Selected Completions 2011

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IT & ‘WEEE’ RECYCLING COMPANY

£200,000 December

This profitable growing company secured investment and management expertise to help drive through the expansion plans developed in conjunction with our consultative approach. They are now poised to become a major regional provider of their services with huge growth potential. The combination of the management experience and additional capital from the private investor was exactly the combination sought by this company. The investor has now taken a place on the board of the company.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robert Heed – Midlands Region

BIO-TECHNOLOGY

Additional £75,000 December

Bringing total funds raised to £375,000

This company is developing a simple urine-based diagnostic test for bladder cancer to replace the more expensive and unpleasant test used at present. The company won the top cancer award at the prestigious Medical Futures competition in December 2008. It was also awarded a £100,000 Research Grant for R&D. This round of funding was completed through the November Investment Fair.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Lawrence Fenelon – Midlands Region

WEB-BASED PROPERTY PORTAL

£25,000 December

First stage investment has been secured for this web-based property portal for tenants and landlords, which incorporates a social networking platform. This investment secures the further development of the technology which will be completed by April 2012 ready for the stage 2 investment of c£180k required to further develop the differentiated market opportunities in the sector. This will enable our client, due to the unique inter-active and informational database, to become the leading private property rental web-site in London.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Doug Garforth – London Region

DIGITAL ASSET TRACKING COMPANY

$9m December

Payable in 3 tranches over 12 months

Beer & Partners completed this biggest ever deal with a $9 million investment going to a leader in cloud computing software for the digital media sector. In just five months, this US based client now has the required funding to expand their revolutionary cloud-based managed services platform in the way that Management and clients seek. This financial commitment from a small institutional investor, introduced to the Company at the London Investment Fair in June 2011, enables the company to develop their marketing activities, grow the sales team and add functionality to the product range. Our client was serious about attracting investment and we made sure they were extremely well-prepared for the Investment Fair in June and subsequent introductions in the campaign. Because of this, we were able to efficiently generate some earnest interest from angels and funds in a short space of time through a focused and stimulating campaign.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill – South West & Uti Thakkar – London

ENERGY SUPPLY

£52,000 November

Bringing total funds raised to £870,000

This was a further round of funding for this rapidly growing utility company. 20 of our investors have invested a total of over £870,000 into this business, which targets the niche tenanted property sector. In this particular round, 4 investors supplied funds from £5,000 to £30,000.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Patrick Angier – Scotland Region

CENTRAL LONDON PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT

£480,000 November

Mezzanine loan for experienced property developer. Beer & Partners introduced just under £0.5m of mezzanine funding, from one investor, to complete the financing of this mixed-use retail and residential property scheme in central London.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Dave Flockhart & James Coleman – London Region

BIO-SCIENCE: ALGAE TO OIL

£25,000 November

Bringing total funds raised to £642,000

This algae-to-neutraceuticals company has attracted increasing interest since Beer first raised startup capital for it in Q2 2009. It is now approaching seven-figure revenues, is cashflow-positive, is enjoying vigorous growth in demand for its initial product 'Astaxanthin' and is likely to be capacity-constrained for the foreseeable future. Beer has raised in excess of £600k for this company. As the business has become 'de-risked', it attracts more widespread attention, and that figure may rise.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Angus Milne – London Region

BRIGHTON PAVILION ICE RINK

£280,000 November

Finance was required in order for the Brighton Pavilion Ice Rink to open in November 2010. A small consortium of investors participated in a mix of equity and loan financing totalling £300,000. An initial round was completed in October 2010, followed by additional funding in November 2011.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Frank McIlwee – South East Region

SEISMIC DATASTORE & CONSULTANCY

£100,000 November

This client initially failed to attract investment at our Investment Fair in November 2010 but we subsequently found interest from a new investor joining our database during 2011 who has now invested. This investment enabled the company to secure an EFG loan of £70,000 and total funding of £170,000 enabled the company to exploit a business critical market gap.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Michael Weaver – London Region

MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS

£155,000 July - October

Sphere Medical raised £14m from a share placing in association with its AIM float valuing the company at £34.05m. Investors introduced by Beer & Partners, who participated in the last round of pre IPO funding between July and October, were able to see their investment increase by 43% in less than 5 months – 100% pa.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Lawrence Fenelon – Midlands Region

WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION – GREAT EXPECTATIONS

£400,000 October

The Company approached Beer & Partners to raise its investment and production capital in two tranches. The first tranche now being completed, the production has now become 'live' and commences production, casting and promotion whilst the second and final tranche is raised. Through running a comprehensive campaign and staging several events at The Ivy, 10 Beers investors contributed the majority of the investment via a loan with recoupment structure. It is anticipated that the show will open in the Spring of 2012, Dickens' bicentennial year.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill – South West Region

IMPROVEMENT TO KEYHOLE SURGERY

£93,000 (from March to) September

Bringing total funds raised to £168,000

This business has developed a truly effective way to keep the lens of the laparoscope clear whilst it is inside the body during keyhole surgery. The product has been warmly received by leading surgeons. Earlybird round completed successfully in the last quarter of 2010 and was oversubscribed. Subsequent rounds of funding have taken place throughout 2011. This will take the company into profitable revenues and is going very well; some shares are still available for private investors.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Simon Heywood & Richard Silberbauer – London Region

THE FIRST MULTI-SERVICE COMPARISON WEBSITE IN ALL LATIN AMERICA

£50,000 September

Bringing total funds raised to £200,000

This company is the very first broadscale price comparison website in Latin America. Internet penetration is rising sharply across the continent and the main economies are growing fast. The concept has already been established for the majority of bus timetables (the main mode of transport in Latin America) and is being extended to include insurance and other basics over the next twelve months. Two investors put initial funds of £150,000 into a UK investment vehicle in September 2010. Round two saw a top-up investment of £50,000 in September 2011.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Tony Maynard – Thames Valley Region

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION & LEAD GENERATION

£550,000 September

Bringing total funds raised to £950,000

The client is a market-leading Search Engine Optimisation, Lead Generation and Online Marketing business, providing a truly distinct offering to the largely untapped UK SME sector. The client came to Beer in late 2009 to raise capital to expand the company’s existing profitable growth. Beer & Partners found them two private investors with relevant expertise, one of whom has joined the Board. This combination of money and skills is what attracted the Founders of the company to these investors.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill – South West Region

v-COMMERCE PROVIDER

£100,000 August

Bringing total funds raised to £150,000

We assisted this video-commerce provider in raising £100,000 as part of a £400,000 round following the investment fair in January 2011. Our investor bought a wealth sector knowledge to the company and joined the board as an advisor, having seen the value of the company’s business model. Through its market leading, proprietary video platform and player the company is able to correctly match content torelated products and deliver an audience, connecting existing e-commerce revenue streams to the TV and Video entertainment industries. Having built the company through revenues over the last four years, the funding allows the company to progress through its aggressive growth plans.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – James Leay – London Region

ENGINE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY WITH PATENTED TECHNOLOGY

£15,000 July

Bringing total funds raised to £150,000

Our client develops engines using a patented rotary valve that gives distinct advantages in a number of applications, particularly for Unmanned Air Vehicles; this company has a lightweight engine that operates on kerosene, an essential future military requirement. Ultra Electronics is marketing the engine for our client. Funding of up to £130,000 is needed to build and market engines for this company's forest & garden products and strengthen patent cover. Current shareholders are putting in half and a new Beer investor has invested £15,000.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robert Whitaker – South West Region

FEMALE FASHION WEB PORTAL

£165,000 July

Bringing total funds raised to £150,000

The company approached Beer & Partners to raise its start-up capital as well as introduce good calibre investors that could materially help with the development of the planned business. Through running a comprehensive campaign, a syndicate of investors formed and negotiated both investment and active role with the company. The lead investor had experience in the online sector, and the syndicate the ability to follow its investment if required.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robin Rowland Hill – South West Region
& Uti Thakkar – London Region

PERSONALISED LEARNING

£20,000 July

Bringing total funds raised to £150,000

A single Beer investor has, in June 2009, invested £130,000 with a further £20,000 following in June 2011. Including £375,000 from an institutional investor and £80,000 from the new CTO, this has raised a total of £625,000.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Robert Whitaker – South West Region

BRANDED THERMOGENIC CALORIE BURNING DRINK

£60,000 June

We worked closely with the Client to secure a second round of funding from a North East Regional Investment Fund. This followed the original proof of concept funding and was primarily working capital to support a product trial and launch in the Republic of Ireland and mainland Europe.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Andrew Wilson – Northern Region

INFRASTRUCTURE SENSOR TECHNOLOGY WITHIN THE WATER SECTOR

£52,000 May

Investments totalling £142,000 from 5 investors introduced by Beer triggered £485,000 from other sources. Combining technical expertise with analytical excellence, this multi‐award‐winning company has developed and with these funds will commercialise globally with its transformative applications for the preventative management of major fluid transporting pipelines.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – David Rich – Eastern Region

ONLINE DESIGNER CHILDRENS' CLOTHING

£170,000 May

This online designer of children’s clothes attracted an initial £170,000 from our investor in 2009. This, followed by additional £172,000 invested in late 2010 / early 2011, brought the company to a position where it has now been able to raise £5m. This enabled our investor to exit at over 4x the original investment in two and a half years.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – David Rich – Eastern Region

BIO-TECHNOLOGY

Additional £21,000 April

Bringing total funds raised to £300,000

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Lawrence Fenelon – Midlands Region

‘HEALTHY FAST FOOD’ RETAILER

£1.5m April

Bringing total funds raised from Beer investors to £2.5m

POD went back to its existing investors one more time in Q1 2011, raising £2.8m, of which Beer investors (past as well as present) put in well over half. This will enable POD to expand from 10 outlets to 16-plus. POD should then have sufficient free cashflow to expand organically.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Angus Milne– London Region

AUTOMATIC INDEXING SERVICE FOR VIDEO ARCHIVES

£21,000 April

Successful completion by three Beer investors has allowed this company to begin marketing its novel, state of the art system for cataloguing video archives, allowing owners to increase the value of their content.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Lawrence Fenelon – Midlands Region

PATENTED TOOL FOR EASY YACHT CLEANING

£125,000 April

This early stage marine products company has received investment of £125,000. The funding will enable the company to quickly develop the market for their principle product – a patented boat hull cleaning tool. In particular the funding will help the company accelerate their plans for developing its North American sales channels.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Mike Epton – Midlands Region

FINANCIAL SERVICES

£50,000 March & June

Initial stage of investment into this SME fund. First close took place in June 2010. The fund comprises both institutional and high net worth investors, businessmen and entrepreneurs operating throughout the UK. The fund commitment from investors allows access to the private equity investment asset class.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Tony Cecil – South West Region

BEER & PARTNERS EIS SCHEME

£15,000 March

This was an additional further investment by one of our investors into our EIS Scheme. For a normal subscription of £25,000, investors have access to a portfolio of early stage companies of high potential, chosen and managed by a team led by Simon Hunt, an experienced and professional private investor with proven track record who has invested his own funds in the scheme. The first closing of the scheme took place in March 2009 and the first two investments were made within the 2008/9 tax year. Subsequent closings are arranged to reflect the timing and amount of further subscriptions to suit investors. There is no shortage of high potential deal flow. Returns in excess of 20% pa are targeted within a 5-7 year timeframe, plus variable tax benefits, including income tax relief, CGT deferral and proceeds except from CGT and IHT.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – James Leay – London Region

NEW TREATMENTS FOR DEBILITATING RESPIRATORY DISEASES

£35,000 March & June

Some of our investors contributed a small amount as part of an interim investment round in this business that has new technologies that mimics and enhances the body's natural response to debilitating respiratory diseases.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Patrick Angier – Scotland Region

BETTER TESTING FOR FOOD TOXINS

Additional £410,000 March

Bringing total funds raised to £2.1m

First round investment came from ten Angel investors in late 2008 who included two industry insiders. A new CEO was installed shortly after. This round has attracted fresh investors and a new Chairman. An enhanced test which delivers multiple simultaneous tests is to be offered to licensees in early 2011 for supply of instruments and consumables to the food industry worldwide. The technology will allow food producers to test food for toxins inexpensively and quickly on the spot rather than send samples into laboratories. The first tests will cover four key mycotoxins. Food producers are undergoing increasing pressure to ensure that their products are uncontaminated. There is significant scale potential for use of the technology platform in healthcare applications.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Simon Heywood & Richard Silberbauer – London Region

BESPOKE LIFT CARRIAGE MANUFACTURER

£250,000 February

As a niche company within a large market our client has bucked the trend in construction related industries but was severely constrained by lack of working capital to take large contracts. A single investor has recognised the potential particularly in export markets and in addition to investment is making the ‘back room’ facilities of their other companies available to our client so they can focus on growth.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Mike Epton – Midlands Region

REVOLUTIONARY FOLDABLE BOAT WITH BUILT-IN RETRACTABLE TRAILER

Additional £50,000 January

Bringing total funds raised to £250,000

A success for the Beer Investment Fair. This client, who has the rights to a fold-up boat with a built-in trailer, was funded by a single investor within one month. A follow on investment of £50,000 was made a year later.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Dwight Makins – London Region

HIGH EFFICIENCY SOLAR PANELS AT A BREAKTHROUGH COST

£50,000 January

Beer investors contributed equity investment as part of a funding round to take this company from proof of concept to early commercial production. The company has innovative technology that dramatically improves the efficiency and power generation from solar panels, whilst at the same time keeping costs similar to existing technologies.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Patrick Angier – Scotland Region

BETTER TESTING FOR FOOD TOXINS

Additional £110,000 January
Bringing total funds raised to £1.4m

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Simon Heywood & Richard Silberbauer – London Region

CHAIN OF INDOOR SKI & SNOWBOARDING CENTRES

£260,000 January - April

This company has the UK rights to a Dutch indoor ski slope which works on a treadmill principle. With variable speed and elevation and not requiring sub-zero temperatures these slopes have considerable advantages over snow domes and provide an excellent training venue, as well as being great exercise.

• Acting for Beer & Partners Ltd – Dwight Makins – London Region

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