When making investment decisions on startups, fast growing companies or mature organizations, two sides are to be assessed: 1. the qualities of the concept, the business project, 2. the qualities of the entrepreneur. Both must have positive prospects to make the business story successful.
Search & Selection has developed a purpose based methodology to map the entrepreneurial potential of candidate investees. This approach has been named Vocational Investment Advice (VIA). Besides improving the success ratio of venture capital and private equity investments, the results are also used for personal development, team building, and for further mentoring and follow-up of the investees.
This role for HR is new in the VC and private equity world. With this development, Search & Selection hopes to enthuse investors for a professional screening of their candidate investees.
Search & Selection is the exclusive HR partner of a European Investment Fund that participates in young African companies. We are asked to map the entrepreneurial qualities of the founder(s) and key team members, so that the Fund can make a well-considered decision when deciding in which entrepreneurs it believes in and thus in which companies it wishes to invest. After all, a good entrepreneur can even build a successful business from an initially bad concept. A bad entrepreneur will wreck a good concept.
Frans Claerhout +32 56 68 16 58 f.claerhout@searchselection.com