Make the next thing happen fast, without compromise. We combine the best corporate practices with startup agility, giving you a scalable route to your next milestone or fundraising round.
Most scaleups need strategy support through the fundraising process. But that support shouldn’t bloat.. When you’re used to minimum viable thinking, hiring a M&A boutique or investment bank seems unnecessary – and often it is.
Sweav gives you a more streamlined kind of interim strategy support. Our fundraising freelancers draw on their experience as investment managers (+) of private equity and venture capital firms, or as managers and VPs of investment banks. They’ve led fundraising processes from the investor side and scale-up side
12 – 20 weeks, 1-3 days per week, €20-70k.
The story of your company is going to draw people in if you can get the right minds behind it. But it’s not only the investment banks and traditional consultancies that know how to win over potential investors. When you want a unicorn-level pitch deck, without spending a unicorn’s fortune, Sweav steps in.
All Sweav’s fundraising freelancers have worked at the most elite companies in the world. Many combine investment banking, consulting, and scaleup experience to create some of the best pitch decks and vendor due diligence decks in the investment market.
3-5 weeks, 3-4 days per week, €10 – 30k
Making an exit is a sensitive process, even for those who have sold a business before. By partnering with the right interim consultants, you can prepare the documents, data, and story you need to attract the right buyers – so you get the best terms possible.
Sweav’s freelance consultants are former investment managers (+) of PE firms, managers and VPs of investment banks, and consultants of the largest firms. They can offer support from planning through to due diligence and the final sale.
3-6 months, 2-3 days a week, €30 – 100k
The next step isn’t always clear. But your board and investors will need that clarity anyway. Once you’ve raised funds, just become profitable or hit a milestone, you need to know how and where to grow next.
We’ll make sure you have a practical strategic story to get everyone working in the right direction.
All Sweavers have a background at a world-renowned consulting firm. Many combine this with experience of running their own real world business operations, working with scale-ups and investor management.
3-6 weeks, 3-4 days per week, €15 – 40k
Revenue and profit doesn’t always feature in the key metrics of every startup, but finances will eventually become a priority. Whether your investors demand reporting, you’re planning an exit, or you simply know you need more business control, we can support you to professionalize your finance function.
Sweaver are all former consultants of elite firms. Many of our strategy freelancers started in audit with the Big Four, others became consultants in transaction advisory services, and some became CFOs of SMEs and scale-ups.
8-14 weeks, 2-3 days per week, €20 – 60k
Your sales team might have succeeded so far on hustle and skill, but to scale commercial without simply hiring more salespeople, you’ll need a greater level of structure. From this point, uniform sales incentives, repeatable processes, and a more sophisticated use of CRMs will take you forward.
Sweavers have a background in both elite consulting firms and hyper-growth journeys. Their freelance strategy support will help you find the sweet spot between polished structure and scrappy opportunism.
12- 24 weeks, 3-4 days per week €30 – 100k
We don’t stop at creating a pricing strategy, value story and pricing frameworks. We’ll also help you adapt to the new strategy – training sales teams and guiding you through price increase coordination, setup of dashboards and commercial rhythms.
All Sweav’s pricing freelancers worked at a market-leading pricing consultancy or started at an elite strategy firm and progressed towards a business pricing role. They’ll know what you need, and make it happen.
6-16 weeks, 2-3 days per week, €22k – 100k
“After closing our Series B funding, we couldn’t keep up with the hiring phase. Three Sweav interim managers showed great ownership, low-ego and great learning speed to help us professionalize quickly.”
“We frequently work with Sweav, as their model enables us and our portfolio companies to get exactly the right expertise, at the right capacity, at the right time, to accelerate our fundraising process.”
“The work executed by the Sweaver was of great value. His input was pragmatic while he worked independently and brought in the exact expertise we needed.”
Sweavers all worked for 4-16 years at the most renowned strategy and M&A firms. We know everyone in our community personally, curating it for pragmatism and making things happing.
We dive deeper into what you need. We discuss options, timelines and budgets. More info
Within 48 hours, you’ll get a curated shortlist of Sweavers. You decide whom to interview. More info
You meet your shortlisted Sweavers, and make the final decision. We take care of the rest. More info
We’ll dive deeper into your challenges, in macro and specific terms. Together, we’ll sketch out a profile that meets your needs – including desired background, working experience, sector expertise, and cultural fit.
At this stage, we can give you info about individual Sweavers to use as examples and help convince other stakeholders.
Once you approve our recommendations, estimated timeline and budget, we’ll get to work.
We’ll share your project description and requirements with our exclusive community via our member-only app. We’ll also reach out proactively to Sweavers we believe could be a perfect fit.
We hand-pick the right Sweaver for your project, based on our experience, judgement and your criteria.
Within 48 hours, you’ll receive a shortlist of Sweavers, curated based on the criteria we discussed. For good measure, we’ll have another call to discuss your options and trade-offs.
Interview as many people on your shortlist as many times as you need, and decide who meets your criteria best. We’ll make sure they’re fully briefed before you talk.
Your chosen Sweaver will make a short proposal for you to review, including context and objectives, deliverables, timeline and total fee.
Once you’ve made a final decision, Sweav takes care of contracting and invoicing. If you’re a corporate client, we work with all brokers.
Work with the best professional at affordable pricing.
