Potential VC Startup Pitch Deck
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Background 🔮1. Founded by serial internet entrepreneur and prolific angel investor, Doug Scott ✅
2. Doug made 25 angel investments in 2 years, leading angel rounds and bringing in other angel investors ✅
3. This soon became the Potential UKAngelList syndicate managed by a team of 3 ✅
Team 💪🏼Doug Scott
Serial internet entrepreneur + angel investorBuilt numerous online businesses such as rentalcars.co.uk, discount vouchers, compare99.
James Routledge
Founded matchchat and nownative. Raised $1m in VC and Angel funding. Products used by 130 websites, reaching 50m monthly impressions.
Yee-Mun
Co- founded Scarlett of Soho (acquired), the world’s first eyewear subscription service. A female founders in tech advocate and former agency content strategist.
YC
Co-founded Scarlett of Soho (acq), managed multi-national syndicates for Barclays. Advisor to Leaf.fm, Casehub and Hackajob.
Criteria 📝
Early stage technology startups* 💡A working product live 🚀
Minimum 6 weeks of traction 📊An exceptional founding team** 👭
*We only invest in UK based startups that are SEIS eligible.**We like to meet teams early, when they are not fundraising, so that we can build a genuine & authentic relationship.
Invest 💰👔Syndicate 💸📞
Advise 👓📝Grow 📈📢
Invest 💰👔
We make the first move* ✋🏻We set the valuation 💯
We agree the legal terms 🔐We can lead the round** ⚡
*Potential will invest £10k - £25k.**Our syndicate will invest £100k - £150k.We usually take up the entire SEIS allocation.
Syndicate 💸📞We assist our startups in raising their perfect round of funding 👌🏼
Largest and most active angel syndicate in Europe with 193 angels 😇
Steve Pankhurst, David Pritchard, Andrew Weisz, Damien Lane and more… 👀
Portfolio have raised from and others… ⬇️ ⭐️
Advise 👓📝
Team of entrepreneurs who “get it”* 👂🏼We understand the struggles 😥
Boast an incredible tech network 📣Wide skill set from product – sales** 🎳
*Successful and failed founders, we’ve raised VC, sold companies, killed them. We have the scars.**We have a wide-ranging background from finance, content, marketing, operations and sales.
Grow 📈📢
Assist with user/customer acquisition* 🎯Experts in all forms of online marketing 🎓
PPC, SEO, Social, Content 🎨Potential.co websites do 3m visits per day** 📶
Potential Newsletter goes to7k people in tech 📧
*We host our portfolio at Potential HQ to show them the black magic of online marketing. **Across 30 different profitable online businesses.
Featured Portfolio 🔥
Testimonials 😎
Testimonials continued…😝
Investment Model 🎲
10-12 investments per year ⌛️No fees to startups or investors 🚫
Either; take additional advisory shares for real value add* 💥
Or; charge a 20% carry to investors on deals syndicated via AngelList** 🎁
*Standard option agreement with 2 year vesting.**15% to Potential, 5% to AngelList.
FAQ 🔎Why do we use AngelList? 😇AngelList, an FCA-authorised company, provides a tech and legal platform that enables us to raise investment for startups efficiently from multiple investors.Do investors appear on the cap table? 👥No, Capita IRG Trustees Ltd. acts as a nominee, holding the shares of the investors to keep the cap table clean. Do you lead a round? 💪🏼Yes, but not always. If it’s a very early-stage round (<£200k), we normally lead. If we co-invest with a VC, they normally lead.What is the dynamic between the investors and the syndicate lead? ✋🏻The nominee investors are legally tied to any actions taken by the syndicate lead. Do you take board seats? 💺No, we believe it hampers early-stage growth, but we may take an observer role. However, if we follow another VCinto a deal, they may elect to have board seats. What terms do you have in your deals? 📋We keep things simple and primarily have standard drag & tag, good leaver/bad leaver provisions, founder vesting and pre-emption rights. We only do simple ordinary stock and have no preferred shares.