Let the numbers carry the round.
The pitch rarely decides a round. The follow-up questions do, and the company either has the answers or it does not. That is preparation, and it can be done.
Where Doha rounds stall
In Doha raises, the same few things slow a process or end it:
The model does not survive a changed assumption
It works until an investor tests it. Change one input and nobody in the room can say what follows.
A data room assembled in diligence
An investor reads that as a verdict on management.
Story and numbers disagree
The narrative promises one path and the financials show another. A good investor finds the gap first.
The raise has no owner
The founder runs the raise and the company, and both suffer.
A CFO with raising experience takes the round over from the founder, handling the model, the investor pack, the data room and diligence, and anticipating questions investors have yet to ask. A Qatar Development Bank programme, a sovereign-linked fund and a regional investor each assess a company in a different way, and we match a CFO who has dealt with the ones you are approaching.
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
What a round gets from us
Qatar Development Bank programmes, sovereign-linked funds and regional investors are used to a fractional CFO preparing a round. They test the preparation, and that is what we build around.
Reviews against the timetable
We check progress at agreed points and say early if the model or the data room is slipping.
A second finance opinion
Your CFO can test an assumption or an investor's model with other finance operators in the collective.
No restart mid-round
If your CFO has to step away mid-round, the brief and our notes stay with us for the next search.
Matched to the investors you face
A development bank, a sovereign-linked fund and a regional investor read differently. We match a CFO who knows yours.
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
