Corporate Development as a Service

Corporate development is the function inside an enterprise that keeps corporate finance, capital raising, M&A, and investor relations aligned behind one strategy. Fortune 500 companies have a dedicated team for it. Startups and scale-ups usually do not, because they lack the capital to employ one full-time.

Yet private companies, alternative asset funds, and startups need corporate development even more than enterprises do, because they are capital-starved — and raising capital is a full-time job that conflicts with the full-time job of growing and operating a company.

Just as every startup uses fractional accounting and legal services, it can use fractional corporate development. Baird Augustine embeds as that function: we handle due diligence, investor relations, fundraising, and corporate strategy while you remain focused on growing and stabilizing the business and keeping it well-capitalized.

Every engagement draws on a Silicon Valley institutional investor network built over three decades, and on partners across capital markets, trading, law, technology, and tokenized securities.