Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. 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
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offers: Nice dilemma! – Excellent background for PE • • • • Economics background Banking experience Financial operating experience MBA Martin Smith‚ cont’d • Effective job search strategy: – Target groups that match background • Avoiding VC‚ where engineering and longer term operating experience is more highly valued – Focus on more credible groups • As opposed to first-time funds—Avery search fund excepted – Extensive research • Lots of (too much?) due diligence Martin’s
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3rd Exam (Final Exam) Chapters 20-24 Managing Capital (MGT 553) (Summer 2014) Name: Elba Moya Date: August 23‚ 2014 Instructions: Fill in the answer by providing an explanation to the questions. Do not leave anything blank since points will be deducted. Each question is worth 10 points subdivided in increments of points per question‚ totaling 100% of the exam. The exam may be printed and turned
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[pic] Case Study Facebook - The Complete Biography August 25‚ 2006 by Sid Yadav [pic] An in-depth profile of Facebook‚ written by Mashable contributor Sid Yadav and edited by Pete Cashmore. Facebook is the second largest social network on the web‚ behind only MySpace in terms of traffic. Primarily focused on high school to college students‚ Facebook has been gaining market share‚ and more significantly a supportive user base. Since their launch in February 2004‚ they’ve been able
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1. What do you think of the way the investment was structured? Did GVFL function as a true VC firm or were they acting more like a bank? Could GVFL and Mr Saraf have done things differently with regards to financing the venture? Ans) Following is the breakup of fund invested: Total INR 15.7M = (GVFL (equity)INR 2.5+ GVFL(income note) INR 7.5 M +state Govt subsidy INR3M+ Promoter INR 2.7M) GVFL invested almost equal amounts as promoter and also provided additional financing in income notes
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A PROJECT REPORT ON VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCING SUBMITTED BY: Sandhya B.COM(PROF.) 110243016 SUBMITTED TO SACHIN SRIVASTAVA CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project report title “VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCING” is a work carried out by SANDHYA AWANA of SHARDA UNIVERSITY for fulfillment of b.com (prof.) course of Sharda university GR. NOIDA. NAME OF STUDENT: SANDHYA AWANA B.COM(PROF.) DATE: 30TH NOVEMBER 2013 Venture Capital
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Series A funding of convertible preferred stock. Right now‚ Richard Goodson‚ the CEO of SecureNet must decide whether to accept the offer from Trio LLC‚ or come back to find other VC investors. Goodson are considering the decision base on two main dimensions. First is the investing experience of Trio LLC. As a General Partner‚ VC firms are responsible to monitoring and helping the portfolio companies. Therefore‚ a more experienced manage teams will provide more professional advices to the portfolio companies
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Introduction: Apex Investment Partners was founded in 1987 by James A. Johnson and the First Analysis Corporation. In its eight-year life‚ the VC had raised three funds. The two first which are already closed had‚ together‚ a committed capital of around $70M. There were mainly concentrated in four areas: • • • • Telecommunication‚ information technology and software. Environmental and industrial productivity-related technologies. Consumer products and specialty retail. Health-care and related technologies
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Metapath Software OUTLINE • What happened. • The broader themes: – The interplay of terms. – Options in private equity. WHAT HAPPENED (1) • The Company turned down Cell Tech: – Offering 30% of their capitalization indicated that their base business had limited upside. – Clearly there were ongoing financing risks and liquidity issues. – The fit was not compelling. • Cell Tech stock fell $9 --> $3 – After 3 years and several acquisitions‚ it rebounded. WHAT HAPPENED (2)
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looks far more serious and viable. Additionally‚ IT specialized VC Ampersand would not provide any synergy with other portfolio firms due to systems’ incompatibility. Choosing the outsider could also imply substantial changes in the firm governance structure (investors’ council) and thus disrupt the newly built top-rate management equilibrium. Yet‚ DSCGP would only act as a passive investor on a trust basis. Clearly‚ valuation should not be the main issue for this kind of startup. Most important
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