Capital & commercial advisory for the middle market
Breakout prepares companies raising debt, equity, or pursuing M&A and places them directly with buyside investors whose mandates fit, through a structured 90-day process.
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A Boutique Built Around Fewer Mandates and Better Outcomes
Capital and M&A advisory for growth companies, delivered through selective mandates and direct relationships with active investors and acquirers.
Each engagement is prepared, positioned, and matched to investors and acquirers whose mandates fit. By keeping our mandate list selective, we stay close to every process and to the buyside relationships that move it forward.
Speed
Capital outcomes cut down by 6+ months.
Access
Proprietary origination connects you with the right investors.
Growth
Fundraising strategies aligned with revenue and market traction.
Services
Advisory That Guides Founders From Capital Preparation Through Fundraising, Partnerships, and Sustainable Growth
Capital Advisory
Positioning companies to raise on their best terms.
Transaction Advisory
Equity, debt, and strategic partnerships for late stage growth.
Valuation & Positioning
Market-driven narratives that resonate with investors.
Readiness & Preparation
Pitch refinement, data room structuring, and diligence support.
Capital Raising
Connecting founders with the right capital, faster.
Investor Origination
Proprietary processes connect you with right-fit investors.
Private Placements
Structuring tailored equity and hybrid financings.
Accelerated Timelines
Capital raise cycles compressed into months.
M&A Advisory
Scaling with partners who bring more than money.
Buy-Side & Sell-Side Representation
End-to-end guidance for acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic exits.
Strategic Positioning & Buyer Identification
Building the right pipeline of qualified buyers and partners to maximize competitive tension and fit.
Negotiation & Transaction Execution
Managing counterparties, diligence, and closing processes to ensure certainty of execution.
Strategic Growth Advisory
Turning capital momentum into lasting market traction.
Pipeline Origination
Outbound infrastructure to connect with investors, partners, and customers.
Market Access
Networks and data-driven outreach to accelerate scale.
Revenue Alignment
Strategies that tie capital to measurable growth.
Process
How We Run the Raise
01
Investor Identification & Targeting
We build the investor universe from two sources. The first is our direct relationships with institutional funds, where introductions carry weight because the relationship already exists. The second is our mandate intelligence, which maps each fund's stated mandate, portfolio composition, check size history, and investment thesis against your company's profile. The result is a focused buyside target list of investors who are either already in our network or have a clear, evidenced reason to engage with this opportunity.
02
Positioning & Materials
Before anything goes to market, we align on how the company is positioned to the buyside. That means sharpening the story, pressure-testing the materials against the questions institutional investors will ask, and structuring the data room so diligence moves cleanly when interest arrives. Management stays focused on running the business while we manage the investor-facing process.
03
Outreach & Introductions
Distribution is controlled and sequenced, with each introduction tailored to the fund's mandate and the individual partner's known areas of focus. Introductions through our direct relationships are warm by design, and every other approach is grounded in a specific, evidenced fit with the fund's criteria. The objective is qualified engagement, not volume.
04
Meeting Management & Pipeline
We manage the investor meeting process from start to finish: scheduling, preparation ahead of each meeting, follow-up, and tracking where each fund sits in its decision cycle. Momentum builds when multiple investors are engaged at the same time, and we prepare management to run parallel conversations without losing ground on any of them.
05
Closing & Term Sheet Support
When term sheets arrive, the work continues. We stay engaged through close, supporting negotiation, managing counterparty dynamics, and coordinating diligence so management isn't navigating the final steps alone. Our engagement runs through to closing.
We advise on growth equity, debt, project finance, and M&A.
Project Finance
Capital for infrastructure, energy, and asset-backed projects, structured around the project's cash flows and sourced from institutional and strategic capital.
60+
Years combined advisory experience
$18B+
In aggregate transaction volume
2500+
Investor relations supported
Our Team
Terence Kawaja
Strategic Advisor
Terence Kawaja is the Founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm at the intersection of media and technology. A seasoned investment banker with over two decades of experience, Terry has advised on more than $300 billion in transactions - including some of the most consequential deals in media and tech history. Prior to LUMA, he served as Global Head of Media M&A at Citigroup and Credit Suisse First Boston. He holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School.
Rana DiOrio
Strategic Advisor
Rana DiOrio is a technology investment banker, former corporate and securities attorney, entrepreneur, and investor whose career includes Merrill Lynch, Alex. Brown & Sons, Bank of America Securities, and North Point Mergers & Acquisitions, where she has served as Managing Director. Rana brings experience helping companies raise capital, pursue acquisitions, and develop and execute growth strategies. Her background combines software and technology investment banking with corporate and securities law experience at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Pillsbury Madison & Sutro.
Darko Atijas
Strategic Advisor
Darko Atijas is a global operator and dealmaker whose career spans more than two decades across private equity real estate, venture-backed technology, and corporate finance. During his tenure in private equity, Darko contributed to several landmark transactions - including the $1.9 billion XI / 76 Eleventh Avenue mixed-use development in New York City featuring the Six Senses Hotel & Residences, and a $1+ billion portfolio of residential and hospitality projects across the U.S. and Europe. He currently serves as COO of Tech Universal Ventures and holds board positions across emerging technology companies globally. He holds an MBA from Macquarie University.
About the Founder
Ryan Bryden
Founder
Ryan Bryden began his career in business development, learning firsthand how institutional relationships are formed and where distribution consistently breaks down. While still completing his Bachelor of Business Management at Western University, he founded Breakout Capital Group - an advisory firm built to solve the distribution problem for growth-stage companies struggling to build systematic sales pipeline through technology-enabled distribution.
The pattern he encountered in growth advisory kept surfacing in an unexpected place. The companies Breakout worked with weren't just struggling to find customers - they were struggling to find capital. And the investment banking infrastructure meant to solve that problem was operating on the same broken model: closed networks, static lists, and a process built around the advisor's relationships rather than the founder's outcome.
Bryden recognized the problem was identical.
He partnered with a team of senior capital markets professionals - dealmakers with decades of transactional experience across Wall Street and boutique investment banking - and extended Breakout's origination methodology into the fundraising mandate. The result is a firm that brings institutional-grade advisory discipline and modern, data-driven origination infrastructure to the capital raise - working today with some of the world's best technology companies to deliver the access, precision, and timeline in a new age of investment banking and capital markets outcomes.
