inveAst - online investment platform for Central- and Eastern Europe

Investmentplatforms:

Online ‚Silicon Valley’ for the Danube Region

A platform offering for theDanube Region

• www.inveAst.net is an online investment platform forCentral- and Eastern Europe >> the Danube Region

• It provides FREE matchmaking between local SMEs(startups) and investors

• Online investment platforms boost competitiveness

• It is already regional with a 1000 companies and investors from 20 countries- and growing

• It is a good match for Priority Area No. 8 of theDanube Region

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Key Stakeholders of InvestmentMarkets / Platforms

Venture Capital (VC)

• is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companiesby means of investments realisedby VC Funds.

SMEs (Startups)

• startup is a companydesigned to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets.

Angel Investor

• is an affluent individual who provides capital for a start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.


Funding Markets Develop Top-Down

Mature businesses

(VC funding

~2M USD)

Businesses with traction

(Seed funding

~200k USD)

New startups

(Angels ~30-50k USD)

Number of investors


VC investment as % of GDP, 2012


Investment Markets should be Efficient Markets (but aren’t)

• In finance, the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH), asserts that financial markets are "informationally efficient".

• Information efficiency means that information are freely and instantly available to all market players.

• The weak-form EMH (Fama) claims that prices on traded assets (e.g., stocks, bonds, or property) already reflect all past publicly available information.

• The value of information:


The value of information>> in practice

• Information decreases risk and decision cycles

• That results in bigger competition among investors

• That results bigger competition among SMEs (startups)

• Healthier, cheaper markets

• Average VC share in CEE for 200k USD: 30-50%

• Average VC share in Silicon Valley for 200k USD: 8-20%

• The value from competition and market efficiency is clear to theSMEs (startups)


Trends in the Venture Capital Industry: crowdsourcing of information


inveAst is there to fill theinformation gap in CEE


inveAst.net> capital meets

companiesThe online investmentplatform for Central- and Eastern Europe

proudly provided byInVendor

inveAst – an online platform wherecapital meets companies

• Searchable registry for companies and investors and more…

• enables networked interaction

• enables automated target tracking, follow-up

• enables interest- and policy-basedsearch, filtering and targeting

• supports introduction

• Fully LinkedIn integrated

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One inveAst profile – several uses

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Visibility

Networking

One click event / programme application

Automatic updates

LinkedIn integration

Crunchbase integration


1. Sign in (one click)

2. Apply (one click)

One click applicaction to eventsand programmes


Value proposition and use cases

Events(startup events, pitching

contests, etc.)

• Ease of use forparticipants

• Dedicated accessfor sponsors

• Selection workflow

• FREE

• Branded, built-inversions – pricetbd.

Programmes(incubators, business

accelerators, etc.)

• Ease of use forapplicants

• Database access

• Selection workflow

• FREE

• Branded, built-inversions – pricetbd.

Organisations(innovation and investmentagencies, industrial parks)

• Hosted version is FREE

• White-labelledversion – price tbd.

• Localizations, custom functions –price tbd.


Next steps >> London, Danube Region

• 2nd inveAst CEEMEA investor day• in partnership with Bloomberg

• at the Bloomberg HQ in London

• Q1 2014

• We need help from Chambers of Commerce, Univerities, innovationhubs, government agencies, investment agencies to find the bestSMEs (startups) to represent our countries.

• We seek partners >> we provide the inveAst.net platform API to them


InVendor – the company behind inveAst


Feel free to contact us

Zsombor Imre

Founder

+36-70-328-8468

[email protected]

Balazs Szabo

Head of Business Development, inveAst Project Manager

+36-30-453-0016

[email protected]
