Fractional Executive Search

Walk into the data room with nothing left to explain.

Investors in Madrid and abroad read the same things: the metrics, the model and whether the team can answer the third question. Preparing for that is a project, and it needs an owner.

A senior finance executive composed at a boardroom table in low evening light
The situation

Why Spanish raises drag

Across founders raising in Spain the same few things appear:

01

The model does not reconcile

The deck shows one revenue figure, the bank account another and the accounts a third.

02

The equity paperwork is incomplete

Share transfers, shareholder agreements and option plans done quickly and never tidied.

03

The process runs through the founder

Every meeting, follow-up and diligence request lands on the one person who is also running the company.

04

Debt and equity are not weighed together

A bank line, a public loan and a venture round decided separately, not as one funding plan.

A fractional executive prepares the business for the questions and runs the process: the model, the data room and the rehearsed answers. The choice of investor stays yours. The aim is that the company is ready when you choose.

Is it the right fit?

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
A quiet meeting room at dusk, two chairs across a table, the city skyline beyond

Investor-ready, before the first meeting.

Preparing a raise

Ready before the first meeting

The person is chosen for the funding mix in front of you, and we stay involved until the money is in.

1 monthNotice, either way
800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksBrief to deployment
30–60%Less than a full-time hire, on our engagements

Alongside you to signing

We review the engagement with you as the process runs, and adjust the brief if the funding plan changes.

A peer tests the model

Before an investor sees the model, a peer from the collective can try to break it.

Mid-round changes handled

A raise cannot wait for a fresh start. If the executive has to leave mid-round, we search again from what we already know and take charge of the handover.

Fluent with lenders and funds

Spanish banks and public lenders expect one kind of pack, investors another. We match for someone who can produce both.

How it works

From gap to investor-ready

Calibrated to your round timeline.

01

Fundraise assessment

We assess your current financial infrastructure, identify gaps, and calibrate to your round timeline.

02

CFO deployment

Your matched Fractional CFO is embedded within two weeks and begins building investor-grade infrastructure.

03

Fundraise preparation

Financial model, data room, board pack, governance, built and stress-tested before you enter conversations.

04

Round support and post-close

Your CFO stays through the round and transitions to execution mode. Reporting infrastructure, milestone tracking, and board presence.

The round, end to end

Before, during and after the round

What a fractional CFO owns at each stage of a raise.

Stage
What the CFO owns
StageBefore
What the CFO ownsFinancial model, data room and governance in order
StageDuring
What the CFO ownsInvestor questions, diligence and the financial story
StageAfter
What the CFO ownsBoard reporting, milestone tracking and cash discipline
Our fractional services

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.

Proven leadership

Executives who have raised alongside

Sequoia
Andreessen Horowitz
Goldman Sachs
JPMorgan
Morgan Stanley
Index Ventures
Accel
Balderton
Common questions

The questions buyers ask first

Ideally before you meet the first investor. The model and the data room take longer than the pitch, and fixing them mid-process costs momentum.

No. Bank financing, public loans and a sale process all call for the same groundwork, and the strongest plans consider them side by side.

The engagement can continue. After the raise, the investor reports and the board calendar still have to be run, and the same executive can run them.

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Other moments we cover

Get started

Raise with a credible finance leader in the room.

Tell us where the round stands. We will assess the model, data room and governance, then match a fractional CFO who has raised before, embedded within weeks.

Get investor-ready