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Looking into the future of Private Equity strategies?
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Anna WeissmannPrivate equity (PE) funds, the larger cousins of venture capital funds, typically invest in more mature companies. In this article, we will look into the past, present and future of private equity strategies. The evolution of private equity is driven by accidentally discovered effects that our team of experts and analysts identified recently.
M&A Deal: Blockpit acquires CryptoTax
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicOur M&A team led a lighthouse M&A transaction for Blockpit, the Austrian expert for legally compliant reporting for digital asset trading to acquire its German competitor CryptoTax. With this acquisition of its biggest and larger European competitor, the company intends to drive international expansion into the US and other markets globally in 2021.
Total investments in 360kompany AG now EUR 14m
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Anna WeissmannWe are proud to have closed the following deals during the last weeks: Health-Tech pioneer myBioma has secured a six-figure investment from renowned investors, which was also doubled by the COVID-19 relief fund of the Austrian Promotional Bank (Die Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH – AWS) and also the award-winning RegTech platform for Business KYC (KYB), kompany has secured a follow-up funding of €6 million, which was their largest single investment round to date.
Six-figure follow-up investment for health-tech pioneer myBioma
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicHealth-tech pioneer myBioma has raised a six-figure follow-up investment from renowned investors, which is to be doubled by the COVID-19 relief fund of the AWS. The next step is for the founders to draw international attention to themselves.
New strategic partnership with startup300 AG in Dealmatrix startup valuation calculator
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Anna WeissmannVenionaire Capital enters new strategic partnership with startup300 AG in the new Dealmatrix, offering startup valuation calculator after a pivot. Beta users will foreseeably be able to use the new service from August onwards.
New Book – 100 Startups – Made in Austria
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicVenionaire Capital founder and managing partner Berthold Baurek-Karlic and co-autor Florian Kandler, announced a new book project “100 Startups – Made in Austria” today in Austria’s leading startup portal derbrutkasten. Future hidden champions, from deep-tech to digital competitors, will be featured through interviews. The book itself will be promoted globally, sent to selected VCs all […]
Overview of Startup Valuation Methods
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicThere are various ways to value a startup depending on their stages of development. We prepared an overview to help you distinguish between different valuation models so that you can choose the method that best fits your company or investment case.
Startup Valuation – Rating Method
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors, News /by Berthold Baurek-Karlic‘The Startup Rating model by Venionaire Capital’ is a proprietary model for investors, which may be applied across different stages, without limitations of pure qualitative or financial models. The model adjusts the average valuation you have calculated or observed from the market and makes it transparent how much you should over- or underpay compared to an average valuation in order to make a fair deal.
7 Hacks to Pitch your Startup
/in Know-how for Founders, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicEntrepreneurs need to be prepared to pitch their company, anytime, anywhere. An elevator pitch should be short and crisp – you only have a few minutes (2 – 5 min.) to explain your vision and trigger a spark of interest from your audience / investor. Pitching a startup is really difficult and we have a lot of respect for that. Founders need to master this skill set, as there are many talents out there, setting the bars higher every day.
Early-Stage Startup Valuation – Part 2: The Berkus Method
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicFollowing the first introduction to the pre-revenue startup valuation, in this article we review the other well-known model for pre-revenue startups: the ‘Berkus Method’, named after its inventor, Dave Berkus, a well-known Californian angel investor.
The True Cost of Startup Fundraising
/in Know-how for Founders, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicStartup founders and business angels often see external advisors as an unnecessary cost they are not willing to bear. In only very few cases we have seen business angels having a strong enough network, willingness to invest time and resources and skills to support all their startups in multiple rounds. Sometimes this means that they had to raise for five companies at the same time and provide one bridge round after the other themselves. Is that efficient?
Pre-Revenue Startup Valuation – The Payne Scorecard Method
/in Know-how for Founders, Know-how for Investors /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicPre-Seed companies sometimes do not even have a minimal viable product yet, their business case is an idea and likely to be changed quite frequently during the first 18 to 24 months until a first product market fit is tested. Numbers and financial plans are worth nothing at this stage. Yet, there are valuation models Business Angels use to evaluate such early-stage startups. The most prominent method one is the “Scorecard” method. Developed by Bill Payne, this top-down approach compares a startup to other typical startups at the same stage (investors benchmark the “standard” value of a pre-seed or early seed company in this case), within a geographic region and startup-sector (regtech, digital health, fintech, SaaS, etc.).
Startup Valuation During Crisis (COVID-19)
/in Know-how for Founders, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicCompany valuations – especially startup valuations – remain an art based on experience. We expect to see cuts of over 50% and tougher terms. Higher liquidation-preferences (multiples 2 to 3x) will be the new normal. The numbers about in this article reflect the current market view, based on feedback our valuation and transaction specialists gathered through interviews last week.
100 QUESTIONS FOR CEOS TO MASTER COVID-19 CRISIS
/in Know-how for Founders, News /by Anna WeissmannWe have collected 100 thoughts, resources and questions from CEOs, in four core fields of attention, for you. Reflect for yourself and see, if there is a better chance to adapt your business. Try to consider this crisis as a unique opportunity to revisit and redefine processes and ways of doing business. And, if there are synergies to leverage together we are eager to hear from you!
7 Hacks to Master Remote Working
/in Know-how for Founders, News /by Berthold Baurek-KarlicFor most people, remote work is still a relative novelty. Even though laptops, cloud solutions and video calls are often supplementary to traditional office work, things become substantially more difficult once the entire team goes remote. It feels a little odd and you have to adapt and find ways to keep up your company culture – which can be tricky. We have summarized our personal, as well as learnings and insights of our startups for you in this article and hope sharing these will help you to work more efficiently from home in the coming weeks and maybe even beyond.