Fundraising Support for Founders/Technology Ventures

Not sure if you’re REALLY ready for investment? Greenbackers offer an initial Investment Risk Assessment and review to help you test how investable you are, given your current stage of development. This highlights the strengths and weaknesses of your business through the eyes of a funder. If you score well, it is valuable and independent validation of your investment case. If you do NOT score well, we’ll provide feedback to help you improve it. Either way, you will benefit from this part of the process.

You’ll then construct a Full Deal Profile on Greenbackers Deal Platfrom. Your Deal Profile is what Funders will see during a Greenbackers Fundraising Campaign.

During this phase, we’ll help you to fine-tune your profile and supporting materials to hook potential investors and show your ESG & SDG potential. If needed, we’ll help you create an additional pitch deck for oral presentations. We’ll also conduct a Financials Review, to test they are consistent with your business vision (revenue streams, costs, valuation, rounds, exit) and ensure they align with the overall narrative and milestones of your pitch deck.

Elements of your program that we will review, test and improve together:

• Establish a deep understanding of your business and how you currently articulate it;
• Evaluate and test your capital needs, timing and milestones;
• Help you fine-tune your marketing documentation (Teaser / Information Memorandum / Management Presentation);
• Help you align your commercialisation roadmap with equity rounds;
• Review your Financial Model and test your proposed Pre-Money Valuation;

The Greenbackers team works with you to ensure your pitch profile and material is at a standard needed to attract the funding you are seeking. Any funds that we will be campaigning shall be directed towards your deal profile which acts as a non-confidential, mini data room (pitch deck, financials, market strategy, detailed team info, videos & any supporting documentation).

Once your ‘deal profile’ is ready, Greenbackers will promote and campaign your deal to funders via Greenbackers Investment Showcase, our by-invitation, funders only digital deal-platform. Over 350+ funds with close to $15bn in capital under management are participating, enabling syndication and co-investment. The majority of these funds are VC’s, Corporate Venture Funds, Impact Funds, Family Offices, EIS funds in the UK and some Angel Syndicates. Most of our funds originate from UK/Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and some from the Middle East.   

In addition, we move quickly to filtering and providing a tailored, investor engagement ‘hit list’ from both our deal room and other data bases of ~4500 funds through our CRM which facilitates tracking and reporting on all connections made. The initial list is typically ~100 funds who will have prior/active interest in the sectors you are targeting and whose investment risk profile aligns with your tech’s stage & maturity – we walk through this with you to ensure any prior discussions/engagement are taken account of.

We then proactively coordinate discussions arising between client ventures, and funds that regularly visit the platform or from our tailored database outreach. This is NOT a ‘pray-someone-sees-you’ sort of program – this is active, dynamic fundraising that gets results. We qualify real interest and then sit on calls with you to support the discussions (given that we likely know most of those that we introduce).

Qualifying client ventures get continuous funding support for 12 months minimum, extendable if desired. We will work with you to get you funded for as long as it takes with regular update calls every 2-3 weeks to review progress, and regularly meet more frequently, depending on the urgency and stage of your fundraise.

IMPORTANT, you will have automatic participation rights to both of our biannual pitch events that are highly regarded by the industry such as the last one held at KPMG, Canary Wharf, London – with 150 funds signed up and 90 participating on the day – see delegate list here. During these events we also hosted 1:1 investor meetings. 100+ individual speed dating sessions between ventures and funds (on request by the funds). We record all the pitches from the session and use it as additional collateral for any funds that couldn’t make it – this significantly amplifies the campaign. Our next event will take place in London during COP 29 in November.

We also provide support on Go to Market strategy and targets – we leverage our strong corporate contacts from our buy-side activities for this (for example, we are technology scouts for TechnipFMC).

And we also include you in our BiWeekly Newsletter to our investor network initially to notify them of your onboarding and providing a brief intro to your business and with time, any significant market/funding updates can also be conveyed via this mechanism.

Benefits included in the program are: 

• Your Company Investment Profile on Greenbackers Showcase; where Investors will see your Pitchdeck, detailed information of your fundraise, presentation video and can contact you directly.
• Guarenteed participation at our bi-annual Pitch Events, where you can present your offering and meet investors face to face.
• On-line and direct introductions: you’ll meet active, pre-qualified investors from Greenbackers global network: Corporate Ventures, Technology VC’s and Private Equity Funds, Impact Investors, Family Offices​, Asset & Project Finance funds, Angel Syndicates and in the UK, EIS Funds.  
• Investor’s online roundtable session and live pitches introducing you to Greenbackers Investor Community. 
• Social media campaigns targeting our 50,000+ followers us on LinkedIn. Greenbackers will work with your team to co-ordinate all outreach to maximise effectiveness.
• Introduction to the Solar Impulse Foundation program – a direct line to fast-track application into their globally recognised ‘1000 Solutions to Change The World’ label
• Invitations to support from Greenbackers Collaboration Partners around topics such as “Grant Funding” and “Term Sheets” and more, provided by industry experts from Greenbackers Ecosystem Partners.

• An innovative business in the climate/cleantech/ocean economy sector or related
• Seeking Seed or Series A, B or C equity finance or Convertible Loan Note and have raised a funding round previously (i.e., NOT pre-seed) 
• Strong team (with a plan to fill any gaps)
• Differentiated technology/service solution to a defined problem
• Scalable business model and large (and defined) addressable market
• Early market validation: sales, customer trials/testimonials or independent assessment
• Pitch Deck, plus a short video (2-3 minutes is ideal) and business plan ready and available for review
• Clear strategy and exit vision with a justifiable pre-money valuation
• If you happen to be a UK domained business, EIS pre-assurance is strongly advised.