Hypa specialises in Alternative Finance Solutions, Fundraising & Investment and Digital Transformation. Our philosophy is to support both institutional and individual investors, entrepreneurs and companies with particular focus on high yield, high growth, scalable businesses and investments in innovative and disruptive technologies.
About
Hypa Digital Management
Funding
Whatever your funding needs, Hypa can help to raise both equity and loans including bridging, mezzanine and project finance whatever the activity including early-stage companies, SME’s, real estate and infrastructure in renewables. We are also willing to explore alternative ways to fund your activities from venture capital/debt to decentralised finance taking advantage of Web3 that relies on blockchain, smart contracts and decentralised applications (dApps).
This applies not only to UK companies, but also to overseas operations looking to set up a new or subsidiary operation in the UK or abroad. Whatever your business or funding needs and wherever you may be from, we can help you and your business and also provide your business with innovative investment solutions as part of your funding journey, if required.
Due Diligence
For the investor, due diligence is at the heart of everything we do. Hypa ensures that an extensive and rigorous due diligence process is undertaken based on many years of successful research, investment management and sourcing of investment opportunities for clients.
However, we don’t leave it there; we work with businesses or the investee company to help them to automate and use technology where possible to increase efficiency, reduce costs and boost returns. We adopt an incremental approach by looking at every aspect of the company’s business model and can advise on significant and small improvements that increase the company’s productivity and ensure any investment is utilised to the full and which also helps avoid time consuming and potentially costly pit falls.
Sustainability
Potential investee companies increasingly need to consider their carbon footprint and embed them into their business models. Increased demand from institutional investors for environmentally sustainable investments that embrace transparency and diversity, means that companies that have incorporated sustainability into their models are increasingly in demand and better at attracting new clients. This in turn will lead to higher company valuations, returns and/or increase the possibilities for the all-important exit strategy for the business owner/shareholders and the investors into the company.
Indeed, a common demand from investors, shareholders and clients alike is for a company to provide their policy for net zero emissions, whereby the total greenhouse gas emissions they produce are offset by the removal or reduction of an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. We can help the company to achieve this through various means depending on the industry sectors, such as implementing renewable energy alternatives, improving energy efficiency, adopting carbon capture technologies, or carbon offsetting projects that mitigate a company’s carbon dioxide emissions, such as reforestation or carbon credits.
Naz Craft
Naz’s most recent role is with Shadow Capital Partners, an alternative fund management business regulated by the FCA specialising in venture capital, real estate related investments and short-term loans. Naz’s previous activities included the setting-up and operation of a technology investment platform as Shadow Foundr which raises equity funding for start-up and early-stage scalable and innovative businesses through its private network of experienced professional investors while arranging co-investing and follow-on funding through close collaborations with UHNW’s, Multi-Family Offices, Venture Capitalists and Private Equity.
Shadow Foundr was one of the UK’s leading technological funding platforms, raising tens of millions of pounds for early-stage, high growth businesses; and operating under the trading name Shadow Capital Partners has been actively raising funds as part of it fund management business in SEIS/EIS funds, venture capital and short-term loans.
Naz’s background was in the financial sector including having worked for major international financial institutions in quantitative trading and the promoting of equities and equity related derivatives in different global financial centres. The operation of which involved the responsibility for developing, optimising and implementation of complex trading systems/platforms to manage risk on very large hedged and global trading positions.
Roles in that time have included: Director of Global Equities and equity derivative trading for Strategic Asset Management in Bermuda; Head of Equity Derivatives Trading for Credit Lyonnais Securities (now Credit Agricole) Derivatives in Tokyo, Hong Kong and London; a Senior Derivatives Trader for Bankers Trust International (now Deutsche Bank), London and New York, as well as positions with Citibank in New York and London.
