• Presentations from sources of grant, debt and equity funding, as well as business support agencies operating in the region
• The presentations will be short and sharp giving the delegate a basis for an assessment of which funding stream/funder matches their requirements
• To have a targeted session depending on your business needs – with a session focussed on start-up/early stage businesses
2. Structure of the morning – after coffee
• Meet the alternative Funders (10.20 am to 11.05am)
• Crowd – Equity
• Peer to Peer
• Debt – “the market”
• Grants and Business Support (11.15 am to 12
noon)
• Start Up, Established and Growing (12.10 pm to
1pm)
• Banks overview
• Private Equity
• Cornish Company
• Lunch and Networking (1pm to 2pm)
(10 minute breaks at 11:05am and 12 noon.
NOT Coffee breaks!)
10. WHY CROWDFUND?
Global Investor Reach
Cost effective
Marketing effect
Crowd feedback
Expertise
Fair Terms
Financial return
‘Armchair Dragon’
Support friends and family
Access exciting investments
Lower/spread risk
Simple to invest
11.
12.
13.
14. Under 25
25-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65 or over
DIVERSE COMMUNITY
Gender split
• 74% male, 26% female
• 3% of angel network members are female
• 4% of VC partners are female
• 9% of AngelList members are female
15. £70,000
Annual salary
42%
Investment from high net worth &
sophisticated investors
Technology
Marketing
Financial Services
Management
Consulting
VC and Private
Equity
TOP JOBS TOP 5
£
£
£
investor employers
25. Crowdfunding is for growth businesses in any sector – easier for
consumer facing but B2B has good chances of success
Secure an army of investor advocates and awareness as well as funds
Success rate of 52% vs 25% outside of crowdfunding
Sprint not a marathon - typically 3 months end-to-end vs 10 months
outside of equity crowdfunding
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800
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1,200
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1,600
1,800
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The leading global lending platform for small businesses
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October 2013
Launch in the US
October 2015
Launch in Germany &
Netherlands
January 2018
• £4bn in lending through platform
• 40,000+ small businesses supported
• 100,000+ jobs created
August 2010
Launch in the UK
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29. Funding Circle compared to the banking system
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Lack of dedicated
resources to cater to
small businesses
High regulatory capital
requirements
Heavy regulatory agenda
absorbing internal
resources
Not equipped to handle
small transactions
efficiently
SMEs’ contribution
to national economy
50%of GDP
60%of private sector employment
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Source: Bank of England
30. Source: Funding Circle
1. Upfront borrower origination fee: 1.5-6%, contingent on loan term and risk band
2. Ongoing servicing fee: 1% p.a. on the outstanding balance of performing loans
30
Funding Circle efficiently connects supply and demand
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31. *Personal Guarantee required
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Fast, flexible and affordable finance for small businesses
Unsecured loans from £5k to
£350k*
Finance for almost any
purpose
Rates from 3.00% per year
Loan terms from 6 months to 5
years
No early repayment fees
Decision typically in 24
hours
Features Benefits
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Quick application process in four easy steps
1. Instant quote 2. Online application
3. Decision4. Funds transfer
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33. Positive feedback and demonstrable impact on the
economy
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Reasons Borrowers Choose Funding Circle
3% 4% 4%
6% 7% 7%
11%
28%
31%
• Net lending between July and Dec 2017
was larger than 30 of the UK’s biggest
high street banks
• For every £1 lent through the platform,
£2 is added to the economy
• Turnover increased by an average of
17% for 61% of borrowers
• Profit increased by an average of 15%
for 47% of borrowers
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Source: Bank of England, Cebr analysis, Funding Circle
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Average Loan Size c.£60k
Average Turnover c.£800k
Average # Years Trading c.13 years
Average Interest Rate 9.7%
Average Maturity 49 months
Security Unsecured/secured, with personal guarantee
Bramley and Gage borrowed £25k
through Funding Circle
The Bath franchise of Neal's
Yard Remedies borrowed £100k
through Funding Circle
Teasdale Motorcycles borrowed
£167k through Funding Circle
Typical Funding Circle borrowers
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Source: Funding Circle
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Attractive product Customer experience Global presence Tech & data analytics
Our vision:
$100 billion in lending and 3 million new jobs created a year through the platform globally
Our four pillars of growth
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36. Thank you
Stephen Yearwood
Business Development Manager
t: 0208 046 1869
m: 0771 847 9959
e: stephen.yearwood@fundingcircle.com
a: 71 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V
4AY
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41. What we offer British businesses
*If you have all the relevant documents ready, and there are no complications.
Your property against which the loan is secured could be at risk if you don’t meet
payments.
• Borrow £50,000 to £5m or
more
• Interest-only repayments
• Decision within 24-72 hours*
• Fixed or flexible loans, 6
months to 5 years
• Secured against land or
property
42. Who we are
The Local Lending Movement:
Helping to build and sustain socially and financially
successful local and rural communities across the UK.
Essential to Britain’s pre-and post-Brexit success.
48. Lenders on our platform include. . .
360 + lenders in the UK alone
49.
50.
51.
52. Term loans and working capital facilities
CAPITALISE CASE STUDY
Scenario: High-interest loan refinance, with additional working
capital
Amount: £80,000
Business sector: Retail
Challenge:
• Several short-term, high interest loans
• Ate into cash-flow & profit margins
Result:
• Two competitive term loan quotes
• Elongated repayment terms to lower monthly payments
• Lower rate and lower APR
• Ability to pay facility off early w/ no charge
• A happy client!
Scenarios
• Growth
• Working capital
• Debt refinance
• Tax bill
• Asset purchase
• Acquisition
• Stock purchase
• Supplier payment
• Payroll
• Refurbishment
• & more!
53. Debtor backed funding
Great for businesses with…
• Large, corporate clients with long
payment terms
• Large number of debtors outstanding,
evenly spread
• Businesses operating B2B who have high
day-to-day operating costs
• Businesses with light fixed assets
• & more!
CAPITALISE CASE STUDY
Scenario: Large oil & gas business with contractual disputes and
large looming tax bill needed working capital and refinance of
their banking facility.
Amount: £4,000,000
Challenge:
• Contractual disputes in arbitration
• Large tax bill looming
• Bank not looking to support
• Difficult to fund debt due to the above
Result:
• £4m facility agreed to fund business working capital & refi
bank facility
• Facility structured as term debt, backed against debtor book
54. Asset finance
Assets you can fund…
• Plant
• Machinery
• Motor vehicles
• Property
• Office furniture
• Office/shop ‘fit out’
• Software
• Hardware
• Intellectual Property
• IT equipment
• Kitchen equipment
• Brewing equipment
• & more!
CAPITALISE CASE STUDY
Scenario: Group of manufacturing business looks to refinance
their business’ assets to raise money for acquisition and general
restructuring.
Amount: £1,000,000
Challenge:
• Many different types of assets
• Different lenders with finance outstanding
• Complex structure with several different charges necessary
Result:
• £1m facility, secured over assets and property, refinancing all
asset-based lending in the business
• 60 month repayment profile
55. Property
CAPITALISE CASE STUDY
Scenario: Diversifying care home business, looking to
buy a boutique hotel to refurbish & develop in the SW
Amount: £1,000,000
Challenge:
• Find a lender with strong pricing and no exit fee
willing to lend at a fairly high LTV (Loan To Value)
• Demonstrate viability of project & business plan
Result:
• Quick turnaround £1m bridging loan in time for
seller’s deadline & a happy client!
CAPITALISE CASE STUDY
Scenario: Trading business in the
healthcare space looking to exercise
purchase option on their office
Amount: £135,000
Challenge:
• On the small end for commercial
mortgages, client required 75% LTV
• High LTV and low enough rate needed
the right lender
Result:
• A challenger bank was able to get
comfortable with the property and the
business’ affordability
• & of course – a happy client
59. Break
Not a coffee break
Not a Q&A or networking session – unless you have a short question,
requiring a short answer, for the person next to you…
Resume in 10 minutes!
60. Structure of the morning – next up
• Grants and Business Support (11.15 am to
12 noon)
• Start Up, Established and Growing (12.10
pm to 1pm)
• Banks overview
• Alternative Finance
• Private Equity
• Cornish Company
• Lunch and Networking (1pm to 2pm)
(10 minute breaks at 11:05am and 12 noon.
NOT Coffee breaks!)
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Crowdcube is Europe’s leading equity crowdfunding platform designed to make it easy for businesses to raise investment from anyone, and for anyone to invest in exciting growing companies.
Equity crowdfunding uses technology to raise investment – usually seed or growth capital, from a wide range of people
Crowdfunding depends on…
We believe in the power of the crowd & in the democratisation of investment. Equity Crowdfunding fundamentally serves to allow any business to raise investment from anyone, and for anyone to invest in any business.
The principle of crowdfunding is that lots of people can contribute small amounts of money –
Not that different to angel investment – instead of insisting on a minimum level of investment and ending up with a handful of backers,
Crowdfunding allows anyone to invest from as little as £10 – this means the businesses potentially ends up with dozens of investors – an army of advocates and advisors - all vested in their success.
This means founders can source investment easily from angels, personal & professional networks, their customer base, friends and family – anyone, from nearly anywhere in the world – through one platform – I think the record for one company is investment from 90 countries.
Before we get into the who’s the what’s the why’s of equity crowdfunding, let’s take a look at the market - This is for all equity investment in non-listed UK companies rather than just crowdfunding.
When I was here last year, it was on the back of a fairly disappointing 2016 for private equity investment– and that was for a variety of macro reasons including Brexit.
2017 has been big, and that’s primarily been down to a handful of big raises – in 2017 there were 29 deals of £50m or greater - 4 times the norm. That said, when we strip out those outliers, average deal size is up the up, which is a trend we’ve seen in equity crowdfunding, and deal volume increased by about 5% - in short, there’s more money around for a similar number of businesses looking to raise.
Market share of crowdfunding across finance life cycle continued to increase – crowdfunding at growth-stage increased by 10% - continued trend of crowdfunding moving out of ‘alternative finance’ and firmly into the mainstream
In terms of where we’ve seen funding come from – the institutions recovered some of their appetite last year – anecdotally we’ve heard it was easier last year to raise funds to raise than in prior years.
You’ll see that crowdfunding is in 2nd place for number of deals completed – contrast that to where the industry was in 2013
In terms of Geography, London remains dominant - over half of all PE deals in the UK went to London-based companies, but the south west saw the biggest growth at 50%. As a platform, we saw this trend in both
Why do People Use Crowdfunding:
Two sides of the coin – we’re lucky that we see both sides
For Entrepreneurs – Gives you global investor reach, and it’s cost effective – both in terms of expenses and time. Average investment round we hear is around 10 months. With us. from application to cash in the bank – it should be a little over 3 months
More than that – the marketing effect remains key – on average businesses that raise money through crowdfunding will see a 3-fold increase in sales through the heightened awareness.
Terms – absolutely key – entrepreneurs are more likely to secure founder-friendly terms and a fair valuation.
For investors – ease of access to venture stage investment – before crowdfunding, this was the preserve of hnw’s – now ANYONE can access. Investors tell us that as well as financial returns (and we have seen returns), they want to back great british businesses that interest them – over 25% are interested in helping in an advisory capacity. It’s also pretty efficient in terms of accessing deal flow
How it works – more than anything this is an exercise in awareness raising – if entrepreneurs go out with the objective of connecting as positively as possible, with as many people as possible, they can’t lose. This take the form of traditional networking as well as email, social media, digital advertising, can take the form of print/outdoor media as well.
Like all platforms – we provide an online ‘pitch page’ – the shop window. which allows you to present information through a video, text and images
Text & images – explaining what you do, why you’re awesome, who’s behind it
Documents – financial forecasts, full business plan
There’s also a forum – both for updates broadcast by the founding team, and discussions. This is all about creating dialogue.
In this respect, crowdfunding is a little different to other methods of fundraising – this is public. Trial by crowd.
This means that if someone asks a tough question – how did you arrive at your valuation is a common one – and their answer is poor, the crowd will let them know.
In this campaign – updates included product development updates, press coverage, significant investors. Investors wanted to know some of the detail of how it’s being designed, how it will work, how IP will be owned in future, legal and regulatory restrictions for the future.
Similarly, entrepreneurs who communicate openly and effectively are handsomely rewarded.
You can also see share types – this is one of the mechanisms we use to make it easy for entrepreneurs to manage a large number of investors (a common concern) – typically larger investors are offered ordinary shares with voting and pre-emption rights, whilst smaller investors take a more passive share class with equal rights to proceeds on exit or dividends. Ultimately, whatever class, investors through equity crowdfunding are typically best described as quietly helpful- as long as they receive updates, they probably won’t get in touch unless they can help.
Crowdfunding is fundamentally an exercise in awareness raising, and that awareness can be tied into other activity – Just park were hiring and had 2000 job applications in a week whilst live, compared to around 100 in the month prior. Many businesses receive 3 times the number of commercial enquiries than normal during their round
Typically – 3 months start to end
Like most fundraising activity, it takes time and effort, but a lot of entrepreneurs, particularly those who have raised before through other means, compare it to a sprint rather than a marathon – efficient use of time and resources, delivering cash, marketing, awareness, an army of brand advocates and valuable expertise and introductions.
All starts with a simple application on our website
We have inhouse lawyers to call upon where necessary – both structuring and due diligence , Work with you on marketing planning – networks and investors, help Write your pitch and create your video
We’ll make due diligence as easy as possible, We work with you on finalising paperwork and agreements, issue share certs and EIS certs
Investor Relations Portal
To businesses looking at using equity crowdfunding – big question – who do I get?
One of the big draws historically to institutional and Angel money was the status of the investor, or the doors they could open, the guidance they could provide. Crowdfunding is no different.
They’re a diverse age range – certainly more diverse than you’d typically see in traditional early-stage investment – over 60 % of investors are under the age of 44
We also see a more diverse gender split – typically 5-10% of angels and VCs are female, in crowdfunding, it’s around 26%
They’re serious people – the crowd have had a bad rap over the years some even described them as ‘dumb money’– we know they’re smart, well paid, well educated, and work for respectable firms. A recent study by LSE shows that they make economically rational decisions – akin to institutional money. They’re also experienced – around 50% of investors have held the title of CEO, founder or director at some point.
Split of how our crowd is made up – as expected – far more everyday investors, but HNWs invest more
And a much better gender split – still not 50/50 – should be noted historically, female founders have a tougher time raising investment – in equity crowdfunding (at least on our platform), it’s easier – normal success rate around 55%, female-led businesses nearer 85%.
In terms of the types of business that have successfully used crowdfunding – we’re sector agnostic, though the easier to understand and the more exciting the business, the easier it is to crowdfund – fundamentally, there needs to be a crowd that might be interested in investing, and there needs to be a way of getting to them.
This means that historically businesses in Food & Beverage & technology have tended to do well consumer facing, but b2b businesses that can explain themselves (with our help have raised successfully too) – recently we saw Hurree which is a marketing automation app successfully raise, as well as Rentivo which create software for travel agents and holiday home rentals.
Eden project raised 1.5m in a matter of hours
GripIt – backed by Deborah Meaden and the most successful Dragon’s Den Business - £2m in 5 days. It’s a plasterboard fixing!
Victor Mobility raised nearly ¾ of a million to continue development of their new mobility device which allows users to move around at eye level - founded by Phil Eaglesham – former Royal Marine
We’ve raised a lot of money
For over 600 companies
Companies at varying stages of Growth – historically we sav maybe 20% of funds being raised into growth stage companies, in the last 12 months we’ve seen a rebalance – more mature businesses are turning to the crowd
Who invests via Crowdfunding – well there’s a lot of them – currently, over 500k in our community
And It’s growing – nearly 150k joined Crowdcube last year – we assume a similar growth rate across the industry
I won’t go through all this data but I will point out that the largest single investment was made at 10 minutes to midnight, from a mobile phone.
We raise anything from £20k to £10m
Average amount through the platform last quarter was over £10m per month
Thank you, love to talk to you afterwards if you’d like to know more
I’d now like to introduce XXX of Francis Clark
We are the leading global lending platform for small businesses
Present in 4 different countries
80%+ YOY revenue growth
GLOBAL NUMBERS
Our platform has issued more than £4bn in unsecured loans, £3bn+ in the UK alone.40,000+ small businesses supported
100,000+ jobs created
~$325m equity capital raised to date including Index Ventures, Accel Partners, DST, Temasek, Blackrock, Sands Capital and Baillie Gifford
Bank process up to 4 months in the UK
SMEs sit between corporate and retail
Total bank loans outstanding to SMEs has fallen by £24bn between 2011 and 2017
Check your eligibility in 30 seconds online
Apply online in just 10 minutes
Get a final decision typically in 24 hours
Funds in your account within 5 days
We approve a new loan every 6 minutes
In Q3 and Q4 2017, net lending through the UK platform was larger than 30 of the UK’s biggest high street banks for the first time according to Bank of England data
Typical Funding Circle borrowers are well-established creditworthy businesses