Grow VC presentation in the Peter Drucker Forum 2013.

1. Grow VC Group
www.growvc.com
@growvc
Innovating Investing
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Amplifying Strategy: Lessons from the Vanguard
Global Drucker Forum
November 14, 2013 – Vienna, Austria - Jouko Ahvenainen
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2. Jouko Ahvenainen ++
Corporates:
Entrepreneur:
Other Activities:
Transatlantic
Economic
Council
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3. Grow VC Group ++
Finance and Services
Ecosystem
Investment Portfolio
Hong Kong - London - New York - San Francisco - Sao Paolo
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4. Finance to a new era ++
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5. Internet has been a distribution channel ++
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6. Disruption now – global virtual market places++
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7. Go back to the idea of stock market ++
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8. Internet has killed longtail in finance ++
• In many industries the Internet has created and amplified the longtail
business
– Google for advertising, eBay for trading, and services for music, books, videos
• In finance the influence has been almost opposite, when the Internet
has killed traditional market makers (e.g. the US IPO market
marketing and underwriting) due to regulation and machine trading
(speculation, not long position, oriented)
– Together this has caused e.g. globally poor IPO market: the pipe from seed
funding to IPO is broken
• Crowd investing (equity and lending models) are finally bringing the
positive Internet change for finance, and it is not only for early phase
startup market
– We already work with market places for companies in different phases, content
funding, commodities, real estate, energy sources
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9. Create a new effective finance retail market ++
Companies /
Assets
Market Places
Investors / resources
Crowd
investing
P2P
Lending
Market
Place
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10. New regulation is coming ++
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11. Opportunity for traditional finance companies too ++
1. Funding
round or loan
application
• A company opens a funding round or apply a
loan
2. Crowd
investing or
p2p lending
• Crowd, i.e. ordinary people, can offer
an investment or loan, and if enough
money available, the company gets
money
3. Coinvestment or
co-lending
• A bank or investment
company can join to a deal,
i.e. make co-investment or
participate the loan
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12. We act, not only talk ++
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13. #1 market place ecosystem ++
Technical platform, services like investor background check, investment escrow accounts,
due diligence services, credit check, transaction settlement, investor communications
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14. Market places in our portfolio ++
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15. Innovating
Investing
Jouko Ahvenainen
jouko@growvc.com
+1 646 363 6664 (US)
+44 7889 833 165 (UK)
Grow VC Group ++
www.growvc.com ++
@growvc ++
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