Executive Summary

The Future’s Different on every level, globally, politically, educationally, economically at both a macro and micro level. Delivering services and more importantly value for money, customer satisfaction, partnering via virtual teams, in health, housing and lending. Everything needs to be looked at in a different light.

History shows that major crisis’ bring significant rewards for those who are creative and swift enough to change their thought process and attitudes.

We are passionate about reversing the decline in Wales’s profile; commercial, social and economic, by creating an organisation to fund social change, with the capacity to implement strategies to that end.

Showing big corporate business how to truly embrace and provide Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rather than pay lip service.

Asiant Capital will be the first Social Funding Intermediary outside of London, based in Wales and initially investing in enterprises that have high growth potential but lack sufficient funding.

Asiant Capital will start in Wales but have a global reach.

Funding Social Change

Social finance is the formula which will allow us to deliver an antidote capable of challenging the orthodox, traditional mentality of financial services and introduce a new model to investors keen to learn of the new approach which impact investing represents.

The company has in its memorandum of association the clause “to attract new investment into projects that deliver a significant social impact”

Investments will be attracted from multiple sources from Crowd funding to institutional and everything in between including social equity.

Professionals we will engage with will promote these investments with integrity and as part of their client’s mix of investments. All investments will return a fair and realistic yield accordingly to the enterprise invested in.

Social investment is a new market place, only 14 years old and currently worth £165M. The majority of the deals currently being signed are bespoke. The type of investor we are already attracting like the integrity and honesty of these investments as it is helping grow businesses and people in every locality.

The Market is set to grow. Boston Consulting Group in a research document forecasts the market will be worth £1BN by 2016

Background and history

Lee Cecil, CEO.

He worked in the City of London for 17 years in both venture capital and outsourcing for wholesale worldwide banks. Since his return to Wales he is involved in many roles in private rented sector, development and lobbying.

Asiant Capital has achieved several accolades including a high growth award from the Welsh Governments Gazelle programme, Plus being an approved organisation for Welsh Government’s Accelerator Growth Programme which helps hi growth companies in Wales.

In addition Deloitte’s and Evershed’s have seen the potential of this business and are advisors to Asiant Capital.

Services

Asiant Capital will be a facilitator and co-ordinator for projects, which have a funding gap, to ensure their success.

It will offer Prequalification and Due Diligence – on behalf of corporate lenders, institutes and governments, which will lead to investment in the successful enterprises.

We’re also rigorous about the projects we choose to assist, paying particular attention to the quality of leadership and business model to verify that the enterprise is robust and scalable before we become involved.

Once committed Asiant Capital will provide on going support and a single signpost to funding – from a host of suppliers including governments and corporates.

Through our small but powerful network, we have access to some of the UK’s most skilled business professionals. Our support and intervention is coordinated by social entrepreneur Lee Cecil and the team who focus on identifying obstacles to growth and establishing the support needed to power ambitious organizations to higher levels of growth and impact.

We know that social enterprises face many challenges in scaling up their operation thereby limiting their impact. And we recognise that growth often requires investment – in people, infrastructure and other areas. So we also provide funds to social ventures that demonstrate a desire to build a more robust business model and a willingness to work in partnership with us.

We take a long-term view, helping our partners generate income and thereby become less dependent on grants. The key to achieving this is for them to have the necessary skills internally to grow their businesses in a measured and responsible way.

This might involve the transfer of knowledge and experience; funding new resource or buying in expertise the organisation does not have.

Also a training function will be available this will be varied and diverse even including mentoring of the management key personnel if needed.

Some of the areas Asiant Capital will invest in –

• Regeneration of communities in a collective partnership with stakeholders
• Reduce cycle of offending and addiction
• Drive economic growth
• Increase educational attainment and ambition
• Real estate investment especially care homes and affordable housing
• Capital for both emerging and established companies
• Seed capital for development of innovative, ground-breaking products
• Financial support during the critical growth phase of social ventures
• Funding of scalable social ventures and community initiatives
• Mentoring and up-skilling to improve invest ability of social ventures
• Regeneration of residential and commercial structures,
• Reintegration of empty/long-term vacant residential and commercial properties
• Raising investment at a rate commensurate with the number of suitable projects in need
• Greater focus on innovations from social ventures’ partnerships with corporate sector
• Creating awareness of the sector with youth & students in academia

 

How we operate

Introductions

Asiant has a production line of pre-qualified opportunities via professional contacts from accountants to corporates. One such company is UnLtd who have, for over a decade successfully helped many smaller organisations. This complimentary relationship has resulted in one of their directors joining our investment and advisory board.

Due Diligence

Once an Asiant advisor has been introduced to the prospective organisation we work quickly to analyse what level of support and funding they need. Once this stage has been completed we can decide which of other partners would be interested. If Asiant believes that company doesn’t qualify it will whenever possible sign post them to another specialist source.

Contractual

The successful company proceeds into the fund raising level where the contractual details are formalised.
Asiant strives to support ventures to allow them to become successful in a shorter timescale.

Lee Cecil
Chief Executive
info@asiantcapital.com