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Funded 2 May 2024
€800,010 target
€816,615 from 279 investors
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Business overview

Location Barcelona, Spain
Social media
Website candam.eu/
Sectors SaaS/PaaS Mixed Digital/Non-Digital B2B
Company number B66947367
Incorporation date 9 Feb 2017
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Investment summary

Type Equity
Valuation (pre-money) €6.8M
Equity offered 10.51%
Tax relief N/A
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Business highlights

  • Tech capable of identifying materials via acoustic AI
  • 11 commercial agreements and 2 offices (UAE, PL)
  • Revenue nearly hit €1M in 2023
  • Ongoing patenting processes and ownership of all technology
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Key features

  • Secondary Market
  • Nominee investment min. €27.00 +

Idea

Introduction

Candam Technologies is a deep tech company based in Barcelona. Our mission is to ensure that every citizen receives a fair reward for their recycled packaging, thanks to our technology.


♻️ 1. Return & Earn Schemes – RecySmart is an IoT device able to transform any single bin into a Smart. It can identify users and characterize packaging material recycled by citizens. This valuable data enables waste managers and the retail industry to reward or refund them for their correct recycling actions to increase the packaging recovery rates.


🤖 2. Smart Waste – Optimize Waste Collection: Candam offers a wide range of technology to optimize waste collection where recently we have been adjudicated with the largest deployment in the EU.


💲 Secured €4 M through private equity and prestigious EU grants. We have established 11 commercial agreements in multiple countries like Spain, Portugal, the UK, the Gulf Region, etc. In 2023, revenue nearly hit €1M.

Substantial accomplishments to date

🤝 SALES

1st full city project with RecySmart: The first full city deployment implementing 400 devices in Guadalajara City (90 K inhabitants) together with Valoriza (one of the biggest waste managers in Spain).


🇦🇪 1st Project in the UAE (outside EU): We entered the Middle East through a commercial agreement with Beaah Group, the Gulf's top waste management company. We've begun the initial small-scale implementation with plans for further regional expansion.

🇪🇺 Largest Smart Waste project: The city of Madrid has the largest Smart Waste installation in the EU. Candam is implementing 11,000 sensors to detect the filling speed of each bin to optimize waste collection routes during 2023 and 2024.

🗑️ NEW VERTICAL - PRIVATE COLLECTION

We launched a new business vertical targeting retail, gas stations, airports, and other sectors. We introduced the RecySmart Bin as a replacement for Reverse Vending Machines.

💰FUNDING

Candam has raised 4€ M coming from private equity and prestigious European Grants (Life, Eurostars, etc).

🏭 TECHNOLOGICAL MILESTONES

RecySmart fully Industralized: Our tech is fully industrialized (TRL9) and ready to be produced on a massive scale. The industrialization includes Automated fixtures, injection moulds and real-time production results from our manufacturing company.

🧠 IPR

Candam owns the whole IPR. There are 2 patent processes:

Acoustic: Our patent application in the EU scope received positive feedback and we applied to the International Patent.

Scanning: We applied at the EU level.

Monetisation strategy

Our revenues come from:

📈 RECYSMART DEVICE SALES

1) the initial sale of RecySmart devices to our main clients, private waste management companies, providing services to municipalities or retail industry, gas stations, among others. The price ranges from 600 to 1300 € depending on the quantity of devices purchased per order.


🖥️ SAAS - Software as a Service

2) the recurrent Software as a Service for each installed device. The SaaS is on a monthly fee for enabling the use of our Citizen App, our Return and Earn platform, and our Backoffice in the project. The SaaS fee ranges from 5 to 10 € per device per month.

Additionally, per each project delivered we charge the expenditures associated with the installation and maintenance fees in case our client requests a turn-key project.

Use of proceeds

33,7% SALES & MARKETING

• 67% are salaries on our current 4 headcount Salesforce to 11 positions

• 22% represents travel expenses

• 11% includes online marketing campaigns, external PPRR agencies, etc

25,6% OTHER OPEX

• 43% are external consultants in areas such as legal, audit or administration

• 22% are leases and maintenance

• 19% are general expenses like insurance, office telecom services, etc

• 16% is composed of software and IT expenses

22,1% CAPEX & R&D:

These cash outflows are 75% covered by grants already granted

• 69% are salaries from Candam’s IT team

• 14% CAPEX: Injection moulds, Patents and IT equipment for new positions

• 8% consists of consultancy, prototyping and industrialization

• 6% are dedicated to AI algorithms.

• 3% is mainly other kinds of expenses

15,6% OTHER DEPARTMENT’S SALARIES

The salary cost of CTO, COO and CFO and 4 additional job positions will be hired

3,0% OTHER FINANCING & PAYMENT COMMITMENTS

• 96% are repayment of loans

Key Information

Material debt

The company has the following outstanding loans as of 31/12/2023:

1 - €4,080 loan from CaixaBank at an interest rate of 1,50% per annum. The loan is to be repaid by 07/04/2025.

2 - €32,315 loan from CaixaBank at an interest rate of 4,90% per annum. The loan is to be repaid by 01/09/2025.

3 - €90,000 loan from ENISA at an interest rate of Euribor + 3.75% per annum. The loan is to be repaid on 31/12/2026.

4 - €110,207 grant from CDTI PiD at an interest rate of 0,013% per annum. The loan is to be repaid on 01/02/2038.

5 - €100,000 loan from Banc Sabadell at an interest rate of Euribor + 3.00% per annum. The loan is to be repaid on 31/10/2024.

The funds raised from this investment round will not be used to repay these loans.

Share classes

The company currently has 3 classes of shares: A, B and C shares. All investors in this round, including Seedrs investors, will be receiving C shares. On a liquidation event, this is the distribution waterfall:

1 - The Investors (C shares) will receive the amount of the disbursements made in cash contribution in the Company by each one of them since 2022, pro-rata their investment, per batches and in reverse order of each investment round agreed (the most recent investment will be the first to receive the amount corresponding to that investment).

2 - Second, the Founders (A Shares) will receive a total amount of €150,000, to be distributed equally among them.

3 - Any remaining amount will be distributed among all the Shareholders in proportion to their stake in the Company’s share capital.

Fractional shares

The price per share of this investment round is €90. Given the high price per share, we have decided to allow investors to hold fractional shares. This means that we have reduced the investment multiple to €9 (representing 1/10 of a share). As these shares will be held via the Seedrs Nominee, fractional entitlements are possible.

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Valuation rounded from €6,818,940

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