Start-up and early stage high-tech firms are often at a disadvantage when it comes to securing investments because they seldom have sales revenues to report, finished products to demonstrate or the kind of "bricks-and-mortar" securities required for traditional financing.

Typically, the founders and executives of these companies come from technology backgrounds. They don’t feel at home in the world of corporate finance: they don’t speak the language, they don’t have the contacts and they don’t know how to begin assigning value to their businesses. Even when companies have the internal resources to seek out financing, it can be difficult to turn the promises of potential investors into firm commitments and signed deals.

In our CEO Survey, we found that many executives encountered similar obstacles to financing their companies, among them:

• finding financing sources—where they are and how to access them;
  
• estimating financing requirements—how to avoid the common mistake of underestimating your actual needs;
  
• valuing a company—how to know what your company is worth; and
  
• structuring the deal—how to get investors to do what you want.
  

Keystep has the expertise and contacts to take your company successfully through every step of the financing process.

Keystep Financing Solutions