Presentation by Jim Moore, Investment Manager, MSIF: Why MSIF? at the Funding - Liverpool City Region SME workshop on Thursday 7 February 2019 at The Accelerator, Liverpool
2. 24years experience
Over 2,160
SME investments
£500M
invested or secured
17
Skilled staff
Who are we?
£55M
Under management
Local business – Local decision making
North West region
9. Personalised Solution
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”Tony Burns
Owner
MSIF have been fantastic to work with.
The difference with them is they know the local
market and can make their own decisions.
I was treated as an individual not just a number.
11. Simplified
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”Paula McGrath
Brabners Corporate Finance
After working in Corporate Finance for over 20
years, I’ve seen clients trying to gain funding from a
wide range of sources, and the process is often very
complex and lengthy. With MSIF it’s completely
different. They help at every step, making raising
funding a simple and easy process.
Go through experience stats
£55m under management
Liverpool City Region, the wider North West and North Wales
We provide a range of financial solutions
Personalised to your individual business
£500-£2m
We understand the business challenges and the reasons you might be looking for funding
Each business has individual reasons
Question: How many of you in the room have struggled to find finance?
And that’s where MSIF can help… We’re here to make the process as easy as possible for you
To businesses: YOUR business… Challenges YOU’RE facing
To advisers: YOUR clients
- Our clients particularly liked our personalised support…
- Our unique Finance Hub has been created to help you to make you business investment ready.
- The Finance Hub offers you bespoke, independent, free support for your business.
- We realise each business is at a different stage – which may encompass the stages on the screen right now – and we are here to offer you help at each stage…
- On average, we are helping 50 (LG check figure??) businesses a month, through our Finance Hub.
- We break boundaries and offer continuous support to SME’s by thinking outside the box…
- The LCR Angel Network brings together quality investment opportunities and Angel Investors.
- An initiative brought to fruition by MSIF, Brabners and Grant Thornton.
- We work by assisting early growth SME’s, helping them pitch for funding and support; creating opportunities to showcase their business to Angel Investors.
- Launched in 2018, the LCR Angel Network now holds several events throughout the year and has already helped multiple businesses secure funding through pitch events.
We asked our clients why they chose to work with us, and what it is that makes us different from other finance providers.
Their answers helped us build our value proposition.
This is our value proposition – personalized, simplified, satisfied.
Personalised:
You will receive a personalized approach from the beginning… Not one size fits all. Your business is unique and our solutions are tailored to your business.
You will have one point of contact throughout the process… We get to know your business and you get to know us.
Simplified:
We realise that raising finance is often like trying to navigate through a maze.
We offer a simplified, jargon free approach to funding, making it a much easier process for you.
Satisfied:
We pride ourselves on our can do attitude.
You’re not just a number to us or an application going through our computers…
We work with you to get you the funding your business needs.
= Satisfied customers
Start with personalized…
Here’s what one of our clients had to say about our personalised solution…
That’s the personalized element of our value proposition. The second is simplified…
Here’s what one of the local corporate financiers had to say about us…
That’s the simplified part of our value proposition.
Now we’ll move on to the final part of our value proposition that our customers identified… Satisfied.
We’ll leave you with one of our recent customers to summarise… It says it all really.
We asked our clients why they chose to work with us, and what it is that makes us different from other finance providers.
Their answers helped us build our value proposition.
This is our value proposition – personalized, simplified, satisfied.
Personalised:
You will receive a personalized approach from the beginning… Not one size fits all. Your business is unique and our solutions are tailored to your business.
You will have one point of contact throughout the process… We get to know your business and you get to know us.
Simplified:
We realise that raising finance is often like trying to navigate through a maze.
We offer a simplified, jargon free approach to funding, making it a much easier process for you.
Satisfied:
We pride ourselves on our can do attitude.
You’re not just a number to us or an application going through our computers…
We work with you to get you the funding your business needs.
= Satisfied customers
So, that’s MSIF. You can see all of our contact details on the screen right now….