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Cape Town,Western Cape,8001,South Africa
Arete Advisors
Graham Stephen's Company Details
We help your business achieve its commercial objectives, working hand in hand with you to:• Provide clarity and refinement of your strategy in order to enable effective execution• Define, refine and optimize both your business and commercial model• Architect and optimize credit and lending models• Diagnose opportunities and problems across your value chain• Help you understand the drivers and levers in the digital transformation of your business• Provide professional business management support to founders and/or CEO's • Support M&A activity via evaluation of prospects and commercial Due Diligence activitiesWe focus on, but not exclusively, the following types of businesses:• Post incubator and accelerator stage businesses, usually where the founders are still actively involved in the running of the business and are able to make and act on decisions• Either self-funded businesses or businesses that have taken outside investment and who require additional support to manage investor expectations• Businesses which have been operating for at least 1, but preferably 3 years and with established turnoverWe have a network of collaboration partners who are able to provide expert knowledge in the areas of technology, AI, credit and risk decisioning, data and BI, digital marketing, marketing strategy and creative design.Our core strengths are• Building deep and lasting partnerships and relationships• Strategic thinking• Optimization of business and commercial models• Architecture, development and optimization of credit models• Understanding yours and your team's strengths and how these can be harnessed• Taking things from good to excellent• Creating a bias to actionWe partner with you to help your business achieve its potential!