Strategy

Investment Criteria

Strategy

  • HVP believes in a highly iterative development model where initial service offerings are quickly offered to customers, strongly vetted, and revamped for a constantly improving service offering. Someone smarter than us once said “Faster is better than perfect.”
  • HVP believes in quickly generating real revenues from independent customers to validate the business concept and finance the business while reducing future dilution.
  • HVP believes that merely offering traditional services via the Internet and/or mobile are important distribution tactics but that it is not necessarily enough to create a viable business. What really matters is offering valuable, value-added solutions to meet customers’ needs.
  • HVP believes that the probability of business success is optimized through a small, driven team with domain experience, backed by a committed group of advisors.
  • HVP will invest via equity or venture debt.

 

Investment Criteria

Hilltop Venture Partners invests in businesses with the following characteristics:

  • A service business with consumer or business customers, including Internet, mobile, software and off-line businesses
  • Pre-revenue or early revenue
  • Highly differentiated approach to a medium or large market opportunity
  • Full-time entrepreneur(s) with deep domain experience
  • Attractive, plausible exit strategies