Executive Agility and DealMaker Announce Strategic Collaboration for Digital Capital Raising and IPO Readiness

The partnership aims to provide growth companies with a flexible, tech-driven capital-raising channel alongside traditional investment banking services.

Published on Feb. 26, 2026

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Executive Agility, a boutique consultancy specializing in IPO readiness and governance, has announced a strategic collaboration with DealMaker, a leading online capital-raising platform. The partnership will integrate DealMaker's digital capital-raising infrastructure into Executive Agility's IPO readiness and governance services, enabling issuers to run online Regulation A, Regulation CF, and Regulation D campaigns while also working with investment banks on traditional offerings. This will provide growth companies with a coordinated, complementary set of tools to raise capital, de-risk execution, and move faster toward listing on U.S. and Canadian exchanges.

Why it matters

This collaboration aims to give global growth and pre-IPO companies a digital, self-directed capital-raising path that complements traditional investment banking and underwriting. By combining Executive Agility's IPO readiness and governance expertise with DealMaker's digital capital-raising platform, the partnership provides issuers with more control over their capital-raising journey while still leveraging the strengths of investment banks.

The details

Through the collaboration, Executive Agility will integrate DealMaker's digital capital-raising infrastructure into its IPO readiness and governance services. This will enable issuers to run online Regulation A, Regulation CF, and Regulation D campaigns while also working with investment banks and underwriters on traditional offerings. These exempt offerings can be sequenced before or alongside underwritten IPOs, uplists, or other SEC-registered transactions, allowing issuers to validate investor demand, build investor communities, and strengthen their capital structure ahead of a listing.

  • The strategic collaboration was announced on February 25, 2026.

The players

Executive Agility

A boutique consultancy specializing in IPO readiness, governance, and multi-stakeholder project management for effective capital markets execution.

DealMaker

A leading online capital-raising platform that powers online capital (i.e., Regulation A) for emerging companies right through to IPO.

Deb Banning

CEO and Founder of Executive Agility.

Rebecca Kacaba

Co-founder and CEO of DealMaker.

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What they’re saying

“IPO-bound and dual-listing companies want more control over their capital-raising journey while still leveraging the strengths of investment banks and underwriters. By combining Executive Agility's IPO readiness, governance benchmarking, and capital markets execution expertise with DealMaker's digital capital-raising platform, we provide issuers with a coordinated, complementary set of tools to raise capital, de-risk execution and move faster toward listing on U.S. and Canadian exchanges.”

— Deb Banning, CEO and Founder of Executive Agility (ACN Newswire)

“Our mission is to give founders and executives a digital, compliant way to raise capital on their own terms, from early growth through IPO. Working alongside Executive Agility's IPO readiness and governance advisory services - and within a broader ecosystem of global exchanges - we help issuers utilize flexible, compliant offerings in a way that perfectly complements traditional investment banking, rather than competing with it.”

— Rebecca Kacaba, Co-founder and CEO of DealMaker (ACN Newswire)

What’s next

The partnership between Executive Agility and DealMaker is expected to provide growth companies with a more flexible and coordinated approach to capital raising as they prepare for IPOs, uplistings, and other exchange listings on U.S. and Canadian markets.

The takeaway

This collaboration aims to give growth-stage companies more control over their capital-raising journey while still leveraging the expertise of investment banks and underwriters. By integrating digital capital-raising tools with traditional IPO readiness services, the partnership provides issuers with a comprehensive set of resources to navigate the complexities of public markets and list their companies on major North American exchanges.