The target allocator written down in numbers: type, check size, mandate fit and geography, agreed with you before any name is worked.
  • PProof & materials system.The investment narrative, the track-record evidence built from your own published record, the due diligence questionnaire (DDQ) and the data-room map, prepared the way a committee will read them.

Decision pointYou approve the positioning and the investor definition before anything is built on top of them, and the definition is the standard every later name is tested against.

02

Build Demand

Credibility built where allocators actually look, and the arithmetic of the raise made explicit before it is run.

  • EExternal credibility.The evidence an allocator finds when they look you up, audited as it stands today and then built out deliberately.
  • LLP conversation maths.How many conversations produce a meeting, how many meetings produce a commitment, and what that makes the raise cost in time. The number is written down, so a target that cannot be reached is visible early.
03

Convert & Compound

The conversation itself, and what happens to it afterwards. Most raises lose investors here, when a meeting ends without a defined next step.

  • IInvestor objections & sales training.The objections your strategy actually draws, rehearsed against it, so the answer is ready the first time it is needed.
  • NNext-step process.A defined next step out of every meeting, with the CRM stages and governance to hold it.
  • EExisting LP re-ups.Investors already in your fund are worked for their re-up, the commitment to your next fund.

LP conversation maths

  1. 01Conversations
  2. 02Meetings
  3. 03Diligence
  4. 04Commitments
Illustrative. Each stage converts a share of the one before it. The real ratios for your raise are written down in this stage, so a target that cannot be reached is visible early.

You keep what the process builds.

Relationships built by a placement agent leave when that engagement ends, and an agency's sequences sit inside the agency's own accounts. The market map, the materials, the CRM records and the conversation history belong to you from the first week and stay with you afterwards.

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Engagement

The work runs in two phases.

The first phase is a fixed-scope sprint that ends with a decision. The second is the mandate to run the raise, and it is only proposed once the first has been read.

Phase 1: Institutional Readiness Sprint

A fixed fee for a fixed scope, both set in the engagement letter before any work starts. It opens with an in-person working session at your office and runs to a materials build of four to six weeks. It delivers the capital architecture, the investor market map, the institutional materials and the execution blueprint.

Phase 2: Full Capital Formation Mandate

After the sprint we present the recommended investor route, the execution scope, the milestones, the responsibilities and definitive commercial terms. If aligned, the firm acts as an extension of your team to prepare, launch and manage the process, with regulated placement activity conducted through an appropriately registered broker-dealer where required.

What Phase 1 delivers
Capital architecture
Stage P, positioning. The fund or strategic-account pathway, close sequencing, and the minimum check and concentration logic the vehicle will run under.
Investor market map
Stage I, investor fit. Ranked allocator segments, decision-makers, allocation logic and an evidence-based addressable universe, which you approve before any outreach.
Institutional materials
Stages P and E, the proof and materials system and external credibility. The investment narrative, track-record evidence built from your published record, the DDQ and data-room map, and the investor-facing content system.
Execution blueprint
Stages L, I and N, designed for Phase 2 to run: the conversation model, the objections playbook, the meeting workflow, CRM stages, KPIs and next-step governance for every investor touch.

Phase 2 runs stages L, I and N live with allocators and adds the last stage, E, existing LP re-ups.

Decision point

Phase 1 ends and you read the work

The capital architecture, the market map, the materials and the blueprint are in your hands.

  1. Run the raise

    Phase 2: Full Capital Formation Mandate

    We present the recommended investor route, the scope, the milestones and definitive commercial terms for you to accept or decline.

  2. Change the route

    A strategic account route

    The sprint concludes that a strategic account route beats a fund, and the capital architecture already sets out that pathway.

  3. Hold the raise

    Not ready yet

    The sprint concludes that the raise is not ready yet, and you learn that before committing to a mandate.

The Phase 1 work is yours whichever route you take.

Who this is for

Mandate criteria

The process works when you can take the meetings it produces. These are the parameters we work within.

Fund Capital Criteria
Client
Fund managers and independent sponsors raising or preparing to raise.
Size
Raises from $5M to $250M.
Scope
Capital formation end to end, from the positioning and the allocator definition through to meetings landing in your calendar with a briefing note attached.
Role
We prepare the raise and run the process. Regulated placement activity is conducted through an appropriately registered broker-dealer where required.
Position
The offer, the investor relationships and everything the process builds are yours.
Reporting
Monthly, on contacts, conversations and meetings booked. Replies and meetings are the tracked metrics.

Questions managers ask

Before a mandate starts

What have you built before?

For a fund, the investor acquisition system at Warburton Investment Management, run while its assets under management grew from about $1M to about $20M, with the fund's own performance part of that growth. A pipeline of more than forty qualified investors for Ignite Equity. For a company raise, the roadshow programme behind Discovery Capital Partners' $21.2M fintech platform raise: three sold-out events and more than 300 investors attending, with the offer made by the issuer and its licensed advisers. The pipelines and systems were ours, and the fund performance and the offers were the clients'.

Do you talk to our investors?

You, or your licensed placement agent, make the offer. We take no compensation contingent on the sale of securities. The process prepares the raise, builds the market map and books the meetings, and where an engagement calls for regulated placement activity, that work is conducted through an appropriately registered broker-dealer.

Why does the sprint come before the mandate?

Because the sprint can conclude that the raise is not ready, or that a strategic account route beats a fund. You read that before committing to a mandate, and the work is yours either way.

How fast does the process move?

The materials build runs four to six weeks from the working session, and the pipeline builds from the first sequences after it. The monthly count shows the movement in numbers, and each meeting in it can be found on your own calendar.