Selected start-ups, grown-ups, financial institutions and companies from and in the digital markets are our clients. Using Skill for Equity instead of traditional service calculations, we support them in achieving their ambitious goals and increase the company value disproportionately due to our expertise since 1995.

Who are you?

Are you a SW, Services, E-Commerce, Telecommunications, Content, Advertising or Logistics player in the B2C or B2B space? Are you reporting “structural profitability” and sales of EUR 5 million or more but you’re still burning through money because you’re focusing on rapid growth? After more than 200 direct or indirect investments, NTV’s core business is to handle requests of EUR 10 million up to EUR 100 million. Our typical cases are fast growing businesses with a CAGR of more than 50% and A to C rounds of EUR 10 million to EUR 50 million. We also meet financing requirements for “buy & build” approaches ranging from EUR 50 million to EUR 300 million when the company is growing at a CAGR of approx. 25%. 

• Coaching, sparring and program management: Responsible employees are the trustworthy contact persons at eye level for founders and C-level managers and are available as required as coaches on a weekly or monthly basis, as sparring partners on demand or more continuously as program managers for extensive projects.
• Sell Side: For our sell side clients, mainly corporates divesting selected assets, financial investors divesting portfolio companies, and founders selling their companies, our What’s Next experience is the key driver to leveraging their achievements into compelling equity stories.

  We manage sell side processes, including the development of the executive summary, pitch deck, information memorandum, long list, and short list, approaching interested buyers, as well as setting up the data room, preparing customized management presentations, and leading negotiation management also with respect to the lawyers and auditors involved until successful closing. Our sweet spot currently lies around USD 50 million with exceptions ranging from fire sales of portfolio companies for our long-term clients to transactions of more than USD 600 million.

• Buy Side: For our corporate clients and PEs, in buy side projects we identify and profile relevant targets before a purchase. Our key USP here is negotiation management before the closing. After accessing the right targets, we more often than not become a trusted partner in jointly developing win-win concepts, strategies and, if relevant, integration plans for involved parties based on the initial deal ratios. These are usually operationalized in joint business cases and become an integral part of the deal making and beyond. Transaction volumes on the buy side so far have run from USD 10 million up to USD 200 million.
• Advisory Board Member: Your company has already invested extensively in digitalization or is about to do so? In selected cases we are gladly available as an advisory board member on a quarterly basis. Should it also become important to have an experienced sparring partner in between, this is standard practice for us. 

Are you wondering, for example, whether your investments are making optimal use of the potential of digitalization internally and externally or whether it makes sense to sell an investment or implement a buy & build strategy? We can help you with this and have many success stories from international cooperation in portfolios with around 150 financial investors. We have also frequently taken on program–management functions and several advisory board mandates in order to continuously accompany strategic digitalization initiatives. 

• What’s Next-Assessment: How is your company performing? Applying our 10-point What’s Next Assessment program, we can tell our clients within 60 days how they can perform much better in the future and, potentially, how to improve their equity story. They’ll also understand how they can become a player that exceeds their peer group and what their realistic financial goals can be 5 years out.
  We focus on the upsides and improvement potential. We don’t linger on the weaknesses and threats (although we identify them and address them very constructively). Rather, we work on answers and recommendations. We identify the beauty and improvement potential of our clients’ business models over the next 5 years, usually for a strategy update or to prepare a company sale, and the respective Q&A for interested parties.
• Coaching, sparring and program management: Responsible employees are the trustworthy contact persons at eye level for founders and C-level managers and are available as required as coaches on a weekly or monthly basis, as sparring partners on demand or more continuously as program managers for extensive projects. 
• Sell Side: For our sell side clients, mainly corporates divesting selected assets, financial investors divesting portfolio companies, and founders selling their companies, our What’s Next experience is the key driver to leveraging their achievements into compelling equity stories.

  We manage sell side processes, including the development of the executive summary, pitch deck, information memorandum, long list, and short list, approaching interested buyers, as well as setting up the data room, preparing customized management presentations, and leading negotiation management also with respect to the lawyers and auditors involved until successful closing. Our sweet spot currently lies around USD 50 million with exceptions ranging from fire sales of portfolio companies for our long-term clients to transactions of more than USD 600 million.

• Buy Side: For our corporate clients and PEs, in buy side projects we identify and profile relevant targets before a purchase. Our key USP here is negotiation management before the closing. After accessing the right targets, we more often than not become a trusted partner in jointly developing win-win concepts, strategies and, if relevant, integration plans for involved parties based on the initial deal ratios. These are usually operationalized in joint business cases and become an integral part of the deal making and beyond. Transaction volumes on the buy side so far have run from USD 10 million up to USD 200 million.
• Advisory Board Member: Your company has already invested extensively in digitalization or is about to do so? In selected cases we are gladly available as an advisory board member on a quarterly basis. Should it also become important to have an experienced sparring partner in between, this is standard practice for us. 

Are you wondering, for example, whether your company is making optimal use of the potential of digitalization, both internally and externally? Or whether it makes sense to sell a stake or implement a buy & build strategy? We can help you with this and have many success stories from our cooperation in innovation management with around 70 industrial companies. We have also frequently taken on program management functions and, on several occasions, advisory board mandates in order to successfully implement strategic digitalization initiatives in projects and, if necessary, to provide ongoing support. 

• What’s Next-Assessment: How is your company performing? Applying our 10-point What’s Next Assessment program, we can tell our clients within 60 days how they can perform much better in the future and, potentially, how to improve their equity story. They’ll also understand how they can become a player that exceeds their peer group and what their realistic financial goals can be 5 years out.
  We focus on the upsides and improvement potential. We don’t linger on the weaknesses and threats (although we identify them and address them very constructively). Rather, we work on answers and recommendations. We identify the beauty and improvement potential of our clients’ business models over the next 5 years, usually for a strategy update or to prepare a company sale, and the respective Q&A for interested parties.
• Your growing business is established but bigger problems turn up: key team members are jumping ship? We can offer immediate help from our strong network. We call it Skillnet Affairs. It’s very likely we can help on the spot – with experienced ex-CXOs open to challenging tasks, who usually work for a success fee or “virtual equity”-based compensation. For these guys, “big problems” are the order of the day. They love to tackle them and deploy their vast experience without the limitations of an employed executive.
• Coaching, sparring and program management: Responsible employees are the trustworthy contact persons at eye level for founders and C-level managers and are available as required as coaches on a weekly or monthly basis, as sparring partners on demand or more continuously as program managers for extensive projects. 
• Sell Side: For our sell side clients, mainly corporates divesting selected assets, financial investors divesting portfolio companies, and founders selling their companies, our What’s Next experience is the key driver to leveraging their achievements into compelling equity stories.

  We manage sell side processes, including the development of the executive summary, pitch deck, information memorandum, long list, and short list, approaching interested buyers, as well as setting up the data room, preparing customized management presentations, and leading negotiation management also with respect to the lawyers and auditors involved until successful closing. Our sweet spot currently lies around USD 50 million with exceptions ranging from fire sales of portfolio companies for our long-term clients to transactions of more than USD 600 million.

• Buy Side: For our corporate clients and PEs, in buy side projects we identify and profile relevant targets before a purchase. Our key USP here is negotiation management before the closing. After accessing the right targets, we more often than not become a trusted partner in jointly developing win-win concepts, strategies and, if relevant, integration plans for involved parties based on the initial deal ratios. These are usually operationalized in joint business cases and become an integral part of the deal making and beyond. Transaction volumes on the buy side so far have run from USD 10 million up to USD 200 million.
• Advisory Board Member: Your company has already invested extensively in digitalization or is about to do so? In selected cases we are gladly available as an advisory board member on a quarterly basis. Should it also become important to have an experienced sparring partner in between, this is standard practice for us. 

We have supported more than 100 start-ups from their foundation, many over several rounds of financing, to the achievement of more than EUR 100 million in sales by some. Our subsidiary Next Commerce Accelerator sources more than 1000 international start ups annually for their 20+ industry investors in what is now the 2nd fund. Thus, these start-ups definitely get access to their first customers in the first months after founding and can make their products/services marketable in a practical and KPI-driven way. We have supported Grown Ups with sales of EUR 5-10 million in the five- to tenfold expansion of their business as advisory board members and sparring partners, and in some cases we have handled complete projects and organized exits.

Almost 100 corporates have invested in funds co-initiated by us with clear innovation and return targets. For some, we also became active in selected projects to evaluate digital business opportunities in existing companies, identify additional potential and develop them organically and/or inorganically.

Our team has accompanied more than 500 transactions for more than 150 financial investors, from due diligence to M&A and IPO, with a volume of more than EUR 6 billion. Today, NTV supports portfolio companies in advisory boards, as a sparring partner, in programme management and in selected projects.

With New Times Ventures (NTV), partners and employees of our parent company Skillnet invest their most valuable assets, skills and time, in selected start-ups, grown-ups, and established companies. What they all have in common are business models in the digital markets that still have significant growth and value creation potential and want our support to unlock it. 

Companies with whom we work as NTV receive these „skill for equity“ services in a liquidity-preserving manner, without service invoicing. Once the objectives have been achieved, the success is remunerated by „buying back“ previously agreed company shares or virtual shares, e.g. as a success fee in %. Thus, it is purely a remuneration for success based on jointly defined goals at a defined point in time. 

Why do we do this? Because the achievement of clearly defined goals is measurable and thus economically attractive and fairly remunerated for both sides. The typical consultant focus of billing for time is eliminated.  

After 5,000 „What’s Next“ projects for approx. 300 companies and 150 financial investors in the past almost 30 years with a transaction volume of more than EUR 6 billion with our parent company Skillnet in Europe, Asia and the USA, our wealth of experience and network have become enormous, and classic Skillnet service fees are only necessary to cover costs.  

What does the NTV client get in return? As in every project, goals, activities, resources and timings are defined in a binding manner. Together, required skills are agreed, e.g., C-level support, program management or the development of clearly defined sub-projects, e.g., funding, buy & build, post-merger management or the development of new digital business models. 

What is the valuation benchmark? Usually, the company valuation at the start and end of the project or precise KPIs such as the amount of capital raised in the case of a capital increase, the value achieved in the case of a sale or purchase of a company or company shares or the increase in company value achieved in the case of a What’s Next project. 

Who should work with NTV? Companies that 

• have ambitious goals, above-average potential and challenging tasks, but are not dreamers, actionists or even gamblers.  
• want to achieve significant results in manageable 6-, 12- or 24-month projects, but want to avoid 6 or even 7 figure consulting budgets. 
• pay the pre-determined „Skill for Equity“ success fee without any problems if the goals are achieved. 

We have accompanied start-ups through several financing rounds from foundation to more than EUR 100 million turnover.  

We have developed and scaled new digital business models for grown-ups and established companies, which have had a lasting and significant impact on the value of the company.  

On the buy side, we have realized deals for investors that were considered unfeasible in the industry. On the sell side, we have repeatedly shown that we were able to realize the desired valuation of the shareholders, sometimes in record time. 

Does this appeal to you? Then please contact one of our partners.