Reframe the Question
Surface hidden assumptions, change the unit of analysis, and test whether the problem being solved is actually the problem that matters.
INDEPENDENT ADVISORY FOR OWNERS, EXECUTIVES, & INVESTORS
From the Outside In.
When you’re immersed in a business, the most important decisions are often the hardest to see.
kapital ALKEMI brings independent judgment and multidisciplinary perspective to moments of consequence — challenging assumptions, uncovering opportunities, and identifying the few decisions that can change everything.
FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
Anthony Battaglia
Anthony’s career has spanned investment banking and institutional finance, venture-backed technology, international business development, and advisory work with privately held companies. His experience includes Société Générale, Wachovia Securities / Wells Fargo, Brevet Capital Management, Handshake (acquired by Shopify), Yotpo, BairesDev, and TSEA Energia.
Across those settings, the recurring role has been similar: absorb a complicated situation quickly, zoom out from the immediate problem, move comfortably between the numbers and the people, and help decision-makers see the situation differently.
Family businesses are a particular interest. Anthony grew up around them and saw both the independence they can create and the consequences when a business fails to adapt as industries, competitors, and generations change.
kapital ALKEMI reflects that perspective: direct relationships, discretion, intellectual honesty, and advice shaped around the owner’s actual objectives rather than a consulting methodology.
ADVISORY
Fresh perspective on problems you are too close to see clearly.
The value is often less a new spreadsheet or framework than a better vantage point: seeing connections that have become invisible from inside the system and identifying the few high-leverage decisions that can materially change the outcome.
Connect the System
Bring finance, capital, markets, customers, organization, ownership, and personal objectives into the same picture rather than optimizing one piece in isolation.
Find the Leverage Points
Identify the few choices that matter most, compare credible paths, understand the tradeoffs, and make the next move with the desired end state in sight.
Special situations, inflection points, and forks in the road.
kapital ALKEMI is most useful when something important is changing, the obvious answer is incomplete, or a decision will shape the next chapter of the business, investment, or owner’s life.
Strategic Alternatives
Stay the course, change direction, sell, hold, recapitalize, acquire, partner, reorganize, or build something new.
Capital Allocation
Where the next dollar — or the next million — should go, what should stop receiving capital, and what the opportunity set reveals about the business.
Growth & Market Moves
New markets, new products, pricing, sales architecture, partnerships, channels, commercial resets, and international expansion.
Organization & Leadership
Reorganizations, management structure, incentives, key hires, founder dependence, succession, and the operating model required for the next phase.
Transactions & New Ventures
Acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, new businesses, recapitalizations, and other decisions where financial and strategic logic must meet execution reality.
Ownership & Personal Capital
Liquidity, distributions, reinvestment, diversification, ownership transition, and aligning the enterprise with the owner’s broader financial and life objectives.
OWNERSHIP & CAPITAL
The business should work for the owner, not the other way around.
For many founders and family-business owners, the company is simultaneously an operating business, a concentrated investment, a source of income, a source of risk, and the largest component of personal net worth.
Business strategy and personal financial strategy cannot always be separated.
Reinvestment, distributions, liquidity, diversification, succession, growth, and risk should be considered in the context of what the owner is ultimately trying to build — in the business and in life.
ENGAGEMENTS
No templates. The situation determines the work.
Engagements are deliberately flexible: a focused piece of analysis, a special project, or an ongoing confidential advisory relationship.
01 / FOCUSED
Decision or Analysis
A defined question that needs independent thinking, financial analysis, or a rigorous second opinion.
02 / ONGOING
Trusted Advisory
An ongoing relationship for owners and executives who value a confidential sounding board outside the formal management structure.
03 / PROJECT
Special Situation
A high-priority initiative that crosses functions and benefits from senior analytical and operating involvement.
SPECIALIZED WORK
Different challenges. Dedicated businesses.
Alongside its independent advisory work, kapital ALKEMI has developed focused businesses for two distinct commercial challenges.
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