ABOUT

OUR COMPANY

Established in 2012 in Lyon FRANCE Keating International (KI) is a specialized corporate finance and advisory firm supporting early stage techology companies by providing

capitlization strategy design and execution services
M&A strategy design and execution services; and,
go-to-market strategy design and execution services.

OUR MISSION

Our mission at KI is to meet the demands of our early stage technology company clients for providing informed and sophisticated advice that

will maximize the economic value of a company’s growth and growth opportunities
in order to maximize shareholder’s wealth by translating that economic value into market value,
in less time; and,
at a lower cost.

OUR APPROACH

KI’s problem-oriented and research-driven approach to successfully providing its specialized corporate finance and advisory services focuses developing a deep understanding of the largest problems in our focus market sectors that are being solved by early stage technology companies using the next generation of advanced technologies.

The origin of KI’s problem-oriented and research-driven approach was developed and refined over the years based upon the experience of the founder of KI - Patrick Keating - at Hambrecht & Quist Investment Banking (H&Q) where he worked from 1996 -1998 at its headquarters in San Francisco California in the USA.

Established in 1968 by its founders - Bill Hambrecht and George Quist - H&Q was the pioneer of the problem-oriented and research-driven approach designed to take a company from an “Idea to an IPO”.

During its peak from 1996-1998 H&Q completed 241 IPO’s for leading growth stage technology companies within its focus market sectors including Netscape, Amazon, Pixar and Ciena with a total dollar volume of $13.9 billion and 184 M&A transactions with a total dollar volume of $20.1 billion.

OUR OPERATING PRINCIPLES

To successfully design and execute its problem-oriented and research-driven approach in providing its corporate finance and advisory services at KI we follow a well-grounded set of operating principles which are as follows:

radical open-mindedness,
simplicity,
confidentiality,
repetition,
security/confidentiality,
surprise,
speed,
relentless effort; and,
purpose