Description
Capital Is a Market. Map It Before You Approach It.
Capital is highly specialized. Banks, private-credit lenders, family offices, and equity investors each want different deal sizes, different security, and different returns. Lumping them into one list burns your best months.
IWS builds a researched map of the sources most likely to fit your deal, screened against their published mandates, ticket-size signals, and disqualifiers, and ranked with practical approach angles. This is the IWS specialty, applied to your transaction.
Who This Is For
- Companies raising growth, acquisition, or real estate capital
- Buyers assembling acquisition financing
- Sponsors and dealmakers building a capital network for repeat transactions
What You Receive
- A ranked research universe of relevant lenders, credit funds, investment groups, and other publicly discoverable financing routes
- Published mandates, likely fit, and ticket-size signals for each source
- Approach angles and key disqualifiers
- A ranked capital-source database, mandate-fit notes, and an approach brief
How It Works
- Place your order. Your confirmation arrives immediately, with a short list of what to start gathering.
- Complete your intake. Within two business days, IWS emails a questionnaire built for this service, plus a secure link for your files.
- Confirm the scope. IWS reviews your materials and confirms the scope and your delivery date in writing. Your turnaround clock starts here.
- Receive your work. Your finished deliverables arrive digitally in about 15–20 business days, followed by one round of clarifications and corrections.
Example: Mandates Matter: A $3 Million Growth Facility
Illustrative example: a hypothetical scenario showing how this assignment works in practice.
Picture a seven-location service company considering a $3 million growth facility. Management’s first list lumps commercial banks, private-credit lenders, family offices, and equity investors together, despite their very different deal sizes, security expectations, and goals.
IWS would build a focused map from the company’s profile, geography, and capital objective, screening each source against public mandate evidence and ranking the best fits with practical approach routes. Management spends its time on the conversations with the strongest fit.
Your Assignment at a Glance
- Scope: One financing objective, one agreed geography and capital category
- Turnaround: about 15–20 business days, counted from the day your intake is complete and IWS confirms your scope
- Delivered as: Ranked capital-source database, mandate-fit notes, and approach brief
- Included: one round of clarifications and corrections
- Have ready: Your business or deal profile, target amount, uses of capital, geography, sector, and known financial circumstances
- Investment: $5,000, fixed price
Related Assignments
This map is research. Securities solicitation, loan brokerage, placement, and introductions are regulated or separate activities, and every funding decision rests with the source. Prepare for the approach with a Funding-Ready Executive Summary or an Investor or Lender Pitch Deck Makeover.
The IWS Scope Promise
Every assignment begins with a written scope confirmation, before any work starts. If your project calls for more than this package covers, IWS tells you up front and you choose: expand the scope, narrow the project to fit the package, or cancel for a refund. Once IWS confirms your scope and begins work, service fees are non-refundable. See the IWS refund policy.
Why IWS for Capital Work
Finding the money has been the IWS specialty since 1966. Tyler G. Hicks built International Wealth Success on a simple conviction: the entrepreneur who knows where the capital is, and how to ask for it, can finance almost anything. IWS still publishes the reference works serious borrowers rely upon, including The IWS Directory of Business Capital Sources, The IWS Directory of Startup, Seed, and Equity Capital Sources, and The OPM Advantage. Your assignment draws on that same research discipline, aimed squarely at your deal.
Questions Clients Ask
How is this different from the 15-Source Capital Shortlist?
Depth and range. The Shortlist matches up to fifteen sources in one financing category. The Intelligence Map researches a full universe across lenders, credit funds, and investment groups, with mandate-level fit analysis, built for larger or more complex raises.
When does the turnaround clock start?
The day your intake is complete and IWS confirms the scope in writing. A fast intake means a fast delivery.
How does IWS handle my confidential information?
Your materials serve your assignment alone. Sensitive financial records travel through a secure upload link, and IWS keeps your project confidential from start to finish.
Ready to begin? Add the Capital Source Intelligence Map to your cart, and your intake arrives within two business days.
Move forward boldly . . .
IWS provides research, writing, analysis, and business-planning services. Funding, investment, acquisition, and approval decisions rest with the lenders, investors, sellers, and agencies involved. For legal, tax, accounting, investment, and securities matters, IWS recommends your licensed professional advisers.
