Venture Capital
We like clear and compact business plans. Further, we prefer business plans presented in a PDF slideshow format that concisely and effectively describes your company and business model.
Prior to submitting your plan, please be sure to review our criteria & process to ensure you are familiar with the information we will require to evaluate your company.
If we have a mutual acquaintance, please let us know.
Venture Capital Criteria and Process
Although we have geographic bias toward the Toronto-Ottawa-Waterloo region, Hedgewood frequently invests in exceptional businesses elsewhere in Canada, the United States and worldwide.
Business Plan Criteria
It is important that you address the following criteria in order for us to review your business plan:
- The business offering
- Business market/client base/target customers
- Competitive environment
- Unique and compelling competitive advantage
- Early mover advantage
- Technology/intellectual property development plan
- The business model & sources of revenue
- The distribution strategy
- Capital cost estimates
- Branding status
- Management team
- Partnerships involved
- Current shareholders and capital invested to date
- Global prospects
Our Review Process
Applicants selected for review will proceed through an investment review process that features:
- A qualification procedure
- A strategic review/refinement of the business plan
- A financial analysis
- Due diligence
- Completion of formal and legal undertakings
We do not sign NDAs
Our reputation is predicated upon our maintaining strict confidentiality. The foundation of a successful relationship between a venture investor and entrepreneur hinges on trust and integrity. Hedgewood will not sign an NDA until a term sheet is signed and in-depth due diligence is about to begin, so do not submit any information or other materials that you consider to be confidential or proprietary. Because of the large number of business plans and related materials that we review, and the similarity of many such plans and materials, we cannot accept responsibility for protecting against misuse or disclosure of any confidential or proprietary information or other materials in the absence of our express written agreement to do so.
Submitting your plan
Please submit your plan only to the designated e-mail address at Hedgewood as doing otherwise may significantly delay our ability to review your plan on a timely basis. Due to the high volume of plan submissions we receive, we can only contact you if we are interested in opening a dialogue on an investment opportunity.
E-mail us at busi......@hedgewood.com to submit your plan. We will only review unsolicited plans sent by e-mail.
To gain additional insight into our approach to angel investing and venture capital, please review relevant archived posts at our blog.