A story investors fund
Positioning and narrative that hold up to the first hard question in the room.
Capital Advisory for Founders
Be investor-ready before you raise.
IV Consulting sharpens your positioning, builds the story investors fund, and prepares the diligence that closes the round.
For founders raising from accredited and institutional investors.
A data room that holds
Diligence-ready materials in place before an investor asks for them.
A raise you control
Preparation that puts you across the table from investors, not under them.
Practice areas
Investor readiness
Diligence preparation
Positioning & narrative
Go-to-market
Brand strategy
The Problem
Most founders raise before they are ready.
A weak story and a thin data room cost you leverage, valuation, and time. Investors sense it in the first meeting, and the round stalls in diligence.
IV Consulting closes that gap before you go to market. The work is senior, specific, and built for the scrutiny a real raise brings. You walk in prepared, and you negotiate from strength.
Services
Three ways to get raise-ready.
Fixed-scope engagements built around one outcome: a raise you control.
01
Investor-Readiness Diligence
Outcome: walk into diligence prepared.
- Data-room review and gap analysis
- Financial-narrative pressure test
- The questions investors will ask, answered first
For founders three to six months from a raise.
02
Positioning & Narrative
Outcome: a story investors fund.
- Positioning and messaging
- Deck narrative and structure
- The one-line version that lands in a room
For founders whose story is not converting.
03
Ongoing Advisory
Outcome: a senior partner through the raise.
- Retained strategic counsel
- Raise preparation and rehearsal
- Introductions and process strategy
For founders who want a strategist in their corner.
Fixed-scope engagements. Pricing shared on the intro call.
The Approach
A clear path from exposed to raise-ready.
Diagnose
We find where the raise is exposed, before an investor does.
Sharpen
We tighten the positioning and the story until it lands.
Prepare
We build the diligence materials that survive real scrutiny.
Raise-ready
You go to market in control of the conversation.
The Work
Where the practice has been applied.
Capital advisory sits alongside brand, sales, and advocacy work. The through-line is the same: sharpen the position, then build what the room needs to say yes.
Capital advisory
For founders raising from accredited and institutional investors.
- Investor-readiness review
- Data-room preparation
- Diligence response
Brand & sales strategy
For growing companies that need to be taken seriously.
- Positioning & messaging
- Go-to-market strategy
- Revenue & sales strategy
Nonprofit & advocacy
For mission-driven organizations.
- Brand & program strategy
- Stakeholder communication
- Fundraising positioning
About
Built by an operator, not a template.
IV Consulting is the practice of Louis Tillman, a strategist and creative director who helps founders raise from accredited and institutional investors. The work spans positioning, narrative, and investor-grade diligence, alongside brand and sales strategy for companies that need to be taken seriously.
The standard is senior and specific. Every engagement is built for the scrutiny a real raise brings, so you walk in prepared and negotiate from strength.
Ready when you are
Raise on your terms.
A short call to see whether your raise is diligence-ready.
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Start the conversation.
Book a call
Fifteen minutes to pressure-test where your raise stands and whether we are a fit. If it is, we set the working session from there.
Book an intro callPrefer email? ltillman@ivconsulting.co · LinkedIn