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We are Byzen Digitaltomorrow’s innovation, today’s market
Byzen Digital is a high growth organisation, enacting mergers and acquisitions within the technology space.
Originally set up to service the blockchain sector, Byzen Digital’s scope has quickly grown beyond its initial focus to incorporate start ups, SMEs and established companies from the wider technology arena including cybersecurity, data storage, cloudtech, analytics, software and digital applications.
The Byzen Digital family provides vital strategic insight, global funding access and a robust corporate structure to support its incorporated ventures in positioning concepts for global success.
Mergers & AcquisitionsRoutes to Growth
The universe of binary, digits and code is one of rapid transformation. Computational processing doubles roughly every two years and organisations who fail to keep pace with changing technology, or consumer demand for new ways of working, risk becoming obsolete.
It is little wonder then, that technology sector players increasingly look to faster, non traditional ways of accessing the vital skills, infrastructure, and intellectual property that will keep their products one step ahead of the market.
Mergers and acquisitions are one such route of keeping pace. For conventional bricks and mortar organisations, the acquisition of visionary companies providing disruptive, market ready consumer technology is an efficient route to digitising their offering and meeting the ever evolving demands of an innovation hungry customer base.
New TechnologyMergers & acquisitions with technology providers gives organisations fast and financially efficient access to new consumer facing technology.
New SkillsIt’s not just about technology. Mergers & acquisitions represent ready access to teams equipped to carry out long term research & development or systems rollout.
InfrastructureBusinesses may acquire or merge with smaller technology providers who have the capacity to add essential pace keeping infrastructure to their own growing organisations.
Market ReachMergers & acquisitions with established companies can be instrumental in increasing market share or gaining a foothold in new and profitable sectors.
Growth OpportunityEquity firms investing in early stage technology providers can benefit from capital growth along the organisation’s lifetime.
Mergers & AcquisitionsActivity
Technology sector players increasingly look to faster, non traditional ways of accessing the vital skills, infrastructure, intellectual property, and research & development that will keep their products one step ahead of the market.
Sector by SectorActivity
Internet of Things
The internet of things connects internet and digitally enabled products. The falling cost of associated technology and rising number of viable applications is stimulating mergers & acquisitions and investor activity in the sector.
$98 billion of mergers & acquisition deals done in 2015-17 $3.5 billion in corporate venture capital investments Technology includes; wearables, sensors, and smart products in the consumer,
health & mobile arenas
Robotics & Drones
Advances in new technology and materials, as well as rising consumer demand, is stimulating activity within this growing sector. Applications include industrial and service automation across a range of sectors.
$62 billion of mergers & acquisition investments over 2018 $1 billion of corporate venture capital investments Activity was seen across industrials, media and consumer business
Artificial Intelligence
Rapid advances in deep learning algorithms, chip manufacturing and cognitive computing are the catalysts for artificial intelligence investments and mergers & acquisitions. This sector is on the cusp of a consumer revolution.
$22 billion worth of mergers & acquisition deals during 2015-2017 $7 billion of corporate venture capital investments The bulk of activity was from non technology financial services
and media sectors
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Sector by SectorActivity
Digital & Social
The digitisation of traditional industries has led to the fast development of multi platform social business models, with high investor interest in digital commerce, digital agencies and on demand media platforms.
1289 mergers & acquisition deals over the last three years $59 billion of sector investment Sectors include finance, healthcare, media and life sciences
Data, Analytics & Security
The desire for companies to generate and analyse market insights have seen a rise in big data activity. Key investment areas include cloud based analytics, enterprise software and cybersecurity.
$21 billion of mergers & acquisition deals since 2015 $4.3 billion of corporate venture capital investment The market segment is dominated by technology companies
Fintech
The wide range of opportunities presented by financial technology means there has been significant growth in investment from non financial service sectors such as telecoms, retail and media.
$14 billion of mergers & acquisition deals since 2014 $9 billion of technology investments New technology includes blockchain, payment systems, robo advice and analytics
Answering the ChallengeStronger Together: The Byzen Digital Advantage
For companies with innovative digital or hardware products, consolidation with more substantial or capable organisations represents a giant leap on the challenging route to market. But simply merging or acquiring with new skills is not enough. The key to achieving a significant market capitalisation lies in the careful application of post deal integration to share acquired skills and applications across the group as it grows.
Expertise Network
With an experienced team of technology sector and funding specialists at the helm, Byzen Digital opens new routes to strategy, expertise and leadership to help start ups and SMEs overcome their early operational challenges. Byzen Digital’s management team enjoys excellent international relationships with venture capital sources and niche specific business leaders.
Resources
The Byzen Digital umbrella is a gateway to The Axiom Partnership, a dedicated provider of marketing, sales, legal and leadership resources for emerging technology disruptors. Axiom opens a wide reaching network of skills and capital through which to build new partnerships for collaborative development.
Structure
Operating under publicly listed status delivers access to institutional and blue chip funding streams typically not accessible to SMEs and start up ventures. For financial and medical technology companies operating in highly regulated environments, listed status drives radical efficiencies in regulatory licensing procedures.
Answering the ChallengeMarket Opportunities
For investors, the message is clear: Traditional markets are best left to institutional buyers working to 20th century trading strategies. For modern investors seeking to create high performance portfolios, the technology sector is a fruitful arena where intense speculation creates high market capitalisation, heavily weighted price/earnings ratios and opportunities to profit when companies undertake market defining deals.
For Byzen Digital’s target companies, consolidation with a publicly listed structure opens a rich seam of potential investment capital from a market with an enormous appetite to benefit from early engagement with new and innovative players.
Target AcquisitionsResearch, Deal & Integration
The technology sector is a broad umbrella covering a near infinite array of industries, sub sectors and secondary markets. As consumer interactions move into the digital realm, the sector’s definition has expanded to include organisations which have previously needed little engagement with cutting edge technology.
Target Maturity
Target companies will already have moved beyond risk prone start-up status and successfully completed research and development phases to emerge with a minimum viable product and excellent prospects of achieving rapid growth.
Product Innovation
Successful partner organisations will be in ownership of intellectual property or copyrights for innovative technology with the potential to disrupt or transform existing markets. Market Maturity
The management team seeks to identify organisations occupying viable positions within sectors poised for maturity through imminent widespread adoption. Potential targets will have proven the existence of significant consumer or business appetite for its product, as well as favorable conditions for mass adoption.
Organisational Integrity
Chosen targets will stand up to rigorous due diligence and in depth SWOT testing to demonstrate excellent operational track records. They will already have capable management teams and robust corporate structures in place.
Byzen Digital Culture
Crucially, organisations will be identified by their capacity to add value to the wider group through the deployment of skills, technology or infrastructure that may assist other Byzen Digital organisations in achieving operational goals.
Synergy BuildingAchieving Potential
The Byzen Digital vision is both ambitious and cohesive. It is not founded on the principle of gain for its own sake but in order to boost market capitalisation through the creation of a self sustaining ecosphere of visionary organisations with porous boundaries through which skills, infrastructure and ideas may freely flow for the benefit of all.
Skills
With an already well established skills base across technology and investment, Byzen Digital is ideally placed to begin supporting its partner ventures from the very outset. With the onboarding of each new acquisition comes a new wealth of additional talent. Integrating skills across the group through a culture of collaboration is a vital component of Byzen Digital’s post deal strategy.
Infrastructure
Byzen Digital’s early acquisition strategy, including an initial pipeline of potential targets beginningin 2019, focuses primarily on SME providers of core systems with the capacity to provide vital infrastructure to later acquisitions. Target industries at this stage include full stack application development, software as service, cloud solutions and data analytics.
Ideation
With the emergence of a self supporting technology and skills ecosphere, Byzen Digital is ideally placed to act as an incubator for less established companies in the pre funding and ideation stages. Engagement with global start up scenes can now play a role in sourcing opportunities as Byzen Digital develops its capacity to support fledgling ventures within the group structure.
Our VisionMission Statement
“Our mission is to bring tomorrow’s innovations to today’s market. By doing so, we intend to become a global market leader in acquiring disruptor technology with a market capitalisation of $10+ billion over the next decade. To achieve this ambitious target, Byzen Digital’s early stage growth strategy will see the addition of one company per financial quarter over 2019-20.”
2014Byzen Digital founded as multi platform blockchain provider 2017Successful listing on OTC market 2018Welcomes the Axiom Partnership as a strategic investment partner Begins due diligence on potential targets 2019Begins merger and acquisition campaign making one strategic deal per quarter 2020Begins grassroots outreach to engage with new startup and incubation opportunities across the globe
2023Begins positioning towards larger acquisitions
2028Listed on the Nasdaq exchange Market capitalisation: $10 billion
Our VisionValues
Byzen Digital is a values led business built around three core principles:
Ambition Ambition begins with the drive to become the engine behind some of the world’s most exciting technology and is realised through the rapid acquisition of companies to position Byzen Digital as a global leader in the mergers and acquisitions sphere. We believe in sharing our ambition and in supporting companies to utilise Byzen Digital’s infrastructure when realising their own commercial potential.
Ability
Ambition is nothing without the corporate skills and experience to see it through. Byzen Digital already enjoys a stellar industry reputation for organisational growth delivery and a peerless track record of smart, independent decision making. This approach has led to the growth of Byzen Digital from a blockchain focused start up to a publicly listed organisation successfully competing in the wider technology sector.
Agility One thing that never changes is the rapid pace at which the technology sector evolves. Navigating this shifting landscape takes a highly effective team with the ability to think and move fast within a lean and efficient business structure of superb infrastructural agility.
TeamOur People
Chris PercyPresident & CEO
Chris began his early career in electronic security, where he quickly progressed from engineer to a challenging business development role. In 2003, he used the broad skills acquired over years in the industry to set up Direct CCTV & Security Systems, servicing international clientele including Bank of America, Amazon and Geopost. When the company went public as Direct Security Integration Inc in 2014, Chris moved over to consult technology companies on structure and sales. In May 2018 he was approached by Byzen Digital to take the reins and completed a successful corporate action with FINRA.
Kieron MeakinCTO
During an 18-year career in the technology sector, Kieron has progressed from creating front end applications to the development and sale of multi million pound SaaS and cloud technology.
He has experience of a wide range of technologies in diverse markets, and in leading teams in the sale of software and cloud solutions to blue chip organisations. He is a senior business leader operating at board level to develop and execute strategy, and support organisations in making the best use of technology to achieve aggressive growth targets.
He has also worked as a consultant to a leading UK technology venture builder, creating strategic and commercial frameworks to help new financial technology startups achieve series B and C investment.
TeamOur People
Tom BeckettCOO
Born and raised in Manchester, Tom’s advanced education in polymer science and technology initially led to an early career as a development chemist. In the 90’s Tom went on to gain advanced qualifications in psychotherapy and practised as a cognitive behavioural therapist. He had been proposed to complete a PhD in counseling at Manchester University when the world of business caught his attention.
At the turn of the millennium, Tom founded his first company in B2B telecoms. He was quick to establish an industry reputation and the venture flourished. Since then he has founded and owned businesses in holographic film manufacturing, property sales, investments, residential lettings management and the claims industry.
Tom’s current business interests now come together in The Axiom Partnership, which boasts an impressive portfolio of active and passive holdings in some of the world’s most innovative businesses.
Tony Summers
Tony Summers is an experienced ‘C’ level sales and business professional with over 25 years’ experience in building successful sales teams and delivering revenue growth. Tony’s core experience is in executive search and consulting to the technology sector. His Gibraltar based company, Precision Projects provides specialist talent to the financial services and banking arena. His clients include tier one banks, banking software providers, system integrators and fintech companies.
Achieving VisionA word from the CEO
Byzen Digital’s vision is to emerge as a global market leader in disruptor technology mergers and acquisitions with a $10+ billion market capitalisation on the NASDAQ exchange over the next decade. It’s a bold ambition, and we are poised to achieve. The self sustaining network envisaged by the team is in the form of some of the world’s best investment leadership, a highly capable management team and access to significant global funding streams, which will drive growth.
Due diligence is already underway on an exciting pipeline of potential deals in 2019 and beyond, which will form the cornerstone of a formidable corporate entity going forward. They will no doubt benefit from access to Byzen Digital’s considerable commercial and capital resources while sharing their own skills and technology across the wider group.
This is an incredibly exciting time. We look forward to sharing the journey with organisations and individuals who share our vision and ambition.
Chris PercyPresident and CEO
Byzen Digital
