Funding

Building a business requires investment. Mostly, it is an investment of time and energy, but also money. That’s a fact. Money is the “Life Blood” of any business. It is also true, that the ability of early stage businesses to raise such money is critical. It can mean the difference between success and failure.

PSD Partners gets our clients in front of the right people, and in the right shape. PSD Partners will source the most appropriate investment partners for your business.

Running a business is a challenge at the best of times, but particularly in an economic downturn, when money is “tighter” than usual.

PSD Partners puts our clients’ businesses in front of serious, active investors with an appetite for investing in early stage businesses. With PSD Partner’s help, entrepreneurs will get to the right investors quicker, saving on those other precious elements of success- Time and Energy. PSD will ensure that a business’ plan, presentations, elevator summaries are pitched in the correct manner to attract the right investor.

PSD works with you and your business to produce the best message possible, to attract the right investor for you...

PSD does not look for a retainer fee, nor does it seek exclusivity, but we do require a business to make a commitment to the process in the form of a binding charter.

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Types of Business PSD can help with their funding

PSD can help a business with ambition raise the finance that it requires to develop their business plans.

Our clients are typically businesses who have raised “seed capital” from family and friends-Seed Capital (circa €500,000) and have achieved some “proof of concept” and who are at, or close to, “break-even”.

While most investors will have a direct interest in your business, PSD can best help clients who share investor’s goals e.g. who will be interested in an exit from the business in 3-5 years period.

PSD Partners’ Approach

PSD’s approach is simple. We seek to understand your business, work with you to prepare a compelling 2 page summary, agree with you, a target list of investors. PSD Partners will get you a serious of meetings, help you prepare a 20 minute presentation and nurse the process to the point when you are successful in raising your money.

We also help businesses to develop, helping to sort out issue that may be hindering it growth and progression. Consultancy

PSD will test a client is business concept and plans, similar to the testing that an investor will do. We will challenge your assumptions, looks at your critical success factors and understand what it is that makes you such a compelling business.

On agreement, PSD Partners helps it clients compile a compelling a 2 page summary. This gives potential investors enough insight in your business to raise their interest to a point where they will take a face to face meeting with you.

PSD Partners will agree a list of potential investors with a client. You may have a potential investor that you specifically wish to talk to; PSD will add them to the list and make contact for you. While PSD have a list of some 200-300 investors with an interest to invest, we do not work from a panel and treat each client as the unique challenge that it is.

The purpose of the summary and the investor list is to get a client’s business in front of two to three interested investors. PSD Partners will arrange one hour of an investor’s time for a face to face meeting. The first 20 minutes will be your business presentation with 40 minutes to discuss the issues of interest for the investor, about your business.

The investor presentation must tell client’s business story in a compelling way, in a 12 slide presentation which must be delivered in 20 minutes.

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At this point you will be ready for the investor meeting. PSD will accompany you to this meeting and will act as an observer to provide feedback to the business about the meeting and arrange any further information that the investor may require.

An interested investor will conduct a due diligence process. This will be an involved process and will require full disclosure by a business of its processes, finances, and other relevant information. It may include external advisors to the investor considering your product, market technology, USP, CSF and finances.

While PSD will assist in this process, it is also an opportunity for the investor and business to come to understand and know each other better and assess the fit between the two.

PSD Partners will provide the assistance necessary to aid a successful investment.