About us

Zumsteg Consulting

We believe in entrepreneurs who set out to build something and are ready to take responsibility for it. Our task is to turn ambition into a structure others can understand, examine and take seriously.

For us this goes beyond figures and documents: trust is built where people communicate clearly, make their decisions traceable and hold up to critical questions.

Our mission is to prepare companies professionally along that path and to give them the structures they need for demanding conversations with capital providers.

Our vision is an economy in which sound entrepreneurial projects do not fail on poor preparation, but get the chance to be judged on a professional level.

Porträt von Raphael Zumsteg, Gründer und Managing Director von Zumsteg Consulting.

Responsibility in the advisory work

Raphael Zumsteg

Founder and Managing Director

Capital rarely fails on the idea. It fails on missing structure.

Raphael Zumsteg

Raphael Niki Zumsteg, born in 1998, is the founder and Managing Director of Zumsteg Consulting, an entrepreneur and father based in Switzerland. His professional background is in finance and capital markets, in particular the structuring of corporate financing and the build-up of distribution and investor structures.

He comes from execution and knows both the requirements of family offices and institutional capital providers and the challenges of companies raising professional capital for the first time. That perspective shaped the approach of Zumsteg Consulting: preparing companies so that strategy, figures, documentation and communication form a solid basis for professional capital conversations.

His aim is to bring entrepreneurs to eye level with professional capital providers. Discipline, responsibility, clear execution and discreet collaboration shape every mandate. Zumsteg Consulting stands for individual support, independent advice and a structured preparation that makes companies understandable, reviewable and professionally presentable.

Way of working

How we work

  • 01

    On the company side

    Zumsteg Consulting works on the side of the company seeking capital or financing.

  • 02

    Documented and approved

    Documents, recipients and communication are approved by the client before use.

  • 03

    With clear boundaries

    Legal, tax, regulatory and other specialist reviews are provided by qualified external specialists.

Role in the mandate

Advice on the company side, with clear boundaries

  • 01 Advice on the company side
  • 02 Preparation and structuring
  • 03 Communication after documented approval

Core message

Capital follows structure.

A capitalisation does not improve because more investors are approached. It improves when a company stands up to review before the first conversation.

  1. 01

    Substance first

    Figures, structure and documents are put in order before anything goes out.

  2. 02

    Then documentation

    From the ordered material comes a presentation that holds up under review.

  3. 03

    Finally outreach

    Only then are recipients proposed and, once you approve them, contacted.

Team

The people behind the mandate

Behind every mandate stands a fixed team with different professional backgrounds and a shared standard for how we work. Experience from finance and capital markets meets operational project management, professional client communication, positioning and modern AI systems. That is how we support our clients through the whole process: personally, reliably and with clear responsibilities.

First assessment

We review how solidly your project stands.

Describe your company, the project and the state of your documents. We review the enquiry and come back to clarify the next steps. Confidential documents and personal data of third parties do not belong in a first contact.

Submit a project

Direct line

A few lines, and we get back to you

A few lines are enough for a first assessment. Please do not attach confidential documents to a first contact.

Prefer to write directly? r.zumsteg@zumstegconsulting.ch · +41 79 838 85 76