FOR VC FIRMS

A VC fund with a portfolio company ready to exit? We run clean sell-side processes.

Sell-side exit support for VC portfolio companies — readiness, buyer mapping, and blind approaches. We've been backed founders and we invest ourselves.

20Seven is a sell-side M&A advisory that works with VC firms to run exits for their portfolio companies, representing the company as seller.

THE MOMENT

portfolio company is nearing exit — and you want it run properly.

You want your portfolio companies to exit cleanly, on a sensible timeline, without a founder negotiating alone against a professional buyer. We represent the company as seller, run a proper process, and keep you and the founder aligned. We've been VC-backed founders, we make venture investments ourselves, and we work with top VC firms — so we speak your language.

A company approaching exit

We prepare the business the way a buyer will read it — readiness, a ranked acquirer map, blind approaches, and a tight process — so the exit lands on a sensible timeline and the founder isn't negotiating solo.

Portfolio-wide readiness

Across the portfolio, we help you see which companies are exit-ready and where the gaps are, so you can point advisory attention where it will actually move an outcome.

WHY 20SEVEN FOR VCs

Networked in venture — and we've sat in the founder's seat.

We speak venture

We've been VC-backed founders, we make venture investments ourselves, and we work with top VC firms around the world. We understand how funds think about exits, timelines, and returns.

Extremely networked

Deeply connected across venture and the strategic and financial buyers your companies exit to — so approaches reach the right people, not a generic list.

Exit readiness

An honest read on how prepared each portfolio company is to sell — the story, the numbers, the buyer universe, and the gaps to close before a process starts.

Buyer mapping and blind approaches

We map and rank the acquirers who can't afford to lose the company, then approach them blind — without naming the company until it's ready — to build competitive tension.

Operators, not bankers

We've built and sold companies ourselves, so we prepare each business as operators who know what a buyer will actually test in diligence.

Sell-side only

We represent the company as seller — never the buyer, never both sides. The company's and the fund's interests are the only ones we protect.

HOW IT WORKS

We run the process; you keep your board seat.

We prepare the portfolio company, map and rank its buyers, run blind approaches, and drive a tight process to close — representing the company as seller. The full method lives in our Strategic Sale Planning. See how Strategic Sale Planning works.

QUESTIONS WE GET

The questions we get,
answered straight.

We support your portfolio companies through sell-side exits. You introduce us to a company approaching a liquidity event; we prepare it, map and rank buyers, run blind approaches, and drive the process to close — representing the company as seller while keeping you and the founder aligned.

Yes. We can assess exit readiness across the portfolio and run individual processes as companies mature toward a sale. It's a company-by-company engagement, but we can help you see where advisory attention will move an outcome.

Yes — that's the most common way we work with funds. Refer a founder who's approaching an exit or has just been approached, and we take it from there, sell-side, with the founder and the fund aligned on the plan.

Yes. We only ever represent the seller — in this case the portfolio company. We never sit on both sides of the table, so there's no conflict with the company's or the fund's interests.

Start the conversation.
Sell it right.

Five minutes while you walk to get a coffee. No pitch—just the truth about what your company is worth and who might buy it.