VENTURE MANAGEMENT ARCHITECT

We are stewards in custody of the businesses we build for our clients ensuring their survival and sustainability both in the short and long term through professionally trained and experienced Venture Management Architects who have a sound accumulation of knowledge and wisdom with exceptional leadership discernment. As Venture Management Architects, we specialize in the leadership of actualizing and commercializing the dreams of entrepreneurs, building and managing businesses on behalf of individual investors and corporate institutions both locally and internationally. Our venture architecture is unparalleled in the industry with focus on Global Corporate Governance and Performance. We build businesses for clients from the idea stage to launching and commercialization across multiple industries such as Financial services, Manufacturing, Technology, Agro Business, Pharmaceuticals, Logistics, Mining, Trade, Hospitality, Oil & Gas, Education and Health Care among others. We are multi-dimensional, actively managing various functional areas of businesses and we are not limited with our expertise. Our Venture Architects manage revenue & profitability, operational force, corporate performance, marketing, market interference and other functional areas of businesses. Our Architects are not passive but proactive in their duties with management, actively taking charge of processes, concepts, lead generation, business negotiations, product design, identifying revenue targets, closing business deals, driving operations among others. We offer holistic management services covering the entire business spectrum ranging from the governance level, executive management level to staff workforce level across our client’s businesses. Our clients entrusts their businesses into our care and employ us to provide them with our Venture Architects who occupy the governance board, executive management positions such as CEO, COO, CFO among others and key staff positions to provide leadership and take decisions on behalf of their businesses with clear points of accountability and transparency as required by our clients.

We also manage specific departments that require our knowledge expertise by offering our Venture Architects to take decisions and manage processes, concepts and departmental framework in line with client’s vision. Our wide range of expertise provides us with the ability to deliver for our client’s businesses in whichever way they see fit to appoint us. Our Venture Management Architect service covers a wide range of industries with our unique blend of specialized Venture Architects who possess requisite skills spanning across various public and private sectors allowing us to provide our expert services across a wide spectrum.

 

  • Succession Venture Architect

Are you looking for a successor to hand over your business? Then your retirement is here. At Business District, our Succession Planning Architects are trained to seamlessly step into your shoes and manage your business on your behalf. Our work is to ensure that the founder’s vision is preserved. Our duty to your business is to run with your vision and provide continuous interpretations of that vision to remain relevant and competitive in the market. We expand and continually grow it through creativity and competent continuous transformative and democratic leadership that will guarantee sustainability and business continuity. We provide temporal succession services for emergencies and stop-gap situations as well as providing permanent succession services that overtakes the holistic leadership of the business enterprise.

  • PPP Venture Architect

The pursuit of a joint venture between the public and private sector has proved ideal on the continent of Africa. With its limited resources, governments have now identified PPP model as a viable option where they do not have to bear the entire burden of development but are now forming partnerships with private sector to undertake key developmental projects. At Business District, we strongly believe in the PPP model and we offer a deepened and transparent dimension in its implementation. Our specialized PPP Venture Architects provide management services for government agencies, state owned enterprises, public institutions and government majority interests in private companies. We establish a clear structure of separation of powers between our management of these public institutions and the government of the day which allows our impartiality in decision making focusing solely on the judicious allocation of resources that yield maximum benefits in the interest of populace. Our non-politicization in the running of these public institutions means we show no fear or favour to any particular group of people but we are focused on delivering the mandate as given under our terms of reference. We are performance based and as such we provide clear points of accountability for our service by adopting a target remuneration model that ensures that governments get value for money in their partnership with us. We build, innovative and transform public institutions to attract high performance standards delivering world class services to the populace.

  • Family Custodial & Judicial Venture Architect

A family business must be built with the family at the core of the business and have the potential to outlive more than one generation. At Business District, we provide families with our Family Venture Architects who understand the complexities of family businesses. We provide your family business with experienced experts who are neutral and impartial in their professional executions and management of the business in the common interest of all family members and parties involved. Our duty is to align the business in the best interest of the family and ensure that the business provides both disposable income to the family as well as capital gains with a focus on building to outlast family generations. We specialize in;

  • Working with families who intend to establish family enterprises to maintain their wealth within the family
  • Working with families who already own family businesses but are seeking leadership and expertise to provide a designed plan involving vision interpretation, business continuity, line succession, members participation, financial merits among others.
  • Working with families embattled in litigation for corporate inheritance of family businesses some of which have caused the collapse of many enterprises owned by families. We provide remedy for all family parties involved in such legal battles where we act as independent custodians providing leadership and operational management to sustain such enterprise whiles litigation proceeds without affecting the financial fortunes of the business.
  • Distressed Venture Architect

Every great company at one point in time had to go through some challenges to get to the top. Moments of distress and discomfort is a normal routine in business life but the response of your company in these times is what determines the success or failure of the business. At Business District, our Distressed Venture Architects assists businesses to navigate these difficult times. We design and assemble pro-active solutions to aid in the restructuring of distressed businesses and provide an overhaul corporate distress architecture for corporate organizations that are experiencing seasonal, systematic and bankruptcy distress. We also provide exit options for distressed companies who are willing to relinquish their ownership position (selling) in the business to third party investors (buying). We head hunt for appropriate investors to provide the exit options.

  • Incubation Venture Architect

Starting a business can be a complex and stressful task for many start up entrepreneurs. At Business District, we take the stress out from starting your own business. Our Incubation Venture Architect provides you with the needed assistance to register your business, setup your office, recruit your staff and other start up essentials. We assist clients through the entire business start-up cycle including business identification and formation, business modelling and strategy, financial modelling, recruitment, acquiring operational equipments and management of the business. We drive entrepreneurs to actualize their dreams by working tirelessly hand in hand to give substance to the vision. For entrepreneurs who are not fully sold out to their dreams at the initial stages, we make it flexible for our clients to be part time entrepreneurs by remaining pensioners or maintaining their regular day jobs whiles our Venture Management Architects ensure that their vision runs with optimum accuracy. Our Venture Management Architect system provides transparency in all our business dealings. We provide accountability to the business owner through the Governance Board of which the entrepreneur is the chairperson.

  • Growth Venture Architect

Every business goes through various growth stages till they attain maturity in the market. Growth is a process for every business and there are characteristics that are evident in every business when a particular growth level is achieved. It is certainly a concern, when a business resides continually at a growth phase for far too long without graduating through to the next phase of growth. At Business District, our Growth Venture Architect understand the industry dynamics that drives growth for every business. We assist companies to graduate their growth potential from one phase to another within a measurable time frame. Our growth models are sustainable, attainable and replicable within the confines of the business over a period of time.

  • Philanthropic Venture Architect

Giving back to society should not be a burdensome task for philanthropists who engage in such activities. At Business District, we have our dedicated Philanthropic Venture Architect who make their expertise available for philanthropic projects. We work with corporate institutions and wealthy individuals who desire to give back to society. Our Philanthropic Venture Architect work through the entire project phase from selecting impact projects that meets clients’ desire, feasibility studies, sustainability analysis, demographics and area survey, impact analysis, post project management among others. We ensure that the desire of our client to give back to society is fulfilled by focusing on what brings them the most satisfaction and purpose fulfilment. We also provide post project reports to keep our clients updated on the sustainability of the project.

GOLDEN OPERATIONAL FINANCE

Our specialized operational finance provides support to the operations of our clients to boost liquidity and profitability. We focus on the functional drivers of operations of our client’s business and structure a suitable support system to boost operations. We do not offer debt or equity financing but a partnership where we offer operational liquidity and expertise to our clients and share in the profits gained. This is a hybrid service for clients who are not interested in debt or equity financing. We provide an alternative partnership focusing solely on operational liquidity and profit sharing while we provide the expertise to jointly manage the business together for profitability.

GROWTH & VENTURE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Our growth and venture capital management service provides assistance to entrepreneurs with their funding needs. We work in partnership with business entrepreneurs by assisting them with technical know-how and advisory in capital fund raising to grow their business. Our expertise in the area of venture capital ranges from providing specialized private equity services for corporate bodies in the private sector. We also support graduates to establish their own businesses through vetting their business ideas and linking them with appropriate business partners both locally and internationally to finance their projects. This is to allow us link our partners around the world with business ideas in Africa and the rest of the world that we believe are sustainable and has the potential to generate good returns for both parties. Whether you seek to reassess your strategic options, grow your business through acquisition or realize value through sale or restructuring, Business District has expertise to assist you. We provide advice to public and private organizations, management teams and private equity houses on valuation, deal structuring and implementation.

  • Equity & Venture Manager

Our Specialized Growth & Venture Capital Management Service has been modelled to focus on the entrepreneur, their business idea, attitude and level of sacrifice to pursue their vision. It steers off the traditional practice where capital is the main source of assistance provided to the entrepreneur. At Business District, our model is not a cash only model but we provide a platform to create a rounded service where the entrepreneur has options including partnerships, access to needed resources and technical management support. Corporate institutions looking to invest in portfolios that offer value and profitability as well as private equity houses looking for the right investment portfolio to allocate their capital funds seeking to exit current investments, we provide advisory services on all such transactions. Our Growth & Venture Capital Management service has categorization for specialized corporate strategic business plans with special attributes of creativity, viability and bankability to create direct and indirect employment ranging from 1,000 – 1,000,000 jobs. These ideas are assembled by professional and exceptional Cross Chain Venture Architects from diverse fields with deep professional analytical abilities to discern into ideas to ascertain whether these ideas are viable or not before the entrepreneurial venture is embarked. The following are the strategic corporate branded business plans which are used to attract funding from global financial institutions;

  • Venture Golden Investment Plan
  • Diamond Venture Investment Plan
  • Custodian Venture Investment Plan
  • Family Investment Venture Plan
  • Three Stage Venture Plan
  • Virgin Group Venture Plan
  • Equity Joint Venture Innovator (Investors Plan)
  • Survival Terrain Innovation Investment Plan
  • Discovery Venture Plan
  • Masterful Hands Plan
  • Mergers Venture Plan
  • Security Venture Plan
  • Capital Weighted Plan
  • Silver Pot Plan
  • U Venture Plan
  • Venturing Innovation Plan
 
  • SME Enterprise Plan

This is a venture capital management service that provides support in terms of sourcing for capital financing and quality venture management services to small and medium scale enterprises. It is a multiple strategic business plan put together for entrepreneurs in a partnership SME’s enterprise. The quality strategic business plan must have a capacity to attract a net investment capital ranging from $100,000 – $5,000,000 (its cedi equivalent) and should have the capacity to generate direct and indirect employment from 10 – 1,000 jobs. We are keen on details and an expert at identifying prospective growth businesses and ideas. Our teams of experts are swift to act when a growth potential is discovered and our execution is done with elegant accuracy. We focus on assisting players in the private sector to grow and expand their businesses to have a positive and major impact on economic development. We assist entrepreneurs to evaluate and upgrade their business structures and set feasible growth and profit targets that will promote enterprise development and profitability. We also nurture group entrepreneurs in the “Incubator” and assist them with the necessary training required for success in business.