Indirect factoring financing for an innovative and expanding wind turbine maintenance company

Summary

The Company established in 2018 provides wind turbine inspection, maintenance, and repair services. Using the proprietary robot technology, the Company performs turbine maintenance work for international wind park operators providing significant cost and time efficiency savings to the clients. Several of the already paying clients are the largest wind turbine manufacturers and holders such as Vestas, GE, Enel, and Siemens.

The Company has entered into long-term cooperation with one of the leading wind turbine market players in Europe GE Wind energy, GmbH; however, the customers pay with a 60-day deferred payment. During the expansion and acquisition of new clients, the Company must maintain fast receipt of payments from its customer until the initiated equity financing round in autumn 2022. Therefore, the Company seeks indirect factoring financing with a total factoring limit of EUR 100,000 until the end of 2022 with its core customer GE Wind Energy, GmbH. Investors are offered a 14.88% annual interest rate (1.24% monthly) with principal repayment at the end of the term. The Company will accumulate and submit a package of invoices issued to the customer and Capitalia in a work frame of the factoring agreement will finance 80% of the total invoices' amount. Since the customer of the Company is a large world-scale concern, it is not possible to agree on direct payment for invoices on Capitalia's account. Therefore, the customer will still pay to the Company which after the receipt of the payment for invoices will make a payment to Capitalia's account to cover financed invoices.

Key investment highlights

There are a number of factors that make lending to the Company an attractive opportunity and the main highlights are as follows:

  • The Company is backed by reputable VC funds, such as Change Ventures, and angel investors.
  • The Company has initiated its next equity financing round for an additional equity investment of at least EUR 10 million.
  • The Company has a highly experienced management team with over 15 years spent working in engineering and product development.
  • The Company’s operations are well in line with the prevailing trends of larger usage of green energy and robotization.
  • The Company has established relationships with the largest wind turbine manufacturers in the world, that are already paying customers.
  • The Company has won several reputable awards and competitions for its product innovation.
  • The Company has received grants from the EU for product development.
  • The financing is backed by invoices issued to a large and reputable wind turbine market player GE Wind Energy, GmbH.


Factoring product


The duration of a factoring contract is until the 31st of December 2022 and we seek financing for the full approved credit limit. If the credit limit is regularly not used up by the client, we would reduce the financed amount by returning money proportionally to the investors. Alternatively, if the client would seek an increase in the credit limit, we will offer to invest additional capital.

Further notes about interest calculations:
A) Interest will be paid every month until the 5th day for the interest charged in the previous period. Under the factoring contract Capitalia charges interest upfront for the entire period of the financed invoice;
B) There can be gaps of a few days between invoice repayment and new invoice placement hence the actual return might be lower than the interest rate mentioned in the Summary section.

ID 16472-1-LV
Industry Specialized
maintenance services
Location Latvia
Loan type Indirect factoring
Term 6 months
Expected return 14.88%
Interest rate Monthly
Amortisation Monthly
Risk grade C (70 out of 100)
Personal warranty No
Collateral No
Capitalia's cofinancing 5000
Target amount 100000
Repaid
This loan is already funded.
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