Text Content, Graphs & Tables

Model Sites – Competiton

https://espressocapital.com/invest/ (content heavy) – Very Nice Site a custom WP Theme
https://www.topcornercapital.com/portfolio (too simplistic) – Large Titles, Animated Titles

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Text Content Batch 1

Home Page

Rooted in the Bay Area with over 100 years of combined experience.
With a legacy in Silicon Valley, we understand the unique needs of businesses that might not be ready for traditional bank financing. Working directly with these kinds of entrepreneurs for decades we tailor growth capital that fits your needs. This need has only increased in the recent past.

Why partner with us

Limited financing alternatives exist for revenue-generating emerging growth enterprises seeking transactions within the $200,000 to $3,000,000 range. Such enterprises encompass those backed by angel investors, self-funded entities, and those supported by less prominent venture capital and private equity firms.

We offer underserved companies venture debt solutions tailored specifically for the unique needs of your business. Unlock revenue-generating debt solutions without compromising equity positions. Benefit from flexible terms, less restrictive financial covenants, and the freedom to maintain control over your operations. Partner with our tenured team for financial solutions that facilitate effective growth.

Investors

Due Diligence

At KISO Capital, we conduct a thorough vetting process to identify companies that align with our stringent criteria, showcasing robust growth potential. Recognizing that certain enterprises may be overlooked within the current funding landscape; these entities often find their way to us.

Our selection process focuses on exceptional management teams that embody a compelling vision and operate on a solid business model.

KISO delivers high-yielding debt instruments, coupled with a strategic line of sight on potential equity upside and the safeguard of senior secured debt structures.

KISO pioneers an innovative open-ended “ever-green” fund structure, ensuring quarterly distributions and establishing a scalable, sustainable investment platform through the recycling of capital. In contrast to traditional debt funds with annual payouts and venture capital models tied to project completion, KISO’s approach involves reinvesting capital upon return or new investments, enabling continuous capital utilization and deployment.

Our offerings include warrants with put option rights for strategic investment and senior or subordinated lien filings covering all assets, including intellectual property.

Website Functional Requirements

Site Security

• Ensuring the domain is secure through SSL certifications, WAF applications.
• SSL to encrypt sensitive data and communications.
• Protects information like bank information, usernames, and passwords.
• Prevent SQL injection and ensure encrypted login.

Home Page

• Home page with a clear and compelling advantage, value proposition
• Brief slide deck information about comparative returns and definitions of related terms
• Chart showing ROAA% compared to other funding sources
• Investment income and CAGR over the months in operation.
• Location with map and address below.

Advantage:

• Achieve a higher valuation for the next round of financing.
• Secure greater upside
• Maintain Cap table
• Bridge to future rounds of financing
• Maintains flexibility

Navigation Menu

Creating a usable user Interface, including a website header that prioritizes user-friendliness and utilization across various devices. Sign in point for investors where they can access a private portion of the site to see monthly reports.

About Us

The About Us section to build rapport with prospective clients/investors can be taken right out of the slide deck. Highlights management experience. Client testimonials with featured portfolio companies that include client logos hyperlinked to their websites.

Forms

• Creating strategically placed calls to action as a floating ribbon on each page of the website.
• One for investors who submit contact information.
• Prospective clients submit an application survey consisting of contact information, the required amount of funding, use of funds when the loan is needed, how the user learned about KISO, along with files regarding their business plan. Footer with easy access to LinkedIn, and contact information. A button to sign up for email notifications.

Prospective Client Application Form

• First Name
• Last Name
• Phone Number
• Email Address
• Company
• Industry
• Use of funds
  (Checkboxes: Investing in sales/marketing, accelerating product development, enabling more hires, funding acquisitions, providing working capital, Other)
• How they heard about KISO
• Custom Field for text entry
  (Briefly describe the business, and what sort of needs you have – so we can start tailoring a finance solution to meet them)

File Upload

For uploading a business plan/forecast with past data, etc.

Additional Content Areas

Blog

containing latest news, press releases about deals, the most recent investor presentation recording and schedule of significant events. Segmenting of media to not create clutter. Videos separate from downloadable content, alert on the top of the screen for new content.

Podcast/media section

Businesses we fund sit down and talk about the trends in their industry and how they are addressing the holes in their respective markets.

News and Events

Includes an investor presentation from each quarter. New credit facilities issued

Alert/Notification

Ribbon at the top of page highlighting upcoming investor events or new podcast content.

Online Marketing

Mailing List

• The use of cached investor data to create personalized reports to be sent out every month
• Automation workflows
• Integrated mailing lists through MailChimp (other) which can eventually be used to pay out fund returns
• Ensure the necessary plug-ins and APIs
• Segment users based on account criteria (investors, clients, general users who signed up for email list)
• Format templates based on same criteria (Custom Forms for different populations of email recipients)

Branding

Logo/Font/Colors, etc.

• Utilization of a new logo and domain name along with seamless design.
• Use of mountains in the theme and content fade in with scroll: “Accelerating growth with efficient capital”.

Downloads

• Section for downloadable featured deals sheet and non-disclosure agreement
• Required steps for funding, investment criteria, support offered, transparency regarding how we individually structure deals

Analytics

• Application of Analytical tools to track user behavior and improve upon media retention to improve user experience

3 Questions

Why should I care? Why should I believe you? What should I do?

Links

Upgraded: https://www.linkedin.com/company/upgraded-technologies | https://getupgraded.com/
Delta Leaf: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deltaleaflabs/about/ | https://www.deltaleaflabs.com

Sorting Robotics: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sortingrobotics/
Website: https://www.sortingrobotics.com/

Stadium Drop: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stadiumdrop/
Website: https://stadiumdrop.com/

Cinesamples: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cinesamples/
Website: https://cinesamples.com/

Eshow: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goeshow/
Website: Home – eShow Event Management Solutions (goeshow.com)

Profit Key: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profitkey-international/
Website: https://www.profitkey.com/

LifeLink: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lifelink-systems/
Website: https://www.lifelinksystems.com/

Intelyt: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelyt/
Website: https://intelyt.com/

CLI Studios: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cli-studios-inc./about/
Website: https://www.clistudios.com/

Text Content Batch 2

Archived Web Content

Home/Front Page

Main Title (Animated)

Growth Capital Financing for Growing Companies

About

Kiso Capital was founded to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses and realize their dreams. Many young companies lack financial support from the mainstream financing market. Often these capital sources look for characteristics (eg; institutional investment, hard collateral, large capital requests, profitability, etc.) that make it difficult to obtain needed funds. Furthermore, many young companies want to maintain independence, need capital quickly, or require more flexibility from their capital source.

Kiso Capital can provide funding to accelerate your business with purpose-based capital that is entrepreneur-friendly to help companies pursue expanding markets.

Our transaction sizes are usually under $5 million, which is typically under the threshold for existing venture debt providers and private equity funds. The benefits of choosing debt financing for your company are: minimally dilutive; maintain management control; great for capital efficient companies.

Company Profile

We serve growth companies with valuable products and services, that are expanding their market share, improving their products to disrupt a market, or improving on an existing model. 

Criteria for a good match

You want a capital source that is value add and not restrictive or painful.
We want to support growth activity.

Typical Features of Our Companies

• Revenue growth rate above 15% annually
• Cash flow positive, profitable, or approaching profitability
• The company may be founder-owned and often has no prior institutional investment using capital primarily for revenue growth
• Experienced and knowledgeable management teams

Don’t Need To Be Financed with a VC

We were founded to help underserved, growing companies, so we don’t require that you have institutional investment (eg; venture capital or other “professional” investors).

We Look At You, Your Operations and Ability to Repay

We don’t base our lending on existing “tangible” assets, instead we concentrate on the company’s track record, near and long term business prospects, rate of growth, and ability to achieve profitability and repayment.

Growth Capital

Available Growth Capital Sources

Every growing company requires capital to grow. The question is, where do you get it? There are several sources: friends and family, angel investors, venture capital, private equity, commercial banks, asset-based lenders, and other alternative capital. The problem with those sources is that friends and family and angel investors may be time-consuming and the amounts available are too small for your company’s needs. Venture capital and private equity may be too dilutive, this could result in a loss of management control, requiring your company to raise more capital than you need. Commercial banks and asset-based lenders require collateral and a track record of profits (if you do not have an institutional investor).

Growth Capital Financing

Growth Capital Financing is simply capital that accelerates revenue growth. This can take the form of debt or equity. Our fund focuses on debt products that support growth. Companies that seek growth capital financing will often do so to finance a transformational event in their lifecycle. These companies are likely to be more mature than venture capital-funded companies, able to generate revenue and operating profits or low levels of losses but unable to generate sufficient cash to fund major expansions, acquisitions, or other investments. These companies generally can’t find alternative conduits to secure capital for growth, so access to growth capital is the only alternative and is critical to pursue necessary facility expansion, sales and marketing initiatives, equipment purchases, and new product development. Growth capital can also be used to affect a restructuring of a company and balance sheet, particularly to reduce the amount of leverage (or debt) the company has on its balance sheet.

Benefits

Benefit	Description
Accelerate Growth	Growth capital provides capital for growth.
Limited Dilution	Compared to equity, growth capital is less dilutive.
Enhance Liquidity	Provides relatively rapid liquidity.
Increase Valuation	Growth capital allows companies to grow revenues and increase valuation.
Retention of Management Control	Compared to equity, growth capital allows the management team and ownership to retain management control as growth capital products require limited ownership interest in the company.
Flexible Terms	Growth capital products do not require an abundance of collateral or profitability. We take a more holistic approach to lending and concentrate primarily on future operating plans.
VC Sponsorship Not Needed	Growth capital does not require venture capital investment or any institutional investment unlike many banks and venture debt providers.

Forms

Client Submission Form (Prescreening)

• Individual Name, Title
• Business Name
• Industry description
• Funded by?
• Total Funding/Date of last round
• Trailing revenues/Projected Revenues
• Trailing Operating Income/Projected Operating Income  
• Current Monthly Cash Flow/Loss
• Accounts Receivable Balance
• Cash Balance

Tables

Important Questions in the world of funding

Item	Question
Growth	How do we help you grow that’s UNIQUE?
Knowledge	Why is our experience good for entrepreneurs and how is it different?
Simplicity	How is our process simple?
Funding	How is our funding unique?

Kiso capital growth model advantage

Advantage 1	Preserves ownership (or limits dilution)
Advantage 2	Fast and efficient
Advantage 3	Flexible Structures Advantage
Advantage 4	Flexible Structures Advantage