The hands-on alternative to traditional consultancies, suitable for start & scale-ups. We support venture capital teams on deals and help portfolio companies in follow-up fundraising and professionalization.
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
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.
Tired of theoretical 100 page decks and unnecessarily complex excel models? So are we. Instead we get hands-on, designing pragmatic business plans you can pick up and run with immediately, supported by strategic narratives and initiatives you can act upon.
All Sweav’s freelance consultants have a background at an elite strategy firm. Many will have experience of your sector and a sensitivity to SME and founder-led business dynamics.
6-8 weeks, 3-4 days per week, €25 – 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
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.
6-8 weeks, 2-4 days per week, €25 – 60k.
Every private equity investment will at some point reach the end of its holding period. Time to sell.
Prepping a company for exiting is a lot of work and requires in depth expertise of financial reporting and (managing) due diligence processes. If your company doesn’t have the capacity or expertise to manage, it’s time to call Sweav.
Many of our financial and M&A freelancers started in audit with the Big Four, others became consultants in transaction advisory services, and some became CFOs of SMEs and scale-ups.
Sweavers who help companies with exit readiness, did it before and make it happen.
12 – 24 weeks, 2-4 days per week, €45-125k.
We work hands-on with portfolio company CEOs and CFOs to complete deals and make buy-and-build strategies work as seamlessly as possible.
Sweav’s buy-and-build freelancers will support you end-to-end through deal processes, drawing on their experience as investment managers (+) of PE firms, managers and VPs at investment banks, and consultants of the largest firms.
Depending on the number of deals: 10-26 weeks – 2-4 days per week, 40 – 150k.
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.
4-16 weeks, 3-5 days per week, €50-125k
Good decisions start with good data. Your company is generating tons of it, but struggling to create insights to steer. You need support making faster, smarter choices on a daily basis.
Data-savvy Sweavers start with the strategy and help companies set up their data and tooling the right way, creating dashboards that include both operational and financial KPIs and provide analyses that provide valuable insights on what to do next.
10-26 weeks, 2-4 days per week, €40-120k
We work directly with your CFO and finance team to create transparency and consistency in reporting – across cashflow, P&L and balance sheet models – so you and your investors know exactly what you’re working with. Start looking ahead instead of looking back and get a clear view on your financial and operational KPIs.
Sweavers are all former consultants of elite firms. Many started in audits with the Big Four, others became consultants in financial due diligence or transaction advisory services, and a few became CFOs of SMEs and scale-ups.
8-14 weeks, 2-3 days per week, €20 – 60k
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.
4-15 weeks, 3-5 days per week, €20-90k
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.
15-26 weeks, 3-5 days per week, €75-125k
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
Not every deal needs a commercial due diligence deck from an old brand-name. Sweav gives you the same quality of professionals with a different ethos. Sweavers will work as one of your people, keeping everything pragmatic, and they’ll even kickstart the plans with the management team.
Sweavers are former strategy consultants of the most elite firms. Many have commercial due diligence experience and they’ll know your sector well.
4-6 weeks, 3-4 days per week, €20 – 45k
If your investment committee or bank doesn’t require a brand-name financial due diligence deck, don’t waste your resources on one. Sweav is the smart alternative.
These are not just any FDD freelancers. Many started their career in accounting, working with a Big Four financial due diligence practice, and will know both your sector as well as the challenges unique to private equity.
2-3 weeks, 3-5 days per week, €15 – 35k
You are considering investing in a new space. You need an expert in the market to test your investment hypotheses, pre-DD.
On top of their generalist strategy background, many of our Freelancers are experts in specific markets. They know how to get the right answers quickly and independently through outside-in research and interviews.
They have experience with (commercial) due diligence projects and keep it light touch and pragmatic.
2-4 weeks, 3-4 days per week, €15-30k.
Your investment team is swamped with work and you temporarily need plug-and-play support from a PE professional who has done it before. Our freelancers flexibly work with PEs to work on specific deals, handle portfolio management of specific investments or just help the team across the board.
These freelancers have experience as an investment manager or up at other PEs like yours. They are not afraid to get their hands dirty and bring a pragmatic temporary solution to your resource squeeze.
12-26 weeks, 2-4 days per week, €50-150k.
“Sweav was super helpful at a time when we urgently needed high-quality support. The Sweav member was proactive, fast, and quickly brought in strong talent who could seamlessly integrate with our team. His ability to deliver exactly what we needed in such a critical phase made a real difference.”
“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.”
“Sweav quickly helped me with the right person to fill a capacity and capability gap in my team, that I wasn’t able to find within my own network.”
“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.”
“The Sweav member’s collaboration proved crucial to our investment decision-making process. The pragmatic and independent mindset made Michael feel like a true extension of our team.”
“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.”
“For this type of work, I prefer working with Sweav over working with the usual consulting suspects. Mainly because it’s easier to bring in an interim expert in a very specific domain without the need of hiring a full team.”
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.
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. If you're uncertain after multiple interviews, we’ll help you make the trade-offs clear and advise you on the best choice.
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.
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