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CAPstart Private Equity is Australia's largest community of private Investors. CAPstart is a personal service for both Investors and Small/ Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who wish to invest in or raise private equity.
CAPstart serves the private equity market by matching Investors who have qualified their investment interests with SMEs who have been assessed as investment ready.
CAPstart is continually developing its web enabled technology to provide the most effective, cost efficient and timely means for administrating the bringing together of SMEs and Investors.
The Capstart Market management team are always available to provide assistance in every part of the capital raising process for both Investors and SMEs.
Investment and capital raising opportunities typically include:
- New technology commercialisation start ups
- SMEs with new products and new market opportunities
- SMEs in high growth needing working capital
- Management buyouts or business acquisitions
CAPstart has been designed to make it easy for Investors to be informed about possible suitable investments. Investors/subscribers can change immediately their investment criteria to produce new lists of investment opportunities.
High net worth individuals, business angels, corporations, venture capitalists, advisers and consultants are all welcome to register at no cost as Investors/Subscribers on CAPstart. All investor's details are protected and not released to SMEs or to other databases. If an investor is interested in progressing an investment opportunity, the investor will decide when his details are to be released to the SME.
Below is an example of the interactive SME database. Investors can choose the SMEs they would like to look at which comply with their chosen attributes. Attributes that can be chosen include, capital required, industry, business stage, location, and cumulative sales to date. For registered Subscribers/Investors to obtain further information click on the Heading or Title to a particular investment opportunity in the table of opportunities you select.
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CAPstart cannot be responsible for the information provided by listing SMEs, however to assist in making the information comprehensive, relevant and reasonably presented it is mandatory that all listing SMEs participate in CAP start's Investment Ready Review and Workshop program which takes up to 10 hours of review time.
Registration for Investors/Subscribers is free. It should be noted that CAPstart receive review, listing and success fees from SMEs. See SME Registration Terms and Conditions for details.
Investment in private companies (especially seed, start-up or early expansion) is usually highly speculative and part or all of the company's capital can easily be lost. It is most important that potential Investors thoroughly check out the company and its management prior to investing. CAPstart Market has provided below a guide to some of the issues that should be addressed by Investors.
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- Easy to use, efficient and no cost
- SME information professionally reviewed and workshopped
- Unlimited changes of Investment criteria for matching
- Easy to view highlights of SME matches
- Standard format of additional SME information
- Option to automatically receive information about newly listed SME's
- Professionally coordinated negotiations and due diligence
- Very large choice of opportunities in the one system
- Greater transaction speed results in lower costs
- CAPstart allows the investor to remain anonymous during the initial stages
- Investors can join a syndicate to spread their investment and risk
- Investors, SMEs, Advisers, Consultants and Government Bodies are all welcome to register and view the listed SMEs
- Complete the Investor/Subscriber Registration form. Note if you want to view all SMEs tick the box in item 12. If you wish to view SMEs having a specific profile complete the relevant profile items 13 to 17 otherwise leave the choices in these item numbers blank
- Once registered go to the Registered Investors - LOGIN side panel. You now have the choice of obtaining an immediate list of SMEs fitting your last profile criteria or you can change your profile criteria and get new SME lists
- To get more details from the SME list, click on the "SME Title"
- To progress any investment opportunity contact Donovan Wearne on 02 9247 7128 or send us an e-mail at donovan@capstart.com.au
Go to Investor/Subscriber Registration form
Investors will have had vastly different experiences investing in SMEs and have different financial abilities to undertake evaluation and due-diligence. The following suggestions are listed only as a general guide of items, which should be addressed by the Investor prior to looking at individual investment opportunities: -
- Understand your own ability and experience in investing in SMEs
- Do you want to have any other role, i.e., a directorship or any management positions?
- Are you willing to be part of a syndicate?
- Are there any particular industries in which you would not invest?
- Do you wish to appoint Advisers to assist in the investment evaluation and/or negotiations?
- What is the maximum and minimum amount you would be willing to put into a single investment?
- Understand and define the levels of risk you are prepared to take
- Do you wish to consider selling your investment in any particular time period, i.e., 3 to 5 years?
- Do you require any arrangements to be put in place now to assist with this?
- Understand that investing in SMEs is an investment of limited liquidity
Remember that investing in or lending to SMEs is often high-risk
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