We help founders capitalize a business and stay with it — from the first round through later growth, a sale, or another exit.
Canterbury focuses on seed, early, and early-growth enterprises. We support entrepreneurs building in advertising and marketing technology, financial technology, health and life sciences, financial services, and health products — including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices.
We also advise private companies on mergers and acquisitions, and we work with family offices and other institutional investors who prefer businesses that need capital from start-up to exit.
Equity and debt for companies raising seed money through early growth, with introductions to larger private equity and institutional relationships when the capital structure needs to advance.
Advice for private companies on an acquisition, a sale, a merger, a separation, or a shareholder matter — sized to the company, not to a template.
We work with family offices and other institutions that would rather stay with a business than fund a single round and disappear. The preference is for companies that will need capital, counsel, and a buyer or partner over time.
The hard problem is rarely the idea. It is getting enough capital to prove the business, or proving the business well enough to deserve the capital.
That is the work Canterbury was built to do.
If you are raising capital, preparing a sale, or looking for a partner who will stay past the first close, send the business. We read submissions as they arrive.
If you are a family office or institution looking for private companies that need capital from formation through an exit, start with a conversation.
The submission covers the business, the founders, what you sell, current sales and profitability, the next two to three years, and the capital you need now. You may attach a presentation or other documents.
Managing Director
Entrepreneur and investor
Chief Operating Officer
Operator and financier
Managing Director
Technology and transactions
This form will take you about 5 minutes to complete. Please be complete in your responses, and we review all applications on a rolling basis.