Do you believe your company is a good fit to our investment mandate?

Our preference is for a warm introduction to be made through our network. You may know someone we’ve worked with before, otherwise the team is active at industry events – so come and say hello!

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Our investment team manages a high volume of new opportunities and takes the process of assessing each and every one seriously.

We ask that you give us some time to respond (we aim to respond to all enquiries within two weeks).

If we feel your opportunity is a good fit to the mandate for any of our Funds, we will schedule a meeting with one or more members of our investment team to learn about your company, the technology and product, and the leadership team. This first meeting may be via video conference or in person.
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If our first meeting goes well, we will appoint a Deal Lead who will be your primary liaison with OneVentures and undertake some preliminary due diligence to understand more about your company. During this period, we will often ask for additional information and we may meet with you again. At this stage we will typically focus on:

• People – We look for quality, experienced management teams with ambition.
• Traction to date – We seek to better understand your revenue to date including quality of customers, and assess your projected financial performance
• Product / Technology – We seek to understand your product offering including its features, to assess the value to your customers. How unique is your offering?
• Market – Does your product have strong market pull? Is the market attractive, in terms of size and access?
• Competition – How are you placed relative to competition? Are there strong barriers to entry?
• Business metrics – Assess your business metrics and your customers. For example, what is the cost of customer acquisition? What is the lifetime value of the customer? What is the average revenue per user? Are you customers sticky
• Financing need – How can debt be a useful to you and does it achieve your objectives? What structure is best for you.

Following our preliminary due diligence process, we will present the opportunity to our investment committee. Subject to a positive outcome we will provide you a term sheet for discussion.

Assuming we agree terms, we now move into a more detailed due diligence process. We will provide you with a detailed list of the due diligence materials we require access to and will ask you to assemble them in a secure data room.

We will meet many times during this period and will require access to additional documents and information. Activities may include meeting with all the members of your team and visiting your premises, interviews with customers and partners, and discussions with other investors and potential acquirers of your business.

Our aim during this process is to independently confirm the information, claims, projections and assumptions you have provided to date.

In relation to debt financing (through the 1V Venture Credit Fund), this step is typically streamlined and usually results in a quicker investment than with equity financing.

At the conclusion of our due diligence process we will present to our Investment Committee for final sign off the transaction.

For a credit investment, we will run the legal documentation process in parallel to the confirmatory DD stage. This stage involves the drafting and finalising of legal documents for our investment. Documents include a loan agreement, warrant agreement and security documentation. During this period, we will each be represented by our own legal counsel who will be heavily involved.
When the due diligence process is completed and the documents are agreed and signed, we will be ready to fund the first tranche of our investment subject to the terms agreed. Congratulations – our partnership has formally commenced!