Your emerging technology venture and growth banking professionals
PwC Ventures works closely with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, incubators, financial institutions, government organizations, SWF’s, pension funds, HNWI’s, and family offices to build a thriving ecosystem network. We are dedicated to creating lasting impact through a customized approach, offering venture and growth banking solutions designed to empower businesses and investors. By focusing on growth investments, fund-of-funds strategies, and tailored advisory services, we help drive sustainable outcomes and long-term success.
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Staying up to speed with the emerging tech landscape
Ensuring a compelling pitch to investors
Common issues and challenges startups face
Complex regulations, stiff competition as well as portfolio risk management concerns from investors and industry partners among others are common challenges in this rapidly developing ecosystem.
Leveraging our global network and wealth of industry experience, we provide a suite of tailored advisory services for both startups and investors to help spur innovation and expedite growth, while enabling your business to remain competitive and compliant.
How can we help you across your startup lifecycle
We understand that each step of the startup lifecycle requires strategic planning and design. PwC will advise and provide you with solutions and services which best fit your business needs in each lifecycle phase.
We help you establish a solid foundation and set up your business for long-term success.
- Initial legal and tax consideration
- Go-to-market strategy and customer experience journey
- Business plan development including operating model design and financial projections
As your business gains momentum, we assist you on your institutional journey.
- Legal and compliance
- Capital raising
- Governance risk and controls
- Financial reporting
We help late-stage scale-ups to explore various exit opportunities and maximise value on exit.
- Sell-side due diligence and health check
- Sell-side acquisition advisory
- IPO readiness and audit
How we meet your needs
- Portfolio management: Investors minimise value erosion by providing hands-on operational expertise and support to their portfolio companies. However, investors should work towards setting up operational support capabilities that are scalable, value-adding, and accessible by portfolio companies regardless of their growth stage. Through our in-house operations toolkit we help investors consistently factor operational considerations into the startup investment process.
- Fund-of-funds advisory: We provide comprehensive guidance to venture capital and growth equity funds throughout their capital-raising journey. By leveraging our extensive global network of institutional investors, family offices, SWF’s, and other capital providers, we help funds identify and connect with the right partners. Our advisory services include strategic positioning, market insights, investor targeting, and tailored fundraising strategies, ensuring funds can effectively secure the capital needed to achieve their growth objectives.
- Global deal flow networks: Leveraging our extensive connections and global relationships, we are committed to providing you with a customised and tailored deal flow experience. Our dedicated team curates a diverse range of deals which aligns with your specific investment preferences and objectives.
- Due diligence: The crowded startup industry can be challenging to navigate. We can help you validate startup potential with due diligence in areas including tax, commercial, financial, operations and risk, legal and compliance, and ESG.
- Capital raising: Fundraising for your startup can be complicated. Our capital raising services are designed to hold your hands and guide you through the complex and overwhelming process every step of the way. Our services aim to assist startups in raising capital by ensuring that they are fully prepared for their investor raise.
- Tax: Given the diversity of talent and business opportunities globally, your group may have wide footprint from a tax perspective. By leveraging the technical capabilities and experience of our global network specialists in the emerging technology space, our services can help your group navigate the increasingly complex international tax environment.
- Accounting: Accounting can be a complex and challenging aspect of running a startup, especially when it comes to pulling together financial information that can be understood by investors whilst being mindful of accounting rules. Our advisory toolkit provides clients with the tools and resources they need to best understand how their business model fits into accounting guidelines. We work with startups to review their financial information and identify areas where they can improve their accounting practices.
- Cyber, risk and governance: In a rapidly changing business environment, it is essential to have proper cyber, risk, governance, and controls in place to minimise value erosion. Our services are designed to support growing startups by ensuring that they have the appropriate processes in place to manage risk effectively ensuring privacy and consumer protection. We work with startups to identify potential risks and develop strategies to mitigate them.
- Legal and regulatory: Identifying the next unicorn is just the start of the journey in startup investing. Equipped with local knowledge and a globally connected legal and regulatory network, our lawyers can help you navigate the venture and growth capital investment process. Powered by legal tech tools, our team stands ready to protect your investment by advising on a full spectrum of matters, including transaction structuring, shareholder rights and cap table management, business restructuring, financing arrangements, talent management and incentive schemes, IP and data protection, regulatory compliance (including the specific requirements for digital assets and emerging tech focused companies), exit planning and more.
Delivering value through our market-ready and digital platforms
Our managed solutions are designed to address the changing market paradigm for emerging technology startups. We are innovating to provide definitive plug and play solutions for pressing organisational challenges. Our multi-disciplinary teams have broad experience in taxation, accounting, corporate services and legal to support you on your innovative journey.
Professional advisory services
- Centralised channel to access a dedicated Crypto & Web3 professional advisor to address your day-to-day general tax, accounting, legal and fund raising enquiries.
Digital Business Portal compliance tool
- An automated online tool with over 100 templates and documents covering tax, legal and corporate compliance matters your business may encounter. Helping you to help yourself.
Secretarial services
Tax compliance services
Accounting software implementation support
Legal services
