Insights
Insights: raising institutional capital
Practical guidance for companies and projects preparing to raise: finding investors, investor readiness, data rooms, financial models and capital structure.
Renewable energy
How to Find Investors for a Renewable Energy Project
Investors for renewable energy projects are plentiful. Investors for your project, at its current stage and size, are a much shorter list. This is how to find them.
How to Find Family Offices Investing in Renewable Energy
Family offices have become significant direct investors in the energy transition. They are also the hardest institutional investors to identify, and the least tolerant of a poor approach.
How to Raise Capital for a Renewable Energy Project
Renewable energy attracts more institutional capital than almost any other sector, yet many projects that go looking for it come back empty handed. The reason is rarely the project. It is the sequence.
Battery storage
Investor readiness
What Institutional Investors Look For Before Investing
Every institutional investor runs a version of the same process: a fast first screen, a data room review, then committee. Understanding what each stage tests is the most useful preparation a company can do.
Why Investors Reject Investment Opportunities
Investors rarely tell you the real reason they declined. These are the reasons we see most often, and what each one signals on the other side of the table.
How to Make a Project Investor Ready
Investor readiness is not a document. It is the point at which every question an investor will ask has an answer, and every answer has evidence behind it.
What Should Be Included in an Investor Data Room?
An investor judges the data room as a proxy for how the business is run. Complete, organised and current says one thing; partial and disordered says another.
How to Prepare a Financial Model for Investors
An investor's analyst will open your model expecting to rebuild it. Build it so they can, and so the numbers still stand when they have.
Infrastructure
Capital structure
Approaching investors
How Much Information Should You Send an Investor?
Too little and the investor cannot assess the opportunity. Too much, too early, and you lose control of confidential information and of the process.
How to Approach Institutional Investors
Institutional investors respond to fit, preparation and a credible route in. A small number of well chosen, well prepared approaches will outperform a large number of hopeful ones.
Capital raising
Data centres
Find out what an investor will see before approaching the market.
The Investor Readiness Review is a fixed fee assessment of your opportunity, written from the investor side of the table. You receive a scored report, the issues most likely to stop an investor, and the order in which to address them.