Stop chasinginvestorsRun a process
We build the investor engagement engine behind your raise and get it live in 21 days, across venture, private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure.
- 21 daysSignature to live
- 42,421+Investors across our communities
- 7,845+Qualified & actively deploying investors
- 17.4xBlended IROAS
PROFIT WITH PURPOSE · BUILT INSIDE THE FPO 2005 FRAMEWORK
Where a year usually goes
Every raise ends up in one of these three places. Two of them cost you the round.
Quick to move, impossible to insure
Takes a slice of your round without authorisation, blasts your deck at anyone with a pulse, and leaves the regulatory risk sitting with you.
Reputable, but slow and half interested
Regulated and credible, though priced for eight figures, months of process, and no marketing engine behind it.
The reach of one, the discipline of the other
Agency-grade investor marketing, institutional process, and a compliance architecture your lawyers will actually enjoy reading.
We build the machine that brings investors to you
Marketing, qualification and investor operations, delivered on rails we own, ending in certified enquiries your team can act on.
Explore services for companiesCapital Readiness
Materials, data room, advance assurance, offer architecture
Investor Marketing
Media, content, webinars and events under the two tier policy
Investor Operations
Certification journeys, CRM, SPV coordination, portals
Post Raise IR
Reporting that sets up the round after this one
Rooms your investors actually turn up to
Summits, panels and webinars that put companies in front of an engaged, eligible audience, and keep them there between rounds.
See the track recordThe Raise Engine
Everything between "we're raising" and an investor base that re-invests. Built and run by us, on rails we own.
- Investment materials and deck
- Financial model review
- Data room build and indexing
- EIS and SEIS advance assurance support
- Offer architecture review
- Raise strategy and timeline
The 21-Day Live Guarantee
If your certification journey and campaign infrastructure aren't live within 21 days of a signed Statement of Work, we keep working the following month at no additional fee.
A guarantee about our delivery, not about your outcome. We make no promise or projection about capital raised or investment performance.
What companies usually do instead
Each route costs more than it looks, in money, in months or in risk.
Hire an in-house IR lead
Plus benefits, recruitment fees and three months to hire. Another six before they are productive, and you still need the tech and the compliance framework around them.
Use an unregulated introducer
Fast and connected, until someone asks who approved the financial promotion. The regulatory exposure sits with you, not them.
Agency plus compliance counsel
Creative from one, perimeter advice from another, and nobody accountable for whether the raise actually converts.
One engagement, one accountable team
Marketing, technology and compliance operations under a single Statement of Work.
What we don't charge for
These problems turn up in every raise we run, so we treat them as part of the job.
The Investor Objection Handbook
The twelve objections that kill rounds and the answer to each, drawn from live investor calls across our client base.
Quarterly board briefing
A written capital markets update your board can read before the meeting, so you are not the only one who understands the raise environment.
Speaking slots at SWG events
Priority access to our investor summits and webinars. The rooms our clients say mattered as much as the round.
The Capital Readiness Audit
A fixed scope diagnostic you can buy today. No sales process, no retainer, no obligation to go further.
Know exactly what's broken before you spend a penny on marketing
Two weeks. We audit your materials, structure, audience and compliance position, then hand you a prioritised action plan you can execute yourself or with us.
- Full materials and data room review
- Investor audience and reach assessment
- Financial promotion perimeter check
- Structure and offer architecture review
- Prioritised 90-day action plan
- 90-minute findings walkthrough
Four stages, one gate,
zero improvisation
Every engagement runs the same compliant journey.
Marketing
Media, content, events and webinars aimed only at eligible audiences.
Qualification
Audience intelligence and eligibility screening.
Certification
Prescribed wording, timestamped, 12 month expiry enforced.
Qualified enquiry
Categorised and ready for your process.
Our role ends there. Execution sits with FCA regulated platform partners.
Two tier creative policyStart small and scale when it works
Most companies start at step one and never speak to us again until they're raising. That's fine, it's built that way.
Capital Readiness Scorecard
Three minutes. Score your raise across four dimensions and see exactly where it leaks.
Capital Readiness Audit
A fixed scope diagnostic you can buy today. Credited in full if you go on to the Raise Engine.
The Raise Engine
All 23 service lines. We build and run the investor engagement engine for your round.
Investor Relations Retainer
Your shareholder base kept warm, informed and ready between rounds. The next raise starts the day this one closes.
Platform Licence
Run our rails yourself. Certification, intelligence and promotion file, in your own stack.
Not sure where you'd start?
Take the scorecard. It takes three minutes, gives you a number, and tells you what to fix first.
Five years in private markets, rebuilt as infrastructure.
The groupSWG has identified a really interesting and much needed niche, creating very exciting opportunities for both investors and startups.
George HunterBusiness Development Director, CARNOTYou would not be first money in
Companies we support are independently backed by venture funds, global corporates and government agencies who have run their own diligence.
- Certification in the exact prescribed wording
- Material visible only after certification
- Execution through FCA regulated partners
- No advice, no recommendations, no views on merits
Qualify for certified access
Two minutes. Certification happens inside the secure journey.
Capital at risk. Eligible investors only. Data processed under UK GDPR, ICO ZB593263.
Book 45 minutes with us
We'll go through your structure, your audience and your timeline, and tell you honestly whether we can help.
What our clients say
They've got a wide network of investors and got us in front of the right people through events, webinars and personal introductions. It wasn't just capital either.
Matt JourneeChief Executive, LevistorHarvey and the team are incredibly slick and take the pain out of fundraising for founders.
Simon TollerCo-Founder and CFO, ekkoRaising capital in life sciences can be particularly challenging. Harvey's intellectual horsepower and high energy approach was critical to our success.
Hal BosherAdvisor, PreComb