Senior partners for the raises that matter.
We partner with founders and CEOs, first round to final, through readiness, strategy, and the raise itself, built around what makes your company genuinely fundable.
Get in touchNo two raises are the same.
A first round, a Series B, a growth round, a strategic financing. Each carries different stakes, different investors, and a different version of the same question every founder hears in the background: is this company genuinely fundable, and is the team running the round prepared to answer it? Most consultants don’t get a company finance-ready. Most banks don’t engage until you’re already running a process. The space in between, where companies need sharper readiness, strategy, and process management, is where Rock Piper sits.
We make companies investable, not just interesting.
Three things in parallel: getting the company genuinely transaction-ready before investors see anything; opening structured access to the investors who actually fit, without crossing into placement-agent territory; and standing up the execution infrastructure that turns interest into capital. Each piece is the work of someone who has done it before, and done it many times.
Three engagements, scaled to where you are.
A four-to-six-week Readiness Sprint when you’re getting close to a round and the company isn’t finance-ready yet. An ongoing retainer when you’re deep in process and need disciplined hands on the pipeline week over week. SPV and sidecar launch support when the transaction itself needs structuring. Every engagement is fixed-fee or retainer, never transaction-based.
A senior partner, not a consultant.
Rock Piper is led by Ben Shaw. Over $1.3 billion raised across thirteen companies, eleven M&A transactions closed, four CFO seats at venture-backed start-ups, earlier years at Credit Suisse Dubai and McKinsey. Tuck MBA. FINRA Series 7, 24, and 63. Around him sits a deliberate roster of affiliated advisors who bring narrative coaching, market access, technical diligence, and regulatory counsel to the engagements where each is needed. The team is assembled around your company, not the other way around.
First-Time Raise
Raising capital for the first time?
If this is your first round, the curve is steep and the stakes are at their highest. We’ve built a dedicated entry point for the first-time experience: the language, the structure, and the steady hands you need before walking into your first investor meeting.
First-Time RaiseTell us what you’re raising into.
We work with a small number of companies at a time. If you have a financing in front of you, write to us, and we’ll tell you within a week whether we’re a fit and what the engagement would look like.
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