THIRD HORIZON Capital Advisory

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Capabilities.

From first-stage capital strategy to boardroom counsel: five core disciplines, one venture studio, and an extended bench behind them.

Core disciplines: 5 Venture studio: 1 Extended capabilities: 6 Every engagement: senior-led

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Built around your mandate, not our packages.

Engagements are structured around your stage of growth, objectives, and complexity, never off-the-shelf. A one-off strategic review, an ongoing advisory relationship, or an embedded seat at your table: Third Horizon adapts to the shape of your ambition.

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Fractional CFO / CFO-as-a-Service

Engagement fit
Retained Embedded

Embedded CFO-level leadership without the full-time cost.

Engage us for
  • Senior finance stewardship through a growth phase, turnaround or transition
  • Board and investor reporting that stands up to scrutiny
  • Building the finance team, systems and operating cadence beneath you
  • Investor-readiness ahead of a raise, transaction or exit
Financial Leadership Board Reporting Investor Readiness Team Building Governance
Further reading

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Strategic Financial Planning & Advisory

Engagement fit
Project Retained

The financial operating model your leadership team actually uses to make decisions.

Engage us for
  • A long-range model built for decisions, with the judgment calls made visible
  • Multi-scenario planning ahead of a strategic commitment
  • Capital allocation frameworks tied to strategy, not history
  • Budget architecture and KPI design your operators will actually run
Financial Modeling Scenario Planning Capital Allocation Budget Architecture KPI Design
Further reading

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M&A Advisory & Transaction Support

Engagement fit
Project

From mandate to close, informed by transactions executed inside major global enterprises.

Engage us for
  • Buy-side or sell-side support from first approach to signing
  • Financial due diligence and valuation you can defend under questioning
  • Deal structuring, NBO / LOI positions, and negotiation support
  • Integration planning that protects the value you just paid for
Due Diligence Valuation Deal Structuring Integration Planning NBO / LOI Support
Further reading

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Investor Relations & Capital Advisory

Engagement fit
Project Retained

The story your investors should be telling, delivered with confidence at every touchpoint.

Engage us for
  • Equity story and investor narrative ahead of a raise
  • Fundraising strategy, investor decks and roadshow preparation
  • Capital structure review and financing options analysis
  • Ongoing investor and analyst communications
Equity Story Investor Deck Roadshow Prep Capital Structure Fundraising Strategy
Further reading

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Board & Executive Advisory

Engagement fit
Retained

Senior-to-senior counsel: candid, confidential, and grounded in having sat where you sit.

Engage us for
  • A confidential sounding board for consequential decisions
  • Board preparation, governance design and reporting discipline
  • Leadership transitions and executive performance frameworks
  • Independent perspective when the room is too close to the problem
Strategic Counsel Board Prep Governance Design Leadership Transition
Further reading

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The Venture Studio.

We partner with exceptional founders to build, scale, and create lasting value, combining capital, operating expertise, and a global network to turn ambitious ideas into enduring businesses. Deliberately selective: a small number of ventures at a time, each with real skin in the game.

How we partner
  • Company building alongside founders, from first model to first close
  • Capital participation and access to a cross-continental network
  • The full capability map above, applied from the inside
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From ambitious idea to enduring business.

  • CapitalParticipation alongside founders, with real skin in the game.
  • Operating expertiseThe full capability map, applied from the inside.
  • NetworkCross-continental relationships, opened with intent.

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The extended bench.

Every mandate is different. These capabilities extend our reach to match yours: deployed standalone or folded into a broader engagement.

Financial restructuring

Balance sheet optimization, liability management, and turnaround support for businesses navigating financial stress or transformation.

Cost optimization

Zero-based budgeting, cost structure analysis, and operating model efficiency programs that protect margin without starving growth.

Real asset & capital deployment

Acquisition structuring, portfolio analysis, financing strategy, and investment underwriting for real asset investments.

Tax & treasury strategy

Group treasury design, cash management, FX strategy, and tax-efficient structuring in coordination with specialist advisors.

Financial controls & compliance

Internal controls architecture, reporting frameworks, and compliance readiness for regulated and pre-IPO businesses.

Family office & private capital

Wealth structuring, portfolio review, and investment strategy for high-net-worth principals and family offices.

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Three ways in.

The right engagement starts with the shape of the problem: a defined project, a standing relationship, or a seat inside your team.

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Project Advisory

A defined-scope engagement for a specific strategic challenge: a capital raise, a transaction, a financial review, or a planning exercise.

fits when: a capital raise, a transaction or a review with a clear end date.

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Retained Advisory

An ongoing relationship providing consistent senior financial counsel: monthly access, strategic oversight, and real-time guidance.

fits when: decisions arrive every month and you want the same senior voice each time.

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Embedded CFO

Part-time, senior-embedded CFO support, integrated with your leadership team, attending board meetings, accountable for financial outcomes.

fits when: the leadership team needs a CFO in the seat, on a part-time basis, accountable for the numbers.

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Questions, answered directly.

The questions founders, CEOs, and boards ask before they engage.

What does it cost to work with Third Horizon?

Every fee is fixed or capped and agreed before you commit; there's no hourly billing. The shape of the engagement sets the range: a systems-level organizational diagnostic, a monthly advisory retainer, or a defined project such as investor readiness or post-deal architecture, each scoped as a fixed fee. A 30 minute conversation is enough to scope your situation.

Who actually does the work?

Every engagement is led by the founder or a designated Principal from the Advisory Board. The founder is a former Region CFO of Cisco MEA who ran a $1B P&L.

What does a fractional CFO engagement look like here?

A standing seat at your table on a weekly cadence: board and investor reporting, forward-looking planning, pricing and deal advisory, and the decisions that cannot wait. It is senior advisory rather than operational cover. Third Horizon does not take full-time interim seats, and it complements rather than replaces your accounting function.

How is this different from hiring a Big 4 firm?

Comparable Big 4 scope is priced as a full program and delivered by a leveraged team of juniors under a senior signature. Third Horizon inverts that: one senior operator, institutionally trained, doing the work directly at a fraction of that cost. The trade is deliberate; you give up headcount and get judgment.

Which sectors does Third Horizon know best?

Technology, telecom, SaaS, and platform businesses are home ground after 22 years inside Siemens, Nokia, and Cisco. The firm is also fluent across financial services, healthcare, FMCG, and the public sector, where the financial architecture work travels well.

What does Third Horizon not do?

Audit and attestation (an independence conflict), tax structuring (referred to specialist partners), bookkeeping and accounting operations, and full-time interim CFO cover. Keeping the scope senior and advisory is what keeps the quality high.

How does an engagement start?

With a discovery conversation: 30 to 45 minutes, no charge, no obligation. You describe the decision in front of you; we tell you honestly whether Third Horizon is the right instrument for it, and if not, who is. NDAs are standard before any material changes hands.

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The right engagement starts with one conversation.

Tell us where you are and where you need to go. We will tell you, candidly, whether and how Third Horizon can help.

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