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A new way to raise.
A new way to raise.
Fundraising Redefined
Fundraising Redefined
Most founders think about fundraising when they need to raise. By then it is too late. The rounds that close fastest are run by founders who built the relationship months before the deck went out.
The problem is structural. Founders do not have networks across family offices, venture funds, and private investors. Building one alone takes years the company does not have.
Most founders think about fundraising when they need to raise. By then it is too late. The rounds that close fastest are run by founders who built the relationship months before the deck went out.
The problem is structural. Founders do not have networks across family offices, venture funds, and private investors. Building one alone takes years the company does not have.
Paires is the firm that builds it for you. A merchant bank with AI at every layer where speed and precision compound. The judgment stays human. The relationships stay sacred. The network is ready before the raise begins.
Paires is the firm that builds it for you. A merchant bank with AI at every layer where speed and precision compound. The judgment stays human. The relationships stay sacred. The network is ready before the raise begins.
Our Thesis
Our Thesis
Every mandate starts with the founder's story, the company's trajectory, and the round they need to close. The match is built around them, not pulled from a list.
Every mandate starts with the founder's story, the company's trajectory, and the round they need to close. The match is built around them, not pulled from a list.
Every investor in the Paires network was added by hand, after the relationship was built. Family offices, venture funds, and private investors.
Every investor in the Paires network was added by hand, after the relationship was built. Family offices, venture funds, and private investors.
Volume alone does not make a round successful. It matters whether the right person was reached, at the right moment, with the right context.
Volume alone does not make a round successful. It matters whether the right person was reached, at the right moment, with the right context.
Sector agnostic.
Founder specific.
Paires runs raises across the stages and sectors the network covers. The match is built around the company.
Semiconductors & Frontier Hardware
AI & Enterprise Software
Fintech & Capital Markets
Consumer & Connected Devices
Space & Defense
Family offices, sovereign capital, and defense-tier funds. Briefed for milestones measured in launches and contracts.
Health & Life Sciences
Logistics & Supply Chain
Energy
Consumer Packaged Goods
Sector agnostic.
Founder specific.
Paires runs raises across the stages and sectors the network covers. The match is built around the company.
Semiconductors & Frontier Hardware
AI & Enterprise Software
Fintech & Capital Markets
Consumer & Connected Devices
Space & Defense
Family offices, sovereign capital, and defense-tier funds. Briefed for milestones measured in launches and contracts.
Health & Life Sciences
Logistics & Supply Chain
Energy
Consumer Packaged Goods
The results behind
the practice.
The results behind
the practice.
raised by founders
raised by founders
raised by founders
raised by founders
faster than a traditional fundraise
faster than a traditional fundraise
faster than a traditional fundraise
faster than a traditional fundraise
intros made
intros made
intros made
intros made
Our vision
Our vision
The merchant bank has looked the same for thirty years. A few partners, a phone, a network in their heads, a fee. The model worked because nothing better existed. The work that mattered, the matching and the briefing and the follow-up, was bounded by what a small team could do by hand.
The merchant bank has looked the same for thirty years. A few partners, a phone, a network in their heads, a fee. The model worked because nothing better existed. The work that mattered, the matching and the briefing and the follow-up, was bounded by what a small team could do by hand.
That ceiling is gone. The network can now scale without losing the judgment that defined it. Paires is what the merchant bank looks like when those two things stop being separate businesses.
That ceiling is gone. The network can now scale without losing the judgment that defined it. Paires is what the merchant bank looks like when those two things stop being separate businesses.
Jamal Chraibi, Founder
Vincent Possehl, Founder
The people behind every raise.
The people behind every raise.
A small, senior team of operators and capital markets professionals, built around the founders we partner with.
A small, senior team of operators and capital markets professionals, built around the founders we partner with.
Julian Carter
Senior Advisor
David Halfen
Managing Director
Alan Mason
Capital Markets Business Development
Austin Wallace
Senior Associate
Charles Barrett
Vice President of Capital Markets
Kathy Leake
Senior Advisor
Dylan Gittleman
Capital Markets Business Development
Anthony Simola
Senior Advisor
Julian Carter
Senior Advisor
David Halfen
Managing Director
Alan Mason
Capital Markets Business Development
Austin Wallace
Senior Associate
Charles Barrett
Vice President of Capital Markets
Kathy Leake
Senior Advisor
Dylan Gittleman
Capital Markets Business Development
Anthony Simola
Senior Advisor
Built for the discretion the business requires.
Built for the discretion the business requires.
Paires operates with the confidentiality capital markets demand. Founder data, investor relationships, and mandate details stay inside the firm. We never sell, share, or surface them outside the active raise.
Paires operates with the confidentiality capital markets demand. Founder data, investor relationships, and mandate details stay inside the firm. We never sell, share, or surface them outside the active raise.
Social
Social
Social
Social
Sector agnostic.
Founder specific.
Paires runs raises across the stages and sectors the network covers. The match is built around the company.
Semiconductors & Frontier Hardware
Capital that underwrites fab timelines, design cycles, and capex curves. Briefed on tape-out, yield, and customer pipeline before the round opens.
AI & Enterprise Software
Fintech & Capital Markets
Consumer & Connected Devices
Space & Defense
Health & Life Sciences
Logistics & Supply Chain
Energy
Consumer Packaged Goods