Powering Value Creation
Working with entrepreneurs and investors to create and realise value
We bring together entrepreneurial businesses with exceptional growth and value creation potential and investors seeking exceptional opportunities. Our aim always is to bring the right people together at the decisive moment to get the perfect entrepreneur-investor fit.
An entrepreneur’s vision and plans can change the world, but they require the right backing from the right investor at the right time. Our extensive understanding and experience of business value creation both in terms of pre-deal planning and post-deal execution enables us to help you optimise your value creation plans, secure the right investment, and deliver value.
For investors we bring forward opportunities with exceptional value creation potential which meet your investment criteria and then engage as a de facto operating partner to advise on value creation plans pre-deal and execution and value realisation post-deal.
Every current and prospective portfolio company needs a plan for AI impact – where are the opportunities, which to focus on, what new capabilities are required, how to drive execution. Our extensive experience in AI has resulted in us advising early-stage, growth and established businesses, governments and investors on AI planning, enablement and execution, AI scaling and cross-industry best practices, which enables us to work as trusted advisors who can help leaders to understand and seize the AI opportunity and plan for hyperscaling, as well as mitigating AI risks.
For Entrepreneurs
As founders and business leaders, you have arrived at a turning point.
You can see the way forward but whether that means embarking on a new ‘further, faster’ growth phase or handing over to the next generation and monetising all your years of hard work, it requires new investment beyond what the business itself can currently generate.
Either way, you need to optimise the value creation potential of your business to obtain the ‘best deal’ – for yourself, for your team, and for your new investor.
We understand from experience what investors in people- and technology-based businesses are looking for. Our role is to help you make your business investment-ready, build a compelling, robust and executable value creation plan, and support you through the negotiations (valuation, pricing, management incentive plan, etc) and the transaction process itself from first introduction, through presentations to your prospective investor’s investment committee and due diligence, to closing on the deal.
Finally, we understand the transaction itself is only the start of the journey. That’s why we are often asked to stay involved after the deal closes, providing as much leadership, industry and AI expert guidance and support as needed to execute the value creation plan and capture the value for you, your leadership team and your investor.
For Investors
We understand the key questions when evaluating potential opportunities are always ‘is this a high-quality business with a compelling, robust and executable VCP’, ‘does it fit with our fund’s investment thesis’ and ‘how could we add and capture value?’
Our experience, knowledge and understanding gained from years spent leading complex technology and people-based professional and creative services businesses and providing strategy, technology and transformation advice to ‘C’-level clients across a wide range of industry sectors and to leading investment firms, enable us to provide industry expert advice tailored to helping you respond to inbound opportunities whether off-market or intermediated.
We also originate off-market opportunities and introduce them to carefully selected prospective sponsors.
Once you have made the decision to evaluate an opportunity further, we provide expert pre-deal advice on the target, the market it operates in, its value creation strategy and plans, and the most relevant valuation benchmarks.
Finally, we understand transacting is only the start of the journey. As the focus switches to post-deal VCP execution and value realisation, we continue to provide expert strategic and executional guidance and support as de facto operating partner. Investors also find our expertise in industry-to-industry best practice and knowledge transfer invaluable in driving portfolio growth.
Benefits for Entrepreneurs
Fundraising Strategy
VCP Development & Execution
Investment Readiness
AI Expert Advisory
Negotiation & Deal Support
Benefits for Investors
Origination & Introduction
VCP Development & Execution
Portfolio Growth
AI Expert Advisory
Industry Expert Advisory
Powering AI Transformation
This is a promethean moment: the advent of AI and GenAI will transform industries as we know them and businesses will either seize the opportunities or become obsolete. But where to start without playing with fire?
We have been working with AI for more than 10 years and advise global PEs, both on AI strategy and readiness in new opportunities and on leveraging AI and other emergent technologies to transform existing portfolio companies and realise new value. Our advice drives and has driven major investment decisions.
As trusted ‘C’-level advisers, we can identify the impact of AI on different marketspaces, as well as understanding how the latest developments will transfer to real-world strategic growth and transformation opportunities that create exceptional value. These are game-changers and to stay in the game you need to adapt, embrace and drive that change.
At Dx³, we envision, pioneer, mitigate risks and focus on ‘safe’, ethical approaches and our extensive experience from coder to ‘C’-level means we can translate insights into action and ideas into reality.
Our playbook for AI value creation allows us to work with entrepreneurs and portfolio companies alike, using best practices to formulate and facilitate your AI value creation strategy, from R&D labs to global templates.
Beyond the hype, there is a landscape ready for change – we can guide you and your portfolio companies through it.