Maximising entrepreneurs’ chances of successfully obtaining funding, through training and direct access to key European investors.
InvestHorizon is the Investment Readiness Programme designed to increase investments made in Innovative European SMEs through Investment Readiness development and Investor sensitization. Brought forward by 10 qualified and reliable partners, InvestHorizon offers a set of services and training across Europe, to investors and entrepreneurs, from start‐up to mid‐cap level.
InvestHorizon programme addresses the main challenges affecting investment readiness, namely:
1. the lack of programmes addressing investment readiness across Europe;
2. the low awareness regarding investment readiness and financing options amongst entrepreneurs;
3. the weak interest of different investor types for innovative SMEs across the technology sectors;
4. the weak investability of many of the companies and presentational failings, and;
5. the difficulty of matching innovative companies with specialized investors.
InvestHorizon pursues the following 5 objectives:
1. Identify, recommend and communicate those strategies, indicators, schemes and tools with the best impact on investment readiness and investors sensitization and matching;
2. Raise the awareness amongst innovative SMEs across origination types, stages, countries, technology sectors about those key topics affecting their knowledge and capacity to improve their investment readiness;
3. Increase the interest of investors across the range of technology sectors and across the range of different types of (co)-investors;
4. Improve the investment readiness of 3000 SMEs by boosting their business and investor propositions as well as their presentation pitch, and;
5. Matching at least 450+ investment ready companies with specialized investors across Europe.
