Further to my Rob Milner comment, I thought I'd share an experience getting funds from a bank in Australia starting with M.
I needed an intro and so I approached a broker in Sydney who said he could put me in front of said bank. I arrived in Sydney, spent 30 secs in this guys office and we walked across the road to M. He kindly introduced me, ....this is Nick,,,,Nick this is ....
This was his total contribution that day and on a second visit.
The manager at M asked me if he could visit my facility in Munich as he was going to be in London the following week. I told him, I'd be happy to meet him there, so flew into Germany and met him at the gate to our facility. The location is inside the EADS head office area in Munich (they own Airbus, Euorpean Space and at the time Eurocopter). When we got to our factory my MD in Germany explained what we were doing. He also introduced him to another guy who regularly wandered in to see how we were going. He was a Vice President of EADS and very enthusiastic.
After 30 mins M bank man said, "Ok, I've seen enough, can you walk me out". On the walk back, I asked him "so, what do you think?". His reply was priceless...."appears the bullshit you told me is all true, come round to my office when you're back and we'll put $6m in". The EADS guy had obviously impressed him.
When I got to Sydney, the broker guy fulfilled his escorting job to help me cross the road, I got the money and the turkey sent me a bill for the intro, 5% = $300,000. Easiest money he ever made and after nearly 20 years still sticks in my throat.