How it works
The machinery, published.
Most platforms will not tell you what happens to a submission after you send it. This page is the whole process: the seven stages, the eight areas of evidence, and how an opportunity is put in front of an investor.
The process, in full
Seven stages. Nothing happens off the record.
Choose a stage to see what each person is doing at that moment, including where someone is deliberately shown nothing.
An opportunity is written up once, in nine sections, with the evidence attached and the declarations signed.
Deal owner
External- Work the nine sections as a draft, over as many sittings as you need
- Upload the evidence behind your claims
- Sign the five declarations and send it
- Get your reference number straight away
Deal manager
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Nothing is asked of the reviewer, the senior approver or the investor at this stage.
Verification
Eight areas, each with a result and a note.
A reviewer works every one of these against the documents supplied, and records a pass, a query or a fail with a written reason. A query or a fail cannot be left unexplained. A deal cannot leave this stage until all eight carry a result.
- 01Identity and authorityEntity exists, submitter identity, authority to submit, ownership and beneficial owners
- 02CorporateRegistration, directors, shareholders, constitutional documents
- 03FinancialAccounts, forecasts, model, funding history, key assumptions
- 04Legal and regulatoryPermits, licences, title or rights; unresolved disputes disclosed
- 05TechnicalFeasibility and technical studies, implementation plan for the stage
- 06CommercialCustomers or offtakers, market evidence, revenue model, route to market
- 07ESG and impactImpact claims supported, material environmental and social risks disclosed
- 08Capital askAmount, instrument, use of funds, ticket size, proposed structure
The sign-off is given by someone who did not record the checks. The record shows who checked what, and when.
Matching
Scored against your mandate, on five things.
An investor states a mandate once. Every investor-ready opportunity is scored against it, and a deal manager reads the ranking before deciding who to approach.
The score is an internal triage aid, not a recommendation. Investors are never shown one, and nor are originators. A sector on your exclusion list blocks a match outright, whatever it would otherwise have scored.
- Sector30 points
Whether the sector is one you named, or an adjacent one.
- Geography25 points
Whether the country is one you named, or inside a region you named.
- Ticket size20 points
Whether the capital sought sits inside your band, or close enough to stretch.
- Instrument15 points
Whether the instrument on offer is one you take.
- Ownership10 points
Whether the ownership structure is one you accept.
Who sees what
Nothing is published. Everything is released.
There is no browsable list of opportunities. An investor sees a deal because a deal manager named them, at a level, until a date. That release is logged, and it can be withdrawn.
- 01TeaserSector, country, stage, capital ask and the headline. No name, no documents.
- 02Full profileThe named profile, the approved copy, and the documents we chose to publish.
- 03Diligence roomEverything above, plus the evidence room and a direct conversation.
An introduction between an originator and an investor is a deliberate act: both people are named, both are told, and the person who authorised it signs for it.
That is the whole of it.
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