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OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTORS
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANGEL NETWORKS
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
VCs & PRIVATE EQUITY
OPPORTUNITIES FOR LAW FIRMS
PRICING
LIQUID & RISK
MITIGATED...OUR
INVESTMENT PROCESS
FSMA & LEGISLATIVE
COMPLIANCE
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
WE ARE NEITHER AN
INVESTOR, ANGEL NETWORK, VENTURE CAPITAL OR A FUND... HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE ANY OF THESE WE
CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH SOME INNOVATIVE, HIGH GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES.
THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THE SOLUTION THAN CAN BE EXPLAINED HERE, SO
PLEASE DO CONTACT US FOR A NON-OBLIGATORY DISCUSSION.
NOTE TO
PRIVATE INVESTORS: It is
our objective not to overlap, but to compliment angel investment
networks to allow us to comply with individual country
legislation,
so once a relationship has been established, we will
refer individuals to all affiliate networks in proportion to the
revenues that they
generate for ourselves.
To accommodate partnering with angel
networks as affiliates, we currently charge a low 1% commission on
seed lump sum and micro-invested
funds and a negotiable commission on larger amounts. Please contact us to
discuss your requirements and current investment opportunities..
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OPPORTUNITIES
FOR INVESTORS |
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The PIE Finance platform (international patents pending)
provides a stream of risk mitigated investment opportunities in high growth
ventures and distressed businesses. It also reduces due diligence cost in a number of innovative ways...
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a
predefined plan reduces the need to trust a management team
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ERP
based investment tracking provides transparency
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off
balance sheet investment into a defined resource allows retained
ownership
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investing suppliers pre-qualify opportunities
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a
predefined plan reduces the need to trust a management team
You are
welcome to bid on relevant opportunities, however, as stated above
we are not FSMA compliant so we would like to outline that nothing
on this site represents an offer to extract investment funding or
resources. It is our policy to work through affiliate angel networks
where required to enable capital investment into our listed
ventures.
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OPPORTUNITIES
FOR ANGEL NETWORKS
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Tailored deal flow for
later stage investors: we can provide your members with the option to buy
developed ventures at a fixed price to meet your investment criteria.
For
early stage investors: the predefined plan allows advance buying
offers to be defined up front by later stage investors against
predefined targets such as technical and market development, forward
orders.
Bring
you new
members: to allow us to scale, we are aiming to work with existing
angel networks around the globe. As such, where appropriate, we will
refer individual investors to affiliate networks.
Create
positive PR: by referring us ventures that your network cannot
fund, you can create a positive image with entrepreneurs.
Finance providers: our clients will need additional banking
services including debt finance to support their activities with the
micro-investors, so please register if you are interested in working
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OPPORTUNITIES
FOR VCs AND PRIVATE EQUITY
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Our main
product for later stage investors are put options on exits. We offer
the opportunity to define commercial milestones for the ventures on
our platform and then pre-purchase PUT OPTIONS using a tiered pricing
structure. This offers the opportunity to secure exclusive future
purchase rights to a world class venture that is either a start up or
distressed business with turnaround potential now with the higher risk
early stage development funded by capital and resource micro-investors
at a price below that achievable once the venture gets to the
milestones that you define.
In this
way, there exists significant potential to profit from the
differential between the actual exit valuation and the price secured
in your option. |
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OPPORTUNITIES
FOR LAW FIRMS |
Whilst
the platform generates the majority of the content of multiparty
investor agreements, we advise our users to get the agreements
reviewed, amended and signed in the presence of a commercial lawyer.
Please register as a supplier if you are interested in fulfilling
these tasks on a conventional or deferred payment and profit share
basis.
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PRICING |
Registering for our
micro-investment deal flow email and RSS feeds is free of charge.
A 1% commission is charged on
micro-invested capital.
We also offer value added
services...
Automated portfolio
creation and management - Reduce the cost of
managing small transactions. Automated buying and selling criteria can
be set by many factors including, financial amount, geographical area
and lists of suppliers.
Cost - £300/month (1 months
free trial)
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LIQUID & RISK
MITIGATED - OUR
INVESTMENT
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1:
Sign up FREE below.
2: Define
your investment preferences.
3: Invest
into direct into ventures, back supplier cashflows or buy put options.
4: Track
your investments to plan using an
online ERP system.
5: Wait
for profits or exit early using our rights trading screen.
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FSMA & LEGISLATIVE
COMPLIANCE |
We refer lone investors
to affiliates angel investment networks who manage and advise them to
avoid contravening FSMA and other international financial services
legislation.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED
QUESTIONS |
HOW DO YOU SAFEGUARD MY INVESTMENT?
A predefined
implementation plan details how the venture will be run and your
invested resource used from investment to exit. Your payments,
deferred payments and profit shares will be tightly defined in a
multi-party investor agreement. You legally retain title to your
investment and this can be tracked using a web accessible ERP
(enterprise resource planning) system.
Risk is also mitigated
in a number of other ways - en masse due diligence is carried out free
by prospective suppliers and investors, refinement of the plan using
experts enabled by the Pie deferred payment working basis and the
lower investable amounts enables the spreading of risk across multiple
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WHAT IF A VENTURE UNDERPERFORMS PLAN?
The Pie Reverse Royalty
scheme allows investors to use the IP and know how of projects that underperform to plan or where the entrepreneur decides not to pursue a
venture with investments still outstanding.
Whilst the final content
of investor agreements will be tailored to the requirements of all of
the parties involved, we have created a default set of terms that can
be viewed
here.
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WHAT IF AN INVESTOR OR SUPPLIER WANTS TO EXIT?
Whilst the final content
of investor agreements will be tailored to the requirements of all of
the parties involved, our default draft agreement templates
incorporate sliding scale penalty clauses. These are structured to
reward resource and capital investors for finding substitutes in the
event that they want or need to make a premature exit and penalise
them with the loss of their deferred payment and profit share rights
as well as a negative project log entry if they default with little or
no notice.If
retained in the final agreement these clauses help safeguard your
investment by discouraging supplier and investor default on preagreed
commitments to provide products, services or capital.
Investors can make use
of the PIE rights trading platform to find substitutes. buy and sell
investment opportunities and trade rights to fund cash flow. All trades
need to be completed outside the portal to allow us to comply with the
FSMA regulations. |
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CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Having been in proof of concept phase for the last few months, we have
limited the opportunities that we have taken on to enable us to
provide a good quality service in assisting them through venture
definition, resourcing and funding. Having now built our support
network in the UK and Europe to handle more volume and having achieved
early stage resourcing (prrof of concept and pilot testing) for a
couple of the listed ventures, we are now opening up the platform to
the other ventures in our 'silo'.
To protect our
functionality, the portal will continue to operate in 'black box' beta
mode with the entrepreneur, supplier and investor interfaces
comprising of simple account maintanence screens, online and offline
spreadsheet interfaces. Additional functionality such as our rights
trading screen will be made available to users as required.
To view the
micro-investment opportunities for some of our current venture, please
click on the links below:
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Development Stage
1. Proof of concept and pilot funding
secured.
VEN0908001 -
invest time,
products, services or capital in
us!...an outstanding opportunity
with £100 generating a potential return of nearly £4,000 in 5 years
time.
(London).
VEN0908003 -
to make marketing spend go much, much further
(Brussels).
2. Piloted and revenue generating.
VEN0908002 -
a new way of monetising social networks with a 1 in 10
take up (Sussex).
VEN0908004 -
a profit/not-for-profit venture with 22,000+ loyal users
(Cambridge).
VEN0908007 - a venture that will cut losses in the
commercial property sector (Sussex).
3. Undergoing proof of concept
VEN0908005 - a fuel cell for bicycles
(London).
VEN0908006 -
a green-tech spinout from a top London business
school (London).
The
amounts listed are for guidance only and do not constitute an offer of
investment - a revised spreadsheet will be made available to
registered qualified and HNWIs) via our affiliated angel networks.
With many more ventures are undergoing definition in our extended
entrepreneur network.
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Automated valuation,
matching and ERP based investment tracking - International Patents
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