Title: The Current State of the Capital Markets
1Breakfast Forum
The Current State of the Capital Markets
2G-51 CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC Presentation to
Boyar Miller Breakfast Forum Current Trends in
Venture Capital
Rudy Garza rudy_at_g51.com
3 G-51 Capital Overview
- Founded in 1996
- Seed Early Stage Technology Investments
Primarily Texas - (Hardware, Software, Internet, Clean Tech)
- Operating Executives and Professional
Technologists - Deep Dell Networks Outstanding National
Syndication Partners - Estimated Q4 2007 Portfolio Company Revenues
48M, 220 Employees - Five Public Company Acquisitions since 2002
- 2007 Pilot Software by SAP(symbol SAP)
- 2005 Sunset Direct by Rainmaker (symbol RMRK)
- 2005 eRealty by Prudential Financial Group
(symbol PRU) - 2002 Psionic Software by Cisco Systems (symbol
CSCO) - 2002 Digital Motorworks by ADP (symbol ADP)
4Early-Stage Ventures have Provided Robust
Returns Untapped market opportunity
Source Thomson Financial/ NVCA 10 year net IRR
as of 12/31/06
Early-stage venture investing, which is G-51s
core emphasis, has significantly outperformed its
counterparts within the venture capital universe
5A Glacial Migration away from Early-Stage
Investing Untapped market opportunity
Source Thomson Financial/ NVCA Venture Capital
Deals Only
The early-stage market is increasingly being
ignored. Over the last 5 years, late-stage
investing has witnessed a 5 CAGR while
early-stage investing has witnessed a -11 CAGR.
6Texas an Underserved, Early-Stage Investment
MarketUntapped market opportunity
649M
Source Thomson Financial / NVCA
Source Thomson Financial / NVCA
7Texas Positive Venture Characteristics
Untapped market opportunity
- Lower cost of doing business Texas tax burden
ranks 42nd in the US and Austin rents are up to
58 lower than other VC havens (WSJ) - Skilled workforce employment at Texas-based,
venture-backed firms is now well over 1 million
(Venture Impact 2007) Austin ranks 5th in
college degrees and 2nd in tech workforce per
capita (Census Bureau) - Intellectual property Texas ranks 2nd in patents
granted by state (US Patent and Trademark Office)
and Austin ranks 3rd in patents granted by city
(ipIQ) - Inertia revenue of Texas-based, venture-backed
firms is growing 11.7 annually and is 2nd only
to California (Venture Impact 2007) - Technology center Texas ranks 2nd in both
high-tech establishments and high-tech exports,
with 34 billion in 2005
(American Electronics Association)
8 Opportunity
- Result An underserved and less competitive
early-stage market -
- Interesting Facts
- 65 M websites growing 50K per day
- Technology Information 2x every 24 months soon
every 12 months - 1 in 8 marriages meet online (Match.com, Facebook
and Myspace) - Mobile phones1st B/ 2 decades 2nd B/1400 days
3rd B 1000 days - Consumer data storage growing from 700 gigabytes/
2006 to 4 terabytes/2009 - Internet Anytime, anywhere on any device (Global
Comm. Mkt. 1 T) - Capex for Global power generation 2x by 2020 to
400 B
9Case StudyMarket leader
- Source of Deal Dell network
- Business Description Highly Mobile computing
solutions for the healthcare market - Traction
- 0 to 100 million revenue in four years
- Recent product launch in partnership with Intel
- C5 tablet has great potential
10Case StudyMarket leader
- G-51 Role Initial investor, board member, board
observer, executive team recruiting, fund raising
strategy - Series A G-51, Compal Electronics and founders
(6.5 million) - Series B NEA and G-51 (10.5 million)
- Series C IVP, NEA and G-51
- (25.5 million)
- Total Raised to Date
- 42.5 million
- 10 million debt
- (Comerica)