Startup fundraising consultant We raise Series A to pre-IPO rounds.

A startup fundraising consultant runs the raise on the company's side: round size and structure, the equity story and valuation range, the investor materials (pitch deck, financial model and data room), the target list, the outreach and preparation for the negotiation through to signature. spectup is engaged by the company and brings the investors to the table.

A fundraising consultant is engaged to run one private round, on a monthly fee plus a success fee. A full-service bank also runs offerings, M&A and trading, and prices its desk for larger transactions.

spectup charges a monthly fee for the process, materials and outreach, plus a capped success fee on capital raised, due at closing.

Companies raising a Series A, scale-ups raising a Series B to Series D, and late-stage companies raising a pre-IPO round, with no upper limit on round size. Revenue and a defined use of proceeds are the two conditions. No pre-revenue, no pre-product, nothing before Series A.

Before the materials are built. A raise runs five to eight months from engagement to close and the first four weeks are fundraising strategy, positioning and materials. Coming in after outreach has already gone out means re-approaching investors who have already passed.

We start selection from three layers: 440+ direct investor and LP relationships out of closed transactions, 2,500+ investors and LPs we have sat in front of with clients, and 30+ partner firms whose own investors open on a shared mandate. Proprietary data on what each investor is currently writing cheques into narrows it. Our capital introduction services trigger outreach on live signals such as a new fund close, a partner move or a portfolio exit, so the approach lands while the investment decision is open.

Five to eight months from engagement to close. Strategy and positioning in the first fortnight, materials by week four, outreach from there.

No. spectup is paid by the company and never by an investor. No fund affiliations, no finder’s fees from the other side of the table.

Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, run by our international team. A European company raising from US funds is the most common shape of round we run, so we build the target list around where the capital for that sector sits.

No. spectup charges a monthly fee plus a capped success fee on capital raised. Investor appetite, timing and the company's own numbers all move the outcome, so the monthly fee covers the work and the capped success fee covers the result.

No, and anyone who guarantees a round is mispricing the risk. What we commit to is the process: a defensible range, materials a fund can diligence, a named list and the meetings. One mandate produced 74 of them. Whether a term sheet follows depends on your numbers and the market that quarter.

Raise it yourself if you already have the relationships, the materials, and someone who can spend five to eight months on outreach without dropping the company. Hire when the constraint is reach or attention: our list starts from 440+ names that already take the call and widens to 2,500+ investors we have pitched clients to in person.

spectup’s U.S.-related activity runs under SEC Rule 15a-6, through a chaperoning arrangement with a U.S. registered broker-dealer that is a FINRA and SIPC member.

Yes, but as a separate practice line. A fund manager raising a vehicle is a private placement: different scope, different investor base, different regulatory framing. It is set out on private placement agent services.

It is venture capital consulting only in the sense that we know the market. The difference is what lands on your desk: a consultant hands you a strategy deck and a target list, and you make the calls. We build the positioning, run the outreach from our own relationships, and prepare you for the room when the round is negotiated. You are buying execution.

Yes. Series A is the first round we take: revenue, a metric that is compounding, and a round the venture funds that lead at this stage can price. We build the equity story and the Series A metrics a fund diligences, then run the outreach. A $12M Series A for a robotics company in the United States is one of the rounds spectup has closed.

Yes. From Series B, growth is proven and the round is larger than the existing syndicate can carry, so we approach growth funds, family offices and strategic investors in parallel. spectup ran the investor outreach on PopMeals’ $18M Series B and led materials and positioning on CreatorIQ’s $40M Series D. What changes at this stage is set out in Series B funding.

Yes. A pre-IPO round comes after Series D, as the last private round before a listing, primary or secondary, and we raise it from crossover and growth equity investors. Our largest mandate is a £100M pre-IPO round, still running. How these rounds are structured and priced is in our guide to pre-IPO funding.

At Series A it is the venture funds that lead at that stage. From Series B to D it is growth funds, family offices and strategic investors, approached in parallel. At late stage and pre-IPO it is crossover and growth equity investors. The stage decides the list, the materials and the timeline; the full ladder is in startup funding stages.