Raising in the Philippines? Bring a CFO to the table.
Local funds and conglomerate venture arms have become more selective, and diligence finds every gap in your numbers. We search our collective for a fractional Chief Financial Officer who has taken companies through a raise, vet them and embed them alongside you before the first investor meeting.
Why Manila rounds slow down
A round rarely stalls for mysterious reasons. The causes are specific, and most can be fixed in advance:
A data room that takes weeks
Each request becomes a scramble. Funds in Bonifacio Global City and Makati, and the corporate venture arms of the family groups, take the delay as a clue to how the company operates.
A model that does not hold up
Assumptions nobody wrote down, projections disconnected from unit economics, and a model that disagrees with the P&L. After a cooler funding market, investors here test the numbers hard.
The founder answering every finance question
Investors want to hear from someone who owns the numbers. When the founder is fielding every question on margins and cash, it shows.
Housekeeping found too late
Board resolutions nobody filed, a cap table out of date, and corporate filings left a year too long. All avoidable with time and an owner.
The right CFO, brought in early enough, deals with each of these before an investor sees them. Our collective can add operations or technology depth if diligence goes there too.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Preparing for a funding round in the next three to six months
- A data room or financial model that will not survive diligence
- Gaps in investor reporting, cap table or board resolutions
- A founder carrying every financial question personally
- Numbers and investor narrative that do not yet line up
Not for
- A business with no revenue or traction to diligence yet
- A one-off pitch deck or investor slide design
- A team that wants a document produced, not a leader embedded
- A round already closed that needs only bookkeeping
How a fractional CFO supports a Philippine raise
The work investors scrutinise, built and presented by a finance leader who knows what local and regional funds look for.
Model and data room
A model that runs three to five years out, every assumption written down and the scenarios shown, plus a data room organised so that diligence moves quickly rather than stalling on requests.
The story behind the numbers
Your CFO links the financial case to the strategy and works with you through conversations with local funds such as Kickstart Ventures and Foxmont, family offices and conglomerate venture arms.
Clean filings and incentives
Corporate filings, tax positions and any incentive registrations reviewed with your advisers and in order before investors start asking.
More than one leader if needed
A CFO and COO together, or a CTO for technical diligence, matched from the same collective and briefed on the same timetable.
Still there after the close
Your CFO moves from raising to delivering: board reporting against the milestones in your deck, with our governance around the engagement throughout.
From gap to investor-ready
Calibrated to your round timeline.
Fundraise assessment
We assess your current financial infrastructure, identify gaps, and calibrate to your round timeline.
CFO deployment
Your matched Fractional CFO is embedded within two to three weeks and begins building investor-grade infrastructure.
Fundraise preparation
Financial model, data room, board pack, governance, built and stress-tested before you enter conversations.
Round support and post-close
Your CFO stays through the round and transitions to execution mode. Reporting infrastructure, milestone tracking, and board presence.
Before, during and after the round
What a fractional CFO owns at each stage of a raise.
Who supports a fundraise
The CFO leads, and diligence sometimes reaches further.
Executives who have raised alongside
