- viable businesses with growth potential that require development funding;
- investors looking to identify attractive business opportunities with the prospect of high returns within their field of interest.

BACapital is a leading business angel network and possesses one of the UK’s first private investor networks. Within with our introducer role, we offer our clients access to this network and we include a consultancy service to help make your existing business, new venture or concept more desirable. We work with client companies to structure their proposal and devise a funding strategy to correctly present the offering in order to maximise funding opportunities.

Best regards
Neil

We met briefly at the BBAA Awards at the Belfry last year.

Our platform, improved and relaunched at the end of last year, helps angel investors in the following ways:

(1) At a time when leverage is in short supply, it enables them to get some of the resources – people, access to assets, products, services and routes to market – that the business requires on a ‘use now, pay later’ basis. Businesses and individuals with spare time and resources can sell or rent them for above market prices, but with accrued amount paid out of a shre of future revenues.

(2) Dealmaker online can help reduce the chance of business failure by guiding them through a logical business planning and redefinition process to identify and fill gaps. It also enables free “en masse” due diligence by interested resource providers who are likely to have in depth techical or commercial knowledge.

See http://www.piefinance.com for more details.

I hope that the above is of intereste. Do please call me on 020 7684 4700 with any questions.

Kind regards

Senake Atureliya
CEO
Pie Finance Limited, London

Entrepreneurs can acquire resources on a fixed rates, but paid out of a share of generated future revenues. Using our online deal structuring platform, working with resource and finance providers, they collaboratively create and de-risked a detailed plan to run the business and form a basis for the revenue distribution agreement. We are currently helping ventures in the web, manufactured product, commercial property and greentech sectors.

In addition to ventures and resource providers, we are looking for advisors, finance providers, organisations and individuals interested in providing the solution to their clients and/or hosting a co-branded microsite.

Jose G.

I think the reality is the most professional angels will look to invest in both. The structure is what you might call the qualitative – measureable part; the entrepreneur is the soft / quantitative part, and therefore needs to be handled in a very different way.

Getting the balance between these two perspectives is what is important.

In fact, there is also a view that a third aspect needs to be solved before a start up can be successful – and that is the mix of people who support the business. They too need to be right, and the team needs to fit together and they all need the right motivations…

Nevertheless, your question neatly poses a tough question.

Regards
Neil

One of UK’s longest established and most successful business angel networks, with almost half of the companies selected to present to the network able to raise investment. Since Northwest Business Angels was established, in excess of £21m has raised by over 250 companies.

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