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Venture Hothouse - Cloud-Based Software For Preparing Business Plans & Raising Investment

"If you have been turned down when seeking; venture capital, angel investment, crowd funding, grant funding, a bank loan or even an overdraft, it was probably because you were unable to present a credible business plan"

Venture Hothouse helps entrepreneurs, start-up and early stage businesses by providing the most straightforward method of producing first class investor-ready business plans, financial forecasts and reports (together with all related documentation) using our on-line proprietary software.

VH - Financial Forecasting and Business Planning Tools

Venture Hothouse has developed a suite of on-line tools to enable the production of high quality, investor-ready business plans and financial projections via a very simple and intuitive interface.

The system guides each user through the business plan process, step by step. At every stage, supporting narrative information and example templates are available to reference against. The VH tools simply enable the end-user to build:

• Financial Projections, including;  Revenues from Products and Services, Cost of Sale, Routes to Market, Wages & Overheads, Capital Expenditure, Working Capital, Financial Forecast, Projected Profit Loss Account, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow
   
• Business Plans, including; Background, Opportunity, Products & Services, Management, Market, Competition, Operations, SWOT Analysis, Investment Proposal

Once completed, the system is able to pull information from the financial projections and populate appropriate sections of the business plan. The overall output from the system provides the entrepreneur with a full suite of investment-ready documentation; which includes:

• Month by month Financial Forecast (plus Annual Summaries)
• Business Plan
• Executive Summary
• Financial Assumptions
• Management Presentation Slides

The VH Tools are offered in three versions, as follows:

• Micro – includes a concise Business Plan and 3 Year financial Forecast
• SME – includes full Business Plan and 5 Year Financial Forecast
• Investor – includes full Business Plan, Investor Ready Financial Forecast, Financial Assumptions and Management Presentation Slides

Building A Strong Business Case

The VH tools are of equal value to operating companies and organisations that need to evaluate business propositions, in order to justify requests for investment. In this instance, the tools will guide the user step-by-step through building a solid business case, together with the creation of a 5 year financial forecast. Real-time reporting is incorporated, including the calculation of return on investment. There are plans to add a simple funds application feature to facilitate a centralised portal, which would handle all internal requests for investment funding. Such requests would be typically made to the FD/CFO of the organisation.