Venture Bonsai Crowdfunding and Growth Platform Venture Bonsai is a platform for entrepreneurs to build online presence enabling

them to receive funding from one or more professional or private investors as well as facilitate all the activities before and after the investment has taken place. Extensive use of web-enabled communication reputation building and other tools offer a uni!ue platform for the investors to follow communicate with invest in as well as follow or participate the development of those startups the" mostl" believe in #hat is Crowdfunding$ Crowdfunding is an alternate approach to get investments for a start-up. #ikipedia defines crowdfunding as %an approach to raising the capital re!uired for a new pro&ect or enterprise b" appealing to a group of people 'gurativel" (thecrowd() for contributionsom one or man". #hen such an appeal isgl obal it is mass funding.* +t,s not actuall" a new idea as it has been developed over the last decade mainl" in the-lm and music industries. .nlike traditional models which rel" on large contributions from one or two institutions crowdfunding is based on raising small sums from man" people. +nstead of raising /00 0001 from three angels '200 0001 each) "ou collect 20 0001 from /0 private investors. Crowdfunding isn,t going to replace venture capital private e!uit" debt nance or stock-markets. +n man" wa"s it,s an evolution of %friends and famil"* and %angel* models &ust operating with greater transparenc" and on a larger scale. +t ma" even turn out to be an essential and complementar" part of the nancing tools needed to cultivate and grow new businesses But #hat,s the 3ctual Problem$ 4umber of traditional investors interested in start-ups who are looking for mone" in the range of 50 0001 to 500 0001 has decreased rapidl". +t is also true that in toda",s world more can be done with less mone" '%the old 5 6illion euros is nowada"s 500 0001*). +nvestments in this categor" are high risk investments with potentiall" high return. But most of the companies will fail.7at is onl" one reason wh" traditional investors are moving 'and have alread" moved) awa" from this categor". #hen alternate investment vehicles are invented to-ll the gap also the traditional investors will bene-t as the" can this wa" have more companies in the funnel for additional investments +s Crowdfunding7e 8olution for this$ 3 successful crowdfunding solution has to solve man" problems in order to be a feasible alternative for the start-ups and investors alike.7ere is an obvious need for process simpli-cation 'de-m"sti-cation) and standardi9ation concerning documents such as :erm 8heet and 8hareholders, 3greement. 3n initiative in this-eld alread" introduces a 8tandardi9ed :erm 8heet acceptable b" both entrepreneurs and investors. :rust and transparenc" are also probabl" some of the biggest issues. ;ow do "ou create trust in the online world$ ;ow do "ou manage the communication with so man" stakeholders$ :here will most likel" be new innovative solutions for all of these challenges in the near future. :he change is inevitable. 3dditionall" private investors can invest 5 000 1 euros in

ten start-ups instead of putting 50 0001 to one single compan" e ectivel" decreasing their risk as well ;ow Can Venture Bonsai ;elp <ou$ Venture Bonsai is an initiative b" a group of entrepreneurs to take action on this problem. +t is a platform which helps entrepreneurs to get attention from the investors including both the Professional +nvestors ;igh 4et-#orth private individuals as well as other individuals willing to invest 5 0001 or more on the growth of interesting companies. =or those willing to invest mone" in private companies Venture Bonsai is the most trusted and reliable place to discover follow and invest in those companies that one believes to be most successful in the future. Versatile communication tools help all parties make this possible. +f "ou are interested 'either as an Entrepreneur Professional +nvestor ;igh 4et#orth +ndividual or a Privater 4on-Professional +nvestor) please contact us 'see contact details at venturebonsai.com) and we can tell "ou more. Cop"right > ?020 Venture Bonsai @"A