• Corporate Development:  Product/Technology Roadmap, Go-to-market Strategy, Partnerships

• Capital Raising:  Venture capital, private equity, and corporate investment

• Buy-Side Mergers & Acquisitions:  Target selection, valuation, negotiation, deal structure

• Sell-Side Mergers & Acquisitions:  Optimize company positioning and value proposition, candidate selection

• Deal Sourcing and Deal Diligence: Find and evaluate new opportunities for venture capital firms, investment banks, and hedge funds

• Executive Search:  VP-level recruiting, board members, technical leads, marketing
  

The Alteon team works closely with our clients to develop exciting high-growth business plans, including Product/Technology Roadmaps, Go-to-market plans, Partnerships, M&A, and Patent/IP strategies.  We help our clients to:

• identify the optimal opportunities to target
• develop winning business plans for capturing these opportunities
• pinpoint the competencies our clients need to fill
• develop and execute plans to fill these needs through internal development, partnership or M&A. 

Capital Raising
 

Alteon Capital raises capital for high-growth companies to accelerate their growth through organic development, market and geographic expansion, and acquisition.  Our team has deep relationships across an array of investor classes:

• early-stage/seed funds
• venture capital funds
• late-stage private equity
• leveraged buyout shops
• corporate development/venture groups
• hedge funds
• family offices
• ultra-wealthy individuals.

Alteon’s partners have co-invested with or raised money from leading firms in all of these fund classes. Our relationship network includes over 1000 partner-level executives in this investor universe. Longstanding work with these investors gives us a unique insider’s view of the types of companies they seek to invest in, including:

• company's product/market focus
• company stage
• geographic location
• investment size
• historical investments that are synergistic.

Our knowledge of investors’ preferences allows us to pinpoint the optimal subset of investors for a given client’s fundraising needs, to maximize the efficiency of fundraising process, and to minimize the time the client must spend on fundraising meetings.  Our fundraising process includes the following steps:

• define financial and strategic objectives
• identify the optimal transaction
• target the investors likely to be most interested
• prepare the fundraising pitch
• conduct fundraising meetings
• negotiate the deal
• close the transaction.

Buy-Side Mergers & Acquisitions

• define the market opportunity, defensive move or competency gap that the company needs to fill
• define the attributes of the ideal acquisition target (size, technology, products, channels)
• identify the universe of viable targets—both standalone private companies and divisions of public companies
• develop contact programs that target these companies, solicit their interest, negotiate the terms, and close the transaction.

Our sell-side M&A process includes the following steps:

• develop a clear and compelling presentation that conveys the company’s true value, based on near-term commercial traction and longer-term strategic value derived from unique technology, products, business models, and personnel
• identify the best acquirers for the company—larger companies who would place the highest value on the client’s combined near-term and strategic value and whose management and culture are consistent with our client’s objectives and goals
• develop and execute the contact program, negotiate terms, and close the transaction.

Our goal is to provide maximum negotiating leverage by achieving situations where there are multiple attractive bidders for the company.

Alteon also provides management with analysis on the optimal timing, valuation, and positioning of the IPO. We assist companies with introduction to and selection of underwriters.