Sector Expertise

We speak the investor's language in nine sectors.

Sector-specific fundraising dynamics, investor maps, and diligence playbooks. We bring the right vocabulary, the right comparables, and the right rooms, because what makes a company investable differs profoundly by sector.

9
Sectors covered
EU · UK
Capital geography
Equity & debt
Structures

What investors actually evaluate, sector by sector.

For each sector: what investors care about, the diligence issues that recur, the capital structures that fit, and the investor profiles that lead.

Energy & Renewables

Project financePlatform equityPPAs
What investors care about

Contracted offtake, levelised cost, permitting status, and the pipeline behind the platform. Bankability over story.

Common diligence issues

Permitting risk, grid-connection queues, optimistic resource assumptions, and project-vs-platform conflation.

Capital structures

Project-level debt, development equity, platform growth equity, and structured construction finance.

Typical investor profiles

Infrastructure funds, energy-transition specialists, strategic utilities, and green-debt providers.

BESS & Infrastructure

StorageGrid assetsContracted
What investors care about

Revenue-stacking logic, merchant exposure, route-to-market, and the durability of contracted cash flows.

Common diligence issues

Merchant-revenue assumptions, degradation curves, offtake counterparty risk, and EPC delivery certainty.

Capital structures

Asset-backed debt, infrastructure equity, and hybrid structures blending contracted and merchant returns.

Typical investor profiles

Infrastructure and energy-storage funds, pension-backed vehicles, and specialist credit.

Blockchain & Digital Assets

InfrastructureTokenizationInstitutional
What investors care about

Real revenue over token narratives, regulatory posture, custody, and a credible institutional use-case.

Common diligence issues

Token-vs-equity confusion, regulatory ambiguity, treasury risk, and retail-led positioning.

Capital structures

Equity-first rounds, SAFE+token-warrant hybrids, and structured infrastructure financing.

Typical investor profiles

Digital-asset funds with institutional mandates, fintech crossover investors, and strategics.

AI & SaaS

Recurring revenueApplied AINRR
What investors care about

Net revenue retention, gross margin, the durability of any AI moat, and efficient growth, not just ARR.

Common diligence issues

Inflated ARR definitions, churn masked by upsell, model-cost economics, and thin defensibility.

Capital structures

Priced equity rounds, venture debt for runway extension, and revenue-based financing for efficient growth.

Typical investor profiles

Software VCs, applied-AI specialists, growth funds, and strategic platform acquirers.

Fintech

PaymentsLendingInfrastructure
What investors care about

Unit economics net of risk, licensing, take-rate durability, and the quality of underwriting or fraud controls.

Common diligence issues

Regulatory licensing gaps, loss-rate optimism, balance-sheet vs platform models, and compliance debt.

Capital structures

Equity plus debt/warehouse facilities for lending books, and structured capital for balance-sheet growth.

Typical investor profiles

Fintech specialist VCs, financial strategics, and debt providers for lending capital.

Climate & Circular Economy

DecarbonisationCircularImpact
What investors care about

Verifiable impact alongside commercial returns, scalability of the technology, and policy tailwinds.

Common diligence issues

Impact greenwashing, capital intensity, first-of-a-kind scale-up risk, and subsidy dependence.

Capital structures

Blended finance, grant-plus-equity, catalytic capital, and structured project funding.

Typical investor profiles

Climate and impact funds, corporate venture arms, and development finance institutions.

Industrial Technology

AutomationIoTHardware+SW
What investors care about

Hardware-software margin blend, deployment cycle, recurring-revenue attach, and capital efficiency.

Common diligence issues

Long sales cycles, working-capital intensity, services-vs-product margins, and concentration risk.

Capital structures

Growth equity, asset and inventory finance, and structured capital for working-capital needs.

Typical investor profiles

Industrial-tech VCs, growth funds, strategic OEMs, and specialist asset lenders.

Advanced Manufacturing

ReshoringEBITDAScale-up
What investors care about

EBITDA quality, capacity utilisation, order-book visibility, and the path from pilot line to scale.

Common diligence issues

Capex underestimation, yield ramp risk, customer concentration, and supply-chain fragility.

Capital structures

Growth equity, asset-backed and equipment finance, and structured capex facilities.

Typical investor profiles

Industrial growth equity, private equity, strategic acquirers, and asset-based lenders.

Healthtech / Biotech

RegulatoryReimbursementClinical
What investors care about

Regulatory pathway, clinical evidence, reimbursement strategy, and IP position over headline TAM.

Common diligence issues

Regulatory-approval timing, reimbursement uncertainty, evidence gaps, and IP defensibility.

Capital structures

Milestone-based equity, non-dilutive grants, venture debt, and strategic partnership capital.

Typical investor profiles

Healthcare and life-science VCs, strategic pharma/medtech, and specialist crossover funds.

We'll map your raise to the right capital and rooms.

The Investability Assessment includes a sector-specific investor archetype map and the diligence issues your sector will face.