NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 01/30/13 — New Boston and New-Yorked Based Consulting firm, , Specializing in Market Entry, Investment, Licensing, and Branding Services for US, Russia, and C.I.S. tech and media companies, announced today the planned February launch of a , labeled Firebird Speed, that will give qualified US investors a means to interact, via on-line scheduled events, with Russian and C.I.S.-based startups and established companies seeking expansion and a platform to interact personally with one another. The forum for investors looking to source companies to invest in Russia and the surrounding regions, will provide 5 minute “dating”-like sessions, rotating between entrepreneurs and investors, giving investors, in between pitches, the means to rate the companies and pursue additional communication confidentially and securely via a separate “conferencing” room on the site. Firebird will provide investors all necessary information on the companies and help them to pursue the necessary due diligence needed to make investment decisions. Both investors and companies, before being allowed to participate, will need to go through a thorough registration process including extensive background checks. The site will also allow investors to see, attached to projects, commentary and advice from experts and analysts at Goldman Sachs, VTB, Troika Dialog, McKinsey, PwC, Bain, and other companies known for their local expertise.
The companies and investors will communicate based on assigned ID numbers, in place of direct phones and emails, although generalized info on the companies and investors, when they enter the process of negotiating deals, will be fully accessible. Once an investor has received enough information that it feels ready to invest, it may assure itself exclusivity by placing monies in a secure escrow account that will only be released upon its official approval. Firebird will take a percentage of the monies placed into escrow, regardless of the final decision, and open up all contact information, as well as helping the companies to perform the final due diligence required by the investors. Several on-line contracts, via software integrated through RightSignature.com, will also be signed between Firebird and the Investor, and the Russian/C.I.S. company or project developer throughout the process so as to increase the comfort level of the investor and company. Finally, Firebird will help the investor receive all proper documentation needed to assure its legal status as a shareholder in the company.
Says Firebird Business Development Director Thomas Hanson, “On-line speed-dating itself is a new concept. On-line speed-funding is even more monumental. However, we feel investors, even very high worth investors, have long wanted to be able to participate, with certain confidentiality, in the exciting, booming Russia and C.I.S. tech markets, in a manner that provides maximum security, without having to deal with long and complicated processes. They want to personally know whom they are investing in and be able to invest when the valuation is at its lowest, have certain control over the company-s future development without exceeding their bandwith, and receive a type of access to the markets and the smaller and mid-sized players that even many local accelerators and incubators have issues in obtaining.”
Speed-funding sessions will take place several times a month, with investors and companies allowed, after full verification and payment of symbolic registrations costs, to apply to participate. Both investors and companies will be given additional opportunity to received added-value services and request more intensive, targeted searches through becoming clients of Firebird and its permanent investors- network. For member investors, Firebird will continue to follow the development of their investments over the course of elongated periods and translate all pertinent materials they will need along the way, as well as providing advice to both parties and facilitating face-to-face off-line meeting when the time is right.
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ABOUT FIREBIRD INTERNATIONAL
Firebird employs a host of ambitious, energetic specialists, with experience across fields and most notably for their expertise in on-line banking systems, Internet security systems and anti-virus software, NFC and navigation and location-based technologies, telecommunications, WiMax, IP, broadcast and satellite communications systems, digital content provisioning, aggregation, and distribution systems, VoIP, energy, nano, and bio technologies, consumer electronics, design and publishing software, social networking platforms, iOS and Android applications, localized brand development, marketing, and PR services, governmental relationship building, and HR and corporate training. Due to the extensive work of co-founder Matthew Goldstein in opening and selling content for entertainment and media outlets in the region Firebird caters to many clients in the entertainment industry in terms of adaptation and sales of digital content as well as acquisition of regionally produced content.
The following represents the full list of services provided by the firm, targeted at startup and mid-sized level technology and media companies, or hybrids thereof, in the US and Europe seeking to expand to Russia and the C.I.S., Russia and regional companies seeking to grow locally and internationally, and investors seeking to gain footing in the region:
Political and Risk Analysis, Qualitative and quantitative market analysis, patenting, trademark and intellectual property registration, customs- registration and facilitation, marketing adaptation, localized PR and marketing services, localized HR and corporate training, technology conversion, implementation, support, and development, digital and traditional translation services, dubbing and closed-captioning services, relationship building with local governments, facilitation of government subsidies and tax cuts in the US and Russia, creation of local partner networks, implantation of traditional and electronic banking systems, real estate location and evaluation, development of company branding, business plans, and financials for investment procurement, direct investment and investment facilitation, direct traditional and digital content licensing sales, direct technology licensing and sales, and added-value localized co-branding, event planning, and merchandising via licensing agreements.
Contact:
Firebird International
US 1-800-593-4346
Boston Direct: 1-508-955-2135
New York Direct: 1-646-383-3700
UK +44208588068
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