Fractional Executive Search

Go to investors with answers, not a deck.

Investors in Denmark tend to decide before the pitch, on whether the company has real answers when they press a second and third time. That is preparation, and preparation can be done properly.

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The situation

Why rounds stall

The same few things slow a Danish raise or end it:

01

The model breaks on the first change

It survives until an investor shifts one assumption, and then nobody can say what follows.

02

The data room appears mid-diligence

Which tells the investor how the company is run.

03

Too many sources, too little plan

Grants, a venture round, a bank facility and a strategic partner, each wanting a different pack and none sequenced against the others.

04

The founder is also the deal team

The founder raises money while running the company, and both suffer.

Someone who has sat through a raise before, as a fractional CFO, takes it over from the founder and prepares the model, the investor pack, the data room and the diligence answers, including the awkward ones no investor has put yet. We match operators who have worked with venture funds, grant bodies, banks and strategic investors.

Is it the right fit?

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
A quiet meeting room at dusk, two chairs across a table, the city skyline beyond

Investor-ready, before the first meeting.

Why Fractional Copenhagen

How we support a Danish raise

Grants, venture money and bank lines rarely line up. We keep the engagement steady while they do.

1 monthNotice, either way
800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksBrief to deployment
30–60%Less than a full-time hire, on our engagements

Reviews during the raise

While investors are in the data room, the founder and the CFO hear from us regularly, and slippage is raised early.

A second reader for the model

Your CFO can put the model in front of peers in the collective before an investor sees it.

The round does not stall on one person

If the CFO has to step away, the funding brief stays with us and a new search starts from it.

Matched for Nordic investors

We look for a CFO a Danish fund, a grant body and a strategic partner will each take seriously.

How it works

From gap to investor-ready

Calibrated to your round timeline.

01

Fundraise assessment

We assess your current financial infrastructure, identify gaps, and calibrate to your round timeline.

02

CFO deployment

Your matched Fractional CFO is embedded within two to three weeks and begins building investor-grade infrastructure.

03

Fundraise preparation

Financial model, data room, board pack, governance, built and stress-tested before you enter conversations.

04

Round support and post-close

Your CFO stays through the round and transitions to execution mode. Reporting infrastructure, milestone tracking, and board presence.

The round, end to end

Before, during and after the round

What a fractional CFO owns at each stage of a raise.

Stage
What the CFO owns
StageBefore
What the CFO ownsFinancial model, data room and governance in order
StageDuring
What the CFO ownsInvestor questions, diligence and the financial story
StageAfter
What the CFO ownsBoard reporting, milestone tracking and cash discipline
Our fractional services

A fractional CFO leads every fundraise

Most raises need only the CFO. When diligence probes operations or technology, a COO or CTO joins from the same collective.

Proven leadership

Executives who have raised alongside

Sequoia
Andreessen Horowitz
Goldman Sachs
JPMorgan
Morgan Stanley
Index Ventures
Accel
Balderton
Common questions

The questions buyers ask first

Three to six months before you plan to open the round. Most of the value sits in the preparation. A fractional CFO brought in mid-diligence is firefighting, not positioning.

No. The engagement is a retainer for executive time, invoiced from one company to the other. We are not brokers and take no cut of your round.

We match to the experience your raise calls for, and make an introduction only where it will really help. The value here is readiness, not a contact list.

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Get started

Raise with a credible finance leader in the room.

Tell us where the round stands. We will assess the model, data room and governance, then match a fractional CFO who has raised before, embedded within weeks.

Get investor-ready