Keneil Clarke is Chief Revenue Officer at Raises.com, the capital advisory firm that structures and funds acquisitions of businesses and real estate. He is the firm's first point of contact for incoming operator-led acquirers, assessing what a buyer is actually trying to acquire and how it can be financed before introducing them to the advisory team that structures the transaction.
Chief Revenue Officer, Raises.com
Background
Keneil Clarke is the first person most Raises.com clients speak with. His role is the assessment that comes before any structure is built: what the buyer is trying to acquire, what the seller has agreed to, what the buyer can actually contribute, and whether the gap between the price and the available capital can realistically be closed.
That conversation decides the shape of everything downstream. A buyer with a signed letter of intent and a motivated seller needs a different structure from one who is still searching, and a real estate sponsor raising for a single asset needs a different vehicle from a first-time fund manager. Getting that judgment right at the first call is what keeps an engagement from being rebuilt halfway through.
He works with independent sponsors, acquisition entrepreneurs, search buyers, real estate sponsors and first-time fund managers, and hands each engagement to the capital markets team once the direction is set.
Documented transaction
The buyer of the Texas HVAC services platform was originally onboarded to the Raises.com platform by Keneil Clarke, the firm's first point of contact for incoming operator-led acquirers, who introduced him to the advisory team. The transaction went on to close as an equity-light control buyout funded by an institutional senior credit facility, junior debt and structured seller financing, and became the inaugural platform of a Texas and Gulf Coast services roll-up.
The buyer was originally onboarded to the Raises.com platform by Keneil Clarke, the firm's first point of contact for incoming operator-led acquirers, who introduced Mr. Sechelski to the advisory team.
Source: Press release, July 2026, carried by Yahoo Finance, AP News, Morningstar and The Globe and Mail
Transactions
Transactions completed by Raises.com clients on the firm's structure, documents and capital introductions. A role line appears where a published source names Keneil on the transaction. Terms described as privately negotiated are shown as undisclosed.
Undisclosed
Control buyout funded by an institutional senior credit facility, junior debt, a seller note and seller rollover equity, closed with minimal sponsor cash equity. Inaugural platform of a Texas and Gulf Coast services roll-up.
Keneil's role: First point of contact, onboarded the buyer and introduced him to the advisory team
2026Details
$100M
REIT formed at roughly 48 percent below traditional legal cost, alongside an introduction to an investment bank transacting about $25B a year.
2026Details
$50M
Hotel sponsor moved from single-asset deals to a committed fund structure with the offering documents, model and data room built to institutional standard.
2026Details
Reg D + Reg A+
Parallel exempt offerings structured for one manager so accredited and non-accredited capital could be raised without collapsing the two into a single vehicle.
2026Details
44 units
First-time sponsor closed two acquisitions on one repeatable capital architecture, including a raise that survived two committed investors withdrawing mid-process.
2026Details
$3M
Acquisition closed after a separate $40M transaction collapsed, rebuilt on the same structure and investor process.
2026Details
Undisclosed
First acquisition for the buyer, followed immediately by two further acquisitions opened on the same infrastructure.
2026Details
Same week
Operator bought and sold a business inside a single week using prepared structure and a standing investor process.
2026Details
Full documented client record: 143 case studies in the clients' own words.
Common questions about Keneil Clarke and how the advisory team works.
Keneil Clarke is Chief Revenue Officer at Raises.com, a capital advisory firm that structures and funds acquisitions of businesses and real estate. He is the firm's first point of contact for incoming operator-led acquirers and assesses the acquisition and its financing before the advisory team builds the structure.
He takes the first call. That means establishing what the buyer is acquiring, what the seller has agreed to, what capital the buyer can contribute, and whether the gap can be closed, then routing the engagement to the team that builds the fund or SPV structure, the offering documents, the financial model and the data room.
He was the first point of contact on the 2026 acquisition of a profitable Texas HVAC services business, onboarding the buyer and introducing him to the advisory team. That transaction closed as an equity-light control buyout and was covered by Yahoo Finance, AP News, Morningstar and The Globe and Mail.
Independent sponsors, acquisition entrepreneurs, search buyers, real estate sponsors and syndicators, and first-time fund managers. The common factor is a buyer acquiring a business or a property who has to raise or structure the capital for it.
Book a strategy call at https://raises.com/call. The call is a working assessment of the acquisition and how it can be funded, and pricing is shown on the booking page before you choose a time.
Raises.com builds the fund or SPV structure, the offering documents, the financial model and the data room for people buying a business or real estate, then introduces debt and equity sources. Pricing is shown on the booking page before you choose a time.