CAPTURING OPPORTUNITIES IN EVER-CHANGING MARKETS
The Verleur Group LLC (TVG) is a boutique venture capital firm engaged in the hands-on incubation of startups. We are a mature team of field-hardened executives who love the art of turning abstractions into reality.
We build teams, buildings, factories, products and brands, but most importantly Profits, for a small family of like-minded investors. We have a proven track record of enterprise excellence, having executed ventures from inception through profitability and strategic exit.
We are not bankers, we are entrepreneurs who invest.
TVG is both the first anchor investor and principal incubator in the majority of our engagements. We identify a number of co-investors who participate with us through TVG Managed Funds. These funds provide unique investment opportunities for accredited investors, family offices, and small institutions.
The TVG incubation thesis is foundational and long term. Our exit windows are usually in the seven to ten year range. We focus on early stage professionalization by providing extensive incubator resources in all key competency areas.
The TVG objective is to establish entrenched market share through business innovation. We focus on brand, marketing, e-commerce efficiency, and product differentiation. Our hands-on process strictly enforces board-approved mission objectives. We focus on the bottom line throughout every incubation and strive to instill exit portability early in the development process. We like businesses that can show positive net earnings by year three, and pay dividends by year five, without sacrificing ongoing growth and exit opportunities.
Companies founded by TVG in partnership with entrepreneurs. These majority-held ventures are cultivated from seed to maturity by the TVG management team. We typically invest from $100K to $10M to bring these companies to profitability and mature scale.
Companies that bring business value to our Incubated Startups. These are mostly minority investment positions in companies that trade with or provide quantifiable synergy to our existing portfolio companies. We typically invest between $100K and $3M in deals of this nature.
Custom-developed properties that underpin the operations of TVG Incubated Startups, with expected rental cap rates in excess of 15%.
We are currently reviewing projects in the following business categories: Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Nutraceuticals, Online Brands and Services, China Sourced Goods, and Fully Legal Cannabis.
If you have something for us to look at, please email it to proposals@verleur.com and we will let you know if we have any interest in taking a further look. Unfortunately, we cannot sign NDAs on unsolicited business plans, and for the protection and privacy of our fiduciaries, we cannot openly disclose our current portfolio of investments.
The TVG incubator is a multi-competency team of mature managers. We have specialists in all the important areas of startup creation. We are a nuts and bolts shop. TVG begins with strategic planning and budgeting, we then assist with necessary fundraising, develop winning marketing strategies, and we get hands on where operational support is needed. From Idea to Exit. Building Startups is in our Blood.
TVG looks at startup incubation holistically. We specialize in building portable enterprises designed for strategic exit and/or institutional capitalization. TVG focuses on the early stage development of a new business: the hardest stage, before a venture can attract private equity, institutional financing and public market opportunities.
Professionalization of a startup enterprise starts early. Building a profitable business is only part of the battle. For a business to be attractive to growth capital and exit opportunities, a business must be built with standardized processes, compliant accounting standards, and SOPs that inspire exit portability.
Although we primarily offer incubation and strategic consulting to house-baked startups and companies where the TVG Group has a direct fiduciary investment, we also take on 4-5 consulting engagements each year. If we have synergy with the founders and believe that TVG can add exponential value to an enterprise, we enthusiastically engage. Some of these projects are strictly fee based and sometimes we accept equity or convertible debt instruments as payment.
TVG specializes in designing and executing consumer facing brands, complex supply chains, and serious eCommerce focused enterprises. TVG has almost 25 years of eCommerce and online marketing competency, including over one billion dollars of B2C online sales in the North American marketplace alone. From consulting to hands-on execution, TVG is meticulously focused on the clients ultimate objective, whether its an operational objective or an exit.
TVG also provides regulatory and IP consulting to a handful of mid-size and Fortune 500 companies, in the FMCG, Nicotine, Tobacco and Vape industries.
We turn abstraction into reality; from prototyping, to advanced tooling, manufacturing, quality control, and logistics. TVG employs an expert team of sourcing and quality control specialists. Over the last decade, our team has designed, manufactured and sold over a billion dollars worth of consumer goods. We understand the complexities of building efficient global supply chains in real-time, while scaling a business. Our approach is methodical and technical, with a focus on quality control and supply chain stability.
We take on a variety of projects from straight sourcing, to complex product and supply chain design. We are especially skilled at COGS reduction and/or margin optimization projects. TVG has boots on the ground in the United States, Asia, and Latin America, with a deep rolodex of high-quality suppliers and partners.
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