Raphael Benhamou

I offer financial, strategic and management consulting services, specializing in CFO and FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) services for startups, venture funds, high-growth companies and SMEs.

My focus is on helping companies grow to the next level strategically, by becoming a trusted advisor and providing data-driven insights to support decision-making. To date, I have supported our clients in:

• Raising over $95M in funding from Seed to Series C
• Planning business pivots, and transformation (including pricing models)
• Regional expansions, M&A and JVs
• Reaching profitability
• Hiring planning
• Marketing and operational optimization
• Managing and planning resource allocation
• Cash flow management and budgeting
• Risk analysis & management

My clients are in a wide range of industries including SaaS, Fintech, Marketplaces, Tech, Marketing, Agritech, Mining & Energy, Investment, E-Commerce, Advisory Services, Real Estate and Consumer Goods.

I am known for my modeling expertise, strategic insights and working closely with my clients to understand their immediate needs, pain points and dreams, and providing custom solutions to answer their specific requirements. Please reach out to tell me about your business and dreams of growth!

I have been a consultant for 15 years, providing financial, strategic, management and risk consulting services. As an employee I worked mainly with corporate entities in a large range of industries, delivering everything from valuations and investment strategies, to business continuing plans and RPA solutions. As an independent consultant (since 2020) I have focussed more of FP&A and CFO services, working with startups and SMEs on financial, strategic and data related challenges, fundraising, valuation, resource allocation, business optimization, budgeting, cash flow management, risk management and other CFO-related responsibilities.

I have helped raise over $95M, brought a startup to profitability, carried out debt refinancing operations, pricing transformations and many more business challenges.

My training comes from my BSc in Physics (University of Nottingham), MSc in Finance and Engineering (Imperial College London), and real-world experience with hundreds of companies of every size, with any number of business challenges.