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PRESENTATION
The leading cross-border marketplace for short-term
property-backed loans in continental Europe
01 Executive overview 04 Market opportunity
• Intro to EstateGuru
• EstateGuru Credit
Fund
02 EstateGuru
• EstateGuru
• Management and
Table Of Shareholders
• Overview of platform
Content • Track record
03 Investment process
• Sourcing of loans
• Loan process
• Risk management
• ESG
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Executive Overview. ESTATEGURU
Originated
EstateGuru is the leading European digital investment platform for short-term property backed
loans. The company focuses on delivering sustainable investment returns with strong EUR 426 million
downside protection.
• Experience across the region (front office, legal frameworks, risk management)
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ESTATEGURU. Loan Products
Description Business loan is used to raise capital for Bridge loans are defined as short-term real A loan used to develop the property, that
day-to-day activities, working capital, estate loans that provide the property owner ranges from construction works to
business expansion, acquisition of the necessary capital until a permanent excavation work, i.e. development of area
equipment or goods, cover pending solution for financing has become available. infrastructure, including utilities and roads.
obligations (taxes, etc.).
Used for Refinancing, capital raise, restructure of Development preparation, property Residential and commercial apartments/
assets, etc. acquisition, sale advance, development exit, premises/buildings development(in stages),
etc. renovation, reconstruction, etc.
Examples • Production company takes short term • Equity release loan for sales period. • Development of single-family house for
loan backed by their production facility Entrepreneurs take loans against finished sale
• SME owner takes short business loan for apartments or houses • Development of small commercial
operating capital needs, backed by his • Loan for the pre-development phase. building for sale
personal real estate Entrepreneur takes out a loan before the • Development of recreational and science
• Different other cases where SME owners project has building permit and final centers
can provide property as collateral of the capital structure is in place • Flipping apartment in city centers
loan • Entrepreneur needs fast cash to close an • Reconstruction of big apartments into
opportunistic transaction and is ready to smaller units
pay for speed and flexibility • Reconstruction of commercial building to
residential building
• Reconstruction of industrial building to
loft apartments
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CFO Head of Legal Head of Group Head of Head of Investor COO Head of Capital CRO
Marko Arro Ilo Keres Sales Marketing and Relations Mikhel Stamm Markets Kaspar Kaljuvee
Daniil Aal communication Triin Joeleht Willem
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Piret Reinson Reddingius
Finance Legal Sales Marketing and Investor Operations & Capital Markets Risk Area
Communication Relationship Product
Focus: Ensuring Focus: All legal Focus: Building best Focus: Raise Focus: Assure
busines continuity by matters, expansion, products for Focus: Building Focus: Building best Focus: Run and institutional funds Investors and
financial control capital markets, legal borrowers, finding brand awareness, products for expand operational from variety of Borrowers get a
(reporting, financial agreements, new sales channels, lead generation for investors, countries. Lead sources (sourcing, great product by
risks, etc.) corporate corporate establishing best loans and investors maximising retail platform design and structuring, ensuring 0 loss of
governance, governance, practises of sales in and community investor portfolio engineering. Ensure execution and capital
compliance and compliance all the countries education throughout performance and secure and stable management)
financial control where company Manage Institutional Experience: 15 years
the company providing excellent operations
Experience: 16 years operates investor relations experience in real
operational countries customer support.
Experience: 20 years legal experience with Experience: estate valuations,
experience in the largest banks in Experience: Experience: >= 20 Experience: Background in Experience: 12 years investment and
financial the Baltics and as an Background in years experience in Background in banking, operational experience in capital management
management and attorney in a Baltic business marketing and relationship- and excellence and sales raising and
real estate. tier 1 law firm development and communications for investor investment banking
sales financial institutions management
ESTATEGURU. Supervisory board
Supervisory board
Marek Pärtel (Chairman) Joao Monteiro (Angel investor) Dr. Gabriella Kindert (independent)
Co-founder and CEO of Estateguru. Over 20 years experience in strategy Over 20 years experience in
Over 20 years experience in real consulting, senior management, angel banking, asset management and
estate development, investment investing with Roland Berger, Kuehne + Nagel, private equity with BNP Paribas
and management in 7 different and investments in numerous start-ups and NN IP
countries
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ESTATEGURU. Shareholders
Main external shareholders (EstateGuru is >60% owned by its employees)
A venture capital fund with + Estonian accelerator, Top European equity Swiss Immo Lab shapes the
€400m invested in seed & invested in 185 start-ups in crowdfunding platform for development of the real
early-stage tech startups the CEE and CIS countries seed and angel investments estate ecosystem as an
across Europe innovation enabler
Invests in the most promising Provides investors with exposure J&T Ventures invests in
European startups from seed to a globally diversified portfolio teams who transform their
stage onward of earlier-stage technology start- industries through
ups technology
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ESTATEGURU. Overview
• Risk assessment based
hundreds of data points
• Credit committee
approves/rejects projects
• EG does KYC/AML checks
• Projects are placed on platform
with full information package
Subject to:
• Investment committee approval
Interest & • Fund eligibility criteria
Investment funds
repayments
Security • Concentration limits
• Fund KYC/AML requirements
trustee
Institutional
investors
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ESTATEGURU. Technology
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Loan book and Performance
Jurisdictions Loan types Collateral types
Loan Book statistics (per 9.2021)
% of senior loans 98.53% Estonia Latvia Finland Germany Business loan Residential
Development loan
Land
Average Loan Size EUR 207 th. Lithuania Spain Portugal Sweden Bridge loan
Commercial
Maximum loan size EUR 10 000 th.
Expected jurisdictions
Minimum loan size EUR 7 th. for the Fund
WA LTV 54%
Maximum LTV 75% 20%
9%
Minimum LTV 7%
WA loan tenor 15 9%
EstateGuru • In-house sales team • Detailed credit analysis • Prepare documentation • Notary conducts own • Monitor timely payment
actively sources • Credit committee • Allocate priority funding due diligence • Take corrective action
potential projects assesses project sources • Mortgage on behalf of where necessary
• Initial analysis and • 3th party valuation • Place loan on platform trustee and held for • Allocate returns to
go/no go • Offer to borrower with all relevant info investors investors
• Prep for credit • Legal sign-off • Finalise documentation
committee • Final allocation • Collect investor funds
Borrower • Sign-up (accept T&Cs) • Provide additional info • Sign all docs (e.g. loan • Sign mortgage • Pay interest and
• AML & KYC checks • Answer questions agreement, general agreement amortisation
• Provide company info • EG onsite visit T&Cs, user terms) • Funds are released to • Execute project
• Provide project info borrower to use for the • Inform EG about
project progress or issues
• Provide ESG info
Retail investor • Sign-up (accept T&Cs) • Search site for loans • Select loans to invest • Receives executed loan • Personalised portfolio
• AML & KYC checks • Read and analyse info contract updates
• Transfer funds to • Confirm participation • Money is deducted from • Email updates
personal EG account personal account • Receive debt service
Debt fund/ • Prepare info-pack for • Eligibility check • At least 51% allocation • Receive executed loan • Periodic reporting to
Investment AIFM • KYC/AML/ESG check • More if needed to fully contract AIFM & investors
manager • Investment committee fund loan • Transfer funds to EG
approves/rejects project
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ESTATEGURU – Origination
In-house sales • In-house sales team in every operating country
team • Actively approach potential clients (real estate managers/investors,
property developers, etc. ) and follow-up with leads
• Build and maintain partner network
• Relationship management with existing clients
Local partner • Wide active and incentivised partner network of realtors, brokers,
network consultants, accountants, intermediaries, etc. in each market
Online lead • Data web scrapers continuously searching online for potential
generators projects
• Access to relevant databases (construction permits, planning
permissions, land book registries, real estate listing portals)
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ESTATEGURU. Underwriting technology
Digital Decision Making: Highly automated credit process that leverages the financial expertise of the team
Today
• Multi channel customer • Digital borrower application and • Calibrated customer selection • Automated project matching • Built in risk management
sourcing contract journey for repeat loans • Compliant investor reporting system
• CRM management system • Third-party data for due • SME credit assessment & multi • Built-in KYC/AML layer through • Secure/collateral conversion
• Building permit scarpers (EE, LV, diligence dimensional risk scoring third-party API • Automatic loan monitoring
GER, FI. Other countries will be process
added in due course)
Under development
• Sourcing partnerships • Verification and cross- check • Automated real estate valuation • Direct API to bank deposits, • Synthesized learnings from loan
• Micro targeted digital marketing with public databases partially assessment integration of marketplaces and data
implemented • Enriching algorithm with third- deposit solutions • Developing AI/Machine
• Data harmonization party data impairment checks, • Full AML/KYC due diligence Learning models
geo and satellite data integrated into our system.
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ESTATEGURU. Risk management
CHIEF RISK OFFICER
Independent risk management with tight processes and internal controls; the due diligence process is based on a
proven, disciplined, bottom-up credit analysis and an internally developed rating system (based on a combination of
internationally recognized methodologies)
Credit Risk Team:
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ESTATEGURU. Arrears management
Activities and steps
Due date
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Environmental, Social, and Governance. Approach
• Before applying, all borrowers and retail investors go through detailed AML and KYC We only facilitate projects
checks. Borrowers are screened against our Exclusion list and against multiple AML/KYC that are compatible with our
Origination
databases
corporate values and
• All borrowers are screened against our ESG Checklist
responsible investment
• The checklist identifies potential ESG risks including environmental concerns, social
principles
concerns (incl. community, supply chain, human resources and health and safety-related
issues) and corporate governance and ethical concerns
• As part of the credit due diligence, borrowers fill in an ESG scorecard, identifying priority
Underwriting
community
• On an annual basis, EstateGuru reports to its shareholders and investors community on its
ESG performance
• Existing policies, procedures and standards are reviewed and improved on a continuous
basis
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ESTATEGURU.
Market
opportunity
The leading cross-border marketplace for short-term
property-backed loans in continental Europe
The Market opportunity:
Underserved European SME property-lending market
Access to underserved parts of the real estate < €10m loan-size SME lending market non- Most alternative lenders focused on unsecured
loan market as well as covering underserved appealing for traditional lenders, who withdrew SME lending, leaving property-backed loans
regions, both normally out of reach to investors; from the market untapped
This leaves an estimated €400bn untapped Digital lending platform are able to serve the Lack of financing options offers opportunities
European SME lending market market effectively for high yield with strong downside protection
While being an accepted asset class for
professional investors
EstateGuru will help to solve the arbitrage of the market
EstateGuru operates in a segment where borrowers have been underserved and investors are missing the right
risk/return profile.
Long time to funding of multiple weeks High risk of higher yielding instruments without
is too slow for SMEs collateral protection
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Why is EstateGuru best positioned to
utilise this market opportunity
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CONTACT US
Willem Reddingius
Director Capital Markets
willem.reddingius@estateguru.co
+31 6 83330033
DISCLAIMER
BEFORE INVESTING YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER THE FUND’S
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES, RISKS, CHARGES AND
EXPENSIES, RISKS RELATED TO THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS.
INVESTMENTS IN FUNDS INVOLVE RISKS INCLUDING POSSIBLE LOSS
OF PRINCIPAL.