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To know more about itA platform for connecting advisors and investors to enable SMEs to find a financing solution
FirmFunding is the digital market place that allows the boards of growing SMEs to find a suitable financing solution from professional investors. The financing files that can be put online and consulted by investors relate to development projects, transfers, asset financing, or disposals, for amounts ranging from 1 to 20 million euros. All sectors of activity are eligible, provided that the company is a joint stock company, has a turnover of a minimum of 5 to 10 million euros, and is profitable or about to be profitable. These projects, presented and supported by professional advisers, are made available to registered investors (+250), who, after having read the documents relating to the company and the project put online, can contact them to exchange and further their analysis, before, if necessary, signing. The FirmFunding platform, exclusively reserved for professionals, guarantees the preservation of the confidentiality of the files, which can only be consulted by registered investors.
Benefit from the advantages of a digitized financing marketplace
FirmFunding is the only platform entirely dedicated to
private placement
in the aim of
financing the growth of SMEs
. More than
250 professional investors
are already registered (asset managers and family offices) with a total investment capacity of more than
€3 billion.
€470 million financing have been put online since the platform's launch in 2017, with an average financing of €5 million.
SMEs advisors
Immediate access to the database of registered professional investors
A personalized follow-up of the progress of your financing project (depending on the option chosen)
A wide range of registered investors, able to intervene in bonds (dry or convertible) and equity to respond to all types of projects: growth, transmission, asset financing, in all sectors and all regions.
Professional investors
Immediate access to qualified projects (pre screening carried out by the FirmFunding teams)
Unified and optimized project presentation
A simplified process: online consultation of the documentation and direct contact with the advisor
Benefit from the advantages of private debt
FirmFunding marketplace is restricted to professionals, which ensures confidentiality. Whether you are an SME advisor or a professional investor, you first have to register to access the marketplace and our services. Here are the main steps:
Advisors
Access immediatly the professionnal investors registered
1. Share your project with FirmFunding’s team
Exchanges and review of the project before it is put online
2. Submit your project online
Upload the following documents: Info memo, BP and other documents
3. Discuss with investors who have expressed an interest
Interested investors contact the advisor directly to continue discussions
Investors
Access financing projects
1. Create your account
Access online projects on the marketplace
2. Review financing project
Analyse the memo info, the BP and other documents uploaded by the advisors
3. Contact the SME advisor
The contact details of the advisor for each project are available online: contact him and continue your analysis
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What is FirmFunding ?
FirmFunding is the first and only financing platform dedicated to private placement (bond and equity) for SMEs. To finance their growth, SMEs need to have at their disposal other sources of financing than bank loans.
FirmFunding is a marketplace that aims to connect SME advisors with professional investors, when a private placement financing project is released online.
The online-process is very simple: SME councils put online useful documents to present the financing project of their client company, which registered investors can consult before contacting them.
The FirmFunding platform:
For which types of financings ?
Provided that it is a profitable corporation or in the process of being so, and generates a revenue of more than €5 million, all types of projects are likely to be financed at least in part by the use of private debt:
- All types: development (organic growth, external growth), transmission (MBO, MBI, OBO, exit of minority shareholders, etc.), refinancing, asset financing.
- All sectors: services, agro, real estate, industry, consulting, technologies...
- Regardless of the headquarter location: whole France and the EU.
Why finance your business with FirmFunding ?
FirmFunding already has more than 250 registered professional investors with a total financing capacity of more than €3 billion. These investors are essentially management company and family offices. €320 million of corporate financings have been uploaded since its creation.
Investors registered on the FirmFunding platform can thus provide a source of financing to strengthen the (quasi-) equity capital of SMEs, in complementarity with the bank, without diluting the founding shareholders.
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