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Raise or sell on your terms.

We run the whole process: the materials, the target list, the approach, the negotiation and the close. You keep running the company.

No retainer. No obligation to sell. A success fee only.

You only pay if you accept an offer

Most advisers take a retainer whether the deal happens or not. We take the risk instead.

The fee is agreed with you in writing before any work begins.

No retainer, no monthly fee, no work fee

We run the full process at our own cost of time. Preparation, materials, the valuation view, the target list, the approach, the negotiation. None of it is billed to you along the way.

No obligation to sell

If you do not like the offers, you do not take them. You keep the company, you keep the valuation view and the materials, and you owe us nothing. Finding out what the market will pay is a legitimate reason to run a process.

We are paid only when you accept an offer

A success fee at closing, agreed in writing before we start, so there are no surprises at the end. No deal, no fee. Our incentive and yours point the same way from the first day.

Built for founders, searchers and owners

Three very different situations. The same method, adapted to each.

Raise the round with funds that actually fund your stage

From Pre-seed through Series B. We run the raise so you can keep running the company, and we take it to the funds and angels who write cheques at your stage, in your category, in the regions you care about.

Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B

Typical situations

  • A first institutional round after building with founder capital or an angel cheque
  • A priced round after a convertible note or SAFE
  • A bridge to reach the metrics the next round will be judged on
  • A round where the lead has to bring more than money: a market, a customer base, a licence
  • An inbound term sheet that needs a real process around it before you sign

Investors we bring

  • Venture funds matched to your stage, cheque size and thesis
  • Family offices and multi family offices that take direct venture positions
  • Corporate and strategic investors in your category
  • Angels and syndicates with operating history in your market
  • Venture debt and revenue based lenders where dilution is the concern

What you get

  • Positioning and materials built to survive a partner meeting
  • A target list of funds and investors, each one there for a reason
  • Parallel conversations so no single fund controls your timeline
  • Term sheet comparison on the terms that matter beyond valuation
  • A closed round, with a cap table you can still raise on

87%

Of our processes produced an offer

And 71% produced more than one at the same time, which is what gives an owner something to choose between.

Averages across processes we have run, describing what has happened before. Your own result will depend on the company, the market and the timing.

We work across all of them

Here is where we work most often, and what changes from one sector to the next. Open any of them.

We have taken companies to market in sectors that appear on no list. If yours is missing here, write to us and we will tell you plainly whether we can help.

Equity rounds from Pre-seed to Series B, majority sales to sponsors and strategics, and minority stakes where a founder wants liquidity without giving up the company. We build the metric story (retention, expansion, payback, mix of new and existing revenue) that decides the price.

Most active buyers and investors

  • Software focused venture funds by stage and vertical
  • Growth equity and lower mid market buyout funds
  • Strategic acquirers consolidating a category
  • Family offices taking long hold positions in recurring revenue
  • Venture debt and recurring revenue lenders

Buyers price software on the quality of its revenue. We surface the cohort and retention detail early, because the companies that hide it get discounted for it.

Your company anywhere. Buyers and investors from anywhere.

Most advisers work one market. We do not. A company in Mexico can be sold to a buyer in Germany, and a founder in Spain can raise from a family office in Singapore. In many processes the best offer comes from outside the home market, which is exactly why we go looking there.

Cross border is our normal case.

Every industry, at every stage, from Pre-seed to an established company.

Family offices, VCs, private equity, search funds, strategics and lenders.

64,000+Investors in the database

150+Countries covered

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Majority sale or minority stake

They are different decisions with different outcomes. This is the comparison owners actually need before choosing.

Majority saleMinority stake
What is soldMore than 50% of the company, and with it control.Less than 50%. You stay the largest shareholder.
Control after the dealTransfers to the buyer. You may stay to run the company, but you report to a new owner.Stays with you. The investor gets board representation and a defined set of protective rights.
Liquidity for the ownersFull, or partial if you roll part of your stake into the new structure.Partial. You take money off the table while keeping most of your position.
Money into the companyUsually none. The cash goes to the selling shareholders, though buyers often fund growth afterwards.Often the point. Growth capital goes onto the balance sheet to fund the plan.
Typical buyers and investorsStrategic buyers, private equity funds, family offices, search funds and independent sponsors.Growth equity funds, family offices, minority focused sponsors and strategic investors taking a position.
A second event laterPossible through a rollover: your retained stake sells again when the buyer exits.Likely. You still hold the majority when the company is eventually sold.
When it fits bestYou want out, or you want the risk off your balance sheet and you are ready to hand over the company.You believe the company is worth much more in a few years, and you want capital and a partner to get there without losing control.

Strategic buyers or financial sponsors

We adapt to what you want: a strategic, a sponsor, or both at the same table. Here is what each one actually means for you afterwards.

Strategic buyers

Companies that operate in your market or want to enter it. They buy for what your business does for theirs.

What works for you

  • Synergies can support a higher valuation than the numbers alone justify
  • Access to their market, their customers and their distribution
  • Operational support: systems, supply chain, hiring, capital equipment
  • A credible home for your team and your product over the long term
  • Often less reliant on debt, which can mean a cleaner structure

What to weigh up

  • Integration changes how the company runs, sometimes quickly
  • Loss of autonomy over decisions you used to make alone
  • You share commercially sensitive information with a potential competitor
  • Your brand may be absorbed into theirs
  • Approval can pass through committees and, in some deals, regulators

Financial sponsors

Private equity funds, family offices and similar investors. They buy for the return the business itself will produce.

What works for you

  • The company keeps operating independently, usually with the same management
  • Capital available for growth, acquisitions and hiring
  • Terms can be structured: rollover, earnout, staged payments, preferred instruments
  • A possible second liquidity event when the sponsor exits, if you rolled equity
  • Experience professionalising companies at exactly your size

What to weigh up

  • They have return targets, and those targets shape decisions
  • Debt is often used to fund the purchase, which puts debt service ahead of other priorities
  • They will exit on a timeline they set, usually within a set number of years
  • Reporting and governance become more formal than you are used to
  • Value creation plans can mean real change in how the business is run

Run both at once, and let them compete

A strategic buyer and a financial sponsor value the same company differently. So do a family office, a search fund and a lender. Running them in sequence means finding that out slowly, one no at a time. We run them together.

Your company
  • Family offices
  • Venture capital
  • Private equity
  • Search fund investors
  • Strategic buyers
  • Lenders

All approached at the same time.

Competitive tension

A party who knows others are at the table bids differently. It is the single biggest lever on price in any process.

Real price discovery

You find out what several kinds of buyer will pay before you choose between them.

Stronger terms

Price is one term among many. Competition improves the escrow, the earnout, the warranties and the timing.

More certainty of closing

Deals fall apart. A process with other live parties carries on from where it was.

A real fallback

If the best offer disappoints, you still have the rest of the table, and you still have the right to walk away.

From first call to closing

Six phases. Open any of them to see what happens, what we need from you and what you get back.

Preparation

Weeks 1 to 4

Everything a buyer or investor will ask for, ready before the first conversation.

What happens

  • We work out what the company is worth to different kinds of buyer, and why
  • We settle the positioning: what this business is, who it is for, why now
  • We build the target list and rank it by how likely each name is to act
  • We agree what stays confidential and how the approach will be worded

What you provide

  • Financial statements for the last three years, and the current year to date
  • Customer, revenue and cost detail good enough to stand up in diligence
  • Context on the business that is not in the numbers
  • Any names you do not want approached, for any reason

What we deliver

  • A blind teaser that describes the company without identifying it
  • A deck or an information memorandum, depending on the process
  • A financial model with the assumptions written down and defensible
  • A valuation view with the reasoning behind it
  • The target investor and buyer list, each name there for a stated reason

Treat these as typical shapes. Startup rounds usually move faster. Every process runs to its own timeline, set by the company, the market and the parties at the table.

Competition is the point

A process run properly does not produce one offer to take or leave. It produces several, at the same time, which is what moves the price.

40+

Countries where we have contacted investors and buyers on behalf of a client.

Figures are averages across processes we have run, describing what has happened before. Your own result will depend on the company, the market and the timing. Some processes end without an offer, and in those the client owes us nothing.

87% received at least one offer

Share of processes that produced a real offer to consider.

71% received multiple competing offers

Share of processes where more than one party was at the table at the same time.

FAQ

Questions people ask before they start

If yours is not here, write to us. We answer every email.

alejandro@sakbecapital.com
gregory@sakbecapital.com

Find out what your company is worth to the market

One email starts it. If the offers are not good enough, you walk away and owe us nothing.

No retainer. No obligation to sell. A success fee only, agreed in writing before we start.