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A Venture Capital PerspectiveGamiel Gran - Partner Sierra Ventures  October 6, 2011
Venture Capitalist Perspective  Agenda ,[object Object]
Big Data and Analytics – Massive Scale in Real-time – Those who can leverage will win
Cloud - The New Data Center – ‘X-as-a-Service’ and at commodity prices
Mobility – The New Starting Point – consumerization sets the standard for access, simplicity and adoption
Social – The New Internet – the social chain as the new dimension across the globe
Sierra Ventures – Our Approach
Getting Funded – some insights ,[object Object]
Need out-sized returns (DJIA+5)
Want access to “best” firms; comp issues
Can drive cyclicality
Equity investors (Not lenders); strike deals
Pick winners and add value; wide variety of outcomes
Firms often specialize and have multiple funds
Long-terms funds, but liquidity focused
VC as change agent; Value add
Large sorting task; Deal flow
Defining and focusing the pursuit of an opportunity
Marshalling resources / maintaining control
Attempting to create “virtuous cycle of success”,[object Object]
L.P. - G.P. contracts; Compensation
Management Fees vs. Carry
History; Long view
Long-term funders of VC firms (10-year contract, funds flow slowly)
Need out-sized returns (DJIA+5)
Want access to “best” firms;
Can drive cyclicality,[object Object]
Large sorting task; Deal flow
The "pitch" and the "deal" (ownership)
Buyers and Sellers; Liquidity
Perform or perish; Firm focus
Equity investors (Not lenders);
Pick winners and add value; wide variety of outcomes
Firms often specialize and have multiple funds
Long-terms funds, but liquidity focused,[object Object]
Shared vision (evolving)
Fit with VC (permanence)

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A Venture Capital Perspective - Gamiel Gran Partner Sierra Ventures

  • 1. A Venture Capital PerspectiveGamiel Gran - Partner Sierra Ventures October 6, 2011
  • 2.
  • 3. Big Data and Analytics – Massive Scale in Real-time – Those who can leverage will win
  • 4. Cloud - The New Data Center – ‘X-as-a-Service’ and at commodity prices
  • 5. Mobility – The New Starting Point – consumerization sets the standard for access, simplicity and adoption
  • 6. Social – The New Internet – the social chain as the new dimension across the globe
  • 7. Sierra Ventures – Our Approach
  • 8.
  • 10. Want access to “best” firms; comp issues
  • 12. Equity investors (Not lenders); strike deals
  • 13. Pick winners and add value; wide variety of outcomes
  • 14. Firms often specialize and have multiple funds
  • 15. Long-terms funds, but liquidity focused
  • 16. VC as change agent; Value add
  • 18. Defining and focusing the pursuit of an opportunity
  • 19. Marshalling resources / maintaining control
  • 20.
  • 21. L.P. - G.P. contracts; Compensation
  • 24. Long-term funders of VC firms (10-year contract, funds flow slowly)
  • 26. Want access to “best” firms;
  • 27.
  • 29. The "pitch" and the "deal" (ownership)
  • 31. Perform or perish; Firm focus
  • 33. Pick winners and add value; wide variety of outcomes
  • 34. Firms often specialize and have multiple funds
  • 35.
  • 37. Fit with VC (permanence)
  • 39. Defining and focusing the pursuit of an opportunity
  • 40. Marshalling resources / maintaining control
  • 41. Attempting to create “virtuous cycle of success”
  • 42.
  • 43. Venture Capital InvestmentsBy industry: Q2 2011 Visit www.pwcmoneytree.com for Industry definitions PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree™ Report based on data from Thomson Reuters 8
  • 44. Venture Capital InvestmentsBy region: Q2 2011 PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree™ Report based on data from Thomson Reuters Q2 2011 Total Investments - $7,516.1 million in 966 deals 9
  • 45. Corporate Acquisitions Successful Exits Create Successful Entrepreneurs Cash of Top Consolidators $300+B Source: Capital IQ
  • 46.
  • 48. Longer Time*Source: Thompson Reuters & NVCA
  • 49.
  • 50. “social” phase of the digital revolution (Groupon, Facebook).
  • 51. Is this a bubble in the making?
  • 52. Capital intensive sectors (Life Sciences, Cleantech) challenges
  • 53. due to government policy uncertainties, both at the federal and state levels
  • 55. IPO and M & A markets are still weak by historical standards
  • 56.
  • 57. 90% kids under 15 live in emerging markets
  • 58. Global Internet usage 1.8 trillion min/mo
  • 59. Internet Users: China 420m, US 220m
  • 60. Cell Phone Users: China 790m, US 270m
  • 61. China #1 in car sales
  • 62. India population surpass China by 2020
  • 63.
  • 68. Some big IPO’s, e.g. Linked In
  • 70. Top 15 public tech firms have $300B cash
  • 71. E.g. Google bought 48 companies for $2B in 2010
  • 72. New and Huge Markets
  • 77.
  • 78. Big Data and Analytics – Massive Scale in Real-time – Those who can leverage will win
  • 79. Cloud - The New Data Center – ‘X-as-a-Service’ and at commodity prices
  • 80. Mobility – The New Starting Point – consumerization sets the standard for access, simplicity and adoption
  • 81. Social – The New Internet – the social chain as the new dimension across the globe
  • 82. Sierra Ventures – Our Approach
  • 83.
  • 84. Big Data – Segments of Opportunity Analytical Applications Spreadsheets/ Visualization Design & Deploy Processing Platform *Now Teradata *Now EMC *Now HP Hadoop Distributions Connectors/ Integration File Storage *Now Hitachi
  • 85.
  • 86. Big Data and Analytics – Massive Scale in Real-time – Those who can leverage will win
  • 87. Cloud - The New Data Center – ‘X-as-a-Service’ and at commodity prices
  • 88. Mobility – The New Starting Point – consumerization sets the standard for access, simplicity and adoption
  • 89. Social – The New Internet – the social chain as the new dimension across the globe
  • 90. Sierra Ventures – Our Approach
  • 91.
  • 92.
  • 93. Big Data and Analytics – Massive Scale in Real-time – Those who can leverage will win
  • 94. Cloud - The New Data Center – ‘X-as-a-Service’ and at commodity prices
  • 95. Mobility – The New Starting Point – consumerization sets the standard for access, simplicity and adoption
  • 96. Social – The New Internet – the social chain as the new dimension across the globe
  • 97. Sierra Ventures – Our Approach
  • 98.
  • 99. Mobile: It’s all about the App
  • 100. Wireless – Segments of Opportunity (via PhoneGap) Applications Distribution (App Stores) Security (Aptana Studio IDE) Testing/ Deployment *Now Teradata *Now EMC *Now HP Wireless Clouds (in progress) Analytics
  • 101. Mobile: Themes to TrackRapid New App Deployment is Key
  • 102.
  • 103. Big Data and Analytics – Massive Scale in Real-time – Those who can leverage will win
  • 104. Cloud - The New Data Center – ‘X-as-a-Service’ and at commodity prices
  • 105. Mobility – The New Starting Point – consumerization sets the standard for access, simplicity and adoption
  • 106. Social – The New Internet – the social chain as the new dimension across the globe
  • 107. Sierra Ventures – Our Approach
  • 108.
  • 109. Social: Disrupting Traditional MarketsEnterprise... Must evolve to the Social Enterprise
  • 110. Social: Gamification as the new Engagement Model
  • 111. Social: Disrupting the Internet Landscape WORLD WIDE SOCIAL NETWORK USERS (Billions) GLOBAL SOCIAL NETWORKS (~100M USERS) 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% GENERAL % of Internet Users Social Network Users (B) NICHE GLOBAL REGIONAL Source: eMarketer and Sierra Ventures Portfolio Investment Opportunities
  • 112.
  • 113. Big Data and Analytics – Massive Scale in Real-time – Those who can leverage will win
  • 114. Cloud - The New Data Center – ‘X-as-a-Service’ and at commodity prices
  • 115. Mobility – The New Starting Point – consumerization sets the standard for access, simplicity and adoption
  • 116. Social – The New Internet – the social chain as the new dimension across the globe
  • 117. Sierra Ventures – Our Approach
  • 118.
  • 119. Sierra Ventures – since 1982 - $1.5Billion AUM Investing Strategy – Early Stage, Global, IT Sectors Stage Size Geography $3 – $8M Initial $8 – $12M Total Ownership 20%-25% Growth Early Stage 30 (MMYT) (MERU) (NASD: FIRE) (NASD: AUTH) Investments and ExitsAcross the U.S / Canada. Some IPO’s & Acquisitions
  • 120.
  • 123. Sierra – Stages of Success SOURCING EXIT SCALING
  • 124. Sierra CIO Advisory Board Global IT Leaders -- Meet Monthly Technology Finance Telco / Media Consumer / Manufacturing / Industrial Retail / Hospitality Pharma/Health/Govt.
  • 125. Sierra CIO Summit Enable Strategic Exchange of Best Practices for CIO Board Members Five Sierra “CIO Summits” held since 2006 – Each with a Major Keynote Marc Benioff CEO Eric Schmidt CEO Meg Whitman CEO Mark Hurd CEO Enrique Salem CEO Tom Siebel CEO Charles Phillips Co-President Joe Tucci CEO 34
  • 126. Sierra Ventures Tracking: The Ripple Effect of Disruptions Social Cloud BigData Mobile Private Cloud Software Social Media Presence PredictiveAnalytics Mobile App Dev Platform
  • 127. Recent Liquidity Events Greenplum purchased by EMC for $400M (closed 8/2010) American Fiber Systems purchased by Zayo Group for $115M (closed 9/2010) Simplify Media purchased by Google (closed 3/2010) MakeMyTrip.com completes $80M IPO (8/2010) CarWale purchased by Axel Springer (closed 12/2010) Makara purchased by Redhat (closed 11/2010) InvenSense files for $100M IPO led by Goldman and Morgan Stanley
  • 128. Sierra Ventures Recent Investments Alpine Data Labs received $2.75M from Sierra (2/2011): San Mateo, CA Predictive Analytics model & score against all data DynamicOps received $7.975M from Sierra (2/2011): Burlington, MA Cloud automation - private cloud & VDI deployments Payvment received $4.5M from Sierra (11/2010): Palo AltoSocial network powered e-commerce platform Appcelerator received $6.5M from Sierra (10/2010): Mt. ViewMobile application cross-platform development solution Prelert received $1.25M from Sierra (8/2010): Framingham, MAIT incident and root cause analysis solution Runa received $3.75M from Sierra (7/2010): Mountain View, CAOnline conversion marketing solution 
  • 129.
  • 130. Define recent trends that make your solution possible
  • 131. Show us the historical evolution of your category if it is an existing market
  • 133. Source of Revenue and ASP
  • 135. Customer list and pipeline
  • 137. List your direct and indirect competition
  • 138. Show where your product physically sits in the ecosystem
  • 139. Provide detail on the advantages/disadvantages of your product vs. what is currently
  • 140. available through competitors (matrix view preferred)
  • 142. Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow statement and forecast
  • 143. Summary of the Cap table
  • 144. Summarize the current financing roundCompany Snapshot [1-2 slides] Simple single sentence overview of the company Snapshot Data Date of Incorporation Number of Employees Office Locations Total funds raised to Date Team [1-2 slides] Founders & Management Board of Directors/Board of Advisors Problem [1 slide] Describe the customer pain Describe how that pain is met today Total Addressable Market [1 slide] Calculate or provide third party research on the TAM (top down and bottoms up) Solution [open] Explain your Company’s value proposition in order to solve the problem described in the previous “Problem” slide Describe the Product (functionality, features, architecture, what core IP do you have). Show your Product development roadmap Provide use cases (or customer case studies if appropriate)
  • 145. Steps Who to pursue – do your diligence Crunchbase, PEHub, VentureBeat, VC sites, VC FB/Twitter Introduction Work your network – Paragraph from your ‘recommender’ Pre-View Call Likely a phone call – Ask questions – Have examples Know their background Enable possible next steps – “We wont begin fundraising until... “ First Meeting Investor Deck – Team, Traction, Technology Build your advocate – what’s their outcome goal Partner Meeting Mixed Audience – do your homework Predefine an outcome – to move to due diligence calls (have some done already) Due Diligence Your contacts .... And those you don’t know. (help make it simple) Term Sheet Study the terms early – How competitive is the deal
  • 146. Due Diligence Effort Tab 1 Executive Summary/Business Plan Tab 2 Investor Presentation Tab 3 Sales & Market Briefing Tab 4 Product Information Tab 5 Technology Information Tab 6 Competitive analysis Tab 7 Operations - Engineering Schedule/Manuf process/Quality Metrics Tab 8 Financials Tab 9 Customer references Tab 10 Future product roadmap(go over new products, what’s exciting..) Tab 11 Valuation & Exit Analysis Tab 12 Management Bios & References Tab 13 Cap Tables & Term Sheets Tab 14 Patents & Applications (patent review – what’s defendable?) Tab 15 Market research, white papers, news articles, etc. Tab 16 Misc. emails, etc.
  • 147. Funding and Rounds Funding Expectations: $10M company or $200M+... Less is More: Raise what you need – Milestones support valuation Preferred = Risk Founder: 1-4 (2 equal partners ideal) Convertible Debt (Bridge Loan) at 20% discount to next round Venture Debt: too early must be collateralized, venture debt generally 20-30% of last round, Servicing the debt with Capital OK, warrants nominal, Prime+1.5pts Employee Option Pool: 20% CxO Hires: CEO 5-7%, COO 2-3%, VPS/VPE/VPM ~1½%