HippoMeter™
Helps you communicate investment readiness in an effective new way
Helps financiers select Your Business for funding, and trust Your Team, from start
HippoMeter™
Helps you communicate investment readiness in an effective new way
Helps financiers select Your Business for funding, and trust Your Team, from start
Measure your current investment readiness
HippoMeter is based on putting high value on multiple professional voices, to engaging a minimum of three respondents, including at least one independent external advisor.
– Focus on seven core elements: Opportunity, Scalability, Defensibility, Capability, Profitability, Market Entry, Ownership
– Coverage of 35 strategic topics
– 203 measurement points
In terms of user experience, HippoMeter is of kin to a multiple-choice questionnaire.
Responding to HippoMeter requires two hours of private online time from each respondent, either at once or in several shorter sessions, during a strict 7-day-response-period.
Gain Comprehensive Reports, Scoring and Analyses
HippoMeter generates unique, confidential, automated reports, investment readiness scores and analyses.
– Multiple investment readiness scores: An overall score, a score for each of the seven elements, and a score for each of the 35 strategic topics
– Highly visual analyses, including spider graphs, line graphs, colour-coded heat maps, etc.
– Recommendations for evidence needed to prove and improve investment readiness
Measure your current investment readiness
HippoMeter is based on putting high value on multiple professional voices, to engaging a minimum of three respondents, including at least one independent external advisor.
– Focus on seven core elements: Opportunity, Scalability, Defensibility, Capability, Profitability, Market Entry, Ownership
– Coverage of 35 strategic topics
– 203 measurement points
In terms of user experience, HippoMeter is of kin to a multiple-choice questionnaire.
Responding to HippoMeter requires two hours of private online time from each respondent, either at once or in several shorter sessions, during a strict 7-day-response-period.
Gain Comprehensive Reports, Scoring and Analyses
HippoMeter generates unique, confidential, automated reports, investment readiness scores and analyses.
– Multiple investment readiness scores: An overall score, a score for each of the seven elements, and a score for each of the 35 strategic topics
– Highly visual analyses, including spider graphs, line graphs, colour-coded heat maps, etc.
– Recommendations for evidence needed to prove and improve investment readiness.
From Opportunity to Ownership
The seven elements of HippoMeter
Opportunity
Deals with the size and growth rate and the level of pain and demand in your target markets.
Scalability
Deals with your ability to scale your solution in terms of technical and functional quality.
Defensibility
Deals with what can be done to protect your business, the solution and its value chain.
Capability
Deals with the execution capacity of the organization to produce and deliver an internationally sustainable solution.
Profitability
Deals with your resource base, requirements, earning power, revenue logic and projections.
Market Entry
Deals with branding and go-to-market milestones to successfully achieve a winning position in targeted markets.
Ownership
Deals with Who (exactly) should be engaged in ownership, Why and How, in order to realise the Opportunity via improved performance of the five elements in between.
Learn From Each Other
HippoMeter converts multiple voices into value, increased wisdom, aligned insights and action points.
– An efficient and discreet way to learn how similarly or differently your team and advisors see the status of your 35 core strategic assets
– An effective way to discover your relative strengths and weaknesses, what you need to work on and what evidence is needed to validate your status
Learn From Each Other
HippoMeter converts multiple voices into value, increased wisdom, aligned insights and action points.
– An efficient and discreet way to learn how similarly or differently your team and advisors see the status of your 35 core strategic assets
– An effective way to discover your relative strengths and weaknesses, what you need to work on and what evidence is needed to validate your status
Help Financiers Find, Trust and Select Your Business
HippoMeter allows you to:
– Share your realistic status — strengths and weaknesses — with Financiers, which enables the right ones to find and select your business
– Build trust via transparency, upload evidence to back your status and scores
– Accumulate Due Diligence readiness over time
Help Financiers Find, Trust and Select Your Business
HippoMeter allows you to:
– Share your realistic status — strengths and weaknesses — with Financiers, which enables the right ones to find and select your business
– Build trust via transparency, upload evidence to back your status and scores
– Accumulate Due Diligence readiness over time
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I access HippoMeter?
Once you have obtained product rights, you will receive a personalised link via email from global.enabler[at]safetypass.eu with one week (7 days) to invite fellow respondents and submit your own responses.
What do we mean by a "Hippo"?
A Hippo is a business case with high potential for both impact and profit. It solves a global problem or fulfils a global need. It has a scalable solution that works. A Hippo is powered by market-oriented, open-minded professionals willing to engage all resources necessary to create acceptance, customers and growth in foreign markets. A Hippo can have the shape or form of an innovation project, an internal corporate or SME venture or a startup/scaleup.
To us, Hippo is short for “High Impact & Profit Potential Opportunity”.
How about ownership, safety and privacy of data?
All data is safely guarded at Safetypass.EU, an industry trusted and GDPR compliant platform operated by Global Enabler, on secured servers located in Tampere, Finland.
We do not commercialise identifiable data without your approval. The individual HippoMeter reports are not shared, and no offerings will emerge from financiers or any other enablers, unless you grant an appropriate access to your data.
Is HippoMeter applicable for all kind of companies?
Yes, HippoMeter works across sectors, technologies, stages of development and types of business models and concepts.
How to prepare myself to use HippoMeter?
Just open the link you have received via email and start responding to the questions:
- Respond with your absolutely best professional judgement;
- Do not guess, do not hesitate to respond “I don’t know” at any point;
- Be realistic and factual: Unfounded, overly optimistic views will back-fire;
- Think of evidence: You must validate each claim you make to close any funding.
What is the background of HippoMeter?
HippoMeter is designed by seasoned entrepreneurs, co-founders of Global Enabler, who have worked in VC industry, academia and SMEs for decades. The algorithm is backed by 20 years of robust research and 20M€ in total academic funding.
Who owns and operates HippoMeter?
Global Enabler Corporation, a private Finland registered limited company (Oy) with 50 Co-Founders in 30 cities in 20 countries on 5 continents, established in 2011 to help Good People build Great Companies and with services operated on the Safetypass.EU platform.
HippoMeter Helps You Grow and Grows With You
Your journey starts with a HippoMeter Basic exercise and continues with increasing Account Based Functionalities.
HippoMeter Basic
One time use of HippoMeter
3-10 respondents; co-founders, advisors, board members
Highly visual, comprehensive Multi-Respondent Report covering 35 strategic assets
HippoMeter Basic Account
Account functionalities
Multiple uses of HippoMeter
Temporal analysis
Reports and communication of development over time
HippoMeter Pro Account
Added pro functionalities
- Team Consensus Responses
- Uploading of evidence, accumulation of DD readiness
- Evidence-backed reports
“HippoMeter enables Founders to positively disrupt fund raising. Financiers can swiftly find companies with the strengths they are looking for and with weaknesses they can help fix."
– Christian Aspegren, Father of HippoMeter and Co-Founder of Global Enabler