Klubworks Review -Revenue Based Financing

klubworks review

Klubworks , India’s first revenue based platform with expected IRR of 20-27% . Revenue-based financing or royalty-based financing (RBF) is a type of financial capital provided to small or growing businesses. Using the link in blog you can start investing with INR 2.5 Lakhs. The investors inject capital into a business in return for a fixed percentage of ongoing gross revenues. Therefore, the payment increases and decreases based on business revenues, typically measured as either daily revenue or monthly revenue.

RBF can provide significant advantages to entrepreneurs and businesses. The nature of RBF, however, requires that businesses have two key attributes. Firstly, the business must be generating revenue, as it will be from that revenue that payments are made. Secondly, the business should have strong gross margins to accommodate the percentage of revenue dedicated to loan payments.

The interests of an RBF investor align with the interests of the companies in which they invest. Both parties benefit from revenue growth in the business. Also both parties suffer when revenue declines. This is in contrast to a typical bank loan, which has a fixed monthly payment over the life of the loan regardless of business revenue. RBF helps manage rough months in the business by having a payment that traces revenue.

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Many new high revenue business have come up in last few years due to factors like

  • Technology
  • Easy Payments
  • Advertisement

RBF  ecosystem
online business ecosystem

Klubworks Introduction

Klubworks is Inida’s first Revenue based investment platform . It exists to create an alternative financing model that enables local brands to grow.

The expected yield is between 20-27% IRR based on performance of your investment.

It chooses high cash generating business like fashion ,lifestyle sectors . Revenue of the brands determines the cashflow of investor.

RBF brands

klubworks Business Model

Brands are connected to investors by the Klubworks marketplace. Brands share their revenue with the investors in return for capital.

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If a brand needs a 2 lakh amount for 1 year, a cost of capital is chosen .Based on it a multiplier is chosen. For instance, say 1.1X. This is the amount they have to pay back. After that, a revenue sharing percentage is decided .eg 10%.It means 10% of revenue will be shared every month. If the revenue is high investor will receive bulk of investment in few months hence very high IRR

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Klubworks Team

Klubworks has a strong team and is well funded .

Klub Works Pvt. Ltd has raised $2 million (approximately Rs 14.18 crore at current exchange rates) in its pre-seed funding round.

The round was led by Sequoia Capital India’s startup scale-up programme, Surge, the accelerator said in a statement. In Addition,the firms which invested in Klub in this round include the EMVC Fintech Fund, Better Capital, Tracxn Labs, and 9Unicorns, the fund floated by Mumbai-based startup incubation platform Venture Catalysts.

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Klubworks Risk Management

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Klubworks follows three aspects of risk management :

  • Curation of best deals
  • Ongoing Monitoring of investment
  • Pledge over inventory of Companies to protect against defaults

Klubworks Investment -My Experience

I had invested in a brand called Tjori . Till date cashflow have on time and as expected. The investment can be broken into 2 parts

  • Preinvestment analysis
  • Post Investment Revenue

Let’s check this for a live deal on the platform- Wellversed

Pre Investment Analysis

The dashboard provide granular details about the brand ,its financial and return projection

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You can check the klub score,ratios and revenue projection. Then you check the deal details.

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  • The expected IRR for the deal is 21-27% based on current revenue.
  • Revenue share is 4%
  • Return multiplier is 1.165
  • Tenor is 1 year.

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Post Investment Return Scenario

Let’s analyze the post investment return scenario of any investment. Say in normal scenario you are getting 4% of investment monthly.

Return analysis klubworks

Similarly, Based on the increase or decrease of brand’s revenue your returns can change with minimum amount being 17% (i.e the return multiplier)

How to Invest in klubworks

The minimum investment using this link to register have been reduced to INR 2.5 Lakh.

klubworks investment process

You need to register and show commitment for the deal. There are certain other benefits like gifts,discounts etc you get for being an investors

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Conclusion

in conclusion, Klubworks is an interesting opportunity for people who are looking for higher yield. People who have already invested in other alternative platforms like Finzy , Tradeced ,GrowFix and Grip Invest can look to add this . People should also realize there is an element of risk as the brands are not blue chip companies but growing brands hence people should do proper due dilligence before investing and selecting deals.

7 thoughts on “Klubworks Review -Revenue Based Financing”

  1. Hello, started investing in Klubworks last year. Wanted help with 2 things on it – 1) for some reason the TDS cut on each payout is not reflecting in 26AS form, did you also face this issue? If yes, how to resolve this as they are not responding on this since a while; 2) Any idea what is the TAN number of klubworks?

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    • Hi
      1) I am able to see all my investment gains in my AIS (smoor chocolates etc) .Did you check AIS?
      2) You won’t need TAN of klubworks as it is a mediator. You will find details of borrowers in the AIS itself.

      Let me know if it works or I will try to connect you with someone from their team

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    • I faced a similar issue. This happens because the brand in which you invested has deducted TDS but not deposited the same with the tax authorities. Reach out to Klub and they will chase up with the brand to get the same resolved.

      This usually happens if the brand is not able to handle tax related matters smoothly or if the brand is facing cashflow issues.

      Reply
  2. Hi,

    No update on Klubworks since long? is there any issue with investment

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    • Hi Kamlesh, I have 5 deals on Klubwork which are performing as per expectations. Probably in this month review will cover performance in more detail

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      • Hi any update on performance review?
        I had invested in few but faced delays and defaults with two issues.

        Wanted to know about your experience.

        Reply
        • Hi Shikhil,
          My personal investment have given more than 20% IRR however I know there have been few defaults for other investors. Neufarm being one and Autobrix being other. I have therefore updated total NPA for the platform .

          Reply

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