Sunday 1st November 2009 - Published by Lara Page - Account Manager
From the Dragon's mouth
ONE of the country’s most successful young businessmen is
offering entrepreneurs who want to copy his achievements a free consultation
service.
Mikael Anderson is the 22-year-old CEO of Kovati, the
London-based private equity and venture capital firm. He is reputedly worth
£6.2million.
He started his first business when he was 17 years old. selling
website templates. Since then he has founded seven more companies - including
IT consultancy NDG Web Solutions and online digital animation and software
specialists Extrol Bistro.
Kovati invests in SMEs (small-to-medium-sized enterprises),
with high-growth potential and typically releases sums of between £10,000 to £3million.
Mikael says he prefers to invest in ‘people not ideas’ and
would always consider the quality of the current management team before making
any investments.
Some of Kovati’s latest investments include E-Drobe.com,
Ninety-1 ( an alternative to Gumtree), The Restaurant Gift Card, and new entertainment device TouchDiva.
Now the firm is offering aspiring entrepreneurs a free
consultation to see how viable their business ideas are and whether or not
there is an investment opportunity.
He recently appeared alongside Adriadne Capital founder, and one of the BBC’s online Dragons, Julie Meyer, as a judge at the Next Women event.
Mikael Anderson- serial entrepreneur
