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Selected Completions 2012
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Selected Completions 2012
NEW GENERATION COMPRESSOR DELIVERING BIG ENERGY SAVING IN WATER TREATMENT
£110,000 December
Bringing total funds raised to £1,100,000
This Company closed a funding round which was oversubscribed in December 2012. We are delighted with the assessment, appreciation and contribution to the funding made by Beer Investors. There is a great prospect of generating good returns for them.
This engineering company is delivering energy savings in the treatment of waste water by installing its new type of air compressor equipment. Each of the UK’s 1000s of machines currently installed consumes typically £30k of electricity p.a. and the Company’s alternative products are far more efficient.
It has delivered product that has so far exceeded performance expectations, not only for energy saving but also in other ways.
A highly accessible and respected water industry key reference account is in place and this customer site will play a significant role in the sales process.
As anticipated in investment documentation, the business is likely to offer a new round in 2013 supported by delivered orders and a healthy pipeline. This will enable exploitation of additional applications and markets.
An optimal exit valuation at £60m and above is still projected for 2016 and we would be pleased to receive enquiries from potential Investors who wish to get acquainted with the business prior to announcements of a new funding offer.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Simon Heywood & Robin Rowland Hill– Midlands Region
SEED ROUND COMPLETED FOR LEADING BRITISH DESIGNER
£120,000 December
A leading British designer is re-establishing her brand and business in the UK and sought seed investors to capitalise the business and it's development plans. Beer & Partners provided a managing associate for the business with much experience in creative-commercial sectors. This resulted in a number of Beer's investors supporting the round to the tune of £120,000. SEIS tax incentives are expected to apply. The Company is expected to go for a major growth investment round in 2013.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill – London Region
MULTIMEDIA PLATFORM FOR STUDENTS AND BRANDS
£70,000 December
Bringing total funds raised to £500,000
HelloU.com, was set up as a leading Student Media Group offering multi-media platform for students and brands that want to engage them. After securing first stage funding from private sources Beer become involved in the second phase which was much more substantial and was required principally for the marketing effort for successful rollout to more educational institutions as well as providing more services as the business model matures.
Beer & Partners identified two interested investors at the Investor Fair in June 2012, who invested £70,000, and it is anticipated that they will add significant values as a result of their career experience and focus.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Tony Maynard – London Region
SEED CAPITAL FOR MEDICAL DEVICE
£67,000 November
Bringing total funds raised to £500,000
Beer and Partners were engaged by the Diabetic Boot Company for their investors known interest in novel medical devices. Four of our investors contributed to a total first round fund raising of just under £500,000, required to get the primary product to launch with EC marking and FDA 510 approval. Second round funding is planned to provide funds to exploit a large and growing global, diabetes led, market opportunity.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Matthew Lawrence– Midlands Region
INDOOR REVOLVING SKI SLOPES
£62,000 November
Bringing total funds raised to £704,000
Second round financing for this company which has the UK rights to a Dutch indoor ski slope which works on a treadmill principle. With variable speed and elevation and not requiring sub-zero temperatures these slopes have considerable advantages over snow domes and provide an excellent training venue, as well as being great exercise. This funding round will enable the company to build three further sites and then be self-financing.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Dwight Makins – London Region
FOREX MANAGED ACCOUNT
£50,000 October
An unusual opportunity for our Investors as this client offers to manage client funds through a Swiss based bank under a limited Power of Attorney in the foreign exchange markets.
The service offers full flexibility as Investors can withdraw their investment on immediate notice if required yet under this managed service the track record reveals that good returns are to be enjoyed in comparison with other investment options.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Steve McEwen– Midlands Region
HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLAR PANELS
£35,000 October
Beer investors invested at the stage of the compnay developing its first full scale prototypes of a high efficiency solar panel. They have subsequently followed their money to fund the field scale trials.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Patrick Angier – Scotland Region
MEDICAL INFORMATICS
£25,000 August
Bringing total funds raised to £125,000
We raised £100,000 for this profitable and going concern which in turn triggered 2x matching finance. Funding is to enable the company to rapidly grow and to stay in a leadership position.This company is a global leader in providing software systems for pharma companies to monitor their products in use after they have been approved for marketing. They are tailored so that they are user friendly for both the physician or the patient entering the data. They already have two global pharma companies using their systems. This is a new market converting data systems from paper to electronic data capture.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Simon Heywood & Richard Silberbauer – London Region
STREAMED CULTURE VIDEO
£25,000 August
This client attended our March Fair. This deal had been largely completed by friends, family and colleagues of the entrepreneur but sought final funding through Beer&Partners. Our investor is immersed in the popular music industry himself, and was determined to participate in the transaction, even if only in a small way. His experience will probably be of value to the company going forward.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Angus Milne – London Region
COMPRESSORS
£150,000 July
Bringing total funds raised to £300,00
A number of serious, heavyweight investors looked very closely at 'DBS', but lacked the necessary mix of (a) specialist engineering knowledge, (b) management skills, (c) time availability and (d) substantial six-figure funds. The lead investor here is putting in £0.5 million in stages, going on the Board, and will bring his considerable business experience to bear in assisting the small core management team to achieve their (considerable) sales targets.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Angus Milne – London Region
ART RETAILING ONLINE COMMUNITY, SEED ROUND BACKED BY BEER INVESTORS
£30,000 July
Beer’s investors have provided half of the investment for an early stage internet business with a well-developed plan and market opportunity in the online art retail space, and which is now building to a September launch. This highly exciting solution helps takes the worry and risk out of buying and selling every day artists work for both painter and customer, with tremendous benefits for venues and corporate groups. The management anticipate excellent returns for investors and the investment is expected to qualify under the new SEIS rules, launched in April 2012. The Company plans a major growth round next year.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill – South West Region
LEADING OTT TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
£750,000 July
Beer & Partners raised funding from a corporate entity in order for the client to join forces with a view to further market penetration, both jointly and separately, in the OTT (over-the-top) video content market. £1 million was raised and split into two vehicles; £500,000 into the client company itself as grwoth captial, and £500,000 to launch a JV, a new company specializing in video solutions for broadcaster, platform operators and new media ventures.
The JV will enable the corporate entity's broadcast management expertise and global presence to combine with the technology and skills that the client brings to focus on the emerging OTT market.
The client is a London based start-up company, founded in 2012, that has developed a platform which currently has 14 users in the UK. It's hosted solution streams contect to multiple devices and also delivers catch-up and on-demand TV services over the internet acorss a broad range of consumer devices, including smartphones, tablets and connected TVs.
The corprate entity develops, markets and supports business management software solutions for more than 60 blue-chip content and service providers in the media industry.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill & Uti Thakkar – South West and London Region
INTERNET RETAIL
£400,000 July
We assisted this luxury furniture retailer offering a wide range of unique, quality products and a robust online shopping experience in raising £300,000 investment in 2010. The company presented at our 2010 May Investment fair and received the funding in full within 7 weeks from one sophisticated investor. The company had annualised turnover approaching £300,000 and required the investment for importing containers of stock, increasing marketing spends and developing the website.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – James Leay – London Region
PATENTED LOCKING DEVICE
£20,000 July
This client has patented a remote electronic locking device for manhole covers. A Beer investor has agreed to finance the production of the working prototypes to launch. £20,000 has been invested up to July 2012.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robert Whitaker – Thames Valley Region
MICRO-HYDROELECTRICITY GENERATOR WITH MINIMAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
£28,000 July
This company attended the B&P Investment Fair to raise start-up funding for its micro-hydroelectricity generator. It offers a cost effective and low environmental impact solution to customers seeking to generate 3 - 100kW of green electricity from fast flowing rivers.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Keith Jones – London Region
THEME PARK RIDE VIDEOS
£20,000 June
This client attended our London Investment Fair. Patented technology that makes the video of a ride and then sends it directly to a snmartphone, with the charging made on the phone bill. They have contracts with a number of European theme parks.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Dwight Makins – London Region
THE INVENTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF A NEW SECURITY ENVELOPE
£130,000 June
This Midlands company has developed and patented a new approach to the payroll security envelope still in use by thousands of SMEs throughout the UK. The solution is simpler and more cost effective than anything else on the market. The Company attended the Beer’s Fair in March 2012 and attracted the attention of a Midlands regional fund. Beer’s then matched that with one of its local investors.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Roy Irish – Midlands Region
SME FUND
£25,000 June
This client is an established Private Equity Fund manager, and have had their second of 4 instalments into this SME fund.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Tony Cecil – South West Region
THE FIRST MULTI-SERVICE COMPARISON WEBSITE IN ALL LATIN-AMERICA
£138,000 April
Bringing total funds raised to £338,000
This second round funding provided by a single investor in this first multi-service price comparison website in Latin-America where Internet penetration is as low as 30% but rising fast. This follows on from the first round of £250,000 in which two other Beer investors participated. The project has now rolled from Argentina into Brazil and a third more substantial round of funding is planned for autumn 2012 prior to a VCT round anticipated in 18 months time to facilitate the rapid expansion of this enterprise across all Latin-America.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Tony Maynard – Thames Valley Region
UTILITY SUPPLIER
Additional funding April
Bringing total funds raised to £930,000
This company is a fully Ofgem regulated supplier of gas and electricity into the niche tenanted property market. The company is growing rapidly. Beer investors have participated in 4 funding rounds to date with funds supplied as a mix of equity and convertible loans.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Patrick Angier – Scotland
MANUFACTURER OF SMALL SCALE RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTS
£600,000 April
This diversified manufacturer of small scale renewable energy products came to Beer & Partners in mid-January 2012, seeking to complete its latest £1.3m round of fundraising having £700,000 already committed from existing and new investors. Investments from two Beer Investors were secured with one agreeing terms within three weeks of meeting and a second within one week. In fact this round could have been oversubscribed by almost a quarter.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robert Whitaker – Thames Valley Region
HIGH VALUE HEALTH SUPPLEMENTS FROM ALGAE
£60,000 March
Bringing total funds raised to £800,000
This algae-to-neutraceuticals company has attracted increasing interest since Beer first raised startup capital for it in Q2 2009. It is now approaching seven-figure revenues, is cashflow-positive, is enjoying vigorous growth in demand for its initial product 'Astaxanthin', and is likely to be capacity-constrained for the foreseeable future. Beer has raised in excess of £600k for Supreme Bio. As the business has become 'derisked', it attracts more widespread attention, and that figure may rise.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Angus Milne – London Region
BRITISH DESIGNED, PATENTED AND MANUFACTURED MOBILE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE STAGE
£30,000 March
Bringing total funds raised to £150,000
Having completed the first investment round in 2011, the Company built its first mobile performance stage, preparing for a London launch in Spring 2012. Beer & Partners then raised additional funds from a syndicate of private investors to bolster the take-to-market budget and support the launch. This investment was under EIS. The launch took place in the Docklands site of one of the Company's shareholders, which resulted in coverage on NBC and other news networks as well as a full pipeline of serious enquiries from the UK and overseas. The Managing Associate for the project has since joined the board of the Company, bringing his relevant background in the design and build sector and considerable experience in growing early stage businesses.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill – South West Region
LEADING EDGE SKIN CARE AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
Additional £86,000 March
Bringing total funds raised to £211,000
A group of Beer Investors have invested alongside both existing and other new investors into this spin out from St Andrews University. The company has developed and launched a range of products that allow treatment of commonly occurring skin cancers to be carried in the primary care arena rather than within specialist dermatology clinics. This funding round will take the business into profitability and allow the company to roll out its technology into other common skin treatment areas.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Patrick Angier – Scotland
RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR INVESTMENT TO SUPPORT MAJOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
£45,000 March
The Company having been active in the renewable energy space for several years, the Company sought additional capital to support the implementation of development plans with a major industrial partner.
Beer & Partners raised additional funds from a syndicate of private investors to support this objective, which qualified under EIS. The biomass and general renewable sector remain of great interest to investors, however key to attracting investment is being able to differentiate amongst many such projects. Beer & Partners worked with management on this, presenting the opportunity through both its network and at several investor events to complete the target round of over £200k.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill – South West Region
BIO-TECHNOLOGY
Additional funding January
Bringing total funds raised to £443,000
This company is developing a simple urine-based diagnostic test for bladder cancer to replace the more expensive and unpleasant test used at present. The company won the top cancer award at the prestigious Medical Futures competition in December 2008. It was also awarded a £100,000 Research Grant for R&D. Together with £75,000 raised in December this additional funding from investors attending the November Investment Fair brings the total raised from this Fair to £130,000.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Lawrence Fenelon – Midlands Region
CONSTRUCTION AND OPERTATION OF WIND FARMS
£180,000 January
First tranche of a total of £600,000 being invested into this company which operates and constructs wind farms. After presenting at Investment fair in November 2010 investment interested was confirmed at an early stage but was not committed until the planning permissions were granted for the sites in early 2012.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Chris Scott – South East Region
STEM CELL TREATMENT FOR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES
Initial £16,000 January
This business has recently received $3.8m investment from a respected strategic pharma industry insider. A further £1.5m on the same terms and now being sought will enable the company to advance its product into human trials for the neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease). The client has protected IP covering purification of its adult stem cell product and its use in numerous diseases of the brain and spine requiring repair of damaged nerves. As the product and repair process is entirely natural occurrence in the body, regulatory authorities indicate low concern about potential safety issues. Investors will hold publicly listed shares and can expect an exit upon conclusion of Phase I/II clinical studies at increased valuations. A major licensee or company acquisition is expected to emerge at that stage. Favourable price inflections are expected at the: filing of IND; reporting of study results, and announcement of license or acquisition.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Simon Heywood & Richard Silberbauer – London Region
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE DRUG PORTFOLIO - INFLAMMATION AND CANCER
Additional £25,000 January
Bringing total funds raised to £85,000
Beer Investors made a very useful contribution to the convertible loan fund-raising for this extremely tightly run Southampton based drug development company. The loan will convert at a discount in the forthcoming major investment round. The Company is developing proprietary drugs that have best-in-class potential to treat inflammatory disease and cancer by targeting epigenetic mechanisms and lipid kinase signalling. They have four drugs in their pipeline. The lead candidate has entered formal pre-clinical development stage on schedule. It is likely to be of relevance to treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Investors will most likely enjoy an exit through big pharma acquisition(s) prior to approval. The highly experienced, efficient and proficient management team is a very attractive feature of this investment.
• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Simon Heywood & Richard Silberbauer – London Region