For low­er and mid­dle-mar­ket com­pa­nies look­ing to raise mon­ey, it can be tempt­ing to do it your­self. Maybe you have a few con­nec­tions and can talk a good game. Prob­lem is, run­ning a com­pa­ny is a full-time job you already have. Dis­trac­tions can weak­en your posi­tion and deval­ue your business. 

Anoth­er prob­lem: con­tact­ing a hand­ful of poten­tial investors, lenders, or buy­ers will not get you the best deal avail­able. Even riski­er, your efforts may take much longer to con­clude than you can afford. Sud­den­ly, you’re in reac­tive mode, respond­ing to prob­lems instead of con­trol­ling your des­tiny. We’ve seen this movie many times.

Our invest­ment bank­ing team, which includes for­mer CEOs and CFOs, under­stands these issues since some of us have lived, and learned from them. We take an informed yet real­is­tic approach to learn­ing every­thing we can about your com­pa­ny — from finan­cial per­for­mance to your com­pet­i­tive land­scape. We can address account­ing and per­for­mance issues, deter­mine whether you’re ask­ing for enough cap­i­tal, ulti­mate­ly posi­tion­ing your com­pa­ny for the best pos­si­ble outcome. 

We then reach out — not to a hand­ful but to hun­dreds of poten­tial investors includ­ing cred­it funds, pri­vate equi­ty firms, fam­i­ly offices, banks and oth­er insti­tu­tion­al investors. This max­i­mizes your expo­sure, cre­at­ing a sit­u­a­tion where lenders are com­pet­ing to invest in your com­pa­ny. At Chi­ron, rais­ing cap­i­tal is what we do. And we’ve per­fect­ed the process of doing it right.