Scale even faster with Sweav
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.
Full fundraising process
Full fundraising process
Why Sweav
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
Typical project scope
12 – 20 weeks, 1-3 days per week, €20-70k.
Pitch decks
Pitch decks
Why Sweav
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.
Typical project scope
3-5 weeks, 3-4 days per week, €10 – 30k
Exit support
Exit support
Why Sweav
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.
Typical project scope
3-6 months, 2-3 days a week, €30 – 100k
Interim chief of staff
Interim chief of staff
Why Sweav
It’s lonely at the top and you’re in desperate need of a strategic sidekick: to help you in thinking ahead, perform difficult analyses and coordinate special projects.
Our ex-strategy consultants have been trained at the top and tested for pragmatism. They bring a unique mix of strategic insight and operational drive – acting as a true right hand to CxOs who want to move fast.
Typical scope
15-26 weeks, 3-5 days per week, €75-125k
Growth & go-to-market strategy
Growth & go-to-market strategy
Why Sweav
Looking for your next growth move? Whether it’s finding new revenue streams or taking a great product to market, we help you define and execute what’s next.
Our Sweavers were trained at the top and combine strategic thinking with commercial instincts – shaping direction, crafting propositions, and identifying the right channels and customer segments in both B2B and B2C.
Typical project
4-15 weeks, 3-5 days per week, €20-90k
Brand & marketing strategy
Brand & marketing strategy
Why Sweav
Brand is more than a logo. It needs to reflect your values and resonate with your customers, and give clear guidelines for all your marketing efforts.
Whether you need to reposition your brand or build a focused plan for specific segments or channels, our Sweavers bring top-tier marketing strategy experience and a pragmatic mindset to make it happen.
Typical project
4-16 weeks, 3-5 days per week, €50-125k
Commercial strategy & geo expansion
Commercial strategy & geo expansion
Why Sweav
When you’re going beyond a familiar market, you often need fresh expertise. You’ll want to know what to watch out for, how value is perceived, and how to precisely balance price in a potentially delicate market. Sweav can support on research, planning and execution – and bring first-hand insight into the bargain.
All Sweav’s commercial strategy freelancers are former consultants of elite firms. Many bring experience of specific sectors and markets and they’ll have supported similar portfolio companies to act on their commercial ambition.
Typical project scope
6-8 weeks, 2-4 days per week, €25 – 60k.
Commercial excellence
Commercial excellence
Why Sweav
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.
Typical project scope
12- 24 weeks, 3-4 days per week €30 – 100k
CFO support
CFO support
Why Sweav
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.
Typical project scope
8-14 weeks, 2-3 days per week, €20 – 60k
Pricing
Pricing
Why Sweav
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.
Typical project scope
6-16 weeks, 2-3 days per week, €22k – 100k
Curated community of A-level freelancers
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.
- Lois
- ex HAL investments
- Interim M&A manager
- 6+ years experience
- Reinier
- ex Torqx Capital Partners
- Interim investment manager
- 6+ years experience
- Koen
- ex OC&C
- Commercial growth strategy
- 9+ years experience
- Lois
- ex HAL investments
- Interim M&A manager
- 6+ years experience
- Reinier
- ex Torqx Capital Partners
- Interim investment manager
- 6+ years experience
- Koen
- ex OC&C
- Commercial growth strategy
- 9+ years experience
- Lois
- ex HAL investments
- Interim M&A manager
- 6+ years experience
- Reinier
- ex Torqx Capital Partners
- Interim investment manager
- 6+ years experience
- Koen
- ex OC&C
- Commercial growth strategy
- 9+ years experience
- Sanne
- ex Bain
- Portfolio growth strategy and CDDs
- 10+ experience
- Steven
- ex McKinsey
- Decarbonization strategy
- 15+ years experience
- Utku
- ex EY Audit and TAS
- M&A and Financial Exit Preparation
- 13+ years experience
- Sanne
- ex Bain
- Portfolio growth strategy and CDDs
- 10+ experience
- Steven
- ex McKinsey
- Decarbonization strategy
- 15+ years experience
- Utku
- ex EY Audit and TAS
- M&A and Financial Exit Preparation
- 13+ years experience
- Sanne
- ex Bain
- Portfolio growth strategy and CDDs
- 10+ experience
- Steven
- ex McKinsey
- Decarbonization strategy
- 15+ years experience
- Utku
- ex EY Audit and TAS
- M&A and Financial Exit Preparation
- 13+ years experience
- Sanne
- ex Bain
- Portfolio growth strategy and CDDs
- 10+ experience
- Steven
- ex McKinsey
- Decarbonization strategy
- 15+ years experience
- Utku
- ex EY Audit and TAS
- M&A and Financial Exit Preparation
- 13+ years experience
- Sanne
- ex Bain
- Portfolio growth strategy and CDDs
- 10+ experience
- Steven
- ex McKinsey
- Decarbonization strategy
- 15+ years experience
- Utku
- ex EY Audit and TAS
- M&A and Financial Exit Preparation
- 13+ years experience
- Sanne
- ex Bain
- Portfolio growth strategy and CDDs
- 10+ experience
- Steven
- ex McKinsey
- Decarbonization strategy
- 15+ years experience
- Utku
- ex EY Audit and TAS
- M&A and Financial Exit Preparation
- 13+ years experience
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
Easy steps
Intake
Sketching the perfect Sweaver
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.
Optional: example Sweavers
At this stage, we can give you info about individual Sweavers to use as examples and help convince other stakeholders.
We get tot work
Once you approve our recommendations, estimated timeline and budget, we’ll get to work.
Curate & select
We talk to our community
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 curate
We hand-pick the right Sweaver for your project, based on our experience, judgement and your criteria.
You get a shortlist
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 & start
You interview
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.
You receive a proposal
Your chosen Sweaver will make a short proposal for you to review, including context and objectives, deliverables, timeline and total fee.
We do the admin
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.
Clear pricing
Work with the best professional at affordable pricing.
Fundraising
Business professionalization
- Duration of (less than) 26 weeks
- Full fundraising process, Exit support
- Pitch decks
- More than 26 weeks
- CFO support, Growth and GTM strategy
- Commercial excellence