Thomas Duffy
venture capital international
Part of what sets Venture capital international apart is having significant operational experience in your industry to help achieve the next milestones in your business beyond just advising you financially. This includes unique approaches to raising necessary financing at the best valuation and lowest risk and cost possible.
a) lack of expertise and relationships necessary to raise capital in a cost effective structure.
b) underdeveloped or ineffective business strategies that lack compelling market focus, unique value propositions, competitive positioning, operational and go-to-market approaches, or revenue activation platforms.
c) gaps in leadership in terms of talent, alignment and training
d) unclear path to liquidity and/or divestiture.
e) under performing or nonexistent marketing, sales, distribution partnership, joint venture, or M&A programs that are necessary to achieve consistent growth as a habit at acceptable risk levels.
f) inability to scale do to inefficiencies in organization, processes or technology.
We address these and other critical imperative and help entrepreneurs and investors:
a) recruit and retain world class leadership.
b) develop and execute successful business strategies, growth opportunities, partnerships, and M&A initiatives.
c) raise necessary financing.
we have about 25 out
of the 400 funders that do 100% funding. As well as Venture debt
funders. Most have 100k to 150k out of pocket fees like International
Hedge funds etc. So we have multiple options for this project and can
submit to several at a time. Please let me know you received this email
so I know I wrote it down correctly.
The two best solutions as I stated based on you being a relatively new
startup, with very little liquid cash reserves are the following as well
as the stock program (not stock in your project) .......
1) Private Equity Firm. Unlike most this is a group of over 700 private
investors (millionaires) who do projects from 500k to 50 m with a sweet
spot of under 25. If one or more like it they take a small equity share of
10 to 30% with a buy out. They will pay for all large fees if they like it
such as market analysis etc. They do 100% funding for projects with no
collateral, pre-revenue, startups etc. The only out of pocket fees they
have is a $572 background check and a refundable $600 commitment fee. Our
firm simply has a $5000 USD upfront retainer for this one project
regardless of how many funders we have to submit to. And then we get our
success fee at closing. That is it. That gets you in front of over 700
investors with the ability to write the check. They all have shown a min
of 20m POF to join the group. All of them are required to say yes or no
otherwise they will get kicked out of the group.
2) 100% Hybrid funder. This is for the larger raise we spoke about. If
approved they fund 100% of the project as well with No equity NO debt and
No repayment of the principal. In exchange they receive 38% of the NET
profits and you keep 62% and 100% equity and there is a buyout clause as
well. Never pay the funds back and no debt period. They have no Upfront DD
or commit fees. They have no fees at all and pay for all third-party fees
if they come up. There is nothing if funded with them.
3) Stock program for later due to the fact you have limited cash reserves.
That out of pocket not to us but for third party fees etc is 125K USD. It
is on our web site but here it is for easy reference. Let me know if you
have any questions and have a great day.
Stock Program
The highlights are simply this. The stocks are issued to you FREE of
charge and are from a third party Canadian company are a privately held
stock. The stocks are then sold by you and at closing are fully insured
using A rated or better insurance companies using SLS (Senior Life
Settlement) policies. The stocks are insured for 150% of the face value.
Once insured it pays out at 150% of face value in 10 years. There is
typically a 2-year moratorium on the stocks, so no payment is due the
first two years. You can either use the stocks as secondary collateral or
sell the stocks on the market to QIB’s. The most popular way is to sell
the stocks. If you choose to go and sell the stocks then once the stocks
are sold, you receive your money for your project with no partner and NO
Debt. Only a coupon payment due on stocks for 8-year term. You never repay
the principal back from the sale of your stocks. The cost of the insurance
and the commission fees are taken out of the loan you receive from the
financial institution or the money received from the sale of the stocks.
There is NO charge for the stocks. The only charge upfront is for the
prospectus work to be done for the program by the group we represent. This
program can be used for almost any project.
we started with a few companies that wanted to get the equity out of their company