For Founders & Entrepreneurs
As a founder, you want to give the right information to your board to give them a clear picture of the organization's position and strategy. On the other hand you've got a business to run. How can you get information to your board at the right level of detail without losing focus on actually running the business? Xenapto has tools to help you do just that.
As an investor or independent director, how much time do you spend travelling to and sitting in board meetings? Does every agenda item need you to be in the room? What if you could cover some of the agenda in advance, using a secure online boardroom? Xenapto lets you review the board material in a company-specific dashboard and discuss it with your co-directors as soon as it's available. There's just a chance you might reach agreement without sitting through a slide deck.
The board cycle hasn't changed in 150 years. That doesn't mean it isn't broken, just that the tools for fixing it weren't around. Maybe you get your board pack on an iPad now but is it just expensive paper? Xenapto has tools for twenty-first century boards to manage twenty-first century businesses.
For Investors
As a founder, you want to give the right information to your board to give them a clear picture of the organization's position and strategy. On the other hand you've got a business to run. How can you get information to your board at the right level of detail without losing focus on actually running the business? Xenapto has tools to help you do just that.
As an investor or independent director, how much time do you spend travelling to and sitting in board meetings? Does every agenda item need you to be in the room? What if you could cover some of the agenda in advance, using a secure online boardroom? Xenapto lets you review the board material in a company-specific dashboard and discuss it with your co-directors as soon as it's available. There's just a chance you might reach agreement without sitting through a slide deck.
The board cycle hasn't changed in 150 years. That doesn't mean it isn't broken, just that the tools for fixing it weren't around. Maybe you get your board pack on an iPad now but is it just expensive paper? Xenapto has tools for twenty-first century boards to manage twenty-first century businesses.
Secure online boardroom
As a founder, you want to give the right information to your board to give them a clear picture of the organization's position and strategy. On the other hand you've got a business to run. How can you get information to your board at the right level of detail without losing focus on actually running the business? Xenapto has tools to help you do just that.
As an investor or independent director, how much time do you spend travelling to and sitting in board meetings? Does every agenda item need you to be in the room? What if you could cover some of the agenda in advance, using a secure online boardroom? Xenapto lets you review the board material in a company-specific dashboard and discuss it with your co-directors as soon as it's available. There's just a chance you might reach agreement without sitting through a slide deck.
The board cycle hasn't changed in 150 years. That doesn't mean it isn't broken, just that the tools for fixing it weren't around. Maybe you get your board pack on an iPad now but is it just expensive paper? Xenapto has tools for twenty-first century boards to manage twenty-first century businesses.
Board collaboration
Xenapto's online boardroom is a social area where directors can ask questions, make comments and generally chat about board documents or agenda items.
Xenapto can provide your board information in traditional document form (PDF or spreadsheet, for example) but also as an online dashboard that lets you see trends and exceptions at a glance. Both financial and operational data can be synchronised automatically with your own framework of KPIs or Balanced Scorecard.
Xenapto can record decisions made and track the completion of action points. Directors' assent (or not!) to minutes and proposals is captured securely and verifiably.
Board committees
The basic packages give you one online boardroom for your main board. If your business is more mature or more complex than that we can provide separate a boardroom for each board committee. Your Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and main board can have separate areas with different memberships and no chance of any inadvertent crossover.
If you've got different classes of equity, remembering who gets what can be a real chore. Xenapto will remind you what you need to make available to whom and when.
Governance best practice
For a young company it's not always easy to get to an effective board environment. Inexperienced directors may not have the background to avoid common mistakes that can lead a company into trouble. Xenapto underpins good practice in creating and maintaining an effective board. Board performance metrics are available to the chairman, and potential investors have the evidence they need to be confident they are investing in a well-run company.
Proactive fund raising
Most online capital-raising tools help you put your pitch documents online and capture investors' expressions of interest. It can be a passive process and you stand or fall by the quality of your pitch material. Xenapto's approach lets you be totally hands-on in spreading the word.
Xenapto's deal dashboard shows you exactly where you are with your capital raise. How much has been promised? Who's close to making a decision? How long is it since you spoke to that potential investor? What's your call schedule for today?
Whether it's just you or a team of people talking to potential investors, Xenapto can manage the whole process from first calls through to closing the deal. Xenapto's comprehensive deal management tools show you how much you've really raised and what your priorities should be today.
Any currency, any instrument
Xenapto can help you raise funds in any currency, and using any instrument (multiple equity classes or even convertible notes). Xenapto knows what steps you need to take to sign people up and carry out best-practice Know Your Client procedures.
Raising money is more than just getting people enthusiastic about your business. Xenapto lets you target your efforts in the right place and helps you actually get the money in.
Your portfolio, your way
Xenapto is for investors and independent directors as well as founders. Xenapto has comprehensive portfolio management tools that give you an up-to-date view of all your companies.
Your investments
Xenapto shows you what you've invested where and on what terms. It can generate a comprehensive cross-company waterfall report based on criteria you provide. If your portfolio companies are also Xenapto users (and why wouldn't they be?) you get collaborative tools to let you share data with them and vice versa. They can benefit from your address book and you can see real-time operational and financial data from them.
If any of your companies aren't on Xenapto yet you can manually enter the details of your stake. Or help them see the light and sign up!
Your board duties
As a company director you are personally liable for some types of company behavior. Xenapto makes sure you know what you need to do and what the company itself should be doing to demonstrate good corporate governance.
Xenapto will make sure you get the information you need (and are entitled to) at the right time and in a friendly format. The director dashboard can sync with your calendar and cloud storage services to make sure you've got the right documents at the right time, even on the plane.
Filling the hopper
Gathering information about potential investment companies can be a slog. Copying and pasting from multiple information sources and resolving different data formats probably isn't the best use of your time. Xenapto automates the discovery process for you. All you need to do is enter a company name or even forward an email to Xenapto and Xenapto will do the rest.
Xenapto's database of company information sources enables it to suggest names of investors and founders along with information about prior funding rounds. News items, analysts' reports, EDGAR and Companies House filings are all searched for you. Xenapto presents discovered information as suggestions so there's no confusion between your verified data and Xenapto's unconfirmed research.
You can add other information from your own sources. If you have investors' private contact details or have heard about the likely timing of future funding rounds then you can add them in the knowledge that your research is secure and private.
Filtering and prioritising
When you've gathered enough information to begin prioritising your next investments, Xenapto lets you dynamically filter, sort and collate your potential targets. Xenapto can use your capital availability forecast and other criteria provided by you to rank potential investment targets based on real evidence.
Decision time
You trust your instincts on investment decisions, but sometimes it's good to remember exactly why you went the way you did. Or perhaps there's an Investment Committee waiting to hear your proposals. Either way, Xenapto's proposed investment reports are the best way to record what you want to invest in and why.
The ones that got away
Uniquely, Xenapto lets you keep a shadow portfolio of companies you couldn't or didn't invest in. It might be painful news in the future or maybe you breathe a sigh of relief when you remember the train wreck you were nearly in. Either way when valuation evidence comes to light you can see at a glance how much your investment would have been worth. It's better to know, right?
People & organizations
Xenapto syncs with your regular address book, but it has tools to enhance your contact data and get rid of the duplicates.
Xenapto's address book works the way you do. Skype, Twitter and Path ids live alongside the usual phone number and email addresses. You can make Skype calls or send a Twitter DM right from the address book.
Relationships between people and organizations are defined flexibly, so your address book becomes a social graph of your world. Fred is married to Wilma, Wilma is an partner in Rubble Ventures, Rubble Ventures is an investor in Fred's new startup: you can click through all these relationships to find the right person.
Xenapto will search the web for information about your contacts. Any new information it finds will show up as a suggestion. You can accept or reject any suggestion that Xenapto makes for you.
What's coming up
For fee-based businesses, Xenapto can help you keep track of upcoming projects. Details of your clients and prospective clients are combined with your resource calendar to make sure you can provide the right people for your clients' needs at the right time.
Prioritising your client calls and focusing your sales efforts in the right place is easy using Xenapto's client and engagement management tools.
Post-engagement reporting can help you target the right kind of work in the future. You know, the kind that actually makes money.
The right person can transform your organization
You've got a great shortlist of candidates for that important role. You just need to keep track of who's spoken to whom and when. Which candidates have downloaded the job description and experience profile and which ones are winging it?
Finding the right people for your business is critical to your success. Xenapto can make it just that little bit easier.