One of the decisions a company must consider while fund raising from potential venture capital partners is to look for a good standing placement agent. This is in order for a company not to spend too much of its own time seeking for seed capital, mezzanine capital, or growth capital [CONTINUE READING]
Venture capital, also called as risk capital, is a type of funding for a new/growing business that comes from venture capital firms having specialization in building high risk financial portfolios. A venture capital firm gives funding to the start-up company in exchange for equity in the startup. It is most [CONTINUE READING]
According to a report from Ernst & Young, the investment levels in the global venture capital (VC) industry reached US$ 48.5 billion in 2013. Whether this is a blessing from above or fruit of hard work and determination by the business founders, thanks to venture capital funding. Entrepreneurs spending their [CONTINUE READING]
Venture capital concerns the intervention of professionals in the share of small and recently constituted businesses. Their shares help the company develop their operations for a specific period of time. This greatly improves the financing of firms with high growth potential by creating favorable conditions for the granting of bank [CONTINUE READING]
When a venture capitalist takes the decision of investing in a small company, he or she does so after carefully studying the business plan for a period of up to 3 years. Generally the offers that enter this process are those that are different and innovative with a high potential [CONTINUE READING]
Venture capital consists of having professional investors take minority or temporary shares of the capital of start-up or recently opened businesses. This type of funding allows small companies to experience growth in their first years. The participation of venture capitalists allows small companies to be more attractive to financial institutions [CONTINUE READING]
Here we present you a few of the factors that set venture capital aside from other types of financing. Venture capital is a financing instrument, since the receiver gets a supply of resources that are needed to start or develop their business. The type of companies invested in, are usually [CONTINUE READING]
With almost unlimited opportunities the advancement in technology is creating over the past two decades, many startups and small businesses today tend to seek for capital that could bring their dream business to success. While there is a wide range of financial sources that they can tap on, most of [CONTINUE READING]
In the first half of the 20th century (1900-1950)– with very few exceptions– venture capital investments were made by very wealthy families like the Rockefellers (Standard Oil), the Vanderbilt family (shipping lines and railroads), and the Warburg family (financial dynasty including banking, and the US Federal Reserve). Among the many [CONTINUE READING]
A phase that every entrepreneur needs to go through is raising capital for his newly started business. The moment a business idea occurs to him, he tries to convert that idea into reality which instantly screams “I need money Boss!”, and then starts the most challenging process of finding a [CONTINUE READING]
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