WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
FOUNDERS
Professional advice for the seed and start-up stages
Together with you, we will examine and analyse your business ideas, vision, market potential, and risk analysis in order to verify the following:
- That your business plan is thorough, comprehensible, challenging and realistic.
- That the business idea is innovative, forward-looking, suitable for the market and expandable.
- That the personality of the founder, his education and professional training, job experience and his readiness to dedicate himself to the business are convincing.
- That the budget and liquidity analysis for the first year of business are plausible.
- That the profitability calculation is realistic and ambitious.
- That service providers are able to gain their first customers and show potential interested parties what they can provide, that product developers have prototypes, and that researchers have their first verifiable results.
- That the founders and their partners are 101% committed.
ENTREPRENEURS
Cologne Invest portfolio for businesses and entrepreneurs
We help entrepreneurs to evaluate their growth strategy and to form middle and long-term business plans:
- Strategic and financial analysis, development and/or evaluation of your long-term business plan, scenario management and assessment of your implementation strategy
- Market and business environement analysis, cash flow management and prognosis
- Evaluation of organisation structure and management
SHAREHOLDER MANAGEMENT
Part and full service for your growth, partnering and acquisitions strategy
We can advise on specific business decisions:
- Mergers & acquisition management (M&A) from applicant screening, choosing possible acquisition candidates and board-level representation
- Complete financial consulting including due diligence planning and implementation
- Hands-on negotiation support and coaching
- Long term mentoring and management support for successful implementation of your acquisitions and/or shareholdings