Operations

Operations is a must have in Deeptech

Accelerate growth, create value through multiple expansion, and give confidence to all current and future stakeholders

Solving the 3 most critical Key Success Factors in Deeptech

20+ years of experience in supporting Deeptech founders at the team level

30 active senior experts from our community of investors bringing their knowledge
(Finance, Worldwide business, Design, Industrialization, Technology, and Operations experts)

IRON HANDS CAPITAL is committed to provide strategic and tactical assistance and expanded financial capabilities to the partner companies we invest in, but it starts with a 3 steps process.

First,

structure the Governance

Then,

co-design the information rights

Next,

bring smart capital with an ecosystem of resources

Investing in Deeptech without fully dynamic support to the companies is unrealistic

At IRON HANDS CAPITAL, we seek to master the company journey while being humble. Therefore, we monitor a custom-made operational support for each company. Whatever the situation, we help the founders not forget the reason they started their entrepreneurial journey.

Polymorphic skills

Polymorphic Key Success Factors at the Intersection of science, engineering, business, design, and operations

A mix of fast-track for business and long run for culture

We focus on priorities where there is a need for operational support in order not to lose time that could reduce the company's competitiveness. We also identify where time is needed to implement results that will properly impact the organization's culture

Trade-off: make-buy-partner

A necessary trade-off between vertical integration and external support is moving quickly while building robust assets. We help our investments take advantage of our ecosystem and only take actions they can benefit from

Whether the size or maturity of the company, we support its management team on demand. We seek to anticipate the needed resources to achieve strategic milestones, avoiding losing time.

IRON HANDS CAPITAL journey with Company Portfolio and their stakes

From a business perspective

From a company management perspective, entrepreneurs face significant opportunities and risks at every stage of their journey. Therefore, they need guidance and operational resources to strengthen their medium and long-term strategy and specific support to manage their day-to-day activities

We support five related priorities:

Competitive Intelligence

Market dynamics, competition drivers, economic intelligence

Company management

Structure and enhance the fundamentals (HR, accounting, legal, IT tools)

Industrialization

Perfect capex industrialization model and operational excellence

Business Development

Offer, market activities, market access (network at the decision level), sales, and value creation for organic growth, monthly strategic plan. Monitoring and overall action plan to correct or strengthen

Innovation activities

Continuous unique selling points and growth drivers with innovation

From a financial engineering perspective

From a financial engineering perspective, entrepreneurs need robust support to translate their business and operational actions into value creation for all stakeholders

Concretely, this means improving their multi-criteria valuation, both intrinsic (DCF) and comparable (trading peers, transactions)

We strengthen five financial engineering pillars:

Operational

Organic and M&A growth, EBITDA margins and FCF conversion

Multiple expansion

Reputation, brand awareness, market perception, business plan perspectives, SDG drivers

Legal

Financial engineering, deal structuring

Social

Skin in the game alignment of interests, culture, talent programs, succession agility, diversity, and inclusion

Financial

Non-dilutive financing, operational debt lines structuring support

A post-investment 3 steps process, to strengthen so crucial operations in Deeptech, and meet the burning needs of CEOs

A post-investment 3 steps process, to strengthen so crucial operations in Deeptech, and meet the burning needs of CEOs