Literature review 1 2.1 Stages of Venture Capital Investments 1 2.2 Characteristics of Venture Capital Investments. 2 2.3 Venture Capital in a Global Context 3 2.3.1 Venture capital deal values 4 2.3.2 No of deals in venture capital and stage of investment 5 2.3.4 Key global venture insights in 2012 5 2.4 Venture capital in a Sri Lankan context 6 I. Anything.lk commenced with venture capital investment of Ardent Capital 7 II. Millennium IT 7 III. Lanka Ventures Limited (LVL) 7 3.0 Practical applications
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FOREWORD The Venture capital sector is the most vibrant industry in the financial market today. Venture capital is money provided by professionals who invest alongside management in young‚ rapidly growing companies that have the potential to develop into significant economic contributors. Venture capital is an important source of equity for start-up companies. Venture capital can be visualized as “your ideas and our money” concept of developing business. Venture capitalists are people who pool
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` New venture financing at its core is securing the necessary funding to launch a new business. There are a variety of options for the entrepreneur to secure these funds‚ and finding the right financing in critical to starting any new business. Investors into a new venture will want to know that there is an acceptable risk/reward threshold for their capital. Therefore‚ it is important that the entrepreneur alleviate investor anxiety about the riskiness of the venture. There are several ways of
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CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCING IN INDIA Abstract The main objective of the paper is to depict the challenges faced by Venture Capital Financing firms. Venture Capital is money provided by professionals who invest and manage young rapidly increasing companies that have the probable to develop into significant economic contributors. The Government of India in an attempt to bring the nation at par and above the developed nations has been promoting venture capital financing to new‚ innovative
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Session 5 Professor Sandeep Dahiya Georgetown University Course Road Map What is Venture Capital - Introduction VC Cycle Fund raising Investing VC Valuation Methods Term Sheets Design of Private Equity securities Exiting Time permitting – Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Challenges of Venture Financing Critical issues involved in financing young firms Uncertainty Asymmetric Information Nature of Firm’s assets Conditions of relevant financial and
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special connections to the firm * Placement agent role - getting personal kickbacks for directing them to investment vehicles * Calpers fraud problem with pension funds and personal incentives 2. Compensation * 2nd five years of venture capital firms is called – harvesting – don’t have to work that hard‚ essentially let the investments run themselves * Management fees should decline over time‚ lower during harvesting season * Carried interest – where VC’s make their money
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Financing working capital Working capital management is the management of the net of current assets and current liabilities with the objective of reaching the right balance between profitability and liquidity. The aim of managing inventory (stock)‚ trade receivables (debtors)‚ cash‚ trade payables (creditors)‚ is to obtain the right balance of all the current assets and current liabilities at any given time so that the achieve the objectives of working capital management in the form of profitability
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Objectives of structuring a capital venture fund. Limited Liability Investors would like to see their liability for their investment in the fund limited to the amount of their investment‚ as they will not be usually playing an active part in the management of the investments. Avoiding an additional level of tax The investors main requirement is to avoid tax payable once receiving a dividend and then again paying a tax when the investments are realized. Suitability to all kind of investors
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Financing Working Capital The financing of working capital is of utmost important. What portion of current assets should be financed by current liabilities? What portion should be financed by long-term resources? Decisions on these questions will determine the financing mix. Approaches to financing mix: There are 3 basic approaches to determine an appropriate financing mix. They are a. Hedging or Matching approach. b. Conservative approach. c. Trade-off between the above two
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Case Problem 3- Hart Venture Capital Problem Statement Hart Venture Capital (HVC) specializes in providing venture capital for software development and Internet applications. Currently HVC has two investment opportunities: (1) Security Systems‚ a firm that needs additional capital to develop an Internet security software package‚ and (2) Market Analysis‚ a market research company that needs additional capital to develop a software package for conducting customer satisfaction surveys. In exchange
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