Capital. Craft. Closure.
We help founders raise the right round, steer complex transactions, and make sharper strategic calls - fast, discreet, and founder-first.Metalloid Ventures embeds as your CFO & strategy unit to deliver audit clean operations, investor ready narratives, and measurable outcomes across India ↔ Global mandates.
≤7 days
monthly close time
12+ months
cash runway visibility
Our Thesis
Great companies compound on clarity: crisp metrics, disciplined capital, and operator-grade governance.
Founder-first capital
Rounds designed around runway, milestones, and downside scenarios & not vanity valuations.
Transactions as strategy
M&A and secondaries that accelerate category leadership, not distract from it.
Boardroom craft
Decision frameworks, operating cadence, and clean data rooms that make diligence easy.
Strategic Finance for Startups & SMEs
Operator-led strategy, finance, and transactions for early-stage, growth, and SME teams with India-first capability and cross-border depth.
Strategy / Insights / GTM
Revenue, product, and finance intelligence that tunes your sales funnel, sharpens decisions, and maps a clear path to PMF.
- Sales funnel diagnostics and conversion levers
- Decision models tied to live financial signals
- Strategy-to-PMF roadmaps with cross-functional OKRs
Valuation & Advisory
Comparable benchmarks, sector insights, and investor-grade models that defend valuation across every raise, acquisition, or audit.
- Comparable sets & sector-specific benchmarks
- Early-stage, ESOP, and Startup Valuation pricing.
- Investor narratives, sensitivities, and roadmap support
Mergers & Acquisitions
Pragmatic buy-side and sell-side support from shortlist to close, with clean narratives and day-one integration plans.
- Target mapping & founder-friendly outreach
- Data rooms, diligence, and negotiation support
- Integration playbooks with KPI guardrails
Global Compliance & Risk
Regulatory readiness, governance & internal controls, tech/data governance, periodic reviews.
- Cross‑border entity guidance
- Control & policy stack design
- Board governance cadence
Access to Indian & Global Family Offices
Tap a well-embedded network of single and multi-family offices that align on thesis, stage, and pacing. We choreograph warm introductions, curate diligence materials, and keep conversations moving across every phase of your raise.
Guided introductions
Match your round with offices that back vision-aligned categories and understand India ↔ global scale.
Lifecycle support
Stage by stage touchpoints ,from exploratory calls to co-investor syndication and follow-on capacity.
Operator playbooks
Bring operational excellence from family office portfolios into your finance, governance, and growth cadence.
How We Partner
Start with a 4–6 week blueprint. Then choose a model that fits your stage and velocity.
Fractional CFO
Operator‑led cadence for Seed → Series C. Weekly stand‑ups, monthly board packs, KPI discipline.
- MIS & forecasting
- Treasury & runway
- Board & investor reporting
Interim Leadership
3–6 month mandates to stabilise finance, prep for diligence, or bridge hiring.
- Close acceleration
- Data room & audit readiness
- Operating model overhaul
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers about scope, timelines and ways of working.
How do engagements start?
We start with a 30–45 minute discovery, then run a 4–6 week blueprint that maps owners, milestones, data rooms, and KPIs before execution kicks off.
Do you guarantee fundraising?
No. We make you investor-ready metrics, narratives, diligence data rooms, and investor targeting but the close depends on market timing and founder execution.
Which standards do you support?
Ind AS, IFRS, US GAAP, and India ↔ global ESOP and transaction valuation frameworks.
Can you work cross‑border?
Yes. We manage structuring, compliance cadence, banking, and reporting for India-first companies operating in the US, SEA, EU, and GCC.
What does day to day look like?
Weekly operator stand-ups, monthly KPI and cash reviews, quarterly board prep, and shared dashboards, memos, and investor updates.
Ready to strengthen your finance function?
Speak with Us about a 90‑day blueprint to improve close time, cash visibility and investor‑readiness.
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