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Accelerate Growth in 90 Days.

Private capital for South-East Asia'smost ambitious SMEs.

Aligning capital with execution for SDG-focused companies in Southeast Asia.

  • Thomas Budin, co-founder
  • Julien Finet, co-founder
  • Lionel Steinitz, co-founder

Built by veteran capital markets practitioners.

  • Circonomy
  • GetSolar
  • Yolo Foods
How it works

From kickoff to capital, in four stages.

Most raises close in two to six weeks. Here is what each stage looks like.

  1. CAPITAL · STACKEQUITY15%MEZZANINE20%SENIOR65%TOTAL$25.0MSTRUCTURED

    Structure your financing

    We sit with your team, look at the cash flows, and design a debt structure that prices risk fairly and protects everyone at the table.

  2. Reach qualified investors

    Your deal is presented to a curated network of institutional and accredited investors who are mandated to back SMEs in your region.

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    Issue, on chain

    When investors commit, the financing is recorded on a smart contract. Ownership, payments and reporting all run on auditable rails from day one.

  4. SECONDARY · 30DD-30TODAY

    Open optional liquidity

    Where appropriate, your investors can later transfer their position through approved private trading channels. You stay focused on growth.

The opportunity

A USD 5 Trillionglobal challenge.

SMEs face significant bottlenecks when trying to secure capital and grow using traditional pathways.

  • $5 Tr

    SMEs funding gap amounts to 5 trillion annually1

  • 36%

    of SMEs said access to funding is a key concern2

  • 80%

    Breakthrough innovation originates from SMEs

  1. 1.QBE SME Survey 2024.
  2. 2.Grand View Research, Digital Banking Platform Market Size & Share Report, 2030.
Speed of financing

6 weeks.

What might take a bank a quarter, we close in a sprint. The rigour of a private banker, without the wait.

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Built for both sides

Matching entrepreneurs with global financing.

For SMEs

Raise without giving up your company.

If your bank is too slow and venture capital is too dilutive, Syleum structures private debt designed for revenue-generating businesses. You keep ownership, you keep control, we do the heavy lifting around it.

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A South-East Asian entrepreneur considering a private financing
For Investors

Access South-East Asian private credit.

A curated pipeline of structured deals from a region most banks cannot underwrite. Yields, tenors and structures sized to institutional and accredited mandates, with full compliance handled.

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A qualified investor reviewing a structured deal pipeline
What we do

Investment banking advisory

Modelling, structuring, term sheet negotiation, legal review, covenants. The senior bench you would expect from a top tier bank, sized to an SME's reality.

ADVISORY · MODELDEAL VALUE$25.0M35%25%22%18%SR · MZ · EQ · WC
Founders we back

Some of the operators we work with.

Adrien, founder of Circonomy
Circonomy

Adrien · Founder of Circonomy

Circonomy is rebuilding the back end of retail in South-East Asia. Returns, refurbishment and resale handled through one platform, so brands can stop writing inventory off and start running a real second-life channel.

Circular commerce infrastructure for the region's largest retailers.

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions.

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