Capital Formation Strategy
Investor narrative, materials, use-of-funds, capital stack, and diligence preparation.
Pōmaikaʻi Ventures
Venture Architecture. Capital Strategy. Legacy Creation.
A boutique advisory and capital architecture firm for founders, executives, family offices, and qualified investors building durable, well-structured ventures.
For Investors
Capital partners & family offices.
Proprietary, often time-sensitive opportunities — routed to the mandates they fit, structured for review, and shared in confidence.
View the investor practice →For Founders & Executives
Operators raising or restructuring.
Advisory and counsel, capital formation, deal architecture, and fractional executive support for ventures at inflection.
View the operator practice →The Approach
Three principles. Applied consistently.
Every engagement is shaped by the same underlying logic — structure before capital, capital before noise, and discretion at every step.
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Structure before capital.
A venture's economics, governance, and deal structure are diligenced and refined before any capital conversation begins. The work is done first; the introduction follows.
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Capital before noise.
We prioritize relationships, alignment, and long horizons over reach. The right partner at the right stage compounds; the wrong one corrodes.
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Discretion at every step.
Conversations, materials, and introductions are kept private by default. Selectivity is preserved on both sides of the table.
Practice
From vision to structure to capital to execution.
The firm operates across six interconnected practice areas. Founders and executives engage on advisory, capital, and operating support; investors and family offices engage on sourced opportunities and co-investment architecture.
Financial Modeling & Fractional CFO
Models, forecasts, scenario analysis, KPI dashboards, board materials, and operating plans.
Venture Architecture
Business model, entity strategy, revenue architecture, roadmap, and execution sequencing.
Deal Structuring & Transaction Advisory
Acquisitions, seller notes, earnouts, LOIs, investor terms, partnerships, and M&A preparation.
AI, Technology & Automation Strategy
AI-enabled business models, automation, data infrastructure, and workflow transformation.
Impact, Land, Energy & Commodities
Land-backed ventures, regenerative agriculture, conservation finance, and resource-linked projects.
Principal
Frank Kanekoa
Founder & Principal · Pōmaikaʻi Ventures
Frank Kanekoa is the Founder and Principal of Pōmaikaʻi Ventures — a strategic advisory platform supporting family offices, private investors, founders, and operating companies in the evaluation, structuring, and execution of high-conviction opportunities.
Earlier work
Frank began his career at J.P. Morgan with the Global Investment Opportunities group, focused on OTC derivatives globally across asset classes for private and institutional clients. He then became a Private Banker, co-managing clients representing more than $1 billion in assets — advising on investment, banking, credit, and trust and estate planning, while building stronger fluency in capital markets, risk assessment, and sophisticated financial architecture.
An operating decade
Over the past decade, Frank has worked across the full lifecycle of company building and investment execution — as a founder, operator, board member, CEO, CFO, CMO, and strategic capital advisor. He has helped structure and raise capital across early- and growth-stage companies, and advised on fundraising, corporate structuring, financial strategy, governance, investor communications, and market positioning.
Today
Through Pōmaikaʻi Ventures, Frank works with family offices and private investors to identify, evaluate, and diligence opportunities through a disciplined yet entrepreneurial lens. He also advises founders and operators seeking institutional-grade strategy, capital formation, governance, and growth support — bridging institutional finance with real-world operating experience.
Frank attended Georgetown University, earning a degree from the McDonough School of Business, with a double major in Finance and International Business, with concentrations in Economics and Spanish.
Connect with us
Begin a conversation.
For founders, executives, family offices, and qualified investors with opportunities that warrant discretion and structure. Every inquiry is reviewed personally; we respond within one to two business days.
or write to info@pomaikaiventures.com