A finance leader in the room before the investors arrive
Between a term sheet and a closed round sits a diligence process that finds every gap in your finance. In Malaysia much of the capital comes through government-linked investors and grant bodies with a high governance bar. We search our collective for a CFO who has raised before, vet them for your stage and embed them for the run-up and beyond.
Why Kuala Lumpur rounds stall
Rounds rarely fail on the idea. They slow down for reasons that can be fixed early:
The data room is not ready
Requested documents take weeks to produce, and institutional and government-linked investors take the delay as a signal about how the company is managed.
The model does not hold up
Assumptions are not written down, projections ignore unit economics and the model disagrees with the accounts. Investors' analysts will find it.
No finance leader to answer questions
When investors probe the numbers, the founder is the only one answering. Where the governance bar is high, that gap is noticed.
Housekeeping found late
Missing board resolutions, an untidy cap table or overdue statutory filings that should have been dealt with a year earlier. All common, all avoidable.
Each of these is avoidable with the right CFO embedded at the right time, and our collective can add operating or technology depth when diligence asks for it.
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 fractional CFO brings to your raise
Everything investors examine, built and presented by a finance leader matched for experience of Malaysian institutional and government-linked capital.
A model and data room that stand up
A model covering the next few years with its assumptions written down and scenarios tested, plus a tidy data room that shows the company is well run.
A story the numbers support
Your CFO connects the financial story to the strategy and represents it to venture funds, family offices and government-linked investors.
Company housekeeping in order
Statutory filings, tax positions and board records brought up to date before anyone asks, so diligence finds a tidy company.
More than one leader if needed
Pair your CFO with a COO, or bring in a CTO for technology diligence, at whatever pace your round needs.
After the round
After the close your CFO turns to delivery, keeping the board informed on the milestones promised to investors, with our governance in place throughout.
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.
Who supports a raise?
The CFO leads most raises, but diligence often reaches further into the business.
Executives who have raised alongside
