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Investor matching
We define the right investor profile for your sector and build a sequenced target list — stage, cheque size, thesis, and ownership posture. The right rooms, in the right order.
Capital Formation
Materials before outreach. Process through close.
Meridian Capital Formation prepares founder-owned businesses for family office and holding company capital — investor matching, narrative and materials, diligence room, and sequenced outreach. Selective mandates only.
What we do
Four workstreams — one raise process.
We define the right investor profile, build investor-grade materials and room, then run outreach and diligence to close.
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Data room build
A complete, structured, diligence-ready data room — corporate, financial, commercial, product, legal, and team — before outreach begins.
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Narrative & materials
We reframe the story around what investors underwrite in your sector, then build deck, one-pager, model, and FAQ to a standard that earns the next meeting.
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Process to close
We run outreach, manage the funnel, coordinate diligence, and stay alongside you through term-sheet and close — so you can keep operating the business.
How we run it
Five phases — room complete before first investor call.
Fit assessment
We assess the company and the raise honestly. We only proceed where we believe the round is achievable. If it is not a fit, we say so early.
Narrative & materials
We sharpen the investment story and build the full materials set — deck, one-pager, model, and FAQ — framed around what your investors underwrite.
Data room build
In parallel, we stand up the diligence-ready data room. Complete, structured, and permissioned before a single investor sees it.
Investor process
We approach the sequenced target list, manage the funnel, and book meetings. You walk into prepared conversations, in the right order.
Diligence & close
We coordinate diligence, maintain momentum, and support you through term-sheet and close.
Diligence room structure
A complete, permissioned room — corporate, financial, commercial, product, legal, and team — prepared for your sector.
Corporate
Cap table, structure, incorporation, board and shareholder records, prior rounds.
Financial
Historicals, model, unit economics, cohort and retention analysis, key metrics.
Commercial
Pipeline, customer evidence, contracts, churn, and competitive framing.
Product & tech
Roadmap, architecture overview, IP position, security and data posture.
Legal
Key contracts, IP assignments, compliance, and the disclosure schedule.
Team
Org, key hires, option pool, and the hiring plan the raise funds.
Outreach infrastructure
Three routes into family office capital — scaled to your market
Meridian does not rely on a static investor list. The desk runs warm principal introductions first, hundreds of outbound family office calls daily, and permissioned email sequences scaled to your TAM — every route, reply, and meeting logged in Meridian OS with auditable remove logic.
Your corridors: Family office and holding mandates across your sector and geography — warm network sequenced first, then hundreds of daily FO calls and email volume scaled to your total addressable investor market.
Hundreds
outbound FO calls daily
Warm first
principal network sequenced
Up to 500k
emails / month by TAM
One system
Meridian OS routing
Warm principal network
Live family office, holding, and advisor relationships approached first — mandate-fit introductions before volume enters the funnel.
Hundreds of FO calls daily
Dedicated outbound to principals, CIOs, and investment directors across your corridors — every call logged with mandate-fit rationale.
Email scaled to your TAM
Permissioned sequences from focused corridors to 500,000 emails per month — volume calibrated to your addressable investor market, not spray-and-pray.
Meridian OS route control
Call outcomes, replies, meetings, removes, and introduction sequence maintained in one auditable process record — from first touch through diligence.
Engagement terms
Selective mandates. Clear economics.
Engagement $15k flat
Success 5% of capital raised
Selective few mandates
Strong fit
- Founder-owned business with traction and a defined round
- Clear use of funds tied to expansion lines investors will stress-test
- Sector and stage where family office or holding mandates exist on the desk
- Founders who will engage fully in materials build and investor process
Not a fit
- Pre-idea or pre-product concepts seeking validation
- Open-ended fundraising with no defined round or use of funds
- Businesses that cannot articulate why they scale
- Founders seeking to fully outsource every investor conversation
Business verticals
The corridors we know and fund.
Meridian has active family office and holding company mandates across these sectors. Not exhaustive — if your business has traction and a defined raise, apply and we will tell you quickly where it fits.
Healthcare services
Specialty care groups, dental and vision platforms, diagnostics, home care, and behavioral health. Proven care delivery models with a defined expansion pathway.
Tech-enabled businesses
Vertical SaaS, AI-enabled service businesses, B2B platforms with recurring revenue. Businesses where software creates durable margin — not pure-play dev shops.
Industrial & logistics
Specialty manufacturing, distribution, testing and inspection, cold chain, and waste management. Asset-light or hybrid operators with a replicable site model.
Consumer & hospitality
Multi-site F&B, branded wellness, specialty retail, and experiences. Strong unit economics required — family offices underwrite the model, not the concept.
Professional services
Insurance brokerage, staffing, accounting, compliance, and advisory businesses with recurring client relationships and a platform acquisition thesis.
Real estate & infrastructure
Healthcare real estate, logistics assets, self-storage, and power-adjacent land with an institutional thesis. Operating businesses with a real estate component fit best.
Apply
Submit an application.
Meridian reviews every submission within 48 hours. We only proceed where the raise is genuinely achievable — and say so either way.
Meridian Capital Formation provides fundraising preparation, materials, data-room build, and process management. Terms confirmed in a written engagement agreement.