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Turning technology into cash
What’s Hot and What’s Not in Global Start-up Trends
Mike Holt
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Topics
Hot Industries for Start-ups
Financing trends
Key Success Factors for today’s entrepreneurs
• CEO of Singapore microelectronics incubator Get2Volume (Singapore National Research Foundation funding)
• Investor and Entrepreneur for high tech/semiconductor start-ups• MBA, MSEE/BSEE (University of California, Irvine)• Start up CEO of 2 VC-backed start-ups• M/A, fund raising, product management, marketing• Semiconductor experience: GM for Texas Instruments $200M storage
semiconductor business, Silicon Systems, ..• Vice President, Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association
Background on Mike Holt
SEMICONDUCTOR• Fabless• EDA• IP
Energy Efficiency
ELECTRONICS• Wireless• Systems • LED
Get2Volume Incubation and Leadership
Singapore semiconductor incubation: South East Asia advantage
Incubatee Companies: Semiconductor/Microelectronics
Experienced team: Singapore, Silicon Valley Start up incubation center in Singapore
Co-funding with Singapore National Research Foundation Co investment with Venture Capital network (CA, Aus,
Singapore)
Deep connections with the right decision makers enabling growth, sales, acquisition, funding
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Singapore Electronics Impact on the World
Where We Focus
•B2B Core Technology Companies
•Microelectronics, embedded software and semiconductor as key enablers
Communications & Data
Automotive & Mobility
Security & Payment
Games & Entertainment
Infrastructure & Energy Efficiency
Health & Biomedics
Some Get2Volume Companies
Companies
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Sold to Mentor Graphics
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Startup Trends
Tech companies are global from day 1
Startups need GLOBAL capabilities capital and connections
Incubation
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Hot Industries for Start-ups
We do what we know and where we can create unfair advantage for our companies
B2B, Enterprise
Chasing "hot" trends in a startup typically fails.
Some exciting industries:
Digital Health Care (ConnectedHealth)
Energy management (gridComm and Semitech)
Mobil first solutions: commerce, secure payment, (Tabsquare and Sprooki)
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What’s Hot?
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Funding Trends
Trends (and as normal)
Angel funding exceeds VC
Incubation and acceleration funding
Series A “Crunch”
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Good Companies Get Funded.
Hard to get funding if ….a) Your team lacks a track record.b) Your product execution is not competitive with other products investors are seeing.c) You lack product traction.d) The market you’re addressing is not big or “important” enough.e) You’re fishing in a recently poisoned pond (e.g., the deal space pioneered by Groupon).f) Your valuation doesn’t match reality.g) Your burn is unjustified, scary, or lacks discipline.h) You lack clients.
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Many More Seed Deals … Series A Unchanged
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Result: Series A Gap
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Key Success Factors for today’s entrepreneurs
Success factors are not different
Understand what you mean by risk: Entrepreneurs are risk adverse
Global capabilities: From day one
Don’t go it alone: enrollment
Follow your passion. Startup journey will be tough - make sure you are doing what you are committed to and passionate for.
Don't wait to customers, buyers
