Adding Value At Every Stage

Crucial lift at the early stage

Securing venture capital, particularly for early stage Canadian companies, is an extremely challenging endeavor. With a small and shrinking domestic capital pool, Canadian funders are focusing on making fewer, larger commitments. US-based funders on the other hand, generally seek to invest in later stage, more mature companies. The overall scarcity of early stage capital means that Canadian companies need to demonstrate meaningful market traction in order to attract funding. Unfortunately, without funding it is near impossible for early stage companies to evidence the market success that investors demand. To bridge this critical funding gap, Intrepid offers business acceleration financing and expertise to help promising Canadian companies build the necessary market traction to successfully attract follow-on growth capital.

Financial & strategic advice for growing companies

Value maximization and optimizing investment terms are amongst the top priorities for companies seeking capital. Successfully achieving both requires a deep appreciation of the venture funding process and significant transactional expertise. As an experienced investment advisor and fund manager, Intrepid is uniquely positioned to help growth companies successfully navigate the fund-raising process from beginning to end. Our value, however, is not limited to financing advice and execution. We provide strategic advice as well as tactical support with respect to sales, business development, strategic alliances, IP management and acquisitions. Often, clients engage our strategic and operational expertise in advance of a financing event, with the goal of maximizing value and improving their attractiveness to top-tier investors.

Helping create the perfect exit

Selling a business can be a profoundly emotional experience for founders, but also a process, which demands dispassionate objectivity and rational analysis and decision-making.
Intrepid’s team of experienced business executives and financial advisors will provide your management with an impartial perspective, helping separate emotion from reality, and aligning the key stakeholders to a common strategy. In preparation for a sale transaction, we assist management to objectively scrutinize the market opportunity, optimize business performance and formulate a plan to maximize shareholder value. Our team also has extensive M&A experience, both as sellers and buyers, and can provide valuable insights on managing the sale process, including building the valuation case for the buyer, negotiating price and terms, as well as structuring management contracts, earn-outs and other incentive compensation.

Facilitating management buy-outs

The ideal time to sell a business is when a convergence of market forces and competitive dynamics forces a strategic buyer to step forward with a premium offer. Unfortunately, too many Canadian companies make premature exit decision, driven either by a lack of resources to support growth, management shareholder fatigue or shareholder discord.

In cases where an objective appraisal suggests significant untapped value in the business, we partner with continuing management to buy-out shareholders seeking to exit, resulting in a mutually beneficial outcome for all parties.