Exit Engineering Partner

Build globally. Exit confidently.

About NED

You've poured your life into building something extraordinary. We ensure it earns the extraordinary valuation it deserves.

Who we are:
NED Global is Asia's first governance-first strategic advisory firm serving late-stage technology companies pursuing US capital markets access.

Where we focus:
We focus on AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and industrial tech, advising Asian founders on the strategic, financial, and governance groundwork required to pursue US-market liquidity events — including IPOs, strategic M&A, and secondary transactions.

What we do:
Our mandate is to make strong companies globally credible, exit-ready, and positioned to engage US capital markets on competitive terms. NED Global does not act as a broker-dealer or investment adviser. Securities transactions are conducted through registered broker-dealers and licensed advisers as appropriate.

Case Studies

Global Cybersecurity Platform:
IPO Readiness Mandate

SERVICES:

Exit Readiness Playbook · Fractional CFO ·
Capital Markets Preparation · Cross-Border Redomicile

NED advised a founder-managed cybersecurity vendor through full IPO readiness — rebuilding financials to IFRS, building a five-year integrated model, designing a pipeline reporting engine, leading a cross-border redomicile in a fractional CFO capacity, and preparing governance and financial infrastructure for potential US or Canada engagement.

Conversational AI in Regulated Markets: Dual-Market Listing Preparation

SERVICES:

Product–Market Optimization · Financial Engineering · Margin Redesign · Internal Capital Strategy

NED repositioned a quota-driven business to meet public market standards — converting to full accrual reporting, consolidating seven product lines into three, identifying internal capital sources for SaaS expansion, and restructuring pricing and delivery to improve gross margin from approximately 5% to 20%.

AI-Native Design & Simulation
Platform: Dual-Track Exit Preparation

SERVICES:

Value-Creation Path · Financial Model Rebuild · Go-To-Market Focus · Exit Strategy & Capital Advisory

NED transitioned an early-stage 3D AI platform to an investor-grade SaaS financial model — building a transparent three-statement model anchored to CAC and ARR, sharpening product strategy around a defined MVP, and advising on exit preparation across IPO and M&A pathways. Securities transactions were conducted through registered broker-dealers.

The case studies presented are illustrative of NED Global's advisory scope and do not constitute a guarantee of results. Any references to anticipated liquidity events, capital markets outcomes, or financing activities are forward-looking in nature and subject to market conditions, regulatory approvals, and client decisions. NED Global does not act as a broker-dealer or registered investment adviser. All securities transactions referenced were conducted through appropriately registered third parties.

Principles

Value First

We prioritize decisions and systems that build enterprise value and eliminate noise.

Engineered Growth

We design repeatable, investor-credible growth frameworks aligned with global capital market standards.

Exit Ready

We prepare companies to withstand rigorous diligence and engage exit processes from a position of operational and governance strength.

One Team, No Silos

We operate alongside founders and investors with clarity, speed, and shared accountability.

Global Standards, Premium Outcomes

We bring US-level governance, financial rigor, and narrative discipline to support competitive positioning in global capital markets.

Operator-first Guidance

Tactical, no-fluff advice from people who've scaled and exited

We embed as a fractional C-suite alongside your team, driving a focused Value Creation Path (VCP), weekly execution cadences, and clear decision gates — so progress toward a liquidity event is visible, measurable, and owned.

Clean Cap Table, Stronger Positioning

We re-engineer governance and narrative to support competitive US market positioning. That means equity hygiene, cap-table sweeps, independent directors, and US-credible audit and reporting — so underwriters and buyers can evaluate you on fundamentals rather than discount for complexity and risk.

Aligned Exit Execution

Dual-track advisory playbooks designed to protect founder control and improve exit positioning. From day one, we align founders, boards, and investors on a defined exit event, valuation framework, and 12–24 month timeline — then coordinate IPO and M&A preparation workstreams in parallel to expand optionality and support timely liquidity. Securities transactions are conducted through registered broker-dealers and licensed advisers.

Let’s unlock real returns on your life’s work.

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Team Track Record

Engineered outcomes, not just advice

These are the kinds of value creation and exit arcs we design with founders and their investors:

US$120MM

Cybersecurity

Valuation in 6 months up from US$30MM

SPV + Governance Cleanup + U.S. IPO path

US$1.2B

Industrial AI

Valuation in 24 months up from US$200MM

Value-Creation Sprints + Dual-Track IPO/M&A

US$2B

E-commerce

Revenue in 18 months up from US$700MM

Revenue and EBITDA Lift with U.S. Capital Markets Story

Work with Partners, Not Juniors

Jonathan Kim

Growth executive with 25 years of scaling, structuring, and exiting high-growth AI and deep-tech businesses; P/L owner at Samsung, Sony Entertainment, Ericsson, Qualcomm, founding member at Beyond Limits; led US$350MM IPO, US$133MM Series C. At NED, Jonathan designs the Value Creation Path and growth sprints that underpin each exit mandate.

Robert Blinn

Capital markets veteran with 20 years of experience crafting high-value financial narratives, timely due diligence processes, and investor-ready capital structures; US$300M telecom NASDAQ IPO, US$1.7B healthcare trade sale, US$4B of structured credit raised, grew hedge fund US$20MM→US$1B. At NED, Robert leads capital stack design, underwriter and buyer engagement, and dual-track deal execution.

Steve Cho

C-suite leader and patent holder with a 25-year track record scaling startups to multibillion-dollar companies, driving growth and value creation across e-commerce, tech, CPG, and private equity (IAC, Yahoo!, Samsung, Coupang, iHerb); led US$1.3B revenue growth and US$85M Series C. At NED, Steve drives operational value creation—revenue, margin, and M&A roll-ups—that support higher exit multiples.

Claus Nehmzow

M&A deal hunter and acquisition orchestrator with 30 years at the intersection of technology and business; former partner at top-tier management consulting firms, led AI and green energy initiatives across oil & gas and maritime with BP and Eastern Pacific Shipping; built end-to-end biofuel value chains and scaled deep-tech ventures, specializing in structuring exits and strategic acquisitions for complex, high-impact businesses. At NED, Claus leads buy-side and sell-side strategy and strategic acquirer engagement.

Capital Market Advisors

David Waldman

Investor relations executive with 25 years of experience that has resulted in over a billion dollars in capital raised across thousands of investor roadshows, supporting hundreds of companies in going public through IPOs, direct listings, reverse mergers, and SPACs. At NED, David shapes the public-company story, analyst education, and post-listing IR.

Brice Penaud

Expert in Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for targeted investments, creating strategic pathways for immediate funding, and helping navigate the complexities of the investment and regulatory landscape. At NED, Brice structures founder, investor, and continuation SPVs that create clean capital entry and secondary liquidity without double fees.

Why We’re Different

Ex-operators

Not Bankers, Consultants or Brokers

We act as a control tower across your internal team and external advisors — owning the roadmap, the KPIs, and the critical decision gates while your operating team executes. You get leverage and accountability, not slide decks.

Five-Layer Exit Architecture

Built for US Capital Markets

We combine a Value Creation Path (VCP) and Exit Readiness Playbook (ERP) into one integrated system spanning Value Creation, Capital Stack, Ownership & Governance, Narrative, and Exit Optionality — built to US IPO and M&A standards.

Proven playbooks

Representative prior engagement outcomes — not guarantees of future results.

Significant valuation progression across cybersecurity, industrial AI, and e-commerce mandates
Nine-figure exit and IPO readiness preparation
Revenue growth and EBITDA improvement advisory across $100M–$300M scale businesses
12–24 month exit preparation timelines

Our playbooks use 90-day growth and margin sprints, governance restructuring, and dual-track IPO and M&A preparation to position companies for exit readiness. Where SPV or continuation vehicle structures are pursued, they are executed through appropriately registered third parties.

Our Mandates

Most Asian founders lack a clear, credible path to a US liquidity event. We help them build one.

We work with later-stage AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and industrial tech companies — typically in the US$100M–$1B enterprise value range — that are pursuing a US IPO or strategic sale but need stronger capital structure, governance, or investor narrative to get there.

On each mandate, we:

Align founders, boards, and investors on a defined exit objective and valuation framework
Advise on capital structure design to support growth and secondary liquidity planning
Install an operator-grade Value Creation Path (VCP) and Exit Readiness Playbook (ERP)
Coordinate dual-track IPO and M&A preparation workstreams in support of a liquidity process

NED Global provides strategic advisory services only.
Capital vehicle formation and securities transactions are executed through registered broker-dealers and licensed advisers. Outcomes depend on market conditions, regulatory approvals, and client execution.

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How We Create Liquidity

Layer

What we engineer

Results

Value Creation

Revenue & EBITDA lift, bolt-on M&A

Exit-ready metrics

Capital Stack

U.S. SPVs, founder cash-outs

Clean vehicle

Ownership & Governance

Cap-table sweep, U.S. board

De-risked control

Narrative

“Strategic resilience” story

Higher comps

Exit Optionality

Dual-track IPO / M&A / secondary

Faster liquidity

For Investors

We partner with select funds and secondaries groups to create liquidity solutions that de-risk their portfolios. Our engineered exits provide:

Faster DPI

Through secondary liquidity and clean cap-table vehicles—single-asset and series SPVs built to avoid double fees, match fund life, and deliver 18–36 month exit visibility.

Premium U.S. comps

By re-architecting governance, story, and capital structures, we underwrite at exit-backed valuations (e.g., forward EBITDA, ARR multiples) rather than “hope and hype,” and pre-align underwriters and strategic buyers.

Optionality

Via dual-track IPO and M&A strategies, continuation vehicles, and structured founder/LP liquidity that keep existing funds whole while inviting in new capital.

Our SPVs and advisory model are designed for:

Secondary funds seeking short-duration, de-risked entry into late-stage tech
LPs seeking top-quartile returns and early liquidity optionality
VCs looking to accelerate exit or recapitalize top portfolio companies

Let’s discuss how we can work together.

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Stay Connected

Share a bit about your company or fund, your current constraints, and your ideal exit timing. We’ll respond with a preliminary view on how an engineered path to liquidity could look for you.

Exit Engineering Partner

Build globally. Exit confidently.

About NED

Who we are: NED Global is Asia's first governance-first strategic advisory firm serving late-stage technology companies pursuing US capital markets access.

Where we focus: We focus on AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and industrial tech, advising Asian founders on the strategic, financial, and governance groundwork required to pursue US-market liquidity events — including IPOs, strategic M&A, and secondary transactions.

Case Studies

Global Cybersecurity Platform: IPO Readiness Mandate

Conversational AI in Regulated Markets: Dual-Market Listing Preparation

AI-Native Design & Simulation Platform: Dual-Track Exit Preparation

Principles

Operator-first Guidance

Tactical, no-fluff advice from people who've scaled and exited

Clean Cap Table, Stronger Positioning

Aligned Exit Execution

Team Track Record

Engineered outcomes, not just advice

These are the kinds of value creation and exit arcs we design with founders and their investors:

US$120MM

Cybersecurity

Valuation in 6 months up from US$30MM

SPV + Governance Cleanup + U.S. IPO path

US$1.2B

Industrial AI

Valuation in 24 months up from US$200MM

Value-Creation Sprints + Dual-Track IPO/M&A

US$2B

E-commerce

Revenue in 18 months up from US$700MM

Revenue and EBITDA Lift with U.S. Capital Markets Story

Work with Partners, Not Juniors

Jonathan Kim

Robert Blinn

Steve Cho

Claus Nehmzow

Capital Market Advisors

David Waldman

Brice Penaud

Why We’re Different

Ex-operators

We act as a control tower across your internal team and external advisors — owning the roadmap, the KPIs, and the critical decision gates while your operating team executes. You get leverage and accountability, not slide decks.

Five-Layer Exit Architecture

We combine a Value Creation Path (VCP) and Exit Readiness Playbook (ERP) into one integrated system spanning Value Creation, Capital Stack, Ownership & Governance, Narrative, and Exit Optionality — built to US IPO and M&A standards.

Proven playbooks

Significant valuation progression across cybersecurity, industrial AI, and e-commerce mandates

Nine-figure exit and IPO readiness preparation

Revenue growth and EBITDA improvement advisory across $100M–$300M scale businesses

12–24 month exit preparation timelines

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Our playbooks use 90-day growth and margin sprints, governance restructuring, and dual-track IPO and M&A preparation to position companies for exit readiness. Where SPV or continuation vehicle structures are pursued, they are executed through appropriately registered third parties.

Our Mandates

Most Asian founders lack a clear, credible path to a US liquidity event. We help them build one.

We work with later-stage AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and industrial tech companies — typically in the US$100M–$1B enterprise value range — that are pursuing a US IPO or strategic sale but need stronger capital structure, governance, or investor narrative to get there.

On each mandate, we:​

Align founders, boards, and investors on a defined exit objective and valuation framework

Advise on capital structure design to support growth and secondary liquidity planning

Install an operator-grade Value Creation Path (VCP) and Exit Readiness Playbook (ERP)

Coordinate dual-track IPO and M&A preparation workstreams in support of a liquidity process

NED Global provides strategic advisory services only. Capital vehicle formation and securities transactions are executed through registered broker-dealers and licensed advisers. Outcomes depend on market conditions, regulatory approvals, and client execution.

How We Create Liquidity

Layer

What we engineer

Results

Value Creation

Revenue & EBITDA lift, bolt-on M&A

Capital Stack

U.S. SPVs, founder cash-outs

Ownership & Governance

Cap-table sweep, U.S. board

Narrative

“Strategic resilience” story

Exit Optionality

Dual-track IPO / M&A / secondary

For Investors

Faster DPI

Premium U.S. comps

Optionality

Stay Connected

Share a bit about your company or fund, your current constraints, and your ideal exit timing. We’ll respond with a preliminary view on how an engineered path to liquidity could look for you.

Who we are:
NED Global is Asia's first governance-first strategic advisory firm serving late-stage technology companies pursuing US capital markets access.

Where we focus:
We focus on AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and industrial tech, advising Asian founders on the strategic, financial, and governance groundwork required to pursue US-market liquidity events — including IPOs, strategic M&A, and secondary transactions.

Global Cybersecurity Platform:
IPO Readiness Mandate

AI-Native Design & Simulation
Platform: Dual-Track Exit Preparation

On each mandate, we:

NED Global provides strategic advisory services only.
Capital vehicle formation and securities transactions are executed through registered broker-dealers and licensed advisers. Outcomes depend on market conditions, regulatory approvals, and client execution.