View Original ArticleWed, 30 May 2012 19:00:00 -0700 BOSTON, MA and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA-- - The Cambridge Associates LLC Australia Private Equity and Venture Capital Index rose by 7.85% in 2011, significantly outperforming the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index ...
Cambridge Associates to Develop Asian Private Equity and Venture Capital Performance Data in Collabo
View Original ArticleTue, 29 May 2012 21:00:00 -0700 SINGAPORE and HONG KONG-- - The Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association is partnering with Cambridge Associates to provide extensive, independent Asian private equity and venture capital ...
Private Equity: Threat or Menace?
View Original ArticleTue, 29 May 2012 02:37:51 -0700 Private equity is under attack in Presidential politics. If you let that affect your decision to accept private equity capital, you're out of your mind. You may have noticed that there?s an election this year. Given the tone of Washington politics this year, it's not surprising that the election ads have turned a bit nasty. What is surprising, though, is that the target of one of the attack ads ...
Venture capital: Hope triumphs over experience
View Original ArticleWed, 30 May 2012 04:00:00 -0700 The Kauffman Foundation recently analyzed the performance of its VC investments -- the results weren't pretty
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Venture Capital
Venture capital comes from professionally managed funds that have $1 million to $1 billion to invest in emerging growth companies. High-growth companies that are capable of reaching at least $25 million in sales in five years are very good candidates for venture capital.
Venture capital can be utilized from financing product development to expansion of a proven and profitable product or service. However, institutional venture capital investors demand significant equity in a business. The earlier the investment stage, the more equity is required to convince an institutional venture capitalist to invest. The range of funds typically available is $500,000 to $10 million.
Venture capital investors and private equity investors like to "cherry-pick" companies that meet their investment criteria. Compounding the degree of difficulty is the fact that institutional venture capital is an appropriate source of funding for a limited number of companies.
