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ABOUT US
GFC Europe is a worldwide business incubator headquartered in London.
We support our startups with a unique network. Our Europe established divisions cover all strategic business areas. Precisely that network allows us to transfer technologies in emerging markets. Our intent is to provide real added value for all shareholders.
OUR BUSINESS AREAS
We have established a network of strategic, commercial and legal aids for our startups. No hammock, but a safety net. For optimal positioning of the company, the transfer of experience and management support. To select the right strategic partner and service provider. To optimize the financial and business plan concepts for the development of marketing strategies and PR tactics. Of course, stands startups immediately a complete engineering service.
Our Incubation team ensures that our startups can do perfectly well what they want most: Start.
The world is full of great ideas. They often therefore not only come to fruition because it lacks the developers of courage, self-confidence, financial resources, marketing strategies and / or the technical implementation force.
Our innovation team, consisting of scientists and researchers. It has the required properties and the know-how, creates the appropriate structures and removing obstacles from the path that could stop a promising development. Our aim is sustainable and in the long term to making a success to be in the best sense of the trustees of the inventor and innovative developments.
We wish to participate in future developments of our fast-paced business startups. When selecting suitable portfolio companies, we rely on the outcome of investigations and search our Venturing Division.
Our Venturing team involved primarily in companies from forward-looking sectors. A seed phase investment comes for us then be considered if the commitment after checking relevant data frame appears above average promising.
We offer both young and established companies alternative forms of financing, the development of the company or to implement projects.
Looking at the external fund raising there are a number of alternative forms of financing, such as Crowdfunding, Crowd Investing, Crowd Landing, factoring and leasing, which is becoming more popular in the general public, but not any of these corporate financing, is suitable for every operation and every credit project.
Our finance team consisting of financial experts will advise you in choosing the suitable for you form of financing.
We work closely with project developers, strategies for lucrative residential, - commercial, - and holiday properties in Europe.
Here, our experts cover the fields, project development, asset and fund management, accounting and controlling.
With our Real Estate team, we cover the complete service around the property and can optimally influence the value of our real estate portfolio. Our extensive industry network represents an added value for our real estate projects, our clearly structured review processes as well as our comprehensive reporting.
What managers and project managers require more than technical knowledge beyond that offers trainings and seminars of the GFC Academy. Here the leaders of our start-ups come up with people and issues in contact that they continue to help on sustainable. Personally and professionally, for their careers and for the benefit of their company.
Our Education team are coaches with leadership experience who are knowledgeable about companies, both professionally and in the different corporate cultures.
Our sustainability team consists of experts from science, research and commerce. We support the coexistence of renewable resources and the raw material economy. Our concepts for energy and hard commodities connects primary producers with end clients and enables all parties for sustainable business. We are aware about the role various commodities play in the global economy and how investors can turn economic events into opportunities. To safeguard every single business our experienced experts with long track records in this particular area guarantee professional processes according to international standards.
IDENTIFICATION AND INCUBATION OF PROMOSING IDEAS
DEVELOPMENT AND
MERCHANTABILITY
INTERNATIONALIZATION in
GROWTH MARKETS
OUR BUSINESS AREAS
OUR BUSINESS STRATEGY
OUR BUSINESS STRATEGY
Analysis
We analyze and select the most promising ideas
Financing
We finance and combine talents with ideas and capital
Management
We manage our investments actively for 6-12 months
Office & Services
We provide office space and services (sales, IT, personnel, etc.)
Exclusive business models
We accompany exclusive business models for internationalization
Our founders are included
Our founders participate and be involved in all processes
Minimized risk
We minimize risks through local partnerships or licenses
Accelerated market maturity
We invest in the early stages, and accelerate in market maturity
Experts Network
We provide a network of experts and technology partners
Follow-on financing
We ensure the follow-up funding in case of success
"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator"
BEN GRAHAM
We are an established partner for the implementation of innovative start-up projects and can draw on experience in the analysis of more than 500 patent claims, the testing of more than 150 project evaluations, 50 development and 05 participations. This know-how gives our candidates the best chance for a successful foundation and increases the chance to get more funding and financing.
The exchange of knowledge and experiences within the GFC Europe network with our divisions in, UK, Germany, Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein, accelerate the implementation of different business ideas of our start-ups.
OUR SERVICE
Education
We offer our startups an extensive network of mentors, experts, start-ups, investors, business angels, entrepreneurs, researchers, and regularly arrange workshops with those, so that each of our startups can learn something new from these experiences and knowledge.
Financing
We assign our selected startup, both in the initial or start-up phase, Seed Stage Capital, but also in the later stages of development, Later Stage Capital, if innovation, future business field and possibility of later exits is conceivable and tangible for us.
Consultation
For our startups, we have established a network of strategic, commercial and legal assistance, the optimal positioning of the company, the transfer of experience and the management support, to choose the right strategic partner and service provider, to optimize the financial and business plan concepts for the development of marketing strategies and to PR tactics. For our start-ups, we also provide a complete engineering service. So we ensure that our start-ups exactly can do what they want most: to Start.
THE BOARD
Our management brings diverse creative skills, thought processes and ideas.
Uwe Dost
Chairman
Oliver Vehmeier
Chief Operating Officer
Alex Berschauer
Chief Information Officer
OUR SUCCESS FACTORS
In the age of globalization, speed is the success criterion not the companies size. Market, competitive advantage, customer loyalty, patent protection and distribution network can be achieved in the future only by a network of expertise and contacts.
GFC Europe offers its entrepreneurs an accompaniment, support and advice, which reduces weaknesses and risks minimized. The experience of our startups teams in strategy, structure and system issues, connected with the professional network, guarantees fast growth and secure success. So we strive to the appreciation of our startups on a tight and stringent development process.
500
PATENT CLAIMS ANALYSIS
150
PROJECT EVALUATION
50
START-UP DEVELOPMENTS
15
PARTICIPATIONS
CONTACT
GFC EUROPE PLC
3rd Floor, 207 Regent Street,
London W1B 3HH
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 203 514 6547