FasterCapital is an incubator that is offering a unique model of cofunding and cofounding. FasterCapital will become the technical cofounder and invests 50% of the money needed.
Gorilla Labs is a Venture builder (startup studio) designed to internalize ideation, rapidly iterate MVPs, and deploy accelerated go-to-market strategies for commercialization using Lean Startup methodology.
Co-founded by 2 INSEAD MBAs (Class of 2015)
Nikhil Jacob
Rubens Nigoghossian
More about venture builders:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/18/how-venture-builders-are-changing-the-startup-model/
What is a startup studio?
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/multimedia/interactives/2015/04/what-the-heck-is-a-startup-factory.html
Author's blog on experience in the Southeast Asia venture capital ecosystem
http://theventurevault.com/
Organisational Best Practices of Startup Studios Tobi Gutmann
Based upon two reserach papers, I share some high-level organisational best practices of startup studios (also called company builders, venture studios, startup foundry, etc.)
If you want to understand how decisions are made at a VC firm it is important to understand the staff who work there. Here is a guide but you can also read more at this blog post: https://bothsidesofthetable.com/how-to-improve-your-odds-of-getting-to-yes-with-a-vc-land-and-expand-b46a0a102a07
Laicos is a technology Startup Studio led by Ryan Negri and Kyle Matthews. With 20 years combined operational and startup experience, Negri and Matthews want to shape the up-and-coming startup ecosystem of Tampa, Florida, developing their own ideas to create a new tech hub of innovation and entrepreneurship.
A “Startup Studio” is a structure whose aim is to repeatedly build products into companies. Thanks to its infrastructure and resources, a startup studio increase a product’s chance of success and optimize its creation and growth.
The difference between incubators/accelerators and Startup Studios is the vested human capital involved around an idea. At the core of the startups studio model are dedicated teams helping business ideas develop into beautiful products and successful companies.
Laicos’ flagship inaugural product, Fuse, is a social media management platform for the consumers and power users, with a simple price model and a clean and attractive UI. In addition, Laicos is developing four additional products: BusFinder, currently in beta version, an app utilizing data from the Tampa Public Transportation System; $1Market, to offer many different services to users for $1 dollar/mo, Order to Seat, for fans to order food to their seat while at a stadium or arena, and FoodStops, a food truck tracking app for consumers and marketing platform for vendors. In 20I7, we plan to work with other founders to help turn their ideas into reality.
Building Startups: the "3rd co-founder model"eFounders
Among the myriad of types of structures breeding startups (incubators, accelerators, etc.), a new successful model has emerged: the startup studio. Brand new, this model is already controversial, as show the announced IPO of Rocket Internet. Here is how we see the startup studio model: as being a 3rd co-founder. You can reed the full version on our blog: http://efounders.co/blog/startup-studio-the-3rd-co-founder-model/
Venture Builder / Start-up Factory Model One-slider Infographic Floyd DCosta
Deploying a venture builder / start-up factory model to smartly develop and scale a set of innovative ventures.
A structured, experimental, iterative approach to craft value and generate returns
The Startup Studio Playbook is the World's first professional book dedicated to startup studios, a.k.a. venture builders, startup factories. It is a book for entrepreneurs and innovators. Read about exciting case studies and best practices, discover how the startup studio model enables you to build startups easier
You will benefit from this book if you are interested in entrepreneurship or innovation. Startup studios are on the rise, quickly becoming the new trend in building startups. If done right, model enables you to build startups in a less risky and more cost-efficient way. Discover how this model can benefit you.
The main goal of the Startup Studio Playbook is to make startup studios more transparent, and make it easier to create and grow new studios. In this book you will learn about:
- Who are the founders behind the most exciting studios;
- How are are these organizations funded;
- Where do studios take the idea for their startups;
- How startup studio organize their team and operations;
- What are the spin-off and exit strategies;
- What are the pros and cons of the model;
- How different startup studios operate across the Globe;
- How corporations can leverage the benefits of the model;
- How you can build your own startup studio?
Find out more:
http://www.startupstudioplaybook.com/
Get the book. Use the offer code 'earlybird' to get a discount.
https://gumroad.com/l/startupstudioplaybook
Gorilla Labs is a Venture builder (startup studio) designed to internalize ideation, rapidly iterate MVPs, and deploy accelerated go-to-market strategies for commercialization using Lean Startup methodology.
Co-founded by 2 INSEAD MBAs (Class of 2015)
Nikhil Jacob
Rubens Nigoghossian
More about venture builders:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/18/how-venture-builders-are-changing-the-startup-model/
What is a startup studio?
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/multimedia/interactives/2015/04/what-the-heck-is-a-startup-factory.html
Author's blog on experience in the Southeast Asia venture capital ecosystem
http://theventurevault.com/
Organisational Best Practices of Startup Studios Tobi Gutmann
Based upon two reserach papers, I share some high-level organisational best practices of startup studios (also called company builders, venture studios, startup foundry, etc.)
If you want to understand how decisions are made at a VC firm it is important to understand the staff who work there. Here is a guide but you can also read more at this blog post: https://bothsidesofthetable.com/how-to-improve-your-odds-of-getting-to-yes-with-a-vc-land-and-expand-b46a0a102a07
Laicos is a technology Startup Studio led by Ryan Negri and Kyle Matthews. With 20 years combined operational and startup experience, Negri and Matthews want to shape the up-and-coming startup ecosystem of Tampa, Florida, developing their own ideas to create a new tech hub of innovation and entrepreneurship.
A “Startup Studio” is a structure whose aim is to repeatedly build products into companies. Thanks to its infrastructure and resources, a startup studio increase a product’s chance of success and optimize its creation and growth.
The difference between incubators/accelerators and Startup Studios is the vested human capital involved around an idea. At the core of the startups studio model are dedicated teams helping business ideas develop into beautiful products and successful companies.
Laicos’ flagship inaugural product, Fuse, is a social media management platform for the consumers and power users, with a simple price model and a clean and attractive UI. In addition, Laicos is developing four additional products: BusFinder, currently in beta version, an app utilizing data from the Tampa Public Transportation System; $1Market, to offer many different services to users for $1 dollar/mo, Order to Seat, for fans to order food to their seat while at a stadium or arena, and FoodStops, a food truck tracking app for consumers and marketing platform for vendors. In 20I7, we plan to work with other founders to help turn their ideas into reality.
Building Startups: the "3rd co-founder model"eFounders
Among the myriad of types of structures breeding startups (incubators, accelerators, etc.), a new successful model has emerged: the startup studio. Brand new, this model is already controversial, as show the announced IPO of Rocket Internet. Here is how we see the startup studio model: as being a 3rd co-founder. You can reed the full version on our blog: http://efounders.co/blog/startup-studio-the-3rd-co-founder-model/
Venture Builder / Start-up Factory Model One-slider Infographic Floyd DCosta
Deploying a venture builder / start-up factory model to smartly develop and scale a set of innovative ventures.
A structured, experimental, iterative approach to craft value and generate returns
The Startup Studio Playbook is the World's first professional book dedicated to startup studios, a.k.a. venture builders, startup factories. It is a book for entrepreneurs and innovators. Read about exciting case studies and best practices, discover how the startup studio model enables you to build startups easier
You will benefit from this book if you are interested in entrepreneurship or innovation. Startup studios are on the rise, quickly becoming the new trend in building startups. If done right, model enables you to build startups in a less risky and more cost-efficient way. Discover how this model can benefit you.
The main goal of the Startup Studio Playbook is to make startup studios more transparent, and make it easier to create and grow new studios. In this book you will learn about:
- Who are the founders behind the most exciting studios;
- How are are these organizations funded;
- Where do studios take the idea for their startups;
- How startup studio organize their team and operations;
- What are the spin-off and exit strategies;
- What are the pros and cons of the model;
- How different startup studios operate across the Globe;
- How corporations can leverage the benefits of the model;
- How you can build your own startup studio?
Find out more:
http://www.startupstudioplaybook.com/
Get the book. Use the offer code 'earlybird' to get a discount.
https://gumroad.com/l/startupstudioplaybook
FasterCapital is always looking for expanding its network in the startup ecosystem. We partner with other incubators, accelerators, VCs, and service providers to bring the best benefits to startups in our portfolio and to reach out and support startups in our partners' portfolios. Our partnership model is based on non-obligatory and mutually-beneficial collaborative activities to help both FasterCaptial and the partner in reaching out to more entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and startups enthusiasts. You can join our partners here www.fastercapital.com/partner/joinus.html
Presentation about Startup Factory - organization for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem and IT community. Check out mission, goals, activities, achievements, results and contacts.
Slash - the Startup Studio Playbook (13 dec2018)Slash
New models for collaboration emerge between corporates, startups and investors.
In his keynote at the Asia Startup Summit, Slash CEO Andries De Vos shares how Slash (www.slash.co) has developed a startup studio model which can be applicable to corporates, investors and entrepreneurs.
Customizable pitch deck templates which include two different versions, both built by leading seed investors at NextView Ventures. Entrepreneurs can use them to save time while building a pitch deck to raise seed capital.
This presentation will introduce you to the fundamentals of raising capital for venture builders, startup studios. Compared to raising capital for a single startup, the fundraising process is more challenging. Because you are raising money for an organization that will be active participant in building up an entire batch or batches of startups. So you have to show to your investors that you have:
+ A studio leadership team with the power to build an entire portfolio of ventures;
+ The right financial-organizational structure that matches the goals;
+ A coherent vision and venture building thesis;
+ Viability of your approach supported by benchmarks;
+ Strong portfolio of startups and ideas in your pipeline.
This presentation will help you understand the basics of how to build up your fundraising approach.
If you need more help, reach out and I will guide you in:
+ Structuring your venture builder and fundraising strategy;
+ Assess your current material and identify gaps and risks;
+ Preparing for a successful investor meeting;
Attila Szigeti
https://www.attilaszigeti.com/
Corporate Venture Capital best practices from interviews and researchMark S. Brooks
Summary research from interviews with 13 CVCs to identify best practices in creating a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit or a corporate accelerator.
Key takeaways include having clear objectives, clear processes and structure, easy to measure metrics, having patience and board or executive support, and making contributions to select startups that go well beyond capital.
I hope you find it useful. Feel free to distribute further to others who might find value in it.
You can reach me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbrooks
The Ultimate Investor Pitch Deck TemplateCrowdfunder
Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their startup.
There’s a formula for pitching your startup that has helped startup founders raise millions.
In short, this formula involves crafting a larger story / narrative, while speaking directly to what investors are looking for and need to know about you, your company, your market, and your plan.
The pitch deck (also known as a slide deck or pitch slide deck ) is the first communication tool to help you with a potential client or investor. The content of the pitch deck, along with your presentation, can help the investor to determine whether or not to continue evaluating your business opportunity.
Startup Studios - Innovating Innovation White Paper Select Slides by EnhanceAlper Celen
Select visuals and graphs from Enhance's white paper on Startup Studios aka Venture Builders. The visuals include
Need for More Human Capital
History of Startup Studios
Startup Studio Trends
Betaworks Case Study
Startup Studio Design Parameters
Information about Enhance and the Authors Alper Celen and Ritesh Tilani
You can download the full white paper at www.enhance.online
Jerry Chen, partner at Greylock and former VP of Cloud and Application Services at VMware, shares his Unit of Value framework for startups building a go-to-market strategy. He developed this strategy while managing product and marketing teams at VMware that shipped many “1.0” releases, including VMware VDI, Cloud Foundry, and vFabric, and continues to use the framework to evaluate companies as an investor.
FasterCapital is always looking for expanding its network in the startup ecosystem. We partner with other incubators, accelerators, VCs, and service providers to bring the best benefits to startups in our portfolio and to reach out and support startups in our partners' portfolios. Our partnership model is based on non-obligatory and mutually-beneficial collaborative activities to help both FasterCaptial and the partner in reaching out to more entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and startups enthusiasts. You can join our partners here www.fastercapital.com/partner/joinus.html
Presentation about Startup Factory - organization for developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem and IT community. Check out mission, goals, activities, achievements, results and contacts.
Slash - the Startup Studio Playbook (13 dec2018)Slash
New models for collaboration emerge between corporates, startups and investors.
In his keynote at the Asia Startup Summit, Slash CEO Andries De Vos shares how Slash (www.slash.co) has developed a startup studio model which can be applicable to corporates, investors and entrepreneurs.
Customizable pitch deck templates which include two different versions, both built by leading seed investors at NextView Ventures. Entrepreneurs can use them to save time while building a pitch deck to raise seed capital.
This presentation will introduce you to the fundamentals of raising capital for venture builders, startup studios. Compared to raising capital for a single startup, the fundraising process is more challenging. Because you are raising money for an organization that will be active participant in building up an entire batch or batches of startups. So you have to show to your investors that you have:
+ A studio leadership team with the power to build an entire portfolio of ventures;
+ The right financial-organizational structure that matches the goals;
+ A coherent vision and venture building thesis;
+ Viability of your approach supported by benchmarks;
+ Strong portfolio of startups and ideas in your pipeline.
This presentation will help you understand the basics of how to build up your fundraising approach.
If you need more help, reach out and I will guide you in:
+ Structuring your venture builder and fundraising strategy;
+ Assess your current material and identify gaps and risks;
+ Preparing for a successful investor meeting;
Attila Szigeti
https://www.attilaszigeti.com/
Corporate Venture Capital best practices from interviews and researchMark S. Brooks
Summary research from interviews with 13 CVCs to identify best practices in creating a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit or a corporate accelerator.
Key takeaways include having clear objectives, clear processes and structure, easy to measure metrics, having patience and board or executive support, and making contributions to select startups that go well beyond capital.
I hope you find it useful. Feel free to distribute further to others who might find value in it.
You can reach me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbrooks
The Ultimate Investor Pitch Deck TemplateCrowdfunder
Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their startup.
There’s a formula for pitching your startup that has helped startup founders raise millions.
In short, this formula involves crafting a larger story / narrative, while speaking directly to what investors are looking for and need to know about you, your company, your market, and your plan.
The pitch deck (also known as a slide deck or pitch slide deck ) is the first communication tool to help you with a potential client or investor. The content of the pitch deck, along with your presentation, can help the investor to determine whether or not to continue evaluating your business opportunity.
Startup Studios - Innovating Innovation White Paper Select Slides by EnhanceAlper Celen
Select visuals and graphs from Enhance's white paper on Startup Studios aka Venture Builders. The visuals include
Need for More Human Capital
History of Startup Studios
Startup Studio Trends
Betaworks Case Study
Startup Studio Design Parameters
Information about Enhance and the Authors Alper Celen and Ritesh Tilani
You can download the full white paper at www.enhance.online
Jerry Chen, partner at Greylock and former VP of Cloud and Application Services at VMware, shares his Unit of Value framework for startups building a go-to-market strategy. He developed this strategy while managing product and marketing teams at VMware that shipped many “1.0” releases, including VMware VDI, Cloud Foundry, and vFabric, and continues to use the framework to evaluate companies as an investor.
The goal of this presentation is to describe how FasterCapital can partner with incubator and investment firms worldwide. The document explains FasterCapital's unique model of cofunding and cofounding and how it can help startups worldwide and increase their success rate both in establishing the company, developing the product and raising of capital
Learn more about a program designed to help you validate and define your business model, build a stronger product, get your first customers and grow your business, together with a wide network of partners, mentors and experts.
Venture on demand: step up your start-up gameXylos
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Innovation 360 is a global innovation management consultancy that works with public and private organizations to define their future challenges and overcome them through innovation. The firm’s expertise includes innovation strategy, execution, enablers and leadership development, as well as business model design and idea-to-market execution for both corporates and SMEs.
#FIRMday London 2nd November 2017 'Moving from monologue to dialogue; how Cap...Emma Mirrington
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Join our tribe of successful start-ups. Start your business with a team of talented and competent experts in programming, design, web design and online marketing, working together on making your business successful.
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Slash | The Venture Builder Playbook (5 may2021)Slash
Talk delivered to tech and corporate community on the Venture Builder Playbook.
We covered:
1) Why Venture Building is the new "growth" strategy for corporates worldwide
2) Flavors of Venture Building
3) The Venture Builder Playbook (at a high level)
Leading Software Development, Digital Marketing, Fintech PlatformWebplatTechnologies
Explore innovative software & digital marketing solutions for your businesses. Webplat offer wide range of cutting-edge products and services to enhance productivity and streamline operations
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Explore innovative software & digital marketing solutions for your businesses. Webplat offer wide range of cutting-edge products and services to enhance productivity and streamline operations
In our Technical Cofounder program, FasterCapital help startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs who are looking for a technical team, cofounder, CTO by offering technical development services (building apps, websites, AI, software, and others). We invest 50% of the costs needed for technical development.
FasterCapital Acceleration Program 5th round 2016FasterCapital
www.fastercapital.com | contact@fastercapital.com | UAE Landline: +971 4 2775828 | UAE Mobile: +971 5558 55663 | USA: (512) 400-025
The 5th round of funding started on 18th of Sep, 2016 and ended on 17th of Oct, 2016.
We had 11 startups in this round
FasterCapital Acceleration Program 4th round 2016FasterCapital
www.fastercapital.com | contact@fastercapital.com | UAE Landline: +971 4 2775828 | UAE Mobile: +971 5558 55663 | USA: (512) 400-025
The 4th round of funding started on 15th of Jul, 2016 and ended on 16th of Aug, 2016.
We had 17 startups in this round.
FasterCapital Acceleration Program 3rd Round 2016FasterCapital
www.fastercapital.com | contact@fastercapital.com | UAE Landline: +971 4 2775828 | UAE Mobile: +971 5558 55663 | USA: (512) 400-025
The 3rd round of funding started on 15th of May, 2016 and ended on 16th of Jun, 2016.
We had 52 startups in this round.
FasterCapital Acceleration Program 2nd Round 2016FasterCapital
www.fastercapital.com | contact@fastercapital.com | UAE Landline: +971 4 2775828 | UAE Mobile: +971 5558 55663 | USA: (512) 400-025
The 2nd round of funding started on 15th of Mar, 2016 and ended on 16th of Apr, 2016.
We had 54 startups in this round.
FasterCapital Acceleration Program 1st Round 2016FasterCapital
www.fastercapital.com | contact@fastercapital.com | UAE Landline: +971 4 2775828 | UAE Mobile: +971 5558 55663 | USA: (512) 400-025
FasterCapital is a new type of incubator. The founders remarked that there are several weaknesses in incubators worldwide. These weaknesses are leaving an important segment of entrepreneurs with no help. It is also affecting the success rate of startups as many don't raise enough money at the right time which is a major cause for failure.
8. FasterCapital Company Presentation 8
VISION
We envision a world in which entrepreneurs are not left behind or neglected because of lack of technical
experience, mentoring or funds.
9. FasterCapital Company Presentation 9
Mission
Our mission is to develop a sustainable tech startup ecosystem in which tech startups can develop their
ideas, refine their products and scale their ideas to the next level. We provide startups with technical
expertise and technical development on equity basis. The incubator is also ready to invest in the startup
from early stage (seed funding) on co-funding basis by matching whatever a co-investor is ready with
equivalent amount from our side. We do all the technical development through our own internal team. We
also help entrepreneurs in business validation, marketing strategies and opening new markets through our
huge network of representatives and regional partners.
10. FasterCapital Company Presentation 10
20142012 20132011
History
We’re Growing Fast!!!
o Establish the
incubator as NextStep
System
o Started with: Dooet,
Mobayle, Meody
o Invested $581k in 3
startups
o Incubated: abcMob,
EduNoor, LetusCloud,
BazarMaker, SavMe,
Tvlize, MobAdv
o Invested $2.6m so far
o Incubated: BeamGift,
ME2TV, Meetingg,
FulHost, PutTag
o Further rounds in:
Meody, Mobayle,
EduNoor, Tvlize, Dooet
o Invested $4.4m so far
o Incubated: PickTaxi
o Further rounds in:
Meody, Mobayle,
EduNoor, Dooet
o Invested $5.9m so far
11. FasterCapital Company Presentation 11
20182016 20172015
History
We’re Growing Fast!!!
o Changed the name
to: FasterCapital
o New HQ: Dubai,
UAE
o Added 67 regional
partners
o Opened 42
branches
worldwide
o Six rounds of funding
o Attracted more than 3,000
startups
o 18 startups in the
incubation program
o 173 startups accepted into
the acceleration program
o 442 Entrepreneurs are now
with the incubator
o 117 Regional partners in 78
countries
o Attracted more than
5,000 startups through 4
rounds of funding
o 10 new startup in the
incubation program
o 500 Entrepreneurs have
joined our incubator
o Regional partners number
increased to 134
o 75 Mentors with 50
investors join our team
o Investment amounted
to more than +10
millions.
o Number of regional
partners has increased
to over than 400
representatives
worldwide
o Over than 450 mentors
in our network
12. FasterCapital Company Presentation 12
o Two successful rounds of
funding.
o Representatives and regional
partners increased to over 750
o Network of mentors is over 700
o We have more than 500 branches
worldwide
o Total investment is more than
$14.1m.
o Exclusive round dedicated for
women.
o 30 new companies in incubation
program this year!
o Future investment is $6.9m in
34 startups.
o 10 partnerships with incubators
worldwide
2019
H1
2019
H2
History
We’re Growing Fast!!!
13. FasterCapital Company Presentation 13
FasterCapital in numbers
20
Graduated Startups
41
Incubated Startups
286
Accelerated Startups
$14.1m
Invested in incubation
938
Regional Partners
734
Entrepreneurs
14. FasterCapital Company Presentation 14
Options for Non-technical entrepreneur
Outsource the startup
Find a tech cofounder
Recruit a team
Best Solution is FasterCapital
15. FasterCapital Company Presentation 15
Outsource the startup
Lean methodology can’t be applied. As this needs multiple
iterations and there’s no clear specification
Idea might be stolen!
Startup may not be the primary focus of the Outsourcing
company
DISADVANTAGES
16. FasterCapital Company Presentation 16
Options for Non-technical entrepreneur
Outsource the startup
Find a tech cofounder
Recruit a team
Best Solution is FasterCapital
17. FasterCapital Company Presentation 17
Find a tech cofounder
The number of platforms to be covered now (iOS, android, Web)
must have a team working on!
Each startup requires different skillset (social, datamining, AI,
analysis, reporting, knowledge of different programming
languages)
THUS
CHALLENGES
18. FasterCapital Company Presentation 18
Find a tech cofounder
Unless the project is very small then one technical person can't
cover all the technologies/skills required in a startup
Technical entrepreneurs have already established their own
companies
DISADVANTAGES
Lot of technical people have steady job and they don’t want to
leave it
19. FasterCapital Company Presentation 19
Options for Non-technical entrepreneur
Outsource the startup
Find a tech cofounder
Recruit a team
Best Solution is FasterCapital
20. FasterCapital Company Presentation 20
Recruit a team
CVs/Resumes of potential team members can be
misleading (hiring the wrong team member is costly)
Identifying the right skills required for product development
can be difficult if founders have no prior experience
Too much focus on technical details can hinder long-term
progress of the startup
CHALLENGES
21. FasterCapital Company Presentation 21
Recruit a team
Managing a technical team requires technical
knowledge
Entrepreneur has to keep paying those developers even
when there are no further updates just to keep them when
new request comes
DISADVANTAGES
22. FasterCapital Company Presentation 22
Options for Non-technical entrepreneur
Outsource the startup
Find a tech cofounder
Recruit a team
Best Solution is FasterCapital
23. FasterCapital Company Presentation 23
Best Solution is FasterCapital
FasterCapitalisa
onestopshopoffering
Investing 50% of the
technical costs
Mentorship (Experts in
different domains)
Sales/marketing
Revenue generation
Project Management Business validation
Raising capital
Building the entire
product from A-Z
ONCE THE PRODUCT IS DONE
24. FasterCapital Company Presentation 24
How does it work?
Entrepreneur
submit the
business plan to
us for review
If all the terms
are agreeable by
FC and the
entrepreneur,
he/she gets the
initial acceptance
letter
With this letter
we commit to
invest 50% of the
money the
startup needs.
The entrepreneur
has ONLY to raise
the other 50%
We wait for the
entrepreneur to
secure the other
50%.
We also help raise
capital for the
startup by featuring
it on our website
and talk to our
network of investors
about it
Once the money is almost
ready, then we setup two
teams for the startup.
One is a business team to
help validate the idea and
give feedback. The other
team is technical who will
be preparing the project
plan for development and
setting up the team with
the required skillsets
26. FasterCapital Company Presentation 26
1
We follow lean
methodology
We draft a superset of
features for the product.
3
We group these features
into subsets matching
each version (alpha,
beta, v 1.0, v 2.0 . . .etc)
4
We prepare the project
plan for the
development with the
deliverable milestones
5
We prepare the
wireframe of the
product with the
entrepreneur
2
27. FasterCapital Company Presentation 27
FasterCapital’s Obligation
Prepare a project plan for the development
Improving on the idea by adding features or exploring new
markets
Include clear deliverables: alpha, beta and final version.
Deploying the product online or on Appstores
Help connect Entrepreneurs with investors and VCs
28. FasterCapital Company Presentation 28
Entrepreneur’s Obligation
Explore new markets for the product through our network of
+2000 Representatives, regional partners and mentors.
Sales and Marketing effort for the product
Devise Sales & marketing plan
29. FasterCapital Company Presentation 29
Testimonial from Entrepreneurs
FC has helped a lot in refining the idea and enabling me to see
segments of the market I overlooked.
Mark Deepak
Beamgift.com
While analyzing the idea of my new startup; FC was able to point
several problems in our approach and made great suggestions for
improvement.
Jonas Latner
Edunoor.com
30. FasterCapital Company Presentation 30
Testimonial from Entrepreneurs
FC helped us connect with a potential investor and along with their
investment, we were able to kick off the project.
Martin Simons
MobAdv.com
FC development team has done a great job. They are professional,
savvy with many different technologies, organized and agile. They have
good tracking of bugs and ability to implement features quickly
allowed for our product to succeed!
Paul Mulligan
Abcmob.com
31. FasterCapital Company Presentation 31
Testimonial from Entrepreneurs
Partnering with "FasterCapital" was the best business decision we've
ever made, it helped transferring a Eureka moment from an idea into a
fully developed tangible product, saving us countless hours of R&D and
a heap of cash.
Anas Helali
R&D Entablet
It was a great journey with FC that was both enriching and rewarding
on many different levels. Being able to sit down with a professional
team who analyze requirements carefully and build a technically
advanced product was an enjoyable and amazing experience.
Hadi Bahbouh
LetUsCloud.com
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Testimonial from Entrepreneurs
We had a big dream and it is really quit thrilling to see it come to
existence.
Larry Bell
TVlize.com
I am happy to see new competitors on daily basis knowing that we have
done it the _best_ way. Thanks FC team for your ideas and work, we
will become #1
Amie Gurd
PickTaxi.com
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Testimonial from Entrepreneurs
It is usually hard to sell someone your dream or vision but with FC
things seemed like a shared dream and a shared vision that grew
together to find interesting opportunities. It was a fun way to explore
things and a great mental experience.
Amer Jundi
Nakkeb.com
FC helped us define new monetization model and product features that
were easy to implement but had great impact on the company's
vision/mission.
Fred Grattan
Meody.com
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Success Stories - EduNoor
We finished our first version in Aug/2012, but that didn't stop us from innovation.
Our multinational sales allowed us to reach different markets and many new prospects.
We created four different solutions for tele-education each suitable to a different environment
and using different technologies.
We added social aspect also to the solution while students are searching for new teachers.
Jonas Latner
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Incubated Startups
Buyers and sellers can discover each other and exchange books.
Asks the customer to define the type of book (school, university or other) and thus enable
easier search and matching.
Available as a mobile app and accessible also through HTML5 from feature phones or from
PC/laptops.
Ivan Perry
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Success Stories - Meody
Ayman Bahbouh
Fred Grattan
The team was assembled back in Aug/2010.
First HTML version was finished by Dec/2010 then first iOS and Android versions were ready by
May/2011.
Our first client has signed in Aug/2011.
By May/2014 we have 20 clients who have signed with us! The list keeps on growing.
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Success Stories - TVlize
Our goal is to change the way people interact with TV from lean backward to lean forward
experience.
We allowed real-time comments and tags on the show.
Our solutions appeal to viewers and broadcasters allowing both to get what is missing from the
TV experience.
Ali Ahmad
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Success Stories - Mobayle
We started in May/2011 and we quickly were able to launch a service in Sep/2011.
By Jun/2012 (one year from launch) we had 10 deals done and ability to expand sales team. We have
created new sub-appstores for kids, teens, women and elderly.
Gary Colan
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Incubated Startups
Manny Biegel
NewsAnalyse is news crawler, analyzer, and matcher. It crawls and extracts news from major
newspapers and news agencies online. It analyzes the content of the news to extract main
entities such as location, people involved, time and organization.
The engine identified topics or themes in the news. It can also resume the news.
NewsAnalyse has also a learning component whereby the system will learn the preferences of
each user through their likes and rating and then use that info to filter or suggest important
news to the user.
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Success Stories - LetusCLoud
Established to accomplish a dream and make virtualization easy for everybody.
Nubes(TM) from LetUsCloud allows users to create virtual networks on the cloud in a way as
easy as drawing flowcharts in Visio!
Hadi Bahbouh
Philip McNeal
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Incubated Startups
Peter Blakey
Customers can share the issues that they need to be fixed online.
BlueCollars can check problems and choose the one close to them.
Both customers and bluecollars can rate each other.
Bluecollars can search by tags, locations or through social connections.
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Success Stories - Dooet
We are the only search engine to detect and index mobile content (games, apps, ringtones,
wallpapers, videos..etc) on all websites.
Our engine was able to automatically discover and index more than 45 million products.
We have added lot of social search features plus opinion mining on the appstore products.
Dipak Joshi
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Success Stories - Nakkeb
The first and only company in the Gulf region offering professional search solutions in English,
Arabic and other languages.
Solutions such as VSearch and ESearch proved to be instrumental for the progress of these
companies.
Amer Jundi
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Incubated Startups
Builds a search engine on deep web to find all the music buried in the web.
Hundreds and thousands of versions of each song.
Multiple keywords for search (Artist, song, bitrate, file size and any other keyword).
Downloading music without registration.
Sam Wade
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Incubated Startups
Doug Potter
An engine that gets information from multiple sources, sorts it out, finds the relation between
comments and analyze the comments about each movie.
The website also compares movies together or allows the user to see how the paths of a
director and an actor crossed!
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