Team
Beat Dolder | Caddie Master
Our team includes highly trained employees with a bachelor's or master's degree from a prestigious university.
We, at STARTUP CADDIE, understand just how important a start-up is to the founders and what an exciting time this is for them and their colleagues. Founders often spend too much time looking for investors, rather than improving their products or winning clients. While their expertise lies in creatively generating new ideas in their specialist area which they understand so well, we have the knowledge and experience to ensure that from the financial and corporate perspective, at the various stages of the start-up process, a company is well managed and ready for investors. We support startups with:
Postal address:
Im Ebnet 8
CH-8700 Küsnacht ZH (Switzerland)
+41 44 991 20 00
| Who is DOLDER Corporate Finance? | DOLDER Corporate Finance is a team of senior advisors with many years of experience, offering professional services in M&A, Transaction Support, Business Planning, Performance Improvement, Turnaround and Crisis Management, Capital and Debt Advisory. |
| Who is STARTUP CADDIE? | Startup Caddie is an initiative started by Beat Dolder. It is aimed to bring his broad strategic, operational, and financial know-how to founders. As the name states, we focus on startups |
| Why is it so important to involve a professional finance advisor in your business? | Ultimately your goal is to grow and build a highly successful and profitable business. Beat’s goal is to support you to ensure that as your idea is formed, your business established, validated and starts to grow, that the necessary and critical financial aspects have been covered. Not only is this important for you as an owner to ensure that all the financial implications have been considered, with complete and robust financial plans, projections and mandatory governance aspects taken care of, this will be a critical part of pitching for investment and/or funding as your business starts to take off. |
| Won't this be expensive? | We understand the financial and cash flow pressures that all new start-ups face. We will align our remuneration to the start-up’s success. We will explore together with you the services necessary for the start-up. Depending on the case, we can also work for equity and for success fees on fundraising. As your business moves through the stages and your needs, the level of service and support, along with the associated fees, can be tailored accordingly. |
| What do we offer start-up businesses? | We offer professional support and advisory for start-up businesses. We understand the start-up process and what is required at each of the stages of Formation, Validation and Growth (see chart).
Startup Caddie’s services can be broadly categorised as follows:
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| Why do we need you, if we can employ a CFO. | Employing a CFO with the right qualifications and experience, and who is not just an accountant but who can prepare business plans, investment case for the investors, analyse the business etc, for a part-time position is very difficult.
In addition, you will have to spend a lot of time to find and interview the candidates. If you use head-hunters, it is a costly process. You know for sure how to find the right people in your area (engineering etc) but do you know what to look out for when selecting someone for a CFO position? You will need to bring that person up to speed and you will need to instruct & challenge him / her what needs to be done, and to control that as well. With us, you will not have to spend your time on that, and you can rather concentrate on your core business. Yes, we would need to learn your business in the beginning but the work to plan and execute all the financial work can be done by us with your minimal involvement. |
| Everyone says they have access to investors. How do we know that you really do? | We have a broad network of investors, anything from wealthy individuals to private equity companies, people from the industries who have recently or are about to sell their businesses and looking for new challenges.
Our network comprises of over 260 VC-Firms (160 CH, 50 UK, 50 RoW) and about 100 private investors willing to invest from CHF 50k to over CHF 1m |
| "Smart Equity": We are looking for investors who are willing to invest their time and share their knowledge and experience rather than “only” giving us money. Do you know such investors? | We can certainly investigate this and do a research. Most of the investors are not prepared to invest their time but not all. We have an extensive industrial network, and might find such investors there. |
| What is your business / revenue model? How do you propose to get remunerated for your services? | We understand that startup companies are tight with regards to the budgets as most of the funds goes to develop the products and bring the company to the next level. We are prepared to discuss various alternatives and agree on a flexible remuneration solution. Participation in your company (shares) could be one of them in exchange for our services.. If we help you raise finance – then we work on success fee basis. Some services can be billed on an hourly basis. |
| What are the disadvantages of using you as oppose to us building up an own team? | We only see advantages: focus on core activities |
| Why Startup Caddie? How do you stand out from the competitors? | We are senior professionals in what we do. We align our interests to those of the founders and are dependent on the success of the business like you (“we are sitting in the same boat”). We have an extensive network of investors |