About Arc Axiom
Experience on both sides of capital and transactions.
Arc Axiom combines investment experience, finance leadership and analytical depth to support founders, management teams, shareholders and investors through consequential decisions.
The practice
Direct advice, grounded in context.
Arc Axiom is an independent corporate finance and transaction advisory practice focused on startups and scaleups.
Every assignment begins with the decision—not a standard product. The objective is to understand the business, the interests of its stakeholders and the financial consequences of the available alternatives.
This approach brings together valuation, fundraising, capital structure, transaction analysis and strategic finance, allowing connected questions to be considered as a whole.
Leadership
Saeed Bajalan
Finance executive · Investor · Advisor
Arc Axiom was founded by Saeed Bajalan, whose experience spans corporate finance, venture capital, valuation, M&A, finance leadership and board-level advisory.
Before moving into venture capital, Saeed served as Vice President of Valuation at a financial advisory firm, where he led valuation engagements for several significant IPOs and corporate restructurings across the Middle East.
Later, Saeed joined a newly established venture capital firm founded by a former Vice President of Naspers. During more than a decade with the firm, he served as Group CFO and as a board member and Chief Financial Advisor at several of its leading portfolio companies, working alongside their founders on strategic financial decisions. His experience includes cross-border fundraising, investment valuation, M&A, spin-offs, full and partial exits, capital structuring and strategic financial decision-making.
His sector experience is concentrated in consumer internet and digital financial-services platforms, spanning digital commerce, online marketplaces and classifieds, mobility, fintech and insurtech.
Saeed holds a PhD in Finance and previously served as an Assistant Professor of Finance. His academic and professional experience supports a rigorous approach to valuation and financial analysis, while his proficiency in Python and MATLAB enables advanced financial modelling, scenario analysis and quantitative assessment.
Experience
Built through transactions and long-term partnership.
His experience includes leading financial workstreams on €300M+ of cross-border fundraising and supporting transactions from preparation and valuation through due diligence, structuring, negotiation and completion, working closely with external financial advisers and legal teams throughout.
Work with more than 40 ventures has involved company building, financial strategy, fundraising and board-level decisions across different growth stages.
Portfolio experience includes two businesses that developed from startups into unicorns, three successful exits averaging 37x+ returns and 10+ M&A transactions and corporate spin-offs.