A raise or a listing in Hong Kong starts with the finance function.
Fractional executive search for a Hong Kong raise or listing: we find a fractional Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in our collective of 800+ and embed them to prepare the business. Investors, family offices and sponsors here are sophisticated, and diligence finds every gap.
Where Hong Kong raises run into trouble
The causes are usually specific and fixable:
Documents arrive slowly
Requested papers take weeks to produce, and family offices, funds and sponsors read the delay as a signal about how the business is run.
The model unravels under questions
Assumptions are not written down, projections do not tie to unit economics and the model disagrees with the audited accounts.
The founder answers alone
Detailed financial questions go to a founder who is not a CFO. In a market as finance-literate as Hong Kong, investors notice.
Group housekeeping is incomplete
Board minutes, the cap table, company secretarial records or intra-group arrangements need tidying, often across several entities.
The right CFO, in place early, heads off each of these. If diligence extends to operations or technology, we can match those leaders from our collective as well.
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
What a fractional CFO brings to a Hong Kong raise
The work investors and sponsors will test, led by a senior finance executive who understands Hong Kong and Greater China capital.
The numbers investors will test
A model running three to five years ahead with written assumptions and scenarios, and a data room organised for investors or a listing team.
The equity story
Your CFO ties the numbers to the strategy and carries the conversation with venture and private equity funds, family offices and strategic investors.
Listing groundwork
Where a listing is the goal, your CFO works with sponsors, auditors and lawyers on the track record, controls and reporting the process will examine.
A fuller team for diligence
If diligence goes deeper, a COO can sit alongside the CFO, or a CTO can lead technology diligence, so investors see a complete leadership team.
Beyond the close
Your CFO can stay on to report to the board against the milestones you promised, with our governance continuing around the engagement.
From gap to investor-ready
Calibrated to your round timeline.
Fundraise assessment
We assess your current financial infrastructure, identify gaps, and calibrate to your round timeline.
CFO deployment
Your matched Fractional CFO is embedded within two to three weeks and begins building investor-grade infrastructure.
Fundraise preparation
Financial model, data room, board pack, governance, built and stress-tested before you enter conversations.
Round support and post-close
Your CFO stays through the round and transitions to execution mode. Reporting infrastructure, milestone tracking, and board presence.
Before, during and after the round
What a fractional CFO owns at each stage of a raise.
Which fractional executive supports your raise or listing?
The CFO leads, but diligence often reaches operations and technology.
Executives who have raised alongside
