Verdure Venture Consulting provides startup mentoring and fundraising services. They help startups with business model reviews, market analysis, pitch coaching, and connecting startups to investors. Their process involves three phases - mentoring and consulting, fundraising, and negotiation and monitoring. They have also created an online platform called Aurora that allows startups to create profiles, receive feedback from experts, and virtually pitch to accredited investors. Aurora aims to help startups with effective fundraising by pooling multiple small angel investors and providing validation, confidential profiles, and guidance from industry experts.
2. Verdure in a Summary
Boutique Investment Consulting with focus on
Start up Mentoring
Early stage Fund raising
Clients include:
3. Verdure Process
Business Model
Mentoring Review
Phase 1 & consulting Market Review
B-Plan Improvement
V- Pitch
Phase 2 Fund Raising Connect to Investors
Pitch Coaching
Negotiation Negotiation & Closure
Due-diligence support
Phase 3 &
Monitoring &
monitoring Reporting
4. Crowd based Angel funding platform for Startups
AURORA
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5. Startup Fundraising Challenges
Lack of access to angel investors
Ticket size issues
Lack of feedback, mentoring
Lack of time to network and fundraise
Need for guidance on pitching/ deal making
Networking challenges
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6. What is Aurora
Startups
Experts Investors
Investing insights
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7. Aurora Explained
Startup Uploads/Improves
Profile
Specifies
Requirement
Investors Review startups Express interest
Experts Provide Feedback
& Rating
Provide expert
Advice
Assists in
determining
Valuation and
Deal Closure
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8. Benefits of Aurora
Visibility Startup Profile visible to
Investors and mentors
Effective Pitch format - Members
enabled to project important aspects of
start ups
Professionally anchored fundraising
Interaction and Networking
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9. Who can profile on Aurora
Registered companies
Where one or more founders
work full time
Completed one year of operations
Serving first paying customers (in
case of service sector)
or
Developed a working and tested
prototype (in case of product
companies)
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10. Brief process for fundraising
Virtual Professionally
Application Rating by
Profiling pitch to managed
for profiling Experts
investors fund raising
Request the experts to rate Aurora recommends your
your startup startup through emails
Upload profile info
Interaction with experts and website promos
Pay Profiling fee
ranging from rating to Contact Aurora Investors
Build your startup
mentoring individually
profile with help from
Collect rating by 5 experts Provide responses to
Aurora team
Apply for fundraising questions raised by
Aurora verifies profile
Team Aurora will help investors/experts
details
decide on valuation based Investors commit to
Upload pictures/videos
on fundraising investments in multiples
requirements of INR 1 Lakh
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11. Advantage Aurora
Pools many small angel investors
Validation of investors and experts
Panel of experts from all areas for
guidance and mentoring
Confidentiality profiles accessible
only to investors and mentors
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12. Key people
Usha Krishnan CEO, Chief Consultant
Consulted for Retail, FMCG, CleanTech, Biotech, IT & Education
12+ yrs in IT, Consulting and Fundraising
Wide International Exposure (US, Europe, South East Asia)
MBA from INSEAD, France and Singapore
Saiswaroopa Iyer Venture Consultant
4 years of Experience in Corporate Planning, BPlan
development and Financial modeling
Worked at Infosys Technologies and Aranca Equity research
Founded Breakthrough Venture Consulting
MBA from IIT Kharagpur
13. Thank you
Interested entrepreneurs contact
Saiswaroopa@verdure.in
Usha.Krishnan@verdure.in
For a detailed session
Or
Register at : http://tiny.cc/register4aurora
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