10 October 2014

Potential collaborations with a venture capital firm

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Value Proposition

Draper Fisher Jurvetson(DFJ) is a venture capital

firm that is based in California. It was founded in
1985. DFJ maintains a loose network of VCs all
around the world and at the same time they maintain various types of incubators and accelerators.

We made contact with DFJ with regards to possible collaborations between PERC and DFJ. We
are exploring few partnership structures although
now it is at idea stage. We suggest that we follow
this structure for collarboration between DFJ and
PERC:

Get to know the firm

DFJ focuses on three main stages of a company.
These stages are:

Seed: Entreprenuers with business plan, sometimes without an operating business.
Funding up to USD1 Million.

Early: Companies that have working prototype
and already in operation. Usually needs
major tweak in technology or marketing.
Funding up to USD10 Million
Growth: Companies that are looking to scale operations to address a very large market. Funding usually more than USD10
Million.

Portfolio
DFJ focuses on three sectors that are inherently
high tech based. These sector are:
Consumer: Software applications that are consumer facing. Genres include but
not limited to communication, automotive, and analytics.

Enterprise: Typically business-oriented tools

such as online shopping and online payment processing, interactive
product catalogue. DFJ is quiet keen
on this sector that there is few VCs
in this segment

Disruptive: Change the world companies.

PNB Equity Resource Sdn. Berhad.

What We Offer
- Network throughout South East Asia
- Leverage on our portfolio companies
- Extensive financial muscle
What We Get
- Introduction to Silicon Valley
- Premium branding in Silicon Valley
- Vast investment oppurtunities
- Increase technical and financial know-how
when dealing with high tech startups
Mutual Benefits
- Technical & operational risk minimisation
- Will get approximately same ROI

Conclusion
We believe that we should move forward in discussing the idea with DFJ as this would benefit
both parties trendamously.

Miscellaneous
- VentureBeat compiled a list of Silicon Valley
venture capital firms exits and found that DFJ
has been consistently in the top 10 VC firms for
highest ROI for 2010-2013.
- As of this moment, there are nine funds being
managed by DFJ with total asset under management being close to USD7 Billion.
- DFJ has a strong domain technical knowledge
and capability. Examples include hacking Hotmails exponential growth and coordinating scaling Yammers cloud infrastructure.