This document provides an overview of Xero Limited's business and financial results for the 2013 fiscal year. Some key points:
- Xero saw 102% revenue growth in FY2013 to $39 million, with paying customers increasing 101% to 157,000.
- The company continues to invest heavily in growth, resulting in operating losses of $11.4 million for the year. However, cash reserves increased to $78 million.
- Xero's strategy is to continue rapid international expansion and build out its platform ecosystem to connect small businesses, accountants, banks and other partners.
- The presentation outlines Xero's vision to become the leading global cloud-based platform for small businesses, with
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Lunar is building a financial super app and the first pan-Nordic challenger bank to reshape banking in the Nordic region. They have received an EU banking license, launched in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and onboarded over 130,000 users in their first year. Lunar is building its own technology stack from scratch and was the first Nordic bank approved to operate fully in the cloud. Their goal is to become the dominant bank in the Nordics within the next three years by offering the best customer experience and bundling various financial products and services.
This document discusses how health insurance is becoming simpler and more consumer-focused. It outlines four key ways that one insurance company keeps things simple: 1) limiting details until needed through simple visual design, 2) reducing complexity by understanding it with experts on staff, 3) using data to guide users instead of complex menus, and 4) staying focused by learning to cut non-essential functionality. The importance of design is highlighted in building the company, growing customers, and keeping up with changes. Future goals include even simpler plans, smarter member engagement, and integrating with doctor offices.
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eShares is a transfer agent that issues and tracks ownership of electronic shares, options, debt, and derivatives for private companies. It charges $20 per transaction and offers additional services like 409A compliance and stock option accounting. eShares is growing rapidly, adding new companies and revenue month-over-month. It aims to raise a $6-8 million Series A to expand its platform and services to take more companies public.
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The document summarizes Square, a mobile payments startup. Square provides merchants with a free card reader that plugs into smartphones and tablets, allowing them to accept credit card payments with low fees of 2.75% per transaction. Square has a simple pricing model and signup process with no long-term commitments. The management team has successful experience in payments and technology. Square sees a large market opportunity in mobile payments given traditional card readers are expensive and inconvenient for small businesses. Square aims to acquire customers through wide exposure on social media and in stores. It has a first-mover advantage and plans to defend its position through brand recognition and compatibility across devices. Financial projections estimate high revenue growth and profitability that would generate strong returns for new
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Lunar is building a financial super app and the first pan-Nordic challenger bank to reshape banking in the Nordic region. They have received an EU banking license, launched in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and onboarded over 130,000 users in their first year. Lunar is building its own technology stack from scratch and was the first Nordic bank approved to operate fully in the cloud. Their goal is to become the dominant bank in the Nordics within the next three years by offering the best customer experience and bundling various financial products and services.
This document discusses how health insurance is becoming simpler and more consumer-focused. It outlines four key ways that one insurance company keeps things simple: 1) limiting details until needed through simple visual design, 2) reducing complexity by understanding it with experts on staff, 3) using data to guide users instead of complex menus, and 4) staying focused by learning to cut non-essential functionality. The importance of design is highlighted in building the company, growing customers, and keeping up with changes. Future goals include even simpler plans, smarter member engagement, and integrating with doctor offices.
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eShares is a transfer agent that issues and tracks ownership of electronic shares, options, debt, and derivatives for private companies. It charges $20 per transaction and offers additional services like 409A compliance and stock option accounting. eShares is growing rapidly, adding new companies and revenue month-over-month. It aims to raise a $6-8 million Series A to expand its platform and services to take more companies public.
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The document summarizes Square, a mobile payments startup. Square provides merchants with a free card reader that plugs into smartphones and tablets, allowing them to accept credit card payments with low fees of 2.75% per transaction. Square has a simple pricing model and signup process with no long-term commitments. The management team has successful experience in payments and technology. Square sees a large market opportunity in mobile payments given traditional card readers are expensive and inconvenient for small businesses. Square aims to acquire customers through wide exposure on social media and in stores. It has a first-mover advantage and plans to defend its position through brand recognition and compatibility across devices. Financial projections estimate high revenue growth and profitability that would generate strong returns for new
This pitch deck summarizes an investment opportunity in Hoofpay, a FinTech company that aims to help small businesses collect payments more efficiently through digital payment solutions. The summary highlights:
1) Hoofpay sees an opportunity to help small businesses save time and money on payment collection given unnecessary transaction fees and the need for quick, efficient payments.
2) Hoofpay's solution allows businesses to take payments through their own app or third-party integrations, and plans to expand its offerings from service businesses to other sectors.
3) The pitch deck outlines Hoofpay's business model, marketing strategy, team, and projections for company valuation and investment needs over time as it scales up its operations and expands
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Fibery is an all-in-one connected workspace that aims to replace multiple disconnected work tools used by companies as they scale. It integrates early in a company's life cycle and grows with them. Current tools often don't scale well and force companies to migrate to new tools every few years. Fibery offers customizable business domains and connected workspaces to provide flexibility and scalability that traditional tools lack.
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This document summarizes Mint, a personal finance management application. It describes Mint's features for tracking transactions, assets, debts, and goals. It outlines Mint's business model of acquiring users through partnerships and generating revenue from referrals when users switch financial products. The document presents Mint's financial projections, identifying Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as potential acquirers. It discusses Mint's risks and competitive advantages to mitigate new entrants.
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Northspyre is seeking a $25 million investment to expand its real estate development management platform. The platform uses automation, data analytics, and AI to help customers reduce project cost overruns by 21-66% and save $2-6 million on a typical $100 million project. Northspyre has over 130 customers and has grown revenue 6x since its last funding round. The investment will be used to launch new products, expand sales in the US and internationally, and advance the core product.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Coinbase is a hosted bitcoin wallet that allows users to store and transact bitcoin without needing to download the full bitcoin blockchain. It has seen rapid growth, with 20% daily increases in signups and $65,000 USD in transactions in its first 5 weeks, as it aims to make bitcoin easier to use like a traditional payment network and currency.
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This document provides a summary of Mint House, a company that operates tech-enabled extended stay hotels and facilities. Some key points:
- Mint House was founded in 2017 and currently has over 145 employees and operates in 16 markets with 26 properties.
- It uses an asset-light management agreement model with high gross margins and minimal capex requirements. Over half of bookings are direct and repeat customers comprise 14% of bookings.
- Mint House properties provide a superior customer experience compared to traditional hotels, with amenities like fully-equipped kitchens, digital check-in, and strong customer satisfaction scores.
- The company is experiencing rapid growth and outperforms traditional upper-upscale hotels
SphereEx provides enterprises with distributed data service infrastructures and products/solutions to address challenges from increasing database fragmentation. It was founded in 2021 by the team behind Apache ShardingSphere, an open-source project providing data sharding and distributed solutions. SphereEx's products include solutions for distributed databases, data security, online stress testing, and its commercial version provides enhanced capabilities over the open-source version.
The document outlines Square's business proposition of providing a simple and low-cost way for merchants to accept credit card payments using a mobile device. Key points include:
- Square charges merchants a flat 2.75% fee per transaction with no setup costs or monthly fees.
- The company has experienced rapid growth, processing over $1 million in payments per day.
- Square targets small businesses and individuals by offering a simple interface and device that plugs into smartphones.
- Backed by experienced founders and investors, Square aims to become the dominant platform in mobile payments by acquiring new merchants through wide exposure and competitive pricing.
Monzo is a UK-based digital bank that provides banking services through its mobile app. It has grown to over 4 million customers since launching in 2015. While initially focusing on growth, Monzo is now aiming for profitability. It has raised $497 million in funding at a $1.6 billion valuation. Monzo offers current accounts, savings accounts, and other services either directly or through partnerships. It continues to invest heavily in technology and marketing to acquire more customers while working to improve its contribution margin per customer and achieve net profit.
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BizCountz is an online marketplace for daily deals targeted at small and medium businesses. It aims to provide discounted business products and services to these businesses through a monthly membership model for merchants. The company expects to attract 960 merchant members in its first 18 months and generate $47,600 in monthly revenue. Long term, it aims to operate in 100 cities with over 7,000 merchant members generating $343,000 in monthly revenue. It projects reaching a $500 million valuation within 3 years when it will seek acquisition by a larger company.
This pitch deck summarizes an investment opportunity in Hoofpay, a FinTech company that aims to help small businesses collect payments more efficiently through digital payment solutions. The summary highlights:
1) Hoofpay sees an opportunity to help small businesses save time and money on payment collection given unnecessary transaction fees and the need for quick, efficient payments.
2) Hoofpay's solution allows businesses to take payments through their own app or third-party integrations, and plans to expand its offerings from service businesses to other sectors.
3) The pitch deck outlines Hoofpay's business model, marketing strategy, team, and projections for company valuation and investment needs over time as it scales up its operations and expands
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Fibery is an all-in-one connected workspace that aims to replace multiple disconnected work tools used by companies as they scale. It integrates early in a company's life cycle and grows with them. Current tools often don't scale well and force companies to migrate to new tools every few years. Fibery offers customizable business domains and connected workspaces to provide flexibility and scalability that traditional tools lack.
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The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
If youâre an investor whoâd like to find out more about Hive, get in touch with the founder directly via john.ryder@hive.hr, or alternatively drop me an email at alex@mountsideventures.com
This document summarizes Mint, a personal finance management application. It describes Mint's features for tracking transactions, assets, debts, and goals. It outlines Mint's business model of acquiring users through partnerships and generating revenue from referrals when users switch financial products. The document presents Mint's financial projections, identifying Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as potential acquirers. It discusses Mint's risks and competitive advantages to mitigate new entrants.
This was our final Series A deck. Read more about raising the round in this blog post:
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Northspyre's $25 million Series B deckHajeJanKamps
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Northspyre is seeking a $25 million investment to expand its real estate development management platform. The platform uses automation, data analytics, and AI to help customers reduce project cost overruns by 21-66% and save $2-6 million on a typical $100 million project. Northspyre has over 130 customers and has grown revenue 6x since its last funding round. The investment will be used to launch new products, expand sales in the US and internationally, and advance the core product.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Coinbase is a hosted bitcoin wallet that allows users to store and transact bitcoin without needing to download the full bitcoin blockchain. It has seen rapid growth, with 20% daily increases in signups and $65,000 USD in transactions in its first 5 weeks, as it aims to make bitcoin easier to use like a traditional payment network and currency.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Mint House's $35M Series B deckHajeJanKamps
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This document provides a summary of Mint House, a company that operates tech-enabled extended stay hotels and facilities. Some key points:
- Mint House was founded in 2017 and currently has over 145 employees and operates in 16 markets with 26 properties.
- It uses an asset-light management agreement model with high gross margins and minimal capex requirements. Over half of bookings are direct and repeat customers comprise 14% of bookings.
- Mint House properties provide a superior customer experience compared to traditional hotels, with amenities like fully-equipped kitchens, digital check-in, and strong customer satisfaction scores.
- The company is experiencing rapid growth and outperforms traditional upper-upscale hotels
SphereEx provides enterprises with distributed data service infrastructures and products/solutions to address challenges from increasing database fragmentation. It was founded in 2021 by the team behind Apache ShardingSphere, an open-source project providing data sharding and distributed solutions. SphereEx's products include solutions for distributed databases, data security, online stress testing, and its commercial version provides enhanced capabilities over the open-source version.
The document outlines Square's business proposition of providing a simple and low-cost way for merchants to accept credit card payments using a mobile device. Key points include:
- Square charges merchants a flat 2.75% fee per transaction with no setup costs or monthly fees.
- The company has experienced rapid growth, processing over $1 million in payments per day.
- Square targets small businesses and individuals by offering a simple interface and device that plugs into smartphones.
- Backed by experienced founders and investors, Square aims to become the dominant platform in mobile payments by acquiring new merchants through wide exposure and competitive pricing.
Monzo is a UK-based digital bank that provides banking services through its mobile app. It has grown to over 4 million customers since launching in 2015. While initially focusing on growth, Monzo is now aiming for profitability. It has raised $497 million in funding at a $1.6 billion valuation. Monzo offers current accounts, savings accounts, and other services either directly or through partnerships. It continues to invest heavily in technology and marketing to acquire more customers while working to improve its contribution margin per customer and achieve net profit.
Fintech, Online Brokerage & Online Betting - Presentation by Valentin Stalf, Co-Founder & CEO of N26 at the NOAH Conference London 2016, Old Billingsgate on the 11th of November 2016.
BizCountz is an online marketplace for daily deals targeted at small and medium businesses. It aims to provide discounted business products and services to these businesses through a monthly membership model for merchants. The company expects to attract 960 merchant members in its first 18 months and generate $47,600 in monthly revenue. Long term, it aims to operate in 100 cities with over 7,000 merchant members generating $343,000 in monthly revenue. It projects reaching a $500 million valuation within 3 years when it will seek acquisition by a larger company.
This document proposes establishing a plastics extrusion and nylon film manufacturing business in Abuja, Nigeria. It outlines an investment plan to procure necessary equipment from China and lease a factory/warehouse space. The business would produce plain and printed plastic rolls and bags to sell to printers, water producers, and shops. It projects strong market demand and growth potential given Nigeria's rising plastic consumption. The proposal requests $150,000 investment in exchange for 40% equity stake and repayment within 2 years at 25% interest. It details financial projections, marketing strategy, and assurances to investors regarding oversight, accounting practices, and potential returns.
This investment proposal outlines the development of a new drilling tool called the "Drilling Tool Bogomolov". The tool is designed for mining rotary drilling machines to drill explosive wells with a square cross-section. It has several technical advantages such as increasing blasted rock mass by 10% and reducing drilling volumes by 10%. Successful testing has been completed and intellectual property has been secured. The proposal details a 4 stage implementation plan and forecasts strong market potential and financial returns, with an internal rate of return of 21.3% and payback period of 3.82 years. The tool will provide benefits to both mining companies and tool manufacturers.
The document proposes investing in Salesforce and Facebook based on an analysis of their financials and the US economy. It summarizes that Salesforce is a leader in customer relationship management software while Facebook dominates social networking. Both companies have strong growth predictions and financial statements. An investment of $50,000 is recommended, allocating funds between the two companies under conservative, growth, and "what if" scenarios to maximize returns over five years as the US economy and technology sector continue expanding.
The document discusses:
1. Intuit's strategy of building an open platform to enable small business success through personalized experiences and indispensable connections.
2. Large addressable markets for QuickBooks Online of over 800 million businesses globally that Intuit is pursuing.
3. Growth drivers of TurboTax Online share, revenue per return, and category growth that can deliver long-term 5-10% revenue growth.
This investment proposal summarizes SSE, a UK integrated energy firm, and analyzes the investment thesis for purchasing SSE stock. The proposal argues that the impact of the UK's retail price freeze is overestimated and SSE is undervalued. It presents analysis of SSE, the UK energy market, inflation, politics, and the company's financial performance. The proposal recommends buying SSE stock with a target price of ÂŁ18.50 and selling before May 2015, without hedging. Risks around discount rates, costs, politics, and gas prices are also discussed.
Intuit provides an overview of its strategy to grow its small business and tax businesses. It aims to [1] win worldwide with its QuickBooks online ecosystem, [2] win with accountants who fuel small business success, and [3] win with TurboTax online and mobile. Intuit sees opportunities for growth in new markets, increasing attach rates of additional services, and continuing to shift customers to online and mobile platforms.
A2A Catalyst is an online brand management company that provides services like search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, social media marketing, and customer relationship management to help businesses improve their online presence and sales. It was founded by Abhinaba Chatterjee, Rohan Jalan, and Saket Jalan, who have experience in business consulting, education, and entrepreneurship. The company aims to help any business increase its online marketing success and brand value through optimizing its website and online strategies.
The document discusses potential investment options for a client seeking socially responsible and innovative companies. It analyzes the investment choices of ICLN, Vestas, and First Solar in more detail. ICLN is highlighted as diversifying across different alternative energy industries and countries. Vestas and First Solar are described as having high stock volatility but future potential for growth in wind and solar energy. The document also considers Cummins as a choice for its focus on innovation and treating employees well. A final portfolio is presented with different allocations to these companies and ETF.â
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As the 2014 and 2015 Forbes Most Innovative Growth Company, Xero has seen exponential growth since its inception 10 years ago. Fostering a culture of collaboration across global teams is a challenge in itself, let alone onboarding and promoting effective use of agile tools in the context of hyper-growth.
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- Intuit aims to become the operating system behind accountant and small business success through its online platform. Its goals are for accountants to waste no hours, for all firms to achieve ideal growth rates, and for small business success to increase by 50%.
- The strategy is to connect small businesses and accountants on one online platform for doing accounting and tax work, collaborating, and gaining insights. This will allow accountants to save time, grow their practices, and make a difference for their clients.
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This document provides a summary of TrueBlue and its business segments. It discusses TrueBlue's leadership positions in industrial staffing and recruitment process outsourcing. The document also summarizes TrueBlue's financial performance and growth strategies, including transitioning its PeopleReady business to a single brand and leveraging mobile technology. Key metrics on revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and cash flow are presented along with definitions of non-GAAP terms used.
The document provides an overview of Box's recent financial performance and outlook. Some key points:
- In Q4 FY2017, Box achieved record revenue and positive free cash flow while continuing to improve operational efficiencies.
- Box is tracking to reach $1 billion in annual revenue run rate by FY2021 through expanding its existing customer base, new product introductions, and improved efficiency.
- Box's business model is expected to generate significant operating leverage as revenue scales, with sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of revenue declining to around 39% at a $1 billion revenue run rate.
Opus Infosys is a software development and outsourcing company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Waltham, MA with an offshore development center in India. They are seeking partners to help acquire new clients in the US market by selling their services such as application development, software testing, and contract staffing. Partners will receive a predetermined percentage of profits generated by accounts they acquire as long as the clients continue using Opus Infosys services, with full transparency into financial information. The partnership model requires no investment and partners will benefit from Opus Infosys' goodwill and client portfolio.
The document describes Neev International, a company seeking to build mutually rewarding partnerships. It provides their website and discusses their vision of creating a space where people can bring ideas and help each other without expectation of monetary rewards. The company dreams of building a team to share visions and commitments. It commits to delivering value to clients by understanding their needs and delivering measurable benefits through proven solutions and methodologies.
This business proposal from Friends & Associates consulting firm outlines their approach to addressing organizational problems experienced by Divya Electronics Ltd. The proposal identifies issues like poor communication, lack of clear goals and vision, and employee morale and technological issues. Friends & Associates would set up new systems, provide training, develop planning strategies to define objectives, and create a new management structure. The estimated time for the project is 6 months and the projected costs are approximately 415,000 INR. The benefits would include motivated employees, improved communication, resolved technical issues, better services, increased productivity and brand reputation. The proposal also provides resumes of the experienced consulting team that would handle the project.
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This document provides a business plan for a Dosa restaurant. It outlines objectives to keep food costs below 35% of revenue and expand marketing. The plan details the restaurant's mission to provide excellent food and service. It will feature indoor and outdoor seating with a unique Indian design. The menu will focus on dosas and other South Indian cuisine. The plan analyzes the target market and identifies competitors. It proposes strategies for marketing, sales, management, hiring staff, and financial projections.
Transforming wealth management customer onboarding with the power of process automation, rules based straight thru processing and data driven real time intelligence.
The document outlines Intuit's investor day agenda and materials. It includes presentations on Intuit's strategy to win in key areas like the QuickBooks Online ecosystem, TurboTax online and mobile, accountants, technology, data and security. The document reflects on Intuit's successful transition to a cloud and platform business model over the past 4 years and doubling of its total addressable market. It discusses priorities and metrics for the coming year to continue delighting customers through product experiences, data insights, ecosystem contributions and security leadership.
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The document provides several financial and M&A updates in the financial services industry:
1) Aon will acquire CoverWallet, a leading digital insurance platform, to expand its client services and digital offerings.
2) CIT received approval to acquire Mutual of Omaha Bank, which will diversify its funding, expand banking capabilities, and enhance profitability.
3) SURA Asset Management will acquire a vehicle in Colombia to strengthen investment capacities in Latin America.
4) Grupo SURA reported a 35% increase in year-to-date net income and record high earnings for the third quarter.
5) Macquarie Group announced an 11% increase in half-year net profit and
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2. Important notice
This presentation is given on behalf of Xero Limited (Company number NZ 1830488, AU ARBN
160661183).
Information in this presentation:
⢠is for general information purposes only, and is not an oîďŹer or invitation for subscription or
purchase of, or recommendation of, securities in Xero Limited;
⢠should be read in conjunction with, and is subject to, Xeroâs Annual Report, market releases, and
information published on Xeroâs website;
⢠includes forward-looking statements about Xero and the environment in which Xero operates,
which are subject to uncertainties and contingencies outside of Xeroâs control â Xeroâs actual
results or performance may diîďŹer materially from these statements;
⢠includes statements relating to past performance, which should not be regarded as a reliable
indicator of future performance; and
⢠may contain information from third parties believed to be reliable; however, no representations
or warranties are made as to the accuracy or completeness of such information.
All information in this presentation is current at the date of this presentation, unless otherwise
stated.
All currency amounts are in NZ dollars unless stated otherwise.
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3. 1. Business overview
2. Full year results
3. Market observations
4. Growth strategy
5. Questions
Contents
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5. Small business. Massive opportunity.
5
Cloud aggregates and disrupts a large fragmented market
⢠Multi-billion dollar market.
⢠Accounting is foundation application.
⢠Cloud changes the economics.
⢠Desktop incumbents are not internet companies.
Xero
⢠Beautiful cloud accounting making business enjoyable.
⢠Integrates small business with their customers, banks, payment services, tax authorities and accountants.
⢠Monthly subscription model.
⢠Powerful ecosystem of partners and add-on cloud solutions.
Competitive strengths
⢠Best team, best funding, best architecture and ďŹve year head start.
⢠Disrupted incumbents with integrated client and accountants platform.
⢠No compromise, no legacy and unencumbered internet approach.
⢠Proven vision, strategy, platform and execution.
6. Xero
Vision Mission Goal
6
Leading small business cloud platform
Millions of people all over the
world love doing business on Xero
Grow prosperity by connecting
people through beautifully
designed business software
Achieving scale and value by
winning one million+ customers
>500m
small businesses
Xero
+
Practice
Studio
Add-Ons
Modern
Practice
Financial Data & Documents
Xero
platform
9. Growth continues
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March year end 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Customers 204 950 6,000 17,000 36,000 78,000 157,000
Revenue ($000âs) 24 134 959 3,158 9,341 19,370 39,033
Regional growth to year ended 31 March 2013
+56% +219% +100% +100%
New Zealand Australia United Kingdom United States +
Rest of the World
2013
2012
2011
11. Performance highlights
12 months to
March 2013
12 months to
March 2012
Increase
Operating revenue 39,033 19,370 102%
Total revenue & grant income 39,969 19,771 102%
Operating expenses* (51,407) (26,491) 94%
EBITDA (11,438) (6,720) 70%
Net loss after tax (14,443) (7,904) 83%
Cash & cash equivalents 78,224 38,976 -
Paying business customers 157,000 78,000 101%
Annualized committed monthly revenue 51.5m 25.5m 102%
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* excluding depreciation and amortisation
12. Outlook for FY14
Xero is delivering on its plans and with substantial cash resources will continue its growth
agenda to create long term shareholder value by building a global Software as a Service (SaaS)
company.
The companyâs focus this coming year is on scalability as we drive expansion in the United
States, the United Kingdom and Australia to take advantage of the leadership position we are
earning. Therefore losses can be expected to continue for the year ending March 31, 2014.
Xero anticipated the substantial opportunity as small businesses move to the cloud. We have
shown it takes a signiďŹcant investment and many years to build a broad and global small
business ďŹnancial platform.
Xero is a unique opportunity, addressing a vast market undergoing massive technological
disruption. We believe weâre well positioned at the beginning of a massive market shift.
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14. Technology shift to a new trillion dollar market
Source: Matrix Analysis, Bloomberg, CapitalIQ, Compustat
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$200
$400
$600
$800
$1,000
$1,200
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$400
$600
$800
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Client/Server SaaS
Mainframe was taken over by
client/server
And client/server will suîďŹer as
a result of SaaS
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Historical Market Leaders mainframe: Apollo, Burroughs,
California, Computer Products, Computer Applications, Computer
Sciences, Control Data, Data General, Digital Equipment, IBM, Prime
computers, Sperry Rand, Wang. Analysis allocates IBM market cap by
relevant revenues, as the company was largely able to pivot out of the
mainframe industry.
Historical Market Leaders client server: Alcatel Lucent, Compaq
Computer, Cisco, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel,
Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics
Repeating
tech cycle
SaaS predicted to
exceed US$ 1 trillion
16. Incumbents - MYOB, Sage, Intuit
Software companies, not internet companies,
struggling with cloud transition.
Legacy comprises cloud oîďŹerings.
Online revenue insigniďŹcant to date.
Traditional approach to partnering.
Start-ups
Start-ups donât have resources to
compete long term.
Building features/applications not
platforms.
High barrier to entry as market requires
both client and accountant solutions.
Ecosystem participant.
Expected competitors have
not emerged, no one else signiďŹcantly funded.
Innovation rapidly redeďŹning the market.
Formidable combination of nimbleness,
capability and execution.
Open platform creator.
Market observations
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17. MYOB (Australasia)
On MYOB. âWell, I think it comes down to what the next
generation of customers want. I donât think syncing
product will give it to themâ.
â Brad Smith
Intuit CEO
âCalling this â2nd generation cloudâ is like calling
regular postage â2nd generation emailâ. Sure, todayâs
mail systems are far more âelectronicâ and take
advantage of the internet and other connectivity
advances to improve processes and add services. But
email it ainât!â
â Dewings Adelaide
⢠NZ and AU markets only.
⢠Purchased by Bain fund for AU$1.3b (800 staîďŹ).
⢠Focus on returns to a few, not customers or
partners.
⢠AccountRight Live launched October 2012 with
many challenges:
⢠âCloud washâ - not a SaaS cloud solution
⢠Customer reception poor.
⢠Completed AU$150m of subordinate debt issue to
release capital to Bain and swap debt.
⢠Banklink acquisition in May 2013 (adding a further
AUD $60m of debt) possible justiďŹcation to bolster
revenue and meet cash-ďŹow covenants.
â...initial reaction to MYOBâs latest products (the pure
cloud LiveAccounts and the cloud/desktop hybrid
AccountRight Live) was disappointing..â
â James Scollay
GM MYOB April 2013
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Huge debt with revenue challenges
18. âCloud is characterised by a land grab at present
and Sage is, in our view, ceding territory.
Fundamentally, if Sage cannot win in this market in
its strongest territory (the UK) we think it will
struggle even more elsewhere.â
â Numis Securities Ltd
19 April 2013
Sage (UK & global)
âSage has over 3.7m customers oîďŹ support and is
late to the cloud with a fragmented oîďŹering...â
â Numis Securities Ltd
5 November 2012
Encumbered by a legacy business model and fragmented desktop solutions
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⢠Thirty months since the launch of SageOne in the
UK.
⢠"Find a SageOne Accountant" online directory still
only reports a total of 75 practices having adopted
Sage's cloud accounting solution, out of a total of
more than 20,000 accounting practices in the UK.
⢠Only 11,500 customers worldwide have adopted the
solution
19. Intuit (US & global)
"I admire them. I think Rod Drury and the team
have built a really good company, they have built
a very easy and compelling product. We've
learned some things from Xero that are helping us
think diîďŹerently, which is the highest compliment
you can pay to someone who competes in your
space"
â Brad Smith
Intuit CEO
December 2012
SMB market is big and growing
⢠29m SMBs in US
⢠7m targeted for quickbooks
⢠15 million with no solution today
⢠11 Million with a payroll need
⢠500m SMBs globally
â Intuit investor day
September 2012
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Driving cloud adoption across their customer base
⢠Focussed growing addressable market for small
business accounting.
⢠Robust strategy.
⢠10m+ customers leave Intuit annually (Quickbooks
and Turbo Tax).
⢠US market ready to adopt cloud now.
⢠Encouraging Quickbooks desktop users to migrate
to a cloud solution, increasing churn.
⢠Xero now recognized as #1 global cloud challenger
in US market and positioned to take market share.
21. SaaS growth
Courtesy
 of
 David
 Skok,
 Matrix
 Partners*
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 growth
 impera.ve:
⢠SaaS
 revenue
 comes
 over
 an
 extended
 period
 of
Â
.me.
⢠Low
 churn
 in
 customers
 =
 long
 term
 revenue.
⢠SaaS
 businesses
 face
 signiďŹcant
 losses
 in
 the
Â
early
 years.
⢠SaaS
 requires
 heavy
 upfront
 investment
 to
Â
acquire
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⢠The
 faster
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 business
 decides
 to
 grow,
 the
Â
worse
 the
 losses
 may
 become.
Â
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 investors
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 a
 problem
 understanding
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 brakes
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Â
moment
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accelerator.
*Matrix Partners is a diîďŹerent company to major Xero shareholder Matrix Capital
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23. Comparative revenue growth rates
sfdc
wday
Xero
ns
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
4
2
2
3
8
5
5
4
Years
Yrs to $20m Yrs to $100m Years to $1b
31% (US$6.5b)
102% (US$1.2b)
104% (US$10.5b)
35% (US$24.8b)
% current growth rate YoY (USD valuation May 2013)
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24. Product
Disrupt category with
innovation.
Additional services.
Xero growth drivers
Channel & Network
Building presence,
ecosystem & advocates in
chosen markets. GTM
model for scale.
Customer
Delight customers to
drive network
eîďŹects.
Business Model
High margin,
scalable SaaS
model.
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25. Online accounting journey
small business
platform
online
multi-user
anywhere
anytime
bank feeds
payments
mobile
Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI)
payment graph
connected
smart
benchmarking
leads and opportunities
group buying
business network
notiďŹcations
invoicing portal
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26. Xero
+
Practice
Studio
Add-Ons
Modern
Practice
Financial Data & Documents
Practice Studio
Integrated accounting
tools including:
Financial reporting,
Practice Management,
Workpapers and
Tax (*NZ, AU)
Modern Practice
Partnering with Integrated
tools for practices in the
cloud:
Document Management,
OîďŹce & Emails,
Content, and
Migration Services
Xero
Beautiful accounting for
small businesses,
anywhere, anytime
General Ledger, Banking,
Bills, Purchases,
Fixed Assets, Expense
Claims, Payroll (*AU)
Add-ons
Pre-integrated
applications to drive your
business forward
200+ pre-integrated
apps including, point of
sale, advanced  inventory,
job management, CRM,
workforce automation
Xero platform
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27. 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Goal
0
157
78
36
176
1,000,000+
In the hands of a
million+ customers
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30. Channel and network eîďŹects
Banks &
Financial
Institutions
Add-ons
Accountants
& Advisors
Tax
Authorities
Large
Businesses
Small
Businesses
30
31. 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
428
228
113
45
1451
Add-on application growth
31
200+ pre-integrated applications provide a comprehensive small business ecosystem
32. Delighted customers
32
⢠Education approach proving successful with channel
and customers.
⢠Support centered in NZ with satellite oîďŹces now in UK
and soon in Denver for US payroll, tax and market
specialists.
⢠Low customer churn - mid to low teens per annum.
⢠CPA Practice Advisor award 5 out of 5 stars for
customer experience.
⢠Customers emotionally connected to Xero. Word of
mouth ampliďŹed by social media.
⢠Customer sentiment and completely open
communications is polar opposite to incumbents.
Xero%â%Accountant%version%
Help/support%system%
5%out%of%5%stars%%
Jan%2013%
33. The table above illustrates how, based on sample market share in New Zealand, Australia, UK , USA &
Rest of the World, how Xero could achieve the goal of one million+ customers.
Country
Current Xero
customers (Mar 13)
Small
businesses
Current market
share
Sample market
share
Implied market
share
New Zealand 73,000 455,000 16% 120,000 26%
Australia 51,000 2,000,000 3% 350,000 18%
United Kingdom 22,000 4,300,000 <1% 170,000 4%
United States/RoW 11,000 29,000,000 <1% 360,000 1%
Total customers 157,000 1,000,000
The road to a million+
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34. US execution
Xero platform
Product Channel
Accountants & online
Growth
Team & customers
⢠Localized product.
⢠Engaged Xero Advisor Panel driving
US features.
⢠US payroll this year.
⢠Expanding add-on pipeline.
⢠Major cloud alliances (e.g. Harvest,
Bill.com).
⢠Practice tools 4.75 stars. Quickbooks
Online score 4.5 stars.
⢠Building accountant channel in CA.
Presence in San Francisco and LA.
⢠430+ active partners.
⢠2,000+ accounting professionals
completed Xero training events.
⢠Leading PR mentions in target
channels.
⢠Strong progress in online search.
⢠Winning the thought leaders. e.g.
25,000+ member LinkedIn group
renamed âQuickbooks & Xero cloud
consultantsâ.
⢠Year one growth exceeds other
countries for customers and partners.
⢠Over 50% growth from accountant
channel.
⢠Largest private accounting ďŹrm in the
California (29th largest in the US) is
now a Gold partner.
⢠Over 10 of top 100 accounting ďŹrms in
process of moving clients to Xer0.
⢠Recruiting exceptional industry talent.
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ScheduledUSevents-May
Xero%â%Accountant%version%
4.75%stars%%
Jan%2013%
35. Accelerated investment for growth
Opportunity Investment focus
Product Grow development teams to
accelerate disruption with
innovation on multiple fronts
⢠Deliver full horizontal product
⢠Integrate accounting practice management tools
⢠AU Tax features and US Payroll
⢠Mobile & touch
⢠Driving network eîďŹects
⢠Financial documents
⢠Closer links to banks and payments
Channel & Network Further expansion of the sales
teams to expand coverage in all
markets
⢠Expand our global awareness and channel advocates
⢠Continue with existing channels in NZ
⢠Increase GTM resources in AU and UK
⢠SigniďŹcant increase in US investment
⢠Continue to expand banking partnerships
Customer Enhance customer service to drive
delight and create an army of
referrers
⢠Deep focus on education
⢠Extend support options to drive delight
⢠Grow our customer add-ons partner network
⢠Unleash referral channel
Business Model Continued investment in business
systems for scale to manage
growth and build for higher margin
â˘Internal automation so the servers run the business to grow
eîďŹciency and margin
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37. Incredibly well positioned
Massive opportunity Strategy Execution
â...itâs just the beginningâ
>500m
small businesses
Product Channel &
Network
Customer Business
Model
Xero
Strategy
Grow business to
global scale
Wall of innovation
Focus on customer
acquisition & revenue
Engineer high margin
SaaS model
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40. ⢠Approximately 4,700 shareholders (900 new shareholders since Mar 2013)
⢠89% of investors hold less than 10,000 shares eachÂ
⢠47% of shares held by Directors & staîďŹ
⢠117m shares on issue, average daily trading volume of around 150,000 shares
⢠NZX50, Market cap as at 10 May 2013 $1.5 billion
⢠Secondary listing on ASX completed November 2o12
Public company
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41. Capital
Placement
($000âs)
Date
Pre IPO 2,000 -
IPO 15,000 Jul 2007
Craig Winkler (MYOB founder) 18,000 May 2009
Private placement 5,000 May 2009
SPP 6,000 May 2009
Valar Ventures (Peter Thiel) 4,000 Oct 2010
Valar Ventures, Sam Morgan, Sam
Knowles & Craig Winkler, Institutions
20,000 Feb 2012
SPP 15,600 Mar 2012
Matrix Capital and Valar Ventures 60,000 Nov 2012
Total* 145,600
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42. Graham Shaw
Non-Executive Director*
Chartered Accountant with 30 years experience
Xero Board
Rod Drury
CEO & Co-founder
One of NZ's leading technology entrepreneurs
Sam Morgan
Non-Executive Director*
Founder of Trade Me and member of Fairfax board
Craig Winkler
Non-Executive Director
Co-founder of MYOB
Sam Knowles
Non-Executive Chairman*
25 year career in Management & Financial Services
Craig Elliott
Non-Executive Director*
Co-founder and CEO of Pertino Networks
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* Independent Director