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The Ideal Fit

Your food&Ag Company has to have showed some traction
  • Over USD 2 million on yearly sales
  • To be run above or close to break-even over the last years
  • To launched the company's product in the market for a minimal of 5 years
DETAILED CRITERIA

FINANCIAL​

  • Annual Revenue Range: USD 2 to 20 million
  • Profitability: positive EBITDA, Ideally over 20% of EBITDA margin; at least close to break-even
  • Debt: under control and no risk of default to any type of credit agent over the next months / years

Business Characteristics

  • Value chain position: preference to be in the processing and distribution piece of the Food&Ag value chain. We may also see with good eyes any company that can be an important Good Food enabler, helping Food&Ag companies to be more efficient.    
  • Business model: to demonstrate some recurring purchasing of client database and/or long range contracts
  • Differentiation or relevance factor: strong story-telling potential due to historical achievements and non-obvious business choices
  • Social mission-alignment: we embrace the definition of Impact Businesses(*), so it matters the social and the environmental impact created and the potential to measure it.
  • Management leverages: possible to demonstrate the potential leverages to grow the company according to our business thesis (see Our business thesis)
  • Location of the business: preference to New England states based businesses 
(*) Impact Business Models focus on the specific positive outcomes that are created for specific stakeholders of the business, including employees, communities, customers, and the environment, and are marked by more intensive, generally intentional, systems of measurement and management.

Shareholder(s) Situation
  • Your life-style choice to create a new business became a much more sophisticated business and you need some external help
  • You get to a point where you realize that you do not have all the skill sets for the of growing the business to the next phase
  • You are looking to transition out of day-to-day operations
  • You want your company to continue to grow and care about who takes over
  • (OPTIONAL) You are a serial entrepreneur ready for your next business

Optional

Our Good Food Understanding
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DAISA built a company assessment tool based on this definition, which can be visualized by the framework bellow…

  • Fair [definition]
  • Healthy [definition]
  • Green [definition]
  • Affordable [definition]
A company may exceed in one of this axis and may have potential to increase its impact by adopting some practices. DAISA Capital will consider this for investment and building the company growth strategy.

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