the c*funds fundraising process

Finding relevant Limited Partner (LP) relations is as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack. It is time consuming, frustrating and difficult to know the exact mandates, taste and screening aspects of the relevant LP’s. c*funds has heavily invested in understanding and updating the actual mandates of 350 global PE LP’s from our base. Therefore, we can accelerate the process of opening up meaningful conversations for GP’s.

If you in a fundraising stage with your current fund (50M – 1B EUR ) we can help you to improve significantly your fund offering (pre-marketing, data-room) and we help you to expose your offer to the relevant LP community. We help you to get the necessary paperwork done and build the needed new LP relations (by video call, PE events, and roadshows). 

All our GP-LP matchmaking is fully customized (to geography and sector) and supported by a deep LP base knowledge. Our LP sweet spot in Benelux, North EU, DACH and in an emerging base US and SE Asia. 

We…

…get you ready with the fund pre-marketing (USP’s, pitch deck, teaser)

…we make sure that your fund marketing is compliant to the level that it will appeal to many LP’s

…benchmark your competitor funds to get access to their LP’s

…give access to an exclusive/relevant LP network in your investment area

…set up LP meetings for you and represent you in PE events

…support you with LP conversions

…support you with term sheets and realizing the fund’s closing

The below chart demonstrates where c*funds has built the most LP relations (350) in Benelux, Nordics, DACH and UK.

Added value?

• +10 years of PE experience enriched with strong deal-maker skills
• Fast and professional preparation of frictionless fund documentation (both content and with design). We help produce the following documentation: teaser about your new fund, pitch deck
• We provide also practice-based Data Room Advisory
• We help with the term sheet (commercial terms of your fund) and LP incentives
• More than 7 B EUR mandates for LP private closings in our pipeline
• Independent, boutique approach

On-demand we provide references

We work very closely with our clients (GP’s) as we act often as their Investor Relation Manager for the upcoming closing. We spend time with our GP’s to understand their track record, personal achievements, portfolio management skills, exits, multiples etc. so that we can market the investment offer properly. We also help GP’s to reach the private equity market standard with their fund offer in terms of tools, phrasing and brand visibility.

Often new managers need help with identifying their USP’s, LP incentives. We help you to stand out from the GP crowd.

We offer currently different fundraising packages to our clients.

High-Intensity Package | Duration 4 months:

• for managers that have already had their fists close
• if your pre-marketing already high-quality
• we bring here “warm LP” relations from our base that is fully complementary to your existing base
• we assist with making relevant LP meetings and DD, deals
• on-demand we assist with managing PE event participations/LP meetings

 Phase 1 – Full-Service Active Marketing Campaign | Duration 6 Months:

• Includes pre-marketing and data-room advisory services as well
• LP campaign management
• PE event management on-demand
• this package is suitable for fund managers that are in an early stage of their fund marketing
• we assist with relevant LP meetings, DD, terms and closing the deal.
• this collaboration has 2 stages: 4 months of active campaign management including strong pre-marketing advisory and the last 2 months are follow-up activities related to the ongoing conversations.

After the collaboration period, we often issue an only success fee-based 1-year collaboration to follow up all the leads and support your final closing.

Our terms are always a combination of a one-time campaign set up fee and a success fee.  We conduct Due Diligence on the aspirant GP’s in our portfolio as we also want to make sure our LP base could welcome your offer and the organisation is legally diligent.

 We also have an introductory package of advisory services, if you need best practices and our guidance on how to set up correctly your fund marketing materials.

Want to know more or are you already interested in fundraising with us, you can click on the following link below to book a free Quick Scan with us!