We help start-ups to build an effective business model and acquire the required financial means for successful development and growth. Given the experience in our team and the extensive network in the world of venture capital and business angel, SKD offers the following services:

1. identification of resources and professional figures to complete the management team;
2. industrial and financial planning through the drafting of business plans and information memorandums;
3. matchmaking to identify any commercial and / or industrial partnerships;
4. identification and involvement of investors / lenders.

We help entrepreneurs to better grasp their business performance and structure decision-making processes on the basis of relevant data and information.

We work side by side with entrepreneurs to develop optimal capital and financial structures as well as competitive financing programs, also alternative to bank debt.

We analyze the available options and present alternative scenarios, offering our professional outlook.Additionally, our team supports enterprises in drafting the business plan and the information memorandum necessary for an effective presentation to the banking system.

Thanks to SKD’s experience in the financial, industrial, strategic and executive management sectors, together with the extensive network boasted at the highest levels of the banking and financial system, we can provide entrepreneurs with guidance, enabling them to:

1. improve the bank rating;
2. optimize the cost of debt capital;
3. obtain short and medium/long-term loans.

We know entrepreneurs’ values and needs. This allows us to assist them, professionally and confidentially, during those strategic decisions characterizing an exceptional finance operation.
Our qualifications and network of professionals and investors allow us to:

1. identify potential buyers for companies designated to divestment;
2. search for target companies to acquire, consistent with the client's growth strategy;
3. look for private equity funds and institutional financial investors.

Confident of its knowledge and market position, SKD is able to provide entrepreneurs with an extensive portfolio of private and/or financial investors.
Specifically, we support in the search of:

1. private investors for seed or pre-seed phases, namely finances for entrepreneurial ideas and initial enterprise launch (business angel);
2. financial investors for start-up projects (seed or venture capital funds or club deals);
3. financial investors for the underwriting of capital increase for growth through internal or external lines (private equity funds or corporate investors);
4. financial investors for the underwriting of medium / long-term bond issues (debt / mini-bond or institutional investors);
5. credit institutions for the financing of investments or for the restructuring of "tailor-made" debt (mortgages, medium / long-term loans).

Armed with the know-how of its team, SKD supports its customers in complex change processes requiring a significant commitment from a strategic, organizational and managerial point of view.
In the design phase, we assist managers in making crucial strategic and organizational choices. Subsequently, we commit to the concrete realization of such choices, coordinating and enhancing internal competences while maximizing the efforts of all the involved parties. Following frequent meetings with the entrepreneur or with the management team, SKD is capable of providing control management guidelines aiming at cost efficiency and performance improvement.
Hence, we deliver a report inclusive of:

1. monthly budget, analyzing it with respect to the same month of the previous year and to the previous month;
2. analysis of present and future financial efforts;
3. analysis of bank debt exposure;
4. cash-flow analysis;
5. competitive market analysis.

Thanks to the experience of its team, SKD also offers:

1. consultancy for company quotations in regulated or non-regulated securities markets (MTA and AIM);
2. consultancy for the establishment and listing of Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC);
3. business due diligence;
4. business evaluations;
5. temporary CFO.