WHY PIE IS AN OPPORTUNITY, NOT A THREAT, FOR FINANCE PROVIDERS

The Pie Finance solution opens up a whole new market in both debt and equity finance. It can help to increase your share of the existing market by enabling you to service those clients who you had to turn down because they either lacked security (debt providers), had insufficient growth potential or were too early stage (equity providers). With a lower capital requirement and a number of collaborative suppliers who may be able to guarantee debt to cover their own direct costs, the entrepreneur may be put into a position where they can provide security to cover the debt or the reduced amount represents a viable risk.

By taking advantage of the lower opportunity cost of underutilised resources – displaced staff, vacant premises, under-monetised customer bases and suchlike - the solution enables entrepreneurs who cannot access finance because a lack of adequate security or an unwillingness to risk it, to acquire resources on a revenue (and optionally, profit) share basis.

As always, 'cash is king' and some suppliers just won't work on a collaborative basis especially where there is a high demand for their products and services. Some debt or equity financing is also required to fund smaller purchases and so, once the ventures have develop to an point where they can secure debt and investment funding, they are able to access more resource to grow at a faster rate.

Last but not least, the opportunity for you to help viable propositions that do not yet meet your requirements in a positive way is a sure fire way to win their future business, benefit from the positive PR and grab a larger share of the market for lending products.

MONETISING REJECTED DEAL FLOW FOR ANGEL NETWORKS

Pie Finance are an associate member of the British Business Angels Association. we are proud to bring our innovative, new collaborative resourcing solution to the benefit of both angel investors, investor networks and entrepreneurs.

It is not our intention to become an angel network as there are already plenty of these providing a good service to entrepreneurs, but to scale, we are looking to work with international angel networks on a collaborative, commercial basis. Where we can help to make a proposition that is not viable into an attractive investment opportunity by resourcing it to an investable stage (for your network) or monetising less scaleable ventures on your behalf, we would be happy to try and help.

PUT OPTIONS - A BIG UPSIDE FOR INVESTORS WITH LIMITED EXPOSURE

Investors can benefit from their appetite for risk by purchasing PUT options to provide exits for early stage collaboration partners. In exchange for providing a fixed price exit defined by milestones that they set, the investors can benefit from a significant spread between their purchase price and the price at which they are able to sell their options.

IP LICENCING OPPORTUNITIES - GENERATE MORE REVENUE & WIN MARKET SHARE

In addition, we are looking to sell or licence our solution selected territories and sectors to finance providers who are interested in leveraging our pending patent rights in Europe, the US, Canada, China, India, South Africa, Israel and Russia.

This opportunity for you to help viable propositions that do not yet meet your requirements in a positive way is a sure fire way to win their future business, benefit from the positive PR and grab a larger share of the market for lending products. Do please get in touch using our contact form to find out more.

SIGNIFICANT RISK MITIGATION

At the heart of our platform are a number of innovative ways to de-risk opportunities to make working on a collaborative basis safer.

+ Optional revenue or profit share - lenders get paid from money as it comes through the door and investors can keep their revenues shares in the business to fund the parts of the business that offer the best return on investment.
+ Transparency - finance providers will have access to accounts, bank statements & payment processor reports so that they can monitor revenues.
+ En masse due diligence - all finance providers and collaborative suppliers get the opportunity to review, enhance and agree the fixed, detailed plan that will be used to run the business before going ahead.
+ More control for minority stakeholders - the business will operate based upon this plan reducing the risk of mismanagement and the need for a venture to have a costly, high calibre team when they apply for finance.
+ Financiers retain ownership of the value that their funds create - such as stock or brand value until the pre-agreed returns are repaid in full.
+ We use our innovative "reverse royalty" scheme to maximum return in case of underperformance. This enables the collective assets of the venture to be licenced out to repay all indebted suppliers and investors.

A BIG UPSIDE WITH LITTLE OR NO DOWNSIDE

Last, but not least...matched opportunities will be sent to you on a 'take it or leave it' basis so by signing up, you have nothing to lose, but everything (including the chance to have a slice of the "next big thing") to gain!