Do Business you can be proud of
Hands-on practical advice and investment, from a team with decades of real experience growing and exiting businesses.
Most tech startups fail.
Many of them didn’t need to.
The journey to growth and a successful exit for founders and investors is littered with obstacles. Successfully navigating them requires experience, clarity of vision and a team that is focused on the same goals.
And sometimes you just need the right help at the right time.
At Bailey Ventures we help you bridge the gap from ambition to success.
Learning from your mistakes is good.
Learning from someone else’s is better.
We’ve been where you are. We’ve launched companies, raised capital, navigated growth and dealt with the frustrations of plans going awry and priorities getting skewed.
But we’ve also successfully reached the other side, exiting multiple companies.
We bring that experience to the table, so you can learn from both our successes and our hard-earned scar tissue.
60+
Years Experience
9
Companies Founded
5
M & A
1
IPOs
3
Exits
We focus on three core areas
Raise
Raising capital is essential to growing your business and setting it on the path to success. Finding the right investors isn't a matter of luck. We help you assess the level of capital you need and identify the best investment path for you. We’ll develop your pitch, introduce you to our investor network and help you secure the capital you need from people with a clear understanding of what you’re trying to achieve.
Resolve
Many businesses falter when internal divisions among management, the board and investors become unresolvable. To succeed you need to build trust between the core stakeholders and ensure everyone is aligned on the company’s strategy and direction. We’ll help you identify areas of misalignment, refine your communications so all stakeholders understand the strategy and resolve areas of conflict that get in the way of achieving your goals.
Release
Investors are looking for a return and failure to provide that liquidity event is a frequent cause of friction between management, board and shareholders. But not all opportunities are the right one, and having a plan for how you exit is crucial to ensuring you do it the right way. We'll help you with realistic planning and how to evaluate opportunities so your exit strategy leaves you with a legacy you can be proud of.
About Us
We're founders, directors and CEOs with first-hand experience of the highs and lows of growing and exiting businesses.
We're interested in companies with complicated challenges that need funding, advice, or hands-on help to remove barriers to growth or exit.
Selwyn Pellett
Selwyn has spent 43 years in technology companies, 32 of them in leadership positions. Starting in multinational corporates, he's applied that experience as founder and CEO of multiple businesses. Along the way he's been through multiple capital raises. Most notably taking Endace to IPO on AIM in 2005, and building Coretex through a series of four mergers and acquisitions to an eventual sale to EROAD in 2021.
In addition to running companies and investing Selwyn has advised multiple governments on how to nurture technology companies to create high value jobs in New Zealand. He helped found the NZ Hi-Tech Awards and was inducted into the NZ Hi-Tech Hall of Fame as a Flying Kiwi for his commitment to the industry.
Today Selwyn is on the board of EROAD, Streamline, Bailey Ventures, Sway Tech and Aegis Ceramic Coatings.
Bob Pinchin
Bob has 30+ years’ experience in the tech sector in the UK and New Zealand, in sales, management and at board level. He was CEO of tech publishing company IDG Communications before being a co-founder of tech marketing company Swaytech. He’s been a director of three companies, chair of the Magazine Publishers Association, spent six years on the NZ Tech Board and is the founder and original co-chair of the Tech Marketers Group.
Bob has a strong sales background. He has worked with and provided advice to more than 50 New Zealand tech companies, including work on numerous information memorandums and pitch documents, corporate and investor communications, and brand launches and redevelopment. He has extensive media connections both locally and internationally and is well-connected in the local and international VC and high-net worth individual investor markets.
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