2. Agenda
• Who are we?
• How does SirB fit in the
Entrepreneurship’s Echo system?
• Evaluation Committee Role
• Pitching events
• Entrepreneurship services
• SiRB Aces
• SiRB Partnerships
3. Who are we: Emergence of Sirb Angel
Investors Network
• Lack of Financial channels for
Startups/ SMEs
• Lack of Expertise in
Entrepreneurs
• Lack of effective communication
between Entrepreneurs & Angel
Investors
As a result, KACST-BADIR
established Sirb Angel Investors
Network
5. Main
Participants
Activities/
Services
Provided
Objectives
to be
Achieved
Consortium Members
Entrepreneurs
and Angle
Investors
Supporting
Entities for
Training
Training
Programs
Online Portal
Pitching Events
Comprehensive data base of angel
investors and entrepreneurs
Opportunity evaluation training to the angel
investors
Presentations training to entrepreneurs
Periodic pitching events to bring the angel
investors and entrepreneurs together
Communication
between investors and
entrepreneurs
Appropriate funding
channels to SMEs
Deal flow to the
investors
Strategic partnerships
with universities and
government
Competitions
Competition for Best Investment
Opportunities
Sirb Network - Framework
6. Agenda
• Who are we?
• How does SiRB fit in the
Entrepreneurship’s Echo system?
• Evaluation Committee Role
• Pitching events
• Entrepreneurship services
• SiRB Aces
• SiRB Partnerships
7. What’s an Angel
investor?
Definition
• An angel investor or angel is an
affluent individual who provides
capital for a business start-up,
usually in exchange for
convertible debt or ownership
equity ^.
• More interested in success of
business or individual than
maximizing profit.^^
• Exact Opposite to venture
capitalists^^
Business Angel
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^ Source: Wikipedia ^^ Investopedia
10. Entrepreneurship Echo system
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MOL SME Programs
1.Unified Portal
2.Support for accelerators
3.Business Communities
4.Restructuring of regulations
5.Restructuring SME Finance
6.Promote SME entrepreneurship
culture
7.Access to Market
14. How Much Money?
• A study of angel investors sponsored by the
Kauffman Foundation -
– Data from 539 investors
– Members of 86 angel groups
– Made 3,097 investments
– 1,137 “terminal events” (bankruptcy to IPO)
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15. Angel Investment pays
off..Bigtime
• If you invested in all 1,137 companies that had a
terminal event-
– You received 2.6X amount invested in 3.5 years
– Achieved a 27% annualized IRR
– However, returns were skewed:
– Less than half returned capital invested
– One third produced expected returns
– About 15% of deals drove returns
16. 16
Comparing Angels and VCs
• Invest their own money
• Often along with others
• May invest in anything and/or
everything
• Don’t collect fees
• (Hopefully) get a return on invested
capital
• Are actively engaged with the
entrepreneurs
• Wait patiently for returns
(up to a point)
Individual Angels
• Invest other peoples’ money
And perhaps a bit of their own
• Focus on markets where they have
expertise
• Earn management fees
• Collect a percentage of the return
on invested capital (if any!)
• Are actively engaged with the
entrepreneurs
• Try to return capital within the
fund’s life (10-12 years)
Venture Capitalists
18. PERSONAL STARTUP TRACK RECORD
1994 25K to
30M in 14
years
V60M
1994 25K to
30M in 14
years
V60M
2011 1 M to
4.7 M in 2
years
2011 1 M to
4.7 M in 2
years
2011 200K to
1.4 M in 1
year
2011 200K to
1.4 M in 1
year
19. Agenda
• Who are we?
• How does SiRB fit in the
Entrepreneurship’s Echo system??
• Evaluation Committee Role
• Pitching events
• Entrepreneurship services
• SiRB Aces
• SiRB Partnerships
20. OUR ROLE
• Help Angels Do
a more
calculated
Investment, and
reduce the Risk
• Help
entrepreneurs
talk “Money.”
27. Evaluation Committee
members
• Khalid Suleimani:
Technology-
Entrepreneur
• Yasser Baharith: Jeddah
merchant-Traditional-
Family business
• Hani Baothman: Big
money
• Soraqa Alkhateeb: New
media-Marketing-
entrepreneur
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28. Agenda
• Who are we?
• How does SiRB fit in the
Entrepreneurship’s Echo system??
• Evaluation Committee role.
• Pitching events
• Entrepreneurship services
• SiRB Aces
• SiRB Partnerships
29. Verify Product Viability or real prototype
Make sure all Basic Information in the business canvas is complete
Face to face meeting with Entrepreneurial team
Pick the right Angels for the pitching event
Invite Groups of Angel that are likely to invest together.
Pitching Events
30. WE FOCUS ON “STRUCTURE” AND
BASIC “DUE DILIGENCE” AND LEAVE
THE REST TO THE ANGEL.
31. 5 entrepreneurial projects
Average Required capital: SAR
500k to 5MM
25 Angel Investors
10 signed letters of interest to
invest in 4 projects out of 5.
First Pitching Event
March 10, 2013
32. Agenda
• Who are we?
• How does SiRB fit in the
Entrepreneurship Echo system?
• Evaluation Committee Role
• Pitching events
• Entrepreneurship services
• SiRB Aces
• SiRB Partnerships
33. “No Passes” get support until
they get it right
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Coaching
Mentorship
Prototype
Development
Incubation
accelerationBoot Camp
training
34. Agenda
• Who are we?
• How does SiRB fit in the
Entrepreneurship’s Echo system??
• Pitching events
• Entrepreneurship services
• SiRB Aces
• SiRB Partnerships
35. ENWANI
• Founded by Dr.
Abdullah Elias, PHD.
• Innovative solution for
addressing problem.
• Incubated by BADIR
Program
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36. ENWANI
• Received intensive Sirb Coaching & Mentoring
• Received 2 letters of interest by Sirb Investors in the pitching event
• Winner of Taif International Venture Academy – Best
• Winner of Nice,France International Venture Academy – Most Investable
Company
• Received International investment opportunities by Sophia Business Angels
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38. Element Plan
• Innovative and cost effective
solution for addressing Cathode
protection
• Received intensive Coaching &
Mentoring from Sirb Network
• Received 4 letters of interest from
Sirb Investors during the first
pitching event
• Currently negotiating closing
investment deals with investors
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39. • Developed a method for
drilling based on special
fitting of machines
• Cathode
Protection/Anode
Surface/Deep Anode
• Excelled in neutralizing
static electricity of oil
pipes for Aramco faster
than any of the
competitors
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Element Plan
42. Sirb Competition
Training
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• Entrepreneurship Essentials
• Business Model Generation/
Strategy/ Financial Modeling/
Corporate Governance
• Pitching Skills/Investors
negotiations/ How to raise
angel capital
B Partnerships
44. Agenda
• Who are we?
• How does SiRB fit in the
Entrepreneurship’s Echo system??
• Pitching events
• Entrepreneurship services
• SiRB Aces
• SiRB Partnerships
The term "angel" originally comes from Broadway where it was used to describe wealthy individuals who provided money for theatrical productions. In 1978, William Wetzel,[2] then a professor at the University of New Hampshire and founder of its Center for Venture Research, completed a pioneering study on how entrepreneurs raised seed capital in the USA, and he began using the term "angel" to describe the investors that supported them.