Venture Capital Support
We provide comprehensive support to venture capital (VC) firms across the investment life cycle. We help them monitor existing and new markets for consumer behaviour and economic/demographic changes, helping them with real-time market-pulse tracking and sourcing quality targets to invest in.
Our deal-sourcing services help VC clients identify and maintain a pipeline of potentially interesting startups, helping them have increased visibility of startups in the space (95% visibility of attractive companies) and pre-empt investment opportunities. We also conduct VC due diligence by creating diligence frameworks and conducting research, ensuring faster turnaround on deal decision (40-50% reduction in time taken to close a deal).
Our portfolio monitoring and advisory services enable VC firms to track performance of portfolio companies and funds periodically, conduct strategic portfolio reviews and prepare bespoke presentation material for investor reporting with limited partners.
Acuity Knowledge Partners’ VC domain team is experienced in working with all market data sources relevant for VC clients including Preqin, FactSet, CB Insights, Crunchbase, SimilarWeb, App Annie, Venture intelligence, PitchBook and sector-specific sources.
Venture Capital (VC) - Support We Offer
- Industry landscapes and market mapping
- Tracking new business models, tech advancements, tech trends, etc. in focused sub-sectors
- Creation and maintenance of databases of attractive companies or startups
- VC deal activity tracking
- Creation of tech/startup “watch lists”
- Target screening and shortlisting
- Trading and transaction comps to arrive at sector multiples
- Macroeconomic and industry KPI dashboards
- Maintaining data rooms
- Managing internal CRM databases
- Market overviews and industry analysis
- Opportunity size assessment in terms of total addressable market (TAM) and serviceable addressable market (SAM)
- Competition landscaping
- Peer benchmarking in terms of product features, business models, web/mobile traction, etc.
- User analysis including cohorts analysis
- User analysis including cohorts analysis
- Storyboarding due diligence documents/investment memos (IMs) and developing investment theses
- Valuation (DCF, LBO, relative) and sensitivity analysis
- Ad hoc research as part of ongoing agreement
- Collecting, tracking and validating portfolio company data on a regular basis
- Financial, operational, sector-specific and valuation KPI tracking
- Capturing detailed financial statements including P&L, BS and cash flow statements
- Creating customised reports, dashboards, bespoke LP reports, fund factsheets
- Portfolio benchmarking analysis
- Periodic portfolio company updates before board meetings
- Maintenance of third-party tools such as iLEVEL and Ipreo
- Product/service competition benchmarking
- Product diversification analysis
- M&A support
- Opportunity assessment
- Market selection and entry strategy
- Cohort analysis
- Fund-raising support including competitive intelligence, marketing presentations and collateral, investor mapping and profiling
- Fund-tracking support
- LP meeting support
- Fund strategy review material
- Internal material including theme identification, supporting storylines, investment theses, sector updates and technology reports
How we are different
One-stop shop for venture capital solutions
We provide expertise and service offerings to support you in all aspects of the venture capital investment cycle
Proactive and experienced teams to source deals and maintain your investment pipeline
Enabling clients to have high (c.95%) visibility of startups in the focus sector or subsector and maintain a healthy investment pipeline by improving the quality of deal sourcing
Strong venture capital domain expertise
Experienced team with VC domain + technology sector expertise to conduct valuable analysis such as customer cohorts, unit economics, tech investment themes and tech product/feature benchmarking analysis
Robust portfolio monitoring with our in-house managed solution FolioSure
One point of contact for VC firms to collect, input, validate and monitor portfolio company KPIs
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