Gearing Up For Venture Capital - amoo.co.uk Up For Venture Capital.pdf · •Dec 2010-Series A...
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Gearing Up For Venture Capital
P r e s e n t e d b y :
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Optimising Your Company for VC
1. Golden rules
2. Common misconceptions
3. The Investment Process
4. Post-investment Focus
5. Case Studies
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What is Venture Capital (VC)?
• Financial capital for early-stage, high potential, high risk start-up companies
• Catalyst for new industries and ground-breaking global companies e.g. Google, Facebook
VC Uncertainty Sustainability
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1. Golden Rules • Build a Strong Team
• Innovative Product: find a solution to a problem!
• High Growth Market
• Protect IP
• Take your time for investment
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2. Common Misconceptions • Team: “Bigger is better”
• Product: “If I build it they will come”
• Income: “Will follow in its own time”
• Market: “I have no competitor”
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3. The Investment Process
• Select Domain Focus: sector, size, region
• Evaluate Opportunity: financials, opportunity
note, executive summary
• Meetings with Team (1st, 2nd , 3rd)
• Due Diligence
• Investment
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4. Post-investment Focus
Entrepeneur VCs
Cash, cash (and...cash) Founder’s Stability
Investor Relations/Reporting Valuation
Innovation Traction
Exit: MBO, IPO, Trade Sale
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Case Study 1: Angel + VC Funding
• F
• Socialising TV Watching • May 2010-Angel Funding:
Kurt Abrahamson Keith Rabois Jawed Karim Georges Harik Rich Chen Thomas Korte Google Ventures
• Dec 2010-Series A Funding-$1.5million (Google Ventures & Hearst Interactive Media)
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Case Study 2: VC Funding + IPO
• Linkedin • Business Social Networking • Funding (total $103 M)
• Jan 2011-LinkedIn files for IPO • Potential value- $3bn
Date Stage Investors Amount (millions)
Nov-2003 Series A Sequoia Capital, Josh Kopelman $ 4.7
Oct-2004 Series B Greylock Partners $10
Jan-2007 Series C Bessemer Venture Partners, European Founders Fund $12.8
June-2008 Series D Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners
$53
Oct-2008 Series E Bessemer Venture Partners, SAP Ventures, Goldman Sachs, McGraw-Hill Companies
$22.7
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Case Study 3: VC Funding + Acquired + IPO
• G#
• Internet Telephony • Jan 03 - Series A: Bessemer Venture Partners
Mar 04-Series B: $18.8M-Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Index Ventures
• Oct 2005 - Acquired by eBay for $2.1billion
• Nov 2009 - 70% sold by eBay (to consortium: Silver Lake Partners, CPPIB, Andreessen Horowitz & original founders) for $2.75 billion
• Oct 2010 - Skype files to raise $100 million in IPO
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Questions
• Thank you for your time
• Please feel free to ask any questions
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Managing Director: Nzube Ufodike
•Email: [email protected] •Web: http://www.amoo.co.uk/
@amootweets • http://www.linkedin.com/company/amoo-venture-capital-advisory