UM6P Ventures’ Deeptech Offer Support and Investment
Also known as HardTech, DeepTech projects present high barriers to entry due to their scientific nature and related costs. Investing in these projects is perceived by financial stakeholders as complex, not knowing how to approach them, despite their high potential.
DeepTech requires a fully integrated support system of infrastructure, platforms, talent and programs to enable the transition of these projects from a demonstrator to an industrially mature project.
UM6P Ventures’ investment in DeepTech supports the national commitment to accelerate scientific and technological innovation and is in line with Morocco’s new economic development model.
This offer, which combines support ‘Venture Builder’and investment ‘Venture Capital’, gives UM6P Ventures the ability to fund, build and accelerate assets from projects.
Venture Builder
Characterization (pre-investment)
A characterization of startups and projects is facilitated during the due diligence process. The advanced due diligence offered by UM6P Ventures ensures that startups receive a high level of business and technology advisory support relevant to their scientific field before moving to further rounds of dilutive and non-dilutive capital funding. Recommendations for improvements and access to critical platforms and infrastructure help to accelerate time to market and provide startups with an optimal chance of success.
Business analysis and advisory: In-depth business analysis provides guidance and validation of the startups’ market opportunity, business structure, financial model and metrics, and legal structure.
Intellectual property assessment: Intellectual property (IP) is a critical component of DeepTech that needs to be addressed early on to protect a startup’s assets as they develop and produce their products and services. UM6P Ventures assists startups with the adoption of the most appropriate IP strategy which includes an assessment of the patentability of the product, a maturity assessment of the technology and an understanding of the necessary milestones to bring the patented solution to market.
Technology advisory: UM6P Ventures provides access to experts in specialized vertical domains who master both the upstream (technology) and downstream (market). UM6P Ventures provides access to a world-wide network of experts and executives with the best scientific minds on the African continent. They enable early-stage companies to perfect their technologies and take their innovations from the lab to market. In addition, they provide entrepreneurs with the necessary skills to progress to industrial scale production.
Non-dilutive Support (post investment)
In response to the unique requirements of science and technology-based startups, UM6P Ventures continues its support by offering access to:
Subject matter experts: a broad ecosystem of best-in-class domain and vertical subject matter expertise.
Facilities: state-of-the-art laboratories, platforms of excellence and equipment for the testing, prototyping, validation, and production phases of product development.
Business structuring support: assists startups in reaching important milestones and monitoring their execution to meet expected specifications.
Venture Capital Venture capital is the preferred means of financing early-stage startups. It fills the gap left by the capital markets and conventional banks due to the high risk associated with the industrialization of scientific innovation. Through tickets up to 5 MMAD, UM6P Ventures takes minority positions (10-15%) in the capital of startups in order to minimize founder dilution. It promotes a complementary situation with other investors by diversifying the sources of financing.
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