Funding
Consensus welcomes approaches from corporate bodies and entrepreneurs seeking capital investment.
Consensus will consider applications for funding at all stages of development from start-up to pre-IPO and across all business sectors in which the Group already has an interest.
Consensus offers great flexibility in the nature and level of funding which it is prepared to consider.
Please send your proposal to Belinda Marks (b.marks@cbg.uk.com) who will forward it to the relevant investment area. Financials should be made available in electronic format in Excel.
Postal address:
35 Park Lane
W1K 1RB
In the first instance, applicants for funding should submit an Executive Summary.
This document should extend to no more than two pages and should include brief details of:
- the management, its qualifications and experience
the business proposition - company history and current status
- the marketplace and its potential
- funding requirements
- investment timetable
Consensus will also require a detailed business plan in order to advance the application.
This document should include:
Background
- brief company history including
- date of foundation
- management
- number of employees
- location
- assets
- products & markets
Market
- market size & potential
- market drivers
- barriers to entry
- position within market
- current and potential routes to market
- competition
Products
- product or service offering
- USP(s)
- product or service protection
- IPR
- patents
- copyrights
- trademarks - product pipeline & R&D
- pricing and margins
People
- Board and corporate structure
- qualifications, experience and abilities
- full CV
- job descriptions
- responsibilities - line management
- employees
- skills
- replacability
- available labour pool
Sales & Marketing
- budgets
- contracts
- pipeline
Financials
- profit & loss accounts for three years or since
- establishment
- balance sheet
- cashflow analysis
- current year projections
- future projections
- basis of assumptions
- proposed use of funds
- professional advisors
Risks, including, but not exclusively:
- keyman
- market
- political
- financial
- legislative
Contingent liabilities
Relevance to Consensus
- potential synergies
Funding requirements
- immediate
- ongoing
- equity offering
All applications will be treated in the strictest of confidence and requests for confidentiality agreements, if required, should accompany initial approaches.