Finance · Funding · Strategy
Every founder knows the feeling. The product is coming together. But the fundraising, the financials, the investor outreach and the follow-ups keep piling up in the evenings.
That's the part I take off your plate. Three to five days to lay the base, then months of momentum to keep it all moving.
This is built for companies between a working prototype and a product they can sell.
Three jobs at once: finish or industrialize the product, open a new market, often the US, and fund both without diluting too early. The method uses two windows together: French public funding to finish the product, private capital, often American, to win the market. The aim is to push the product out, face real buyers sooner, and learn faster than the runway runs out.
Sprint: 3 to 5 days at €400/day, we build the foundations. Momentum: from €500/month after, if you want the follow-up carried. No commission on funds raised.
01 — THE PROBLEM
Most founders I meet don't have a technology problem. They have a strong product and a real company. What they're missing is the layer around it. Positioning that lands. Materials an investor can actually work with. A fundraising process that runs. Outreach that happens, introductions that get made, follow-ups that don't slip.
In practice: business plans, forecasts, funding applications, investor and funder emails, pitch prep. Cash to watch, deadlines to hold, outreach to run, follow-ups that can't slip. None of it is glamorous. All of it is essential. And it usually belongs to nobody, because it lands before the company can afford to hire for it. So it lands on the founder, in the evenings, after everything else.
The problem is rarely knowing what to do. It's that this whole layer of work has no owner, so it keeps slipping.
02 — THE APPROACH
Your side
The product, the expertise, the ambition. The decisions only a founder can make.
My side
Everything around it: fundraising strategy, investor targeting and mapping, materials, outreach, follow-ups, pipeline, and keeping it all moving.
It works in two steps, and the second only happens if you want it to:
Three to five days. We get to know the company, structure the financing strategy, work out what needs to exist, and then actually build it. You leave with real deliverables, not a to-do list.
Optional follow-up, once the Sprint is done. Applications advance, deadlines get tracked, meetings get prepared. Nothing goes stale in a folder.
03 — SPRINT & BUILD
This is execution, not advice. Over three to five days, we take as much of the financing workload off your shoulders as possible.
And we turn it into finished work. The point is simple: you stop carrying the financing on your own.
Five kinds of work, picked based on where your company actually is. You leave with the ones you need, done, not a list of things to get to.
Financials
Business plan, financial forecast, cash flow, unit economics, cap table.
Funding strategy
Funding sequence, the right programs for you, R&D program, funder narrative, grant applications.
Investor readiness
Pitch deck, meeting prep, funder Q&A, investor & funding pipeline.
US expansion
Whether the US makes sense, the first market wedge, and a plan to enter it. More in the Playbook.
Strategy & roadmap
Strategic roadmap, priorities, and the sequence of what to do next.
04 — PUBLIC FUNDING SIMULATOR
Free simulator · France
Most founders I meet in France leave non-dilutive money on the table, usually because nobody mapped it for them.
The simulator gives you a first picture in about a minute. Mapping the programs properly and writing the applications is part of the Sprint.
05 — MOMENTUM
Momentum is simply the follow-up after the Sprint: from €500 a month we keep working together so execution never stalls.
Once the documents, the systems and the outreach structure exist, something changes: you can hand parts of it over.
The calls you would rather not make, the follow-ups that slip, the applications that eat your evenings, the materials that need updating again. I take that operational layer so you can stay on the company. Not replacing you anywhere it matters, just carrying the weight around you.
Watching for programs and calls for proposals, preparing applications, answering funders, chasing, tracking deadlines, carrying files to their next stage.
Pitch prep, hard questions, debriefs, updating the plan and the forecast as the company moves.
Traveling, heads-down, out of office: the deadlines don't stop. Your company keeps moving even when you have to focus elsewhere.
06 — THE INFRASTRUCTURE
I use AI constantly and built most of my own tooling with it, so I know exactly where it stops.
It's good at processing, drafting and research support. It doesn't decide what matters, and it doesn't build trust with anyone. That part is my work, and it splits in two.
The right documents
Not more text. Knowing what this company needs, what an investor must see, what to cut, and how it fits together. I build the materials that move an application forward.
The human layer
Knowing who to contact, and why an intro makes sense for both sides.
How to build trust, read a room, and turn a contact into an opportunity. My working map of 8,500+ people and organizations serves this. How it works ↓
This is also why the work pays off before any money arrives. A properly structured company walks into the room already ahead.
07 — THE NETWORK
Most introductions fail because they go to the wrong person, at the wrong time. I keep a working map of investors, funders, founders, corporates and institutions. It tells me who is relevant, for what, and when.
Before any outreach, we shortlist the investors and funders that actually fit your stage, sector and geography.
When I know someone, the intro is warm and explained on both sides.
Every contact gets a next step and a date, so nothing goes cold.
It runs on a CRM I built myself. It's a tool I use for your work, not a product I sell. The number is the size of the map, not of my address book.
08 — PRICING
Two components. You can start with the Sprint alone and decide afterwards whether the follow-up makes sense.
An intensive, framed intervention. Three to five days of concentrated work, depending on what the company needs. We sort out what matters and build the base you're missing. You can stop there if that's all you need.
Ongoing execution, not a few calls. The Sprint builds; Momentum keeps things moving: applications, deadlines, meetings, follow-through. You're buying continuity and someone accountable for the work between the moments you have time for it.
The two are different in kind, not in size. The Sprint is a framed, intensive intervention with a clear end. Momentum is continuity: someone keeping the work moving month after month.
At this stage you most likely don't need to hire a CFO or a funding manager. But you do need these things to move. Momentum gives you that capacity, flexibly, without adding a salary.
An order of magnitude for Momentum, before we talk. The Sprint (€400 a day, three to five days) is separate.
A word on how I charge. A lot of fundraising advisory is paid on commission.
I get why. I just don't work that way. When my pay depends on the size of the round, my incentive is to make it as big as possible.
Whether or not that's right for you. I'd rather sit on your side of the table and get paid for the work. So no percentage of funds raised, no cut of grants, no commission on subsidies.
For larger or longer missions, scope and pricing are set after a first conversation. They depend on the objectives and the main workstreams. Same principle throughout: a clear flat fee, no percentage of funds raised, no commission on grants.
“Galien m'a accompagné sur toute la structuration financière et stratégique de Targumi : business plan, prévisionnel, cap table, dossier R&D pour les subventions et CRM de suivi. Je le recommande à tout fondateur en phase de financement.”
Benjamin Maubacq · Founder, Targumi · more recommendations →
09 — WHY ME
The funder's side
I've seen financing from both ends: Bpifrance and France 2030 on the public side, BNP Paribas on the private side. I know what your file looks like from the other chair.
The founder's side
I've been there too. Co-founded, built things that didn't work, done the unglamorous parts myself. I'm not describing the pressure from the outside.
I've watched how investors actually think and decide on both sides of the Atlantic, French VCs and US funds.
What convinces one can sink you with the other. That's what I can give you fastest: how to read the unwritten rules on each side. So you aren't pitching a Paris deck to a Sand Hill Road partner.
10 — FIT
Three or more? We should talk.
Three to five intensive days. We structure the financing strategy and actually build the deliverables your company needs: business plan, financial forecast, funding applications, investor materials, pipeline. You leave with things done, not a to-do list.
The Sprint is 400 euros per day, over 3 to 5 days. Momentum, the optional follow-up, starts from 500 euros per month, usually for a first three-month period. Final scope and price are set together after a first conversation.
Yes. The Sprint stands alone. Momentum only happens if you want it to, once the Sprint is done.
No. Flat fees only: no percentage of funds raised, no commission on grants, no cut of subsidies.
Thirty minutes, free. You explain where the company is. I tell you honestly whether and how I can help, and what I'd start with. If a Sprint isn't the right answer, I'll say so.
A company to move forward and too many things around it to carry on your own? Let's talk about what needs to be structured now, and what you could hand over after that.