BACKING SMART BUSINESSES FOR GROWTH
Silver Cloud Ventures aims to partner with entrepreneurial management teams to generate long term shareholder value and counter the current liquidity challenges facing businesses.
We are looking to invest in family or owner managed businesses or corporate non-core divestitures where there is a requirement for recapitalisation and/or an opportunity for refocusing strategic objectives and backing global growth. We invest either from internal resources or with co-investees and are flexible on investing structure.
Our investment criteria are:-
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​SIZE/GEOGRAPHY
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Annual revenues less than £150m
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Sustainable gross margin
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Either existing or possibility of significant business presence in the UK & British Standards markets (Middle East / Far East) / USA
BUSINESS SEGMENTS
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Industrial Technology
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Telecoms / Software
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Hospitality
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Business services
STRONG & SCALABLE BUSINESS MODEL
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Strong recurring revenues, sticky customer base
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High barriers of entry, defensible market position
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Scalable business platform
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Growing market or adjacent market opportunities
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Management strength (first or second level)
FOR NON- CORE DIVESTITURES
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Underperforming divisions with potential operational improvement and growth opportunities
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Quick extraction process using Transition Service Agreement
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Management team in place