Frequently Asked Questions

First, we happily bring the structured VC experience to individuals and micro-small firms/companies that may find bigger, conventional VCs as being out of their league (or inaccessible). For example, we have done great deals in the most unlikely places that most conventional VCs will not go. Second, we flexibly personalize our VC package to suit your specific needs. Third, we are agnostic (i.e., we do not cherry-pick or find any opportunity too bizarre for our consideration). Fourth, no matter the stage of your business idea or firm/company, we will meet you where you are and help scale it to the next level. Fifth, we bring the synergistic power of our entire Group (with a consulting/advisory arm) to support you along the way, while we take those baby steps together. This means you will be receiving many ancillary services (e.g., financial and accounting advisory, executive coaching, setup/governance/resourcing support, etc.,) free of charge as part of our overall 360° VC experience.

This is the best part: ANY. It could be:

• Just an idea that is still being thought about.
• An opportunity that is being developed but not yet matured sufficiently.
• An opportunity that has been developed sufficiently, but not yet market-ready (and no cash inflows).
• An opportunity that has been developed sufficiently and market-ready, but with insufficient cash inflows.
• A startup (at any stage of development).
• An established small business requiring scale support.
• Project financing.
• Joint venture (JV).

We are inherently agnostic in terms of our investment approach or philosophy; thus, we do not particularly have a preference for certain ecosystems per se. Rather, we allow the “value” on the table to intrinsically drive and inform our portfolio actions or investment decision process. In other words, we simply follow the “value” wherever it may be, as long as the underlying variables underpinning an opportunity or idea, or business, meet our clearly defined, underlying investment criteria.

Quite frankly, you stand to gain a whole lot. Generally speaking, we help businesses (particularly micro-startups) scale up speedily on their paths to reaching their full potential. We support startups with the key early baby steps such as seed financing, set-up (e.g., registration, licensing, org. structuring, resourcing, IT/digital infrastructure, software applications, and ERP deployment), business model development, opportunity maturation and development, governance, financial advisory, accounting, risk management, training, executive coaching/mentorship, etc. We will leverage the synergistic power of the Antigravity Group (particularly the readily available pool of expert resources in Antigravity Consulting Ltd.) to provide you a 360° VC support round the clock.

Anyone, firm, or company.

You can share/submit your business idea directly on our website (www.antigravitygroup.ng), or you can send an email to incubated@antigravitygroup.ng

If the opportunity or idea meets our initial screening criteria, we will contact you for the next steps, which will typically begin with a GTKY (get to know you) session, followed by a pitch session.

We look for lot of things as part of our initial screening process, given the high traffic of investment opportunities we will typically have coming through our investment ideas funnel. That said, some key themes we look out for include: -The entire opportunity set within which a business idea or opportunity falls in. -The level of development or maturity stage of the idea or opportunity. -The intrinsic or latent quality and viability of the of the opportunity/idea. -The vision, passions, energy levels, credibility, integrity, and capabilities (e.g., technical expertise/competences) of the business idea owner (s) / sponsor (s). -Funding needs/requirements.

Depending on the intrinsic nature of the specific opportunity being discussed, we flexibly agree the best funding mechanism that will aptly suit the startup per its stage of development or the preferences of the owner (s). In general, however, we have the following key funding routes as part of our investment approach: 1.Equity 2.VC Debt 3.Hybrid (Equity + Debt, including blended SAFEs) 4.Exotics (including project financing, pure-play profit sharing, unincorporated JVs, SPVs, milestone- or derivative-driven indexation, etc.). Investment bridges (where we connect you with other potential investors, and we serve as an investment intermediary or "bridge”).

Yes. And depending on the nature and scale of the investment opportunity, we either conduct the DD in-house or employ the services of a third-party, forensics team.

We will be more than honored to welcome you on board. Kindly drop us an email at vcpartner@antigravitygroup.ng, and we will be more than happy to schedule a meeting with you.