ALTERNATIVA
The European SME Growth Market
Crowdfunding:
untapping its potential reducing risks
Brussels
3rd June 2013
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What is Alternativa?
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Alternativa France is 15 000 registered users – 1500 repeat investors - from 500 euros to
10 000 euros mean ticket – 32 companies listed including one startup for Wiseed – 40
projects funded – 20 mios euros in SME financing solo !
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100% Digital registration payment and trading - 100% Social Media.
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A Swedish – French concept launched in 2003 in Sweden in 2008 in France on one concept
SME’s need a disintermediated financial life with three concepts :
Crowdsourcing + Crowdfunding + Crowdtrading
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In EU regulatory terms : an Investment Service Provider (a broker) with an MTF
(Multilateral Trading Facility – like AIM and the Marché Libre) license.
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Regulated by the ACP (Banque de France) and the AMF (French Securities Regulator) with a
an EU passport for Belgium and the UK (May) & member of of
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We specialize in SME ‘s from 3 to 40 mio Euros. On Startups we Partner with
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Crowdfunding is a European Reality !
Legislation for Equity and Bond Crowdfunding should be pan european without ‘National
Gold Plating’ – regulatory issues need more finetuning .
One of the focuses has to be to foster trust with citizen-investors and SME’s through best
practises (use of valuations, use of self imposed rules).
Present regulation could ideally focus on the public offer of securities in a more adapted
manner for different segments : startups, different from SME’s, lending, etc …
Crowdfunding is perceived as blurring the lines between funding entrepreneurship and
being entrepreneurship – we need to work on this !
Engaging regulators should be with a few key messages – our view is to simplify the
public offering and make it the same Europe wide.
Startups and SME’s desperately access to better Funding – the existing circuits are failing
… But in fact they’re just not adapted.
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Venture Financing, Growth and Savings – a Perspective
Mean
GDP Gr.
Rate (%)
(2002-11)
Equity Market
Capitalisation
(% of GDP)
Household Saving
Rates (% of
disposable income)
Investments in
Venture Capital
(in USD) per inh.
Population in
Mios
France
1,11
56,57
16,8
$18
65,44
Finlande
1,85
54,40
2,2
$26
5,39
USA
1,63
104,33
4,7
$75
311
Israël
3,62
59,68
6% est.*
$170
7,7
Sources : 2011 data - World Bank, The Economist ,OECD & ONU
*The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsability of the relevant Israeli authorities
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The Missing Link - Financing the Equity Gap
250K€
1,5M€
EQUITY GAP
Financing
1M€
50M€
Sales
Revenues
T
HE
SME
FINANCING
CYCLE
Local Presence
Regional Presence
National and Global Presence
Crowdfunding,
Business angels
Traditional Financial
Markets
‘Normal’
financing
Equity
Gap or
‘Death
Valley’
Startups
financing
Junior markets,
Crowdfunding,
Pte Equity
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Most Stock Exchanges are often struggling with SME’s
- The IPOs of SME on the big Stock
Exchanges (Euronext, DBAG, LSE) are
unsuitable because of fee structures and
costs.
- Firms fundraisings below 1M€ rarely
occurs.
- Brokers and financial institutions cannot
profitably follow and don’t cater to SME’s .
- No market liquidity for SME’s because the
firm value is not analysed and updated.
- Centralized structure: new initiatives are
always for Intermediate or middle sized
Companies (i.e. Bourse de L’entreprise
)
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Alternativa model for SME. A low-cost
integrated
system
has
regulatory
approval.
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Specialised in fundraising from 250K
€
to 2.5M
€
, using tax and public
incentives
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In partnership with local ethical actors
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Educating investors and SME to
financing cycles (Alternativa stock
Guide for SME and SME investors)
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Quick Capital raising time horizon (6
weeks)
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Key Partnerships with leading equity
crowdfunders, and Impact investing
(SRI).
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‘‘
C
ustomers tell you what they want,
not what they need
’’
Steve Jobs
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Our network and environment
Private and
Insitutional
More than 15,500.
in France Belgium &
UK
Investors
Belgian and
UK
Passeport
Regional
Market
Places
32
32 listed companies.
Wide range of sectors,
sizes and profiles (from
€100K to €40Mios
revenues)
Companies
Including supervisory authorities…
…and a regular media coverage
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1 rue de la Bourse
75002 Paris
Phone : +33 1 42 27 85 51
Contact :
Philippe Dardier, CEO
philippe.dardier@alternativa.fr