Protect and add value to your investment at every stage
We partner with a range of private investors as well as Venture Capital and Private Equity firms, Family Offices and GP Stakes. We can support your due diligence process, help protect your investment and add significant value to your portfolio.
Focussing on the teams, leaders culture that enable or hold back every aspect of business performance is a powerful way of stacking the deck on the chances of your investment fulfilling its potential.
Manage the people in your investment
We work with investors to help them manage the people in their investment. There are three aspects to it:
Deciding to play
Pre-investment support to your due diligence, focused on the leaders, teams and culture of your prospective investment.
Playing not to lose
Understand and manage the human capital risk related to employees in order to protect your investment.
Playing to win
A value-add strategy in leadership, teams and culture that leverages these as critical components in creating competitive advantage for your investment, boosting performance, profitability and growth.
Just 1 in 4 investments is successful
Only around 1 in 4 scale up investments is considered successful. Typically, there are issues around product market fit, technology, macro environmental or competitive factors, as well as financial and operational challenges to scaling. This includes talent and people.
In almost every case the root cause of failure or under performance is the failure of a team to understand a problem or execute a plan.
The Challenges
Common Investor Challenges
Your investment is fuelling growth but whether you realise the returns you seek depends on the team. People are the wildcard, largely overlooked in the due diligence process. Yet they are likely your greatest risk and the most under exploited lever for generating asymmetric returns, but only if you can build teams that deliver more than the sum of the parts.
Flailing founders
Struggling to scale with the business and transition into the role of CEO.
Team tension
Executing reactively, and not aligning, collaborating and prioritising around the mission.
Over-dependence
On a few ‘indispensables’ who become bottlenecks and burnt out.
Culture corrosion
Undermining performance, retention and morale.
Execution drag
Missed growth opportunities due to leadership and team frictions that damage multiples and delay a successful exit.
75%
Venture-backed startups that never return cash to investors
Source: Harvard Business School
47%
Scaleups reported a leadership talent gap making it harder to scale
Scaleup Institute Review 2025
13x
Multiple on likelihood of firms with highest quality leaders outperforming competitors
DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast
The Solution
Partner with Metris to protect your portfolio
Partnering with us equips your portfolio companies with the leadership capacity, teamwork skills and cultural alignment to successfully deliver faster, stronger returns.
We bring:
Firepower
Extra strength and depth to your advisory team offer, with added value to investee companies beyond finance alone.
Specific focus
On leadership, teamwork and culture as levers for growth that are almost always ignored yet underpin success.
Skills, tools & mindset
Essential for decision making, communication and execution to create aligned, mission focused and resilient teams that thrive.
Codified values
Translate values into daily behaviours, rituals and systems to enable cultures that drive performance not politics.
On-the-ground insight
Early warning of problems, weaknesses and opportunities in relation to teams, culture and communication.
Problem solving
Identifying and solving problems is critical in both the pre-deal due diligence process and post investment but once addressed, will contribute positively to growth.
Objectivity & partnership
A long-term working partnership based on trust, where we are an ally and extension of your core team.
Time-savings
We put the time into the business that you haven’t got.
