The Capital Roundtable

Raising capital is its own search. Finding the deal is hard enough. Lining up the money to win it, on terms that don't give away the thing you're building, is a separate problem most people underestimate.

The Capital Roundtable is a free, monthly conversation for searchers raising outside capital, going after bigger deals, or weighing whether to. Self-funded searchers thinking about bringing in investors. Funded searchers in the middle of a raise. Independent sponsors running deal by deal. If money and structure are the part you're wrestling with, this is the room. Wednesdays at 1pm ET, alternating with the Closing Roundtable. Open to the public. You don't have to be a member.

This is not a webinar, it's not an AMA, and it's not a how-to on getting an SBA loan. There are a thousand places for that. You bring the question you're actually wrestling with, the raise, the structure, the term you don't understand, and we put it to the room. The answers come from your peers, plus a rotating mix of Lab leadership, advisors, and members who have raised and closed. We facilitate, and we add our point of view when it earns its place. Members and non-members sit in the same room, and nobody will pitch you.

Cameras on. The room stays small on purpose, and no recording is shared afterward, so people share the real numbers, the raise that fell apart, the deal lost on structure. You have to be there.

Questions the room keeps coming back to.

• The chicken and the egg, you need a deal to raise and capital to win the deal
• Commitments that actually open doors with sellers
• The economics of investors, what you keep, what you give up
• Investor returns, what's realistic, preferred, hurdle, carry
• Majority or minority, control against the bigger check
• The cap table, and how it evolves
• The docs, term sheets, operating agreements, what to fight for
• Independent sponsor economics, deal-by-deal fees and carry
• The capital stack, how debt and equity fit on a bigger deal
• Working with investors and the bank at the same time
• Losing on structure, not price
• The model behind the raise, debt sizing, DSCR, what investors stress-test

Come ready to be on camera and jump in. The people who get the most out of the room are the ones who talk. Bring whatever you're working through right now.

Hosted by Acquisition Lab, the home of acquisition entrepreneurship. We guide the whole journey. Search, fund, close, operate. The education is free, and the Lab only profits after members buy good businesses. 

60 minutes, live, the closest thing to being in the room together.

The bet is yours. Choose your people.