AEGRYN. CYCLE 2
Grow the organisation without making it fragile.
Scaling exposes governance flaws, technical debt and regulatory risk. Aegryn secures your growth to turn commercial acceleration into durable asset value.
The realities of growth
Rapid growth creates internal complexity that can paralyse the organisation or destroy its valuation multiple.
Compliance under pressure
Progressive exposure to European regulations: NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act. Enterprise customers demand attestations before signing or renewing. A non-compliant asset loses contracts, and loses value as soon as an investor requests due diligence.
Founder bottleneck
An organisation over-centralised around the founder: every decision escalates, every client relationship runs through them. This pattern generates a systematic 20 to 40% valuation discount and paralyses growth well before the glass ceiling.
Stack obsolescence
Legacy systems unable to absorb scale-up load without massive infrastructure overheads. Accumulated technical debt slows deliveries, increases churn and makes development estimates untenable for investors.
Insufficient investor reporting
Unstructured financial metrics (ARR, MRR, NRR ill-defined or inconsistent), no shareholder dashboard, informal governance. The next round is delayed or priced below real potential.
Our role as Operating Partner
Aegryn embeds itself in the organisation to remove scale blockers.
Strategy & governance
Structuring governance: board of directors, investor reporting, strategic committee preparation. Defining steering indicators and support on course-setting decisions.
Risk & compliance
Aligning infrastructure with NIS2, DORA and the EU AI Act. Cyber-risk mapping and data governance. Delivering the attestations required by enterprise customers and investors.
Technology & sovereignty
Treating technical debt: refactoring, documentation, modularisation. Optimising cloud costs and modernising architectures to absorb growth without new debt.
Talent & organisation
Structuring the leadership team and delegating responsibilities. Succession planning for critical functions. Board advisory on HR governance and compensation policies.
Executive recruitment
Identification and placement of the profiles driving growth: CISO, COO, Head of AI, CFO, VP Sales Europe.
The role of CIFSO at this stage
Annual report & investor relations
CIFSO 5000 Certification acts as an independent quality label reassuring shareholders and the board about the organisation's real maturity.
Bank financing & credit
A CIFSO grade (AAA, AA, A) gives banks and lenders auditable proof of intangible value: IP chain, security, governance. It strengthens the credit profile and opens access to better financing terms.
Fundraising preparation (Series A to C)
Pre-raise certification to feed the data room, anticipate VC/PE fund questions and accelerate due diligence. An AAA or AA grade cuts the time an investment committee needs to qualify a file by 30 to 50%.
Who it is for
Fast-growing SMEs & mid-caps
Securing operations and regulatory compliance before the next step.
Scale-ups in hyper-growth
Structuring ahead of the next round. Eliminating the risks that were depreciating the valuation.
Grow the organisation without making it fragile.