AETHERION Worldwide is the fundraising and landing practice of AETHERION Capital.
How we get you funded.
Europe rewards the prepared. Most companies run their move to Europe as separate tracks with separate advisors, and that is exactly where money and time are lost. Each track changes the others.
One route, four moves.
The entity you choose changes which subsidies you can claim. The subsidies you claim change your runway and your valuation. A funded runway changes the round. Run them together and each one pays for the next.
Five steps, in this order, for a reason.
Fixed scope: fit-assessment, subsidy and route scan, and your 100-day plan. One decision-ready report. Then you decide.
The model, the valuation, the deck, the data room. What an investor asks, answered before they ask it.
WBSO R&D credits, the Innovation Box, regional funds with tickets from EUR 150K to 5M, EU instruments.
Investor mapping, introductions, running the investor process and advising you through to completion.
Entity, registrations, visas, housing. The bank account runs in parallel: planned for, never promised.
The four moves, in the order they pay.
Prepare
Everything an investor will ask for, ready before they ask. This is where most foreign companies lose the round.
Financial model, valuation, round pricing and cap-table modelling
Deck, narrative, one-pager, data room and due-diligence preparation
The questions a European investor asks a foreign company, answered in advance
A story that survives contact with a partner meeting
Fund
Grants, subsidies and rulings first. They extend the runway without touching your equity, and they change the round that follows.
Fiscal work: the expat ruling, the Innovation Box, WBSO R&D credits
Subsidy scan and guided applications: regional funds, Invest-NL, EU programmes
Home-country expansion programmes stacked on top
A capital mix built so you give away as little of the company as possible
Raise
From the first investor conversation to money in the account, run as a process rather than a hope.
Investor mapping against the round you can actually win
Introductions, and running the investor process through every meeting that matters
Advice on the term sheet and through to completion, while you negotiate and contract with your investors directly
After the round: reporting, board support, next-round planning
Land
Real work, and not where our advantage sits. We plan it and own the timeline, and run it with specialist partners so the round stays the focus.
Dutch or EU entity, registrations, banking and payment infrastructure
Visas and immigration: highly-skilled migrant permits, founder and team relocation
Office, housing and hub placement, including sector hubs
Go-to-market, ecosystem and launching customers once you are running
An early-stage grant roughly doubles the odds of follow-on VC funding. Per-country landing step-plans are maintained for 18 origin markets.
Eighteen months, first call to closed round.
It is our commitment, not an industry statistic. The market median from seed to Series A alone is 2.1 years. That contrast is the point.
Source: Carta, a US platform · ROM Nederland
Aligned with your outcome, not your hours.
Retainer
A layered monthly base plus the modules you need.
Project
Fixed scope, fixed fee: the Landing Scan, the landing, raise preparation.
Completion fee
On money received from a closed round, never on a term sheet.
Per instrument
Funding work priced by what it secures: the R&D credit, a grant, a loan.
Pricing lives in the proposal, and every engagement begins with the Landing Scan.
Ten lines is all we need.
Every serious company receives an answer within ten working days.
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