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✦ Harwell Capital (Harwell) was established in 2011 as an ✦ Since 2011 Harwell has backed 19 technology portfolio
independent venture capital investor focused on UK technology companies, in core sectors, split between hardware and
companies software, including:
✦ H a r d w a r e - m o b i l e co n n e c t i v i t y , b r o a d b a n d ,
✦ Harwell provides accelerator capital and strategic support to
environmental / detection, compressor, biotechnology and
proven businesses with innovative proprietary technology,
renewable energies
solving existing or emerging problems in clearly identifiable
markets, led by high impact management teams with ✦ Software - crowd intelligence platforms, inventory
exceptional track records in scaling businesses management, database architecture, anti-piracy, cyber-
security, artificial intelligence and communications
✦ Harwell offers Family Office investors the opportunity to invest
in these companies through co-investment and discretionary ✦ Through this selection and investment, Harwell has developed
portfolios and proven itself as capable of sourcing high-quality deal flow,
completing deep due diligence, and sourcing investments
✦ Harwell assesses each new investment opportunity against ranging from typically £250k to £25m+
strict investment criteria, which have been set to identify
companies that have scalable business models yet need capital ✦ Harwell is exclusively a venture stage technology investor. Since
to accelerate commercial growth inception Harwell has refined its investment criteria to be
focused on Series A revenue generating software companies,
✦ Investment sizes vary on a deal by deal basis, however Harwell but will still include hardware, where significantly game-
targets equity holdings of 5% to 25% in each of its portfolio changing and impactful. Investors must note that Venture
companies Capital is a high risk asset class and failure rates even at Series A
stage still average 30-40%+ across the industry
✦ There is a team of 5 in London, 4 in Jersey, and 3 in Hong Kong
DEPLOYMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS
✦ AMN - backed by Facebook / Intelsat / EIB, contracted to MTN
and Orange, over 350 towers operating
✦ Harwell is seeking to follow-on fund three high conviction ✦ Exit valuations have been calculated using current market
portfolio companies: AMN, Detego and MUSO: multiples and management forecast financials (it should be
✦ AMN is at Series B+ phase and is raising $35m equity and noted that dilution will affect the exit share price, as such
$50m debt for tower capex and rollout money on money returns and IRRs cannot be calculated from
this table)
✦ Detego is at Series B stage and raising funds for UK contract
expansion and US delivery
✦ Muso is at Series B stage and raising funds for US rollout
COMPANY OVERVIEW: AMN
✦ Africa Mobile Networks Limited (AMN) builds and sustainably ✦ Exit objective: 2023 for $750m-$1bn
operates network base stations in sub-Saharan Africa,
connecting the unconnected rural population, which represents ✦ Company founded 2013, Reg Number: 08531564, UK
200-300m people and is forecast to double by 2050
✦ CEO: Michael Darcy
✦ Working with two Tier 1 clients, which have very low default risk
✦ www.africamobilenetworks.com
✦ Currently has over 350 sites in service and is targeting to have
12,900 operational by 2023 ✦ Harwell position: c.25%
✦ First investment 2014, latest investment 2019
✦ AMN has received c.$14m grant capital (non-dilutive) from
Facebook, in addition to strategic resource to develop the tech ✦ Invested c.£5.8m via structure and c.£3m directly
and further enhance its competitive advantage
✦ AMN has refined its tower structure to be highly scalable Revenue 16,601 51,153 88,523 128,042 159,478
(erected in a day) and cost efficient ($10k per tower)
Cost of sales -7,296 -17,906 -29,165 -41,046 -48,057
✦ The company is shifting its business model from revenue share Gross pro!t 9,305 33,247 59,358 86,995 111,420
to the traditional fixed-fee model favoured by traditional Tower
Operating costs
Companies. Average revenue per site per month is c.$1250 -4,242 -7,284 -11,697 -16,518 -20,327
under both business models EBITDA 5,064 25,964 47,661 70,478 91,093
✦ Detego provides an innovative SaaS solution for global fashion ✦ 4 year forecast of €41.5m revenue and €17.7m EBITDA
retailers to track garments accurately throughout the supply
chain to the point of sale. Detego partners RFID (Radio ✦ Exit objective: 2023 for €415m+
Frequency Identification) technology with its SaaS solution to
track every garment with an in-built chip from manufacture ✦ Company founded 2011, Reg Number: 10084823, UK
through to sale ✦ CEO: Kim Berknov
✦ Detego's solution delivers 99%+ inventory accuracy vs. industry ✦ www.detego.com/en/
averages of 60-70%, revenue increases of 10-15%, net margin
increase of 1-2% and ROI of 6-9 months ✦ Harwell position: c.2.5%
✦ Working with 16+ global Tier 1 clients, which have low default ✦ First investment 2017, latest investment 2018
risk, including: Adidas Group, Levi Strauss, Marc O'Polo and G-
Star Raw ✦ Invested c.€530k
✦ Muso is a leading data driven content protection specialist ✦ Forecast revenue c.£1.8m in current financial year
delivering market-changing solutions to the global online media
industries, transforming the problem of piracy into an ✦ 4 year forecast of £72.5m revenue and £42.6m EBITDA
opportunity for rightsholders
✦ Exit objective: 2023 for £510-566m+
✦ Muso has developed leading proprietary IP to protect clients'
content and is the only company creating an opportunity for ✦ Company founded 2009, Reg Number: 07351174, UK
rightsholders to understand and monetise the vast piracy ✦ CEO: Andy Chatterley
audience
✦ www.muso.com
✦ The product range shares data, trends and patterns of piracy
across all its solutions and maintains itself at the forefront of ✦ Harwell position: c.28%
piracy activity, not based on guesswork but real-time piracy
usage, backed by over 9 years of piracy data ✦ First investment 2017, latest investment 2019
✦ 1,000+ clients including Sony Interactive, Fieg, MBC, AIM and ✦ Invested c.£5.2m via structure and c.£600k directly
EUIPO
✦ Harwell is currently conducting a review into three of its ✦ Exit valuations have been calculated using current market
portfolio companies that are seeking follow-on investment: multiples and management forecast financials (it should be
Aitekz, Edge Intelligence and Strada noted that dilution will affect the exit share price, as such
money on money returns and IRRs cannot be calculated from
✦ Contingent on the results of Harwell's revised due diligence, this table)
refreshed market reviews and valuation testing, these
companies may qualify for further capital deployment
2019 FOLLOW-ON FUNDING ROUNDS - UNDER REVIEW (CONTD)
✦ Aitekz is a B2B SaaS company applying deep data and machine ✦ Edge Intelligence has reinvented analytics for the next decade.
learning (Artificial Intelligence - 'AI') to power a professional Its technology is the first distributed analytics software, which
wealth management FinTech platform has been designed to support edge & hybrid cloud computing
✦ The core IP draws on the founders' deep data, machine learning ✦ The solution has been through a pilot with a government entity
AI, and broad commercial experience applied to prior financial with a deployment of 100M subscribers, 1 trillion records and
models and technology start-ups petabyte scale storage
✦ During the Aitekz development and validation phase, the ✦ Edge Intelligence's solution eliminates the need for a central
platform's learning core has been refined and tested with clients approach to data analytics, which requires data to be
including: Accenture, RBS, Canon, BNP, Addeco, Old Mutual - transferred globally (which can take days, weeks, or even
companies for which the AI has been applied to automate needs months). With the rise of the Interest of Things (IoT), central
analysis, identify knowledge gaps, and deliver knowledge and analytics is no longer going to be viable due to the volume of
learning via an 'EdTech' platform veracity of data being produced, as such, edge computing will
become the go to solution due to speed and cost
✦ Aitekz is now focused on the launch of its next-generation
FinTech vertical App targeting the Wealth Management sector, ✦ The company has globally patent-protected IP, which provides a
which has completed successful pilots with global players, long-term sustainable advantage
including FTSE 100 company Informa plc and NASDAQ quoted
Envestnet Inc ✦ Company founded 2010, Reg Number: FC030113, US
✦ www.aitekz.com
2019 FOLLOW-ON FUNDING ROUNDS - UNDER REVIEW (CONTD)
✦ Harwell sources its deal-flow through a combination of personal teams with vision, drive, proven track records in multiple market
and institutional networks, including Midven, Imperial College environments and who are uniquely capable of delivering on the
London, Warwick University and Bean Partners opportunity; and for the bulk of research and development
(R&D) to be complete, and where funding can be used for
✦ Harwell's investment criteria include: established businesses commercialisation, growth acceleration and delivering into sales
with differentiated innovative world class technology developed pipelines
in-house, boasting strong patented or patentable IP; clearly
identifiable market with a real-world problem that needs ✦ In 2018, Harwell reviewed >300 investment opportunities,
solving; scalable business models to achieve business plans; connected with >50 companies, completed initial due diligence
attractive and realistic valuations, both pre-money and target on three companies and signed terms with one company
exit value; revenue generating and thus commercially proven
technology, with high revenue growth rates; repeat and quality ✦ Current areas of focus: FinTech, AI, Cyber, Augmented Reality,
customers which can be engaged with to understand why they Gaming and E-commerce
are using the technology and what it can do for a customer that
no other company can; low churn rate on customers with ✦ Harwell is currently well engaged with nine companies and aims
to sign terms with at least one or two of these companies during
typically ramping-up contract value; low concentration of both
Q1 2019 to then launch in Q2 2019
key customers and target customers; high impact management
HARWELL CAPITAL: INVESTMENT PROCESS
✦ The Harwell process covers the investment cycle with pre- ✦ Post-investment: Harwell look to take Board Director or
investment work, fundraising activities and post-investment Observer positions in every portfolio company so that it can
duties work closely with the company to add and realise value through
✦ Pre-investment: Harwell reviews investment opportunities commercial consultancy, financial planning and through
against its commercially considered investment criteria and once strategic initiatives. Further, Harwell distributes quarterly
satisfied then looks to engage the management of the investee updates to all investors, incorporating information provided by
company in a multi-stage evaluation process that looks at both the portfolio company during the reporting period. This will
the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the opportunity. If include commentary on the progress made during the quarter,
the company meets the commercial expectations of the Harwell including technology and commercial milestones achieved,
investment team, thorough due diligence and market analysis is together with key financial data
then performed over the opportunity and if successful, legal
documents are signed
✦ Fundraising: Harwell presents new investment opportunities to
its High Net Worth, Ultra High Net Worth and Family Office
investors in a curated and considered manner to ensure that
there is a strategic fit for both the investor and the investee
company
HARWELL CAPITAL: STRUCTURE
✦ The key requirements for all investors are that any structure be ✦ Harwell Capital SPC issues Participating Shares in the
(i) easy to understand, (ii) fully transparent, (iii) mitigate any Segregated Portfolio specific to the underlying technology
counterparty risk, (iv) protect investors' rights, (v) properly company investment to investors, with the rights of investors,
align the investors' interests with those of Harwell Capital and risk factors and Harwell structure set out in detail in the
its partners, and (vi) where possible be tax-efficient offering documents drawn up by Ogier, Harwell's international
lawyers. These comprise the Subscription Agreement
✦ All investments are made in a Cayman Islands SPC or (including Application Form), Private Offering Memorandum
Segregated Portfolio Company, with a separate SP or (POM) and Supplement to the POM specific to each
Segregated Portfolio established for each investee company. investment opportunity. The Private Offering Memorandum
The SPC will represent clients' interests in the investee sets out the general investment terms in detail, with
company, also offering an attractive solution for the investee comprehensive coverage of the risk factors involved. The
companies that allows them to raise funding from a number of Supplement sets out the specific terms of each investment,
investors whilst maintaining a clean share register and dealing with risk factors specific to each technology and company's
with one shareholder on an ongoing basis particular stage of development
✦ Harwell Capital (Jersey) Ltd is licensed and regulated by the
Jersey Financial Services Commission, and acts as investment
adviser to Harwell Capital SPC, assisting the company in
sourcing new investment opportunities and providing general
administration support