About Guy Weaver
20 years across corporate finance, venture capital, and independent consulting. I have sat on both sides of every major transaction type, as an advisor structuring deals, as an investor funding and governing companies, and now as an independent consultant executing complex engagements without institutional backing.
That combination is unusual. Most advisors have one background or the other. The experience of having been the person evaluating your pitch deck, sitting on your board, and deciding whether to follow on — that changes how I advise.
Alongside that, I have built genuine depth in applied AI, not as a side interest but as an active competitive differentiator. I use AI tools daily across live transactions, client reports, and content workflows. I have invested 300+ hours in prompt engineering, workflow design, and system building. I teach it to enterprise teams every couple of weeks. It is not a feature I mention in proposals, it is the mechanism that lets me deliver work faster and at higher quality than traditional advisory models.
Professional Background
KPMG (19 years)
Chartered Accountant. Spent 14 years specialising in Corporate Finance, delivering comprehensive solutions across:
Equity and debt capital raising
Mergers and acquisitions advisory
Valuation and transaction execution
Praetura Ventures (7 years)
Investment Director & Portfolio Director. Led investment decisions and provided strategic guidance to portfolio companies, driving growth and value creation across diverse sectors.
Board Experience
Extensive experience as a Non-Executive Director and Chair, supporting boards on governance, strategic decision-making, capital allocation, and execution discipline.
Founder- Capital Raise Community
I founded Capital Raise Community, an online platform that gives early-stage founders and CFOs access to institutional-grade capital raising knowledge. The platform contains a number of courses including a 120+ lesson Masterclass covering the full fundraise lifecycle, a structured funder dataset, and an AI for Operators channel. The premise behind it is simple. Founders invest seriously in learning how to sell. They invest almost nothing in learning how to raise capital, despite capital being the lifeblood of the business. The Community exists to close that gap, built on 20 years of experience doing these deals from both sides of the table.