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Empowering your business with the expertise to scale, succeed, and thrive


Achieve your growth ambitions with our comprehensive expertise

When starting a business, you’re faced with a lot of unique challenges and opportunities. And the same goes if you’re looking to scale up. 

To help you navigate through entrepreneurship and achieve your growth ambitions, we identified ten areas our experts can help you with. 

Seize every possibility of realising your business goals thanks to our deep understanding of the startup ecosystem combined with our personal and pragmatic way of working. Get tailor-made advice based on your specific needs. From inception to growth and beyond, let’s grow together.

10 focus areas for your business

Need help with your business plan? 
Let us assist you in building (or reviewing) a model based on sound strategic and operational hypotheses, including projected capital structure, funding needs (i.e., for CapEx, Working Capital, OpEx), scenario’s as well as sensitivity analyses.

Valuation is a crucial step if you want, for example, raise capital or offer your employees a stock option plan. 
Our valuation experts can perform a valuation analysis based on approaches specific to early-stage businesses, including qualitative, market and income-based models.


It takes several crucial steps to complete a successful fundraising; our experts can help you:

  • Prepare a solid investment memorandum (pitch);
  • Estimate funding needs;
  • Analyse competitors’ recent funding rounds;
  • Understand investors landscape;
  • Identify ideal investor (including VE/PE);
  • Design the fundraising roadmap (incl. underlying cap tables);
  • And negotiate investment terms.

Looking for ways to fund your project (e.g. R&D incentives)? We’ll help you by reviewing the possible grants and tax incentives, preparing the grant application and monitoring its follow-up.

Setting up a clear tax structure can be quite complex when establishing or growing your business. Our professionals can help you assess the tax effectiveness of your corporate structure, for instance with respect to:

  • Possible corporate tax savings and tax credits;
  • Tax implications related to your personal finances (capital gains on exit, stock option plans, personal tax optimisation…).

Our tax experts will work with you on a tailored plan that preserves your income.

Need support with the legal structuring and negotiation of a transaction? Our experts can help you with several legal aspects and related documentation, such as:

  • Term sheet;
  • Shareholders’ (and subscription) agreement (S(S)HA);
  • Share purchase agreement (SPA);
  • (Convertible) loan agreement;
  • Anti-dilution warrants;
  • Employee stock option plan (ESOP)
  • Incorporation of investment company.

Outsource your accounting and reporting requirements, gain a better insight on your business performance, or set up your legal company… in other words, free yourself from numbers and focus on innovation thanks to our Accounting expertise.

Our experts assist you in creating working conditions and packages that motivate your employees. 
Additionally, we provide you with all employment-related agreements and policies, readily available to address any legal questions regarding your HR strategy.

Accelerate your growth, define new strategic objectives, assess the potential of new products or markets, review your business performance, and identify value-creation drivers.


As your startup matures, your shareholders and other stakeholders seek assurance that regulatory requirements are met. Your financial reporting improves through valuable insights from an external audit, focused on financial statements, internal controls, grant compliance or sustainability reporting.

Together with your stakeholders, you gain peace of mind thanks to our extensive audit expertise.

What our Startup & Scale-up clients are saying

Utilising precise, diversified and meticulously structured methodologies, BDO facilitated the seamless execution of this intricate valuation process, ensuring utmost precision. This enabled Newtree Impact's analysts to infuse a high degree of financial discipline into the assessment of both prospective opportunities and existing investments.
Start-ups and scale-ups need strong and reliable support to raise funds and make appropriate decisions within tight schedules. The BDO Team has demonstrated great agility and skills to help us reaching the next milestones
We are absolutely thrilled our exciting collaboration with BDO. Their invaluable support and expertise will propel us to new heights, enabling us to reach the next level of growth. With BDO's professional and flexible assistance in all aspects, we are confident that this partnership will lead to tremendous success.

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