Advisory

Another business model of AC Ventures is to provide advisory services to ventures.

FUNDRAISING & INVESTOR READINESS

One of the most important milestones in an entrepreneur’s life cycle is the ability to access “smart capital”. In order to support the ventures in their fundraising activities, we meet with their team and understand their specific needs.

Then, we tap our investor network to identify which investor will be a better fit for the venture. We look at sector interest and know how along with at what stage the investor likes to invest. In short, we try to find the “smartest capital” out there for the specific venture.

During this process, we work very closely with the entrepreneurs and the management teams of the companies we represent. We support them in determining how much financing the venture needs, what valuation should be offered to investors, what type of investment instrument the venture should be using, creation of their investor pitches, train them on how to present it, give strategic advise on which investors to approach first and how.

Once the financing is found, we support the venture in negotiating the term sheet and shareholders’ agreement in order to create the best possible outcome for the venture.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

AC Ventures team has a track record of $50+ billion in announced mergers & acquisitions (M&A) transaction value and a wealth of experience in advising technology companies. We can structure various types of M&A transactions ranging from stock swaps to outright cash sales and purchases. We utilize our domestic and international network to identify potential buyers or sellers in different geographies. We do an in-depth valuation analysis in order to create the maximum level of synergies between the parties.

VALUATION & DUE DILIGENCE

Valuation and due diligence services play an important role in every transaction. We work with investors and ventures to help them in their decision-making processes by providing a robust approach toward identifying the financial and commercial outcomes whether one is looking to invest/buy or sell a business.

Our team combines many years of commercial experience and technical knowledge to provide valuation and due diligence services for ventures. Our due diligence services include, but not limited to, creating or auditing the venture’s historical statements and financial forecasts, auditing venture’s unit metrics, potential and target market analysis, identifying off-balance sheet items that investors might not be aware of and SWOT analysis.

Our valuation analyses include, but not limited to, creating or auditing the financial business model of the venture along with performing discounted cash flow analyses (if necessary), comparable companies and transactions analyses. We know that placing a valuation on early-stage technology ventures can be tricky and subjective.

We support our valuation analysis with our sector knowledge. Not only we do compare the venture’s valuation to precedent valuations both domestically and internationally but we also consult sector experts in order to support the valuation.