Raising £30m to £100m+? We find the equity without putting your project on the market.
Athena Investors sources equity for infrastructure and energy developers across the UK and Europe. Success only. No retainer.
Most developers raising serious equity face the same three frictions.
You do not know who is actually writing cheques this quarter.
Fund appetite moves faster than any published mandate. A firm that closed a £200m infrastructure fund last year may already be deployed, or may have shifted its focus to a sector next door to yours.
Going out yourself burns the asset.
Once a project has been seen by thirty funds and passed on by twenty-five, it carries that history. The market has a long memory and a short attention span.
Your team’s time is better spent elsewhere.
Weeks of introductions, follow ups and non-answers is time your development team is not spending on grid, planning or offtake.
We take that process off your desk and run it quietly.
Six stages. Nothing identifying leaves our desk without your approval.
Scoping call
We go through the project, the raise, the structure you have in mind and the timetable you are working to. Twenty to thirty minutes. If we do not think we can raise it, we say so on the call.
Positioning
We agree how the opportunity is described and what the investment case is. You approve the language before anything leaves our desk.
No names appetite testing
We approach investors matched to the size, sector and stage of your raise. The conversation happens without your name, the site, or anything identifying. We are testing appetite, not marketing a deal.
Teaser release
Only where genuine interest is confirmed do we release a teaser, and only to that investor.
Introduction
We bring you and the investor onto a call together. From here the relationship is direct.
NDA, data room, diligence
Formal process on your terms. We stay involved to keep momentum and to manage the parallel conversations if more than one investor is live.
We work best with developers who arrive with the basics in place.
We do not need a polished information memorandum. We can help shape the materials. What we cannot do is fill gaps in the underlying project.
Success only. No retainer.
We are paid on success alone. The rate is agreed up front on a call, and reflects the size and complexity of the raise. If we do not raise the equity, you owe us nothing.
Infrastructure and energy developers with a defined project and an equity requirement from £30m.
Battery storage developers
With ready to build or operating pipelines.
Renewable developers
Raising at project or platform level.
Connected infrastructure
Grid, transmission and linked real assets.
We take on a limited number of mandates at a time. That is deliberate. It is what allows us to run a targeted process rather than a mass mailing.
The things developers ask before the first call.
Will my competitors find out I am raising?
Not through us. Appetite testing is anonymous, and the teaser only goes to investors who have already confirmed interest.
What if I have already approached some funds?
Tell us at the scoping call. We will exclude them so there is no crossed wire and no investor sees the same project twice from two directions.
Are you exclusive?
We agree terms case by case. What matters most is that we are not duplicating someone else’s outreach into the same network.
How long does a raise take?
Appetite testing usually gives a clear read within a few weeks. Completion depends on the investor’s process and your diligence readiness rather than on us.
Do you invest yourselves?
No. We source and introduce capital. We do not take positions in the projects we work on.
If raising equity is on your roadmap this year, start with a conversation.
Twenty minutes tells you whether your project fits current appetite in our network. There is no cost and no obligation.