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Growth Capital

Connecting great companies to investors who bring conviction, discipline, and long-term commitment to growth

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Connecting great companies with ambitious, high-conviction investors

Market-leading companies need bold investors who share their ambition, and finding them requires reach, insight, and relationships. Our growth capital advisory combines a global investor network with deep transactional expertise, ensuring exceptional businesses are connected to partners with the conviction, vision, and capital to back them.

We engage with thousands of investors each year, giving clients access to capital on a scale few firms can offer. This ranges from top-tier venture funds to crossover investors preparing for the next wave of IPOs, through to sovereign wealth funds and pension funds deploying trillions across long-term, high-quality opportunities. We apply sector expertise and rigorous preparation to shape a growth case that resonates with high-conviction investors and plays into the themes under which they are investing.

Our partner-led approach keeps the process on track, and ensures engagement only with investors who are an appropriate fit for the opportunity. The result is growth capital that reinforces the business’ trajectory, strengthens long-term positioning, and supports ambitions that deserve to be realised at scale.

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The Growth Capital Process

We help exceptional companies attract investors with the capital and conviction to support their growth.

Strategy & Planning

We start by understanding ambitions and the capital required to meet growth objectives. We then assess timing, market conditions, and investor appetite to design a strategy that maximises alignment, value, and deliverability.

Analysis

We analyse performance, market traction, scalability, and sector dynamics to surface key growth drivers, potential risks, and areas to strengthen investor confidence ahead of market engagement.

Preparation & Positioning

We refine the investment narrative and prepare materials that highlight the company’s strengths, momentum, and the value an investor can unlock as the long-term plan is delivered.

Readiness Process

Before launch, we run a readiness process addressing financial, legal, operational, and commercial issues early to ensure investors see a well-prepared, low-risk business.

Investor Identification

Leveraging our global network, we identify and prioritise growth equity funds, crossover investors, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and strategic capital providers most aligned with the opportunity.

Engaging with Investors

We lead discreet, well-sequenced engagement with selected investors, building competitive tension, assessing depth of conviction and maintaining confidentiality throughout the process.

Indications of Interest

We invite and evaluate initial proposals, assessing valuation, structure, governance, and deliverability. Once preferred parties emerge, we refine terms to secure momentum.

Negotiation & Due Diligence

We lead negotiations and manage confirmatory diligence across commercial, financial, and legal workstreams, anticipating issues early and protecting value through to agreement.

Closing

We oversee final documentation, completion mechanics, and the transition to the new cap table, ensuring a seamless close and a strong platform for the next phase of growth.

EXPERTISE

Why Hyndland Partners for Growth Capital

For ambitious businesses, growth depends on choosing investors who can match your ambition. We help you secure partners who bring both capital, expertise and conviction.

Global Investor Access

Our global network spans growth equity funds, crossover investors, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and strategics. We maintain active relationships with institutions deploying meaningful capital into high-quality opportunities. This reach ensures your business is positioned in front of investors with genuine appetite and capability.

Maximise Valuation

We help secure stronger valuations with less dilution by articulating a strong story around performance, scalability, and future potential. Our focused positioning emphasises the signals sophisticated investors prioritise, improving the probability of a financing that accelerates the company’s growth trajectory.

Partner-Led Negotiation

Every negotiation is led directly by partners, ensuring senior judgement at critical moments. We negotiate valuation, structure, governance, and investor rights with clarity and conviction. Our focus is on securing terms that reflect the company’s true quality and future trajectory.

Protecting Existing Shareholders

We take a disciplined approach to structuring transactions to preserve ownership and maximise long-term returns. Our focus is on attracting investors who value the opportunity and are willing to provide strong protections to the existing shareholders. We consider the full terms on offer, model dilution scenarios, and challenge structures that erode shareholder value.

Efficient Process Flow

We manage the entire process with tight coordination and senior oversight to maintain momentum. This reduces management distraction and ensures everything is handled in a timely manner. Our structured approach anticipates issues early and keeps the raise on track. The outcome is a smoother, more predictable fundraising journey.

Navigating the Journey Ahead

We work with you to ensure the business is well positioned for any future capital raises that might be needed. Our team challenges assumptions and strengthens the long-term investment narrative by explaining how the business is likely to be judged in future. As a businesses raises more money, it will be judged by an increasingly stricter set of criteria, meaning that generally more progress has to be shown at each successive raise.

Financial Modeling

We build detailed, investor-grade financial models that articulate scalability and long-term value creation. Our analysis demonstrates the credibility of unit economics, cash flows, and investment returns. We pressure-test assumptions and prepare the business for rigorous investor scrutiny. This underpins confidence in the growth case and strengthens valuation outcomes.

Comprehensive Market Research

We provide deep market insights to articulate opportunity size, competitive dynamics, and strategic positioning. Our research highlights sector momentum and supports the investment case with credible evidence. We identify trends, risks, and structural shifts relevant to sophisticated investors. This level of analysis builds conviction and enhances the attractiveness of the opportunity.

PARTNERS

Who We Serve

We support fast-growing companies in securing capital from top-tier investors

High-Growth Companies

Businesses experiencing rapid growth and seeking capital to accelerate expansion, invest in technology, enter new markets and strengthen their operational foundations.

VC Firms

We support venture investors by helping their portfolio companies secure larger, later-stage capital from late-stage VC, growth equity, crossovers, sovereigns and strategic investors as they enter the scale-up phase.

PE Firms

We work alongside private equity sponsors to help their portfolio companies raise additional growth capital for acquisitions, roll-outs, new product lines and international expansion.

Family-Owned Businesses

Established and multi-generational businesses seeking growth capital to scale, modernise, or enter new markets while preserving the principles and long-term vision that define their organisation.

CEOs & Boards

Leadership teams assessing future capital requirements, preparing for fundraising, or exploring investor partnerships that support a multi-year growth strategy.

Active conversations with other 15,000 strategics and investors each year...

CASE STUDIES

Global Coverage. Disciplined Execution.

Our transactions reflect more than a decade of commitment to client success, driving positive transformation across global markets.

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Advancing Space Propulsion

Advancing next-generation orbital mobility with Impulse Space’s Series C raise.

Advancing Space Propulsion

In June 2025, Impulse Space, a leader in space mobility, successfully closed a $300 million Series C round.

A select pool of institutional capital retained our team following previous successes in adjacent ‘deep tech’ markets.

As one of the largest raises for a space startup, it marked a significant step in the company’s growth trajectory, bringing total funds raised to $525 million.

Advising on Transformational AI Transactions

Advised on a secondary transaction for OpenAI, delivering allocation to new institutional investors.

Advising on Transformational AI Transactions

We advised a late-stage venture capital group on a highly competitive secondary opportunity in OpenAI, one of the most closely held and strategically significant companies in artificial intelligence.

Amid limited liquidity and a carefully managed cap table, we secured direct access to primary equity from existing shareholders, navigating complex transfer mechanics and governance considerations.

Our deep connectivity across private capital and limited partner ecosystems underpins our ability to originate and structure such transactions. We are trusted to manage high-profile deals in frontier markets where discretion and relationships are often more valuable than capital alone.

BY THE NUMBERS

Delivering capital and investor reach for the next generation of great companies

78%

Raises oversubscribed

$130M - $1BN

Typical capital raise

INDUSTRIES

Independent advice rooted in deep domain expertise

Our coverage is broad, with industry-focused teams combining deep market understanding, global perspective, and established relationships to deliver differentiated advice.

Aerospace, Defence and Government

Decades of transaction experience and executive-level relationships across the safeguarded aerospace, defence, and government sectors, advising clients operating in areas critical to global national security

Business Services

Our bankers have advised on hundreds of business services transactions and bring operator-level understanding and commercial insight to our clients across 9 sectors

Consumer and Education

Our Consumer & Education practice advises leading companies across consumer, retail, leisure, hospitality and education markets grounded in tangible transaction experience in over 18 countries

Finance and Insurance

Our reputation as trusted advisors to sophisticated market participants including banks, specialty lenders, asset managers, accountants and insurers is underpinned by a commitment to excellence in every aspect of our advisory work

Healthcare

Our healthcare team consists of advisory professionals with operational experience across healthcare services, life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices

Industrials

We have advised on some of the largest domestic and international industrial transactions, supporting public and private companies with a commercial, yet deeply technical approach to structuring and delivering transactions

Infrastructure and Energy

Advising operators and investors across the infrastructure, energy, renewables, transport, and utilities sectors throughout all stages of the development lifecycle, in markets characterised by complexity, regulation, and national security considerations

Technology

We bring an operator mindset to technology advisory — informed by a track record of proprietary investments including Unsplash and Hitch, prior to their respective acquisitions by Getty and Lyft

DEAL SPOTLIGHT

Industry Experience

A selection of transactions demonstrating our results-driven culture and commitment to exceptional client service

Hyndland Partners Secures Growth Capital for Asteroid Mining Corporation as the Exclusive Financial Advisor

Client

Asteroid Mining Corporation

Service

Sell-Side Growth Capital

Sector

Aerospace

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Summary

Hyndland Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor to the shareholders of the Asteroid Mining Corporation (“AMC”), successfully securing a growth equity investment.

Founded in 2016, the Asteroid Mining Corporation (“AMC”) is an industrial robotics and space resources company. In partnership with Japan’s Tohoku University, AMC has developed a modular robotic explorer with payload deliverability and extraction capabilities in extreme environments.

This investment has fuelled the development of AMC’s terrestrial robots, which are now disrupting autonomous inspection markets in the maritime and O&G verticals. Revenue generated from these applications is supporting AMC’s core vision – to extract precious metals from near-Earth asteroids.

Since the investment, AMC has landed partnerships with Japan’s ispace, Inc. (a publicly listed lunar exploration company), Creative Destruction Lab and Plug and Play Japan to advance longer-term ambitions.

Hyndland Partners Advises Daxtra on Strategic Growth Investment from Strattam Capital

Client

Daxtra

Service

Sell-Side M&A

Sector

Technology

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Summary

Hyndland Partners acted as financial advisor to the Daxtra Group (“Daxtra”), a leading provider of AI-enriched talent acquisition software, in securing a majority growth investment from Strattam Capital (“Strattam”).

Daxtra, founded in 2002 by Andrei Mikheev and Steven Finch, has pioneered AI-driven software for the talent acquisition ecosystem. Its technology is mission-critical to over 2,500 clients that recruit on a global scale. Last year alone, Daxtra processed over 1 billion resumes across 40 languages. It supports customers globally via offices in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

Strattam has more than $1bn in assets under management, and most recently announced a third fund of $308 million. It typically makes majority growth investments in companies with up to $100m in enterprise value. This flagship investment in Daxtra underscores Strattam’s commitment to supporting high-growth, innovative companies. Furthermore, its track record in HR and recruitment technology positions Daxtra to capitalise on growing demand in North America.

Andrei Mikheev commented, “The investment by Strattam will allow us to accelerate growth in North America, while continuing to provide the superior customer service and great products that our customers expect.”

Jonathan Busch, Principal at Strattam Capital, added, “We’re excited to partner with Andrei and Steve to help bring their differentiated products to the wider world. Strattam’s mission is to work with great founders who have built great businesses, and the Daxtra team has proven again and again over their 20 years that advanced AI technologies can be harnessed effectively and safely to solve real world problems.”

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