How to maximize the company evaluation @ exit?
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The document discusses strategies for maximizing company valuation at exit, emphasizing the importance of planning, having a strong team, and following a structured process. It highlights the exit challenges faced by European tech startups. Ultimately, it encourages entrepreneurs to persist until the end of the exit process.
How to maximize the company evaluation @ exit?
- 1. Nils Granath Bucharest, May 28, 2013 How to maximize the company valuation @ Exit?
- 2. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH2
- 3. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH3
- 4. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH4 Planning your Exit : Are you ready?
- 5. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH5 Planning your Exit: Plan ahead!
- 6. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH6 Exit Challenges for European Tech Start-ups
- 7. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH7
- 8. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH8 The conclusion is simple How to maximize the company valuation @ Exit? Line up your ducks! Use the best team! Create a structured process! Keep on fighting until the end!
- 9. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH9 Cartagena Capital GmbH Nordic Representative Office Visiting address: Engelbrektsgatan 5 114 32 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46 8 5197 0600 Nils Granath Partner Mobile: +46 73 811 4600 E-mail: nils@cartagena-capital.com
- 10. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH10 Team profile: Nils Granath Experienced M&A advisor and venture investor, with a background as entrepreneur and senior manager in technology firms Former Investment Officer at Swisscom Ventures leading investments and board member of various portfolio companies, notably Swisscom Auto ID Services AG (merged with Vilant Oy) and Liberovision AG; project management of M&A and partnering opportunities for the Swisscom Group Previous career milestones include selling Ericsson’s first mobile system in Ukraine, introducing digital mobile network technology in Brazil, management of international web consulting projects at Icon Medialab, raising venture capital for Mobilisys as well as establishing Sicap in the mobile device management space Co-Founder and Director of NearShore, a mobile security software company MBA, INSEAD in Fontainebleau/France and MSc, Linköping Institute of Technology/Sweden and ENSAM in Paris Location: Stockholm, Sweden Title: Partner
- 11. In Confidence © Cartagena Capital GmbH28.5.2013 © Cartagena Capital GmbH11 Switzerland Sold to July 2011 Germany Fundraising June 2011 Germany Fundraising December 2010 France Sold to January 2010 France Fundraising October 2009 Netherlands Sold to October 2011 March 2012 United Arab Emirates Valuation Opinion July 2012 France Sold to April 2012 Germany Germany Sold to May 2011 Selected Transactions Strategic Advisory 2011 - 2012 Germany Global buy-side advisory 2012-2013 France Sold to July 2011 South Africa Strategic Advisory August 2010 France Fundraising March 2010 Sold to March 2010 France July 2011 Finland Sold to February 2010 Sold to Germany December 2012 Sold to March 2013 Germany Fundraising July 2009 Germany Fundraising September 2009 Switzerland USA / Spain Sold to Social Media Analytics Ammer Partners Light Measurement Solar Wafer Delta Video Compression A-Plus Finance, XAnge, Ventech, Aels Network Equipment Seventure, NextStage Wireless PKI Atine, Risto Siilasmaa, Eqvitec, Industry Investment Touchscreen technology Sofinnova Partners, Motorola Ventures Touchscreen technology Sofinnova Partners, Motorola Ventures Media/e-Commerce IBB, NRW.bank, Madsack, Cineplus Online Games Balderton, Brandenburg Capital, Grazia Mobile Security Target Partners, BayBG, KfW Access Management HGTF, Bayern Kapital, Marquardt 3D Graphics Swisscom Ventures, ZKB Online Games Innovacom Mobile Games XAnge, Bertelsmann, KfW Mobile Payments Remgro, Sanlam, HBD Wireless Sennsors CM-CIC, Sudinnova, IAFG Primaveris, Success Europe Online Games HTGF, Holtzbrinck, Neuhaus, T-Venture Venture CapitalMobile Games Mobile applications