Founder and CFO
Most founders believe valuation is the reward for hard work, revenue growth, and ambition. Matteo Turi sees it differently. To him, valuation is not an accident, it's an architecture.
Mateo is a CFO, board advisor, entrepreneur, and creator of the High Valuation Triangle, a proprietary framework built around three forces that investors care about deeply: intellectual property, succession depth, and global scalability. His work is designed to help founders move from operator-dependent businesses to structurally valuable companies that investors want to chase, not politely evaluate.
Across his career, Mateo has advised companies in SaaS, renewable energy, med tech, mining, utilities, and telecom. His background includes more than half a billion dollars in funding, multiple M&A transactions, exits, and IPO experience. But what makes Mateo's thinking so compelling is not just the numbers.
It's the pattern he's seen again and again. Founders build revenue, customers, and momentum only to discover during due diligence that buyers don't pay for effort. They pay for transferable value. Mateo's work challenges the founder to ask the uncomfortable question: Are you building a business that looks successful today or one that a buyer would compete to own tomorrow?