Where our path goes.
Insight invests in companies with potential for growth, recovery or profitability improvement, in Portugal or abroad.
We will participate in well-defined projects with a determined market that promote new technologies and qualified human capital.
Our investment is multi-stage in greenfield and brownfield projects, from Seed-capital to restructuring, of small and medium-sized companies.
We are looking for sectors in renovation, energy, waste, health, tourism, transport, logistics and industry that need new processes and technologies.
• High EBITDA that increases with business growth;
• Niche markets and competitive differentiation.
Insight shares the risk with entrepreneurs
and partners who co-invest with it.
and partners who co-invest with it.
Investment Process
The Key to Success
Beginning
Insight has developed a matrix to filter the "deal flow" that preliminarily evaluates the suitability of the investment policy and the feasibility of the project, highlighting factors such as the structure of the company, the quality of the idea, the competence of the management team and the innovation of the project.
At the same time, a first compliance analysis is carried out on the company and its promoters.
Investment Process
This process includes Business Plan Analysis in all its aspects, including Risk and ESG factors, evolutionary due diligence processes and BCFT.
risk analysis Factors such as the know-how of the management team, innovation and disruption of the solution, market acceptance, expected high growth margins and positioning in niche markets, positioning in terms of environmental and social sustainability and governance structure are particularly relevant.
risk analysis Factors such as the know-how of the management team, innovation and disruption of the solution, market acceptance, expected high growth margins and positioning in niche markets, positioning in terms of environmental and social sustainability and governance structure are particularly relevant.
Investment
The way of investment and evaluation of the project is decisive in its implementation.
The investment can take several forms, which adapt to the financial structure of the investees and the individual rules of each Fund.
Insight actively participates in the management of the projects in which it invests, worrying about strategic issues, product launches, cost efficiency, enhancing the best of each project and team.
The investment can take several forms, which adapt to the financial structure of the investees and the individual rules of each Fund.
Insight actively participates in the management of the projects in which it invests, worrying about strategic issues, product launches, cost efficiency, enhancing the best of each project and team.
Exit
Persistent search for Exit opportunities, where plausible solutions are constantly sought in order to ensure that the deadlines of the Fund in question are met.
Exits are sought through other investors, whether institutions or individuals, share buybacks by other shareholders or IPOs.
It is always a priority to align exit methods with the expectations and desires of our investors.
Exits are sought through other investors, whether institutions or individuals, share buybacks by other shareholders or IPOs.
It is always a priority to align exit methods with the expectations and desires of our investors.
What We need from you
If you believe your company or project fits our verticals and investment philosophy, please email us at investimentos@insightventure-scr.com describing it briefly. Attach your Business Plan and/or a Pitch presentation of your project, if you have one, and/or include any information you deem relevant, namely on the following topics:
1Your experience and your team's experience
Clearly identify the founders and tell us why the assembled team is the right one to lead the project.
2The opportunity the value of the proposed project
Characterize the advantages of the product in the Consumer's perception, the objective dimension and penetration in its market.
3Competitive Assessment, current and future
Superiority of its solution in the face of competition, differentiation and difficulty of imitation: legal, technological, others.
4Where you are on the route
In terms of investment consumed, current costs and stage: product, team, marketing, sales; and so on.
5Progress to date
Foundation, funding rounds, main results obtained, self-assessment of the project in the current situation (before new investments).
6The milestones you want to achieve
Timing of the next objectives to be achieved, framing them in the overall strategy of the business plan.
7Sales projections for a period of 3-5 years
Expected scenarios, more optimistic or pessimistic, at least the big numbers, for now.
8The type of support and the amount of investment
The timing of the investment rounds it wants and the corresponding percentages of equity granted.
9What impact does your project have on an environmental and social level?
How do you measure environmental impact? What tools does your company have to do this?
