Partner With Us

Launch your own fund in partnership with us, or partner with us on fund opportunities

Partnerships form

Participate alongside CrossWork to identify and invest in companies that have the potential to reach $1 billion in valuation

Partnership Opportunity And Benefits

  • Decide how much capital you (or your company, team, family office, trust etc.) can invest or pool with partners to get started. Discuss with CrossWork.
  • Financial benefits
  1. Cash returns from accelerator interests and pre-IPO funds
  2. Management fees from funds
  3. Equity for adding value to portfolio companies
  • Operational benefits - We set up and manage all aspects of the partnership
  1. Strategy – Guidance in setting up your regional or industry focuses
  2. Deal Flow – Access to quality investment transactions
  3. Investment Decision – Senior financial professionals working collaboratively with senior operating executives
  4. Investment Execution – Senior transactions team
  5. Ongoing Performance – Senior executives with exceptional track records
  6. Inorganic Shareholder Value Development – Accretive and other compelling acquisition opportunities
  7. Investment Realization – Exit opportunities for portfolio companies
  • Network benefits
  1. The financial and collaborative power of an accomplished network of senior executives
  2. Unfair advantages – customer relationships, financial relationships, channel relationships, marketing relationships, technology relationships etc.
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Venture Capital Equity Collaboration Platform

Collaboration Platform Of Strategic Companies, Investment Banking Transaction Professionals And Exceptional Senior Leaders

  • Technology
  • Industrials
  • Business Services
  • Consumer
  • Life Sciences
  • Fintech
  • Others

What Our Group Brings To Each Investment

We pool the resources, advantages, expertise, relationships and financial power of our partners to drive outsized investment returns and strategic benefits to our advisers and partners

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Case Study:

>$1 bilion evaluation

  • Some of our advisors invest directly in the most compelling companies
  • CrossWork adviser, Audie Attar, manager of professional athlete Conor McGregor, completed an investment in
  • Jose Cuervo acquired an additional 29% stake in for $70 million, around August 2020, creating an implied floor valuation of $240 million

Our Partnerships Approach
Introductory Call

  • You must be an accredited investor i.e. (1) annual income over $200k ($300k combined with a spouse) (2) net worth of $1 million alone (or combined with a spouse) or (3) a company, trust, family office etc. with over $5 million in assets
  • We walk you through our fund partnerships approach addressing formation, management, deal selection, deal decisions, ongoing management, deal realization and more
  • Goal of the call is to share information. There is no requirement or expectation of any action or committment after the call
  • If we don’t believe we are a fit, we’ll suggest other groups to you

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CrossWork Partnership Summary

  • CrossWork is a partnership of senior industry leaders, investment professionals and portfolio companies focused on growing our portfolio companies and realizing investment value for our partnership.
  • CrossWork is growing its partnership structure regionally and by industry specialization. CrossWork is partnering with potential general/limited partners to participate in investments in industries or regions in which potential general partners have significant strategic advantage
  • Each partnership can optionally add limited partners. Deal flow can be provided by our core partnership, the general partner or limited partners. CrossWork provides a significant volume of transaction opportunities through a dedicated transaction execution team
    a.          We prefer mid to later stage opportunities with a minimum $1 million to $100 million in revenues
  • Formed by ex Goldman Sachs bankers with:
    a.          Extended advisory team of 30 professionals, advisors and consultants from hedge fund managers to Fortune 500 company CEOs
    b.          Over 100 years combined investment experience and deep pre-IPO experience
    c.          Track record of billion dollar investment results: Facebook, Twitter, Cvent etc2

Accelerator Equity

Return enhancer example for accelerator and fund companies

IBM And Amazon have agreed to provide CrossWork accelerator and fund companies up to $200k in cloud hosting and related credits

$200k

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Examples Of Current
CrossWork Accelerator Companies:

  • PayCertify.com is a leading payments platform that certifies companies to issue virtual credit cards, globally, on-demand in minutes
  • Results in significant financial saving to merchants and an unprecedented level of spending controls.
  • 2020 customer volume was approx. $300 million with a headcount of approximately 65
  • Volume is expected to reach $1 billion in 2021
  • CrossWork is introducing PayCertify to large marketplaces with the intention of making its payments solution available to tens of thousands of end users

Case Study:

>$1 bilion evaluation

  • CrossWork adviser, Steven Ogunro an ex-Goldman Sachs banker, completed an early stage investment in
  • completed an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange at a valuation at over $1 billion
  • was subsequently acquired for $1.6 billion by Vista Equity, a fund founded by a former Goldman Sachs colleague
  • As of August 2020 ranked top 10 among software companies in USA
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Examples Of Current
CrossWork Accelerator Companies:

  • OOYYO is one of Europe’s leading car price comparison websites. 10 million car buyers visit OOYYO each year to research car sale information that is aggregated by OOYYO from other sites
  • Currently present in 27 countries with 10 million active users over the last twelve months
  • In 2019 17.4 million cars were sold in Europe at a value of $432 billion. It is estimated that OOYYO website visitors purchase 2 million cars per year or over 10% of the aggregate European car market
  • OOYYO is ranked # 1 in many countries and at least top 5 in Google results for “used cars” in 25+ countries
  • All of OOYYO’s traffic is organic. It does not spend any money on paid advertising. Its average customer (visitor) acquisition cost is $0

Deal Flow

In Numbers

20+

Contracted high level advisors and consultants with wide industry coverage

1,000+

VC + PE funds with whom CrossWork has had communications over the last 3 years

100+

Years of combined investment experience of team

50,000+

Investor, executive lawyers & accountants contacts in CRM

+

An extensive array of lawyers, accountants, consultants and more

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Deal Execution

CrossWork Deal / Investment Process

Deal Flow

Leverage contracted infrastructure of advisors, consultants and relationships at over one thousand VC funds

Investment
decision

Generally target opportunities that fit core criteria

(1) High gross margins

(2) Large number of customers or users

(3) High growth

(4) High switching costs

Investment
Execution

Utilize smart securities and other structures to maximize returns and protect against risk

On-going
Performance Monitoring

Review financial and other business information. Frequent executive meetings. Require or seek board appointments

Shareholder
Value
Development

Provide strategies and transactions that can significantly increase the company’s value e.g. inexpensive acquisitions, partnerships, etc.

Investment
Realization /
Exit Strategy

Orchestrate or influence the ultimate sale/IPO of the company or other means of generating shareholder returns such as recapitalizations