Before submitting your investment proposal for our consideration, please read about our investment criteria and investment process and determine that you meet all the criteria and understand our process.
To apply, please click on the apply button and our online dealflow platform called Gust will request for key aspects of your business. Your responses will be generated into an executive summary for our review.
Our Investment Criteria
- Digital Media
- Internet and Mobile consumer portals
- R&D-intensive Information Technology
- Company
- Start-up / seed stage less than 5 years old
- Asia-based (Preferably in Singapore)
- Founders
- Competent founders with sound characters and go-getting spirits
- Good understanding of their technology & target markets
- Product and services
- Working prototype/beta phase to show/demo
- Products or services meet clearly defined customer needs
- Potential for global scalability
- Investment Quantum
- Minimum S$75,000
- Maximum S$1.5 million
Check out our current investee companies.
Our investment processOur process can be divided into two phases:
Preliminary Phase
- Upon your submission, we will review and these are the two possible outcomes:
- Pass on your investment opportunity OR
- We are keen to find out more about your business and ready to be convinced by granting you a face-to-face meeting
- For positive reviews, be prepared to deliver a half-an-hour presentation and address our queries for an additional fifteen minutes.
- After the meeting, we will determine if we are convinced and make a decision whether to embark on follow-on meetings and further analysis of your business.
Due Diligence Phase
- A detailed analysis of your team, technology, financials, business model, customers, competitors and strategic partners.
- Term sheet, where we concur on the valuation of your business, investment quantum and terms of investment.
- Due diligence process where we validate the value of your technology and business.
- Final phase when we formalize our investment by signing a shareholder’s agreement and gladly send you a cheque.
External start-up resources
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