Overview
Natu Myers is a Canadian entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Raises.com, the flat-fee capital execution firm for people buying a business or real estate. He is a best-selling author in private equity and hosts the Raises.com podcast. He was born in Ottawa and holds a Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science from Queen's University.
He prepares companies to raise capital through a disciplined range of strategies. He connects founders to registered dealers, legal counsel, financial advisors and service providers, guiding capital raises from first conversation to close, whether the goal is acquiring real estate, buying a business or financing growth.
He brings nine figures of investment-banking experience to every engagement and is the founder of Raises.com, the platform built for independent sponsors raising institutional capital. Raises.com builds the fund or SPV structure, the offering documents, the financial model and the data room, then introduces the debt and equity that closes the deal, on a published flat fee with no success fee, no placement fee and no carry.
- Name
- Natu Myers
- Occupation
- Entrepreneur
- Current role
- Founder and CEO, Raises.com (founded 2019)
- Hometown
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Education
- Queen's University, Bachelor of Computing (Honours), Computer Science
- Author
- Best-selling author in private equity. Guide to starting business acquisitions on Amazon
- Podcast
- Host, the Raises.com podcast (YouTube)
- Profiles
- LinkedIn, X, Amazon
"We close the gap between sponsors with conviction and the capital that backs them."Natu Myers
Personal story
Natu Myers grew up in an apartment in Ottawa, raised by a mother who came to Canada young and, in his words, had to fight for everything she ever got. When horror stories started coming out of the middle school path he was on, she wrote a letter to one of the best high schools in Ottawa to get him in, the move he calls the single best decision she ever made in his life. He made the football team in grade nine, and that engine carried him to Queen's University, where he stacked a computer science degree on varsity football: wake up, eat, class, practice, then the library until 2 a.m., repeated every day in season. He ran the whole thing on gratitude, determined to squeeze that lemon dry after watching what it cost her to get him there.
A shoulder injury rerouted everything. Recovering from surgery in the off-season, he started hanging out with the Queen's commerce students, went to the Queen's Business and Technology Conference, and fell deep down the venture capital rabbit hole. After graduating he took a coding job, watched management manufacture artificial competition between teammates, and handed in his resignation at roughly the six-month mark. The early entrepreneurial years tested him: he remembers lying in bed in the fetal position because Facebook ads were not working, while his mother protected his mind with the reminder that he could simply turn the ads off and figure it out later. Then in the summer of 2021, sitting at his grandmother's place, he spotted the six-letter Raises.com domain, offered to buy it that same day at a lower price, and the seller agreed. A company about raising money now owned the word itself.
Today Raises.com operates as consultants who help people raise money to buy businesses and cash-producing assets; the assets have to make money, and the firm pushes back on developments for exactly that reason. Natu is blunt about the timeline: from the day someone decides to raise to the money landing in their bank account runs about seven months, and he declines to call it shorter because the work is real. AI now drafts the mountain of paperwork a raise requires, with a human approving every document. The moment that told him the machine was working came two weeks before this recording, when he flew down to congratulate a client who had raised $3.4 million, shaking his hand for the first time because the system had carried the client end to end without the founder on a single onboarding, sales, or support call. His five-year plan is a team of the smartest, most ambitious people he can find, run on the standard his head coach, Coach Sheehan, drilled into him: it is not just about winning, it is about how you win.
Questions and answers
Who is Natu Myers?
Natu Myers is a Canadian entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Raises.com, the flat-fee capital execution firm for people buying a business or real estate. He is a best-selling author in private equity and hosts the Raises.com podcast. He was born in Ottawa and studied computer science at Queen's University.
What does Natu Myers do?
He prepares companies to raise capital. Through Raises.com his team builds the fund or SPV structure, the offering documents, the financial model and the data room for an acquisition, then introduces the debt and equity that closes it. He connects founders to registered dealers, legal counsel, financial advisors and service providers, from first conversation to close.
What is Raises.com?
Raises.com is a flat-fee capital execution firm founded by Natu Myers. It serves independent sponsors, acquisition entrepreneurs, real estate syndicators, search funds and first-time fund managers. It charges no success fee, no placement fee and no carry. Pricing is published at raises.com/pricing.
Does Raises.com charge a success fee?
No. Raises.com works for a published flat fee. There is no success fee, no placement fee and no carried interest.
Where is Natu Myers from?
Ottawa, Canada. He is a first-generation Canadian.
Where did Natu Myers study?
Queen's University, where he earned a Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science.
What did Natu Myers do before Raises.com?
From 2013 to 2021 he worked as a consultant and registered dealing representative, and from 2013 to 2019 as an independent consultant to ultra-high-net-worth, private equity and venture clients. In 2016 he was a fellow at the Dunin-Deshpande Queen's Innovation Centre.
Has Natu Myers written a book?
Yes. He is a best-selling author in private equity. His guide to starting business acquisitions is published on Amazon under the Raises.com name, and his author page is amazon.com/author/natumyers.
Does Natu Myers host a podcast?
Yes. He hosts the Raises.com podcast, published on the Raises.com YouTube channel, where operators who closed acquisitions and the people who funded them explain how the capital stack was built.
How can I contact Natu Myers?
Through LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/natumyers) or X (x.com/natumyers). Enquiries about raising capital for an acquisition go to Raises.com at raises.com.
