Startup fundraising consultant The round, run end to end.

A startup fundraising consultant runs the raise on the company's side: round size and structure, the equity story and valuation range, the investor materials, the target list, the outreach and negotiation support through to signature. spectup is engaged by the company and brings the investors to the table.

A fundraising consultant is engaged to run one private round, on a monthly fee plus a success fee. A full-service bank also runs offerings, M&A and trading, and prices its desk for larger transactions. On a low or mid-market round the real difference is who works it day to day.

A monthly fee for the process, the materials and the outreach, plus a capped success fee on capital raised. The cap is fixed in writing before any work starts.

Bootstrapped companies taking a first institutional round, early-stage from late seed to Series A, and scale-ups from Series B to D. Revenue and a defined use of proceeds are the two conditions. No pre-revenue, no pre-product.

Before the materials are built, not after the round has stalled. A raise runs five to eight months from engagement to close and the first four weeks are strategy, positioning and materials. Coming in after outreach has already gone out means re-approaching investors who have already passed.

Selection combines 440+ direct investor and LP relationships out of closed transactions with proprietary data on what each investor is currently writing cheques into. Outreach is triggered by live signals such as a new fund close, a partner move or a portfolio exit, so the approach lands while the investment decision is open.

Five to eight months from engagement to close. Strategy and positioning in the first fortnight, materials by week four, outreach from there.

No. spectup is paid by the company and never by an investor. No fund affiliations, no finder’s fees from the other side of the table.

Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, from a desk in Munich. A European company raising from US funds is the most common shape of round we run, so the target list is built around where the capital for that sector actually sits rather than where you are.

No. spectup charges a monthly fee plus a capped success fee on capital raised. A process the firm runs end to end but only partly controls is not a risk it carries alone: investor appetite, timing and the company's own numbers all move the outcome. The monthly fee covers the work, the capped success fee covers the result, and both are fixed in writing before any outreach starts.

No, and anyone who guarantees a round is mispricing the risk. What we commit to is the process: a defensible range, materials a fund can diligence, a named list and the meetings. One mandate produced 74 of them. Whether a term sheet follows depends on your numbers and the market that quarter.

Raise it yourself if you already have the relationships, the materials, and someone who can spend five to eight months on outreach without dropping the company. Hire when the constraint is reach or attention: our list starts from 440+ names that already take the call.

spectup’s U.S.-related activity runs under SEC Rule 15a-6, through a chaperoning arrangement with a U.S. registered broker-dealer that is a FINRA and SIPC member.

Yes, but as a separate practice line. A fund manager raising a vehicle is a private placement: different scope, different investor base, different regulatory framing. It is set out on private placement agent services.

It is venture capital consulting only in the sense that we know the market. The difference is what lands on your desk: a consultant hands you a strategy deck and a target list, and you make the calls. We build the positioning, run the outreach from our own relationships, and sit in the room when the round is negotiated. You are buying execution, not advice about execution.