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01 / The pipeline

Our process

Every submission goes through the same six stages. Here is what happens at each one, and what it means for you whether you are raising capital or investing it.

02 / At a glance

Six stages, one team with you throughout.

  1. 01Received
  2. 02Screening
  3. 03Diligence
  4. 04Matched
  5. 05Introduced
  6. 06Closed or rejected
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#01 · Stage

Received

Your submission arrives and is logged under its own reference.

If you’re raising capital

Submit the opportunity with your supporting documents and, if you can, the short readiness questions. You receive a confirmation and a reference straight away.

If you’re investing

Register your mandate — sectors, countries, instruments and ticket size — and confirm your investor category. You can refine the mandate from your portal at any time.

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#02 · Stage

Screening

A member of our team reads every submission.

If you’re raising capital

We review the project against our mandate and against what lenders will ask to see. Nothing is needed from you unless we have a question.

If you’re investing

We review your enquiry against your stated mandate. Before any introduction, you are identity-checked and screened against sanctions lists.

Typically 1–3 days

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#03 · Stage

Diligence

We look closely at the project and the people behind it.

If you’re raising capital

We may request specific documents through your portal — permits, contracts, the financial model — and track each request until it is complete.

If you’re investing

Nothing is shared with you yet. Your mandate is on file for the matching that follows.

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#04 · Stage

Matched

We identify investors whose mandate fits the project.

If you’re raising capital

We prepare an anonymous profile of the project — no names, no exact location — and share it only with investors whose mandate fits.

If you’re investing

You see the anonymous profile, with any headline figures marked as sponsor-stated. If it interests you, accept the confidentiality terms and request an introduction.

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#05 · Stage

Introduced

The parties meet in a private deal room.

If you’re raising capital

When we accept an investor's request, a private deal room opens: shared and private threads, questions and answers kept on record, and documents watermarked to each reader.

If you’re investing

You enter the deal room and see the summary documents. The full data room — permits, contracts, diligence reports — opens when the parties reach an MOU or term sheet.

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#06 · Stage

Closed or rejected

The process ends in a transaction, or it ends.

If you’re raising capital

You are told the outcome. If a project isn't taken forward, you can address what was missing and submit a revised version, linked to the first.

If you’re investing

You are told the outcome. Introductions and agreements remain on record either way.

Timelines vary by opportunity and cannot be guaranteed. We aim to respond to every submission promptly. More in the FAQ

03 / Throughout

A person, not a pipeline

Every submission is read by a member of our team, and one person stays your point of contact from submission to outcome.

Confidential at every step

Nothing that identifies a project reaches an investor before confidentiality terms are accepted, and documents open in stages.

Always on record

Introductions, agreements and deal-room messages are kept in an append-only record the platform cannot edit or delete.

—  Next step

Start with the route that fits you.

Investors register a mandate; project owners submit an opportunity. Every submission is reviewed by a person before anything moves forward.

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