Technology has emerged as a game changer, playing a pivotal role in transforming and growing businesses. Defining scope and scale, it is the biggest disruptive force across industries. Fund houses are alive to this fact, which is why tech-based startups have emerged as the most sought-after investment opportunity in the recent past.
The success stories of Flipkart, Ola, Paytm, Zomato and Byju’s among others have led to increase in internet consumption, with tech-based businesses in general recording exponential growth over the past five years.
The overall picture for tech startups appears encouraging. With only a third of the Indian population using the internet, the scope for growth is immense. India is the second largest online market after China with over 460 million internet users & estimates show that by 2021, there will be about 636 million internet users in India.
At News Corp VCCircle’s upcoming workshop, delegates will receive comprehensive knowledge about fundraising processes, new valuation methods and approaches, key legal aspects as well as governance and regulatory matters surrounding tech startups.
Why Should You Attend?
The objective of the study is to provide the fundamentals of each approach of tech valuation, together with limitations and caveats on the use of each, as well as extended examples of the application of each. At the end, participants should be able to:
• Understand the valuation methods and its approaches
• Learn fundraising strategies
• Demystify term sheet
• Analyze and critique the use of appropriate valuation model
• Know governance and regulatory requirements
• Foresee the growth of Tech Startups
Who Should Attend?
• Tech entrepreneurs & tech startups looking to raise funds
• Corporate who is looking to acquire tech startups
• CXOs, MDs, Directors and Senior Management of tech startups
• PE, VC Investment Professionals
• M&A & strategy team
• Angel, Private and Institutional Investors
• I-Bankers, Advisers & Consultants
Session 1: Value Drivers, Valuation Approaches & Global Learnings
• Tech Startups - evolution & key characteristics
• Financing life-cycle and value drivers
• Valuation Approaches - venture capital method, real option, probability-weighted methods and various alternative approaches
• Global illustrations
• Valuation myths and realities
Startup valuation - Key performance indicators
• Average revenue per user
• Customer attrition (Churn Rate)
• Customer acquisition cost
• User engagement - Active users
• No of installs
• Customer life time value
• Conversion rate (funnel)
Session 2 & 3: Valuation model, approaches, key concepts & case studies
• Fintech
• Health-tech
• Logistics-tech
• E-commerce
• Edu-tech
Session 4: Key Documentation & legal aspects in Fund raising process
• Key terms in a term sheet
• Share-holding agreement
• Deal structuring
• Legal documentation
• Exit clauses
Session 5: Fund raising for Startup companies
• Identification of fundraising prospects
• Types of Fund Raising
• Fund raising strategy
• Tips for Successful Fundraising
Rajesh Sehgal, CFA is the Managing Partner and founder of Equanimity Investments. Equanimity is a Venture Capital firm passionate about the early stage ecosystem, working closely with businesses that leverage technology to build world class products and offer best in class services. He is a Wharton alumnus in addition to being an XLRI management graduate specialising in finance and marketing. He is a CFA charter holder and has earned a post-graduate diploma in Securities Law from Mumbai University.
Rajesh is a long-term investor with tremendous breadth and depth of experience managing early stage investments, private equity and public equity funds for over two decades. Having worked with Dr. Mark Mobius at Franklin Templeton Investments for over 17 years, he gained on-the-ground experience in emerging market countries across Asia, Africa, East Europe and Latin America, having invested across various industries and businesses spanning different stages of their lifecycle.
Rajesh has the distinction of being the Founding Chair of the India chapter of CRUF, a global body set up in 2005 for users of financial reports to be an open forum for learning about and responding to the many accounting and regulatory changes that affect corporate reporting. He is a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur), a global non-profit community that works to help entrepreneurs in all ways.
At TiE, Rajesh is co-chair of the FinTech focused special interest group that spearheads TiE Mumbai’s focussed effort to help the FinTech community.
Rajesh has been active in the Indian startup ecosystem since 2007 as a dedicated angel investor having invested in 22 startups, working closely with the management teams in most cases and successfully securing exits in a handful of these investments.
VCC Events opens up the avenues for participation. Join hands to be a part of India’s largest gathering of alternative investments leaders, industry stakeholders and Asia’s influential limited partners, general partners and marquee advisors. Your chance to actively participate and augment yourself as thought leaders.
Mumbai
Date: December 14, 2018
Venue: Mumbai
Drop us a line and we will call you.
