Exit readiness review
A candid look at what a buyer would question: numbers, contracts, IP, key people and how much depends on you.
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Service
The work before the deal.
Most of what shapes a sale happens long before anyone makes an offer. You do the preparation early, and we help you do it well.
M&A and exits is a Regenerate Capital service for founders thinking about selling, merging or acquiring. Our team helps you ready the company, from clean numbers to reduced founder dependence, maps potential buyers or targets, prepares first conversations and helps you think through deal structure alongside your lawyers and accountants. It is preparation and introductions, never a promised outcome.
What’s included
What the service includes.
Clean-up plan
A prioritized list of fixes to your books, documentation and operations, with owners and dates.
Buyer or target map
A list of strategic and financial parties who might have a reason to talk, and why.
Story and materials
Help writing the summary, the data room index and the answers to the questions that always come up.
Deal structure thinking
A clear view of options like cash, shares, earn-outs and retention, to discuss with your own advisors.
Introductions where fitting
Introductions through our team and our capital partner GDA Group where there is a real fit.
Sound familiar?
Do you have these problems?
- You’ve received an unsolicited offer and have no idea whether it’s fair.
- Everything important in the company runs through you, and a buyer would notice.
- Your books, contracts and cap table would not survive a week of due diligence.
- You want an exit in three to five years but haven’t started preparing.
- You’re considering buying a competitor and don’t know where to start.
- You and your co-founders don’t agree on what a good outcome looks like.
Our approach
How we solve them.
01
Clarify what you want
We start with your goals and your co-founders’: timing, role after a deal, what matters beyond price. That shapes everything else.
02
Think like a buyer
We review the company through a buyer’s eyes and list what would slow a deal down or reduce confidence.
03
Fix the foundations
We help you clean up numbers, documents and processes, and reduce how much the business depends on you personally.
04
Map the field
We identify who might buy, merge with or be acquired by you, and prepare the first conversations carefully.
05
Work alongside your advisors
We help you think through structure and terms, while your lawyers and accountants handle the legal and tax side.
Track record
How we’ve solved it before.
Drawn from our founder’s past roles and companies. Past results don’t guarantee future outcomes.
Two exits as a co-founder
Our founder, Joaquim Miro, has been through 2 exits as a co-founder.
Capital partner GDA Group
Our capital partner, GDA Group, brings investment banking, equity and debt capital to the table.
An investor’s view
As a Founding Partner of GDA Capital, Joaquim has seen 70+ companies from the investor’s side of the table.
Do it yourself
Resources to solve it yourself.
Start this week
- Write down what a good outcome looks like for you in five years: role, timing, money and what happens to your team.
- List every process that only you know how to run, and pick one to document this week.
- Put your cap table, key contracts and IP assignments in one folder and see what’s missing.
- If you received an offer tomorrow, write down who you would call first. If the list is empty, start building it.
From the founder playbook
01
Scale the operating system
Step 08 · Install rhythm, ownership and metrics so the company runs without the founder in every room, and lead the team through the changes growth brings.
02Raise the right capital
Step 07 · Decide whether to raise, how much, and from whom. The right investors add more than money. The wrong ones cost more than it.
Recommended reading
Leadership and relationships
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
A former FBI hostage negotiator on tactical empathy. Invaluable in fundraising, sales and hiring.
Building a company
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
The honest, unglamorous reality of running a company when nothing is easy.
Focus and mastery
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
The disciplined pursuit of less, the core skill of an early-stage founder.
Related services
Other services that could help.
Introductions to capital
Fundraising readiness, investor mapping and warm introductions to angels, funds and family offices. Plus help structuring the round.
Experience · Backed 70+ companies as a founding partner of GDA Capital, including 2 seed-to-unicorn outcomes. Alpaca Network raised $1.2M in 2 weeks. LP at Holt Xchange.
Chief of Staff and operating rhythm
OKRs, meeting cadence, board reporting and the internal systems that give you your time back.
Experience · Chief of Staff at Secure Digital Markets (team of 9 to 40). COO at MLG Blockchain.
Strategic relationship building
Partnerships, corporate development and positioning: the relationships that open markets and doors.
Experience · Founding Partner of GDA Capital. Mentor and advisor at Techstars, Founder Institute, Outlier Ventures and FounderFuel.
Questions
Straight answers.
Can you guarantee a sale or a price?
No. We help you prepare, map potential buyers and make introductions where there is a fit, but outcomes depend on the market and the parties. Nothing here is investment, legal or tax advice.
How early should I start preparing?
Ideally a year or more before you expect a deal. Much of the work, like reducing founder dependence and cleaning up documents, takes time to do properly.
How do you charge for this?
Terms are flexible and shaped around your startup: equity, cash, commission, in-kind or a mix, always agreed in writing before we start.
Work with the studio
Get on an exploratory call.
Tell us about your company in a few lines. Right after, you can book an exploratory call with our team to see how we can help.