Focus & Portfolio
Bring us a founder-led or capital-intensive business and we move from diagnosis to closed deal, building the structure, capital, and strategy that let it scale. We don't sell a sector. We bring a discipline.
How We Help
Most engagements move through the same four stages, so you always know what we're doing and why.
We assess the business as it really is: operations, structure, and capital readiness. Then we pinpoint what's holding the next stage back.
We design the entity, governance, and rights framework that protects your control and lets capital come in cleanly.
We build the model, the waterfall, and the investor materials, and design the capital structure the raise calls for, coordinating with lenders, investors, and licensed intermediaries as the situation requires.
We stay at the table through negotiation and close, then leave you with infrastructure built to carry the next chapter.
What We Bring
Two complementary strengths (strategic architecture and financial engineering) applied with institutional rigor to whatever you're building. New to these terms? Start with How It Works for the plain-English version.
Entity design, HoldCo/OpCo architecture, operating agreements, and the rights and control provisions that let you raise capital cleanly and keep the company holding together as it scales.
Financial models, equity waterfalls, preferred returns, and a deliberately layered capital stack, with every dollar engineered to earn where it matters most and structured to meet the right capital sources on their terms.
Diligence-grade decks, memoranda, and data rooms: sized, pressure-tested, and structured to attract institutional capital while protecting the sponsor's position.
Term sheets, partnership structures, and negotiation architecture that align stakeholders and embed firm, enforceable substance beneath a collaborative surface.
Licensing, compliance, and entity structuring for cannabis, hemp, and other licensed industries, turning regulatory complexity into a defensible moat.
Operational assessment and long-horizon strategy for founder-led companies at an inflection point, treating each engagement as a chapter in a larger play.
Representative Work
A sample of the structuring and capital work behind Tessera. Client identities are held in confidence; engagements are described by sector and scope.