How do I find the professionals who worked in M&A deals?
Hey!
I was recently hired to a pretty small (20 employees) but rapidly growing online retail company to help them go through a funding round of approximately $30 million. As a first step, I'm trying to find an investment bank to help us as we currently don't have a CFO. We operate in a pretty niche space in online retail, so having a professional or professionals who already have knowledge of our industry and connections to relevant investors would be extremely valuable.
I really lack the knowledge about how IB's work, but so far I've been going through the deals of companies similar to us on Mergermarket and Zephyr and trying to find any listed financial advisor professionals in hopes of reaching out to them. This seems really inefficient since only about one in every thirty deals has their professionals listed.
Is there a smarter way to this? Should I be reaching directly to just investment banks and asking them about relevant bankers they might have? Does doing any of this even make sense?
Go speak to incubators they will know where to start. It’s all about building that network. Happy to discuss in PMs, friend of mine is doing something similar.,
Thanks a lot for the response!
So would talking to incubators in this stage be done in order to get connected to relevant investors? My concern here is that we're working in a pretty niche (but growing) space, where I'd roughly estimate that there are less than 100 investors in the world who have good knowledge on the subject.
Another concern is that we're currently lacking a CFO, and having one of our employees just focus entirely on handling information requests etc. would hinder the growth we're going through right now.
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