Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Coffee and Capital with James Hill @ Uni City Science Center

What : Coffee and Capital with James Hill @ Uni City Science Center
When : 28 Feb 2017; 800am-930am
Where: Quorum, Uni City Science Center
Who: James Hill
James Hill, Senior Associate at Edison Partners. At Edison Partners, James focuses on sourcing investments in Healthcare IT, FinTech, MarTech and Enterprise 2.0. His prior experience includes work in the startup business environment and legal fields. Edison Partners concentrates on helping companies navigate, accelerate and scale growth at each stage of their journey. Join us to have your questions answered by an expert!



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James Hill

Working for 8th fund for USD$275 million

4 market sectors, all IT related

Invest until USD$30 million

48 portfolio companies, USD$3.6 billion investment

Almost 25 Percent for each portfolio

Fund life cycle is 10 years.

Registration with FDA takes a lot of time.

We have done 18 IPOs before.

Valuation process - depends on company to company basis

2.6 times revenue

Pre-money valuation

We'll meet with you few couple times

Partnership meeting to get more answers

Talking to your competitors

The more you can show growth, the fast you grow is better

We look at many Office Technology Transfer companies (University companies).

The challenge is how you value the patents (from the university).

One company invested USD57 million for Ohio State University

Combination of great CEOs with good companies --> Success factor

Our due diligence process is very thorough...

We could have been very confident in the business we invested.

Some technology companies selling something but with no/less value to the customer.

Trump's Presidency creates some uncertainties in pharmaceutical industries.

2/3 of our companies are succeed or ...


Many points I missed...sorry..











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