BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Venture Capital
- money used to finance new companies or projects, especially those with high earning potential and high risk.
- the money invested in a new company or business venture
- Also known as Risk Capital
Wiktionary Definition for: Venture Capital
- # business money invested in an innovative enterprise in which both the potential for profit and the risk of loss are considerable.
Additional Resources
- Complex Venture Capital Deals Require More Than A Little Knowledge
- When it comes to structuring a venture capital deal, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." This article emphasizes upon raising venture capital, selecting a venture capital firm and then structuring a deal. The terms of a venture capital deal are more complex than the terms for most other forms...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- The Venture Capital Industry
- The article gives a brief overview of the venture capital industry. 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. Professionally managed...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Venture Capital And Productivity
- Policy makers typically interpret positive relations between venture capital investments and innovations as evidence that venture capital investments stimulate innovation (VC-first hypothesis). This interpretation is, however, one-sided because there may be a reverse causality that innovations induce venture capital investments (innovation-first hypothesis): an arrival of new technology increases demands for...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Siemens Concentrating Venture Capital Investments In Israel.(Siemens Venture Capital)(Brief Article)
- Siemens Venture Capital SVC is concentrating its investments in Israel. So far this year SVC has invested $30 million of venture capital in Israel. This place Israel second in the world after the US as a recipient of venture capital investments fro Siemens Venture Capital SVC...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- Pitango Venture Capital is the New Name for Polaris Venture Capital; New Name for Leading Israeli Venture Capital Firm Reflects Increased Global Focus
- Business Editors TEL-AVIV & NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--July 10, 2001 Move Eliminates Potential for Confusion with U.S.-based Polaris Venture Partners Polaris Venture Capital, a leading venture capital firm in Israel and the U.S., today changed its name to Pitango Venture Capital, reflecting the firm's increasingly global focus...
- Research articles 2001-07-10
- An Investigation Of Women-Led Firms And Venture Capital Investment
- For decades, venture capital investment assumed a quiet yet crucial role in the development and expansion of growing ventures. However, the 1990's boom in technology dramatically increased in the pool of equity capital and funding of new ventures with high growth potential. There is a substantial body of venture capital...
- White papers 2001-10-20
- SIEMENS VENTURE CAPITAL ENTERS CHINA
- AsiaInfo Services 06-28-2006 Siemens Venture Capital Enters China BEIJING, Jun 28, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- China's independent innovation strategy is attracting more and more venture capital. Recently, Siemens Venture Capital has formally AsiaInfo Services 06-28-2006 ...
- Research articles 2006-06-28
- Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners Announce Formation of Independent Venture Capital Firm New Firm to Be Called Crossmark Capital
- NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MWD) and the investment professionals at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners have agreed to establish Morgan Stanley Venture Partners as an independent venture capital firm. The new firm, to be called Crossmark Capital, will be led by Dr. William Harding, a 20-year veteran of the...
- Research articles 2005-05-16
- Venture capital for Ubique.
- The Anglo-American venture capital fund, Yozma venture capital fund and Euro-America, a venture capital fund active in the U.S. and France, have invested $1.5 million in UBIQUE, a start-up software firm that develops programs for use in the INTERNET The Anglo-American venture capital fund, Yozma...
- Research articles 1994-10-28
- Market for venture capital groes back to the future.(Focus: venture capital)
- Where can a serious entrepreneur find venture backing in 2003? Go back to the fixture. That's where the venture capital industry is headed. According to the MoneyTree Survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association, total venture capital investing...
- Research articles 2003-09-29
- What Is Venture Capital: The Venture Capital Industry
- This document introduces venture capital and its advantages. 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. Professionally managed venture capital firms...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
- NATIONAL VENTURE CAPITAL ASSOCIATION NVCAThe National Venture Capital Association NVCA, founded in 1973, is an organization of venture capital firms, corporate backers, and individuals dedicated to professionally investing private capital in new companies. In their own words, they exist to "define, serve, and represent the interests of the venture capital...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- The Convertible Preferred Equity Puzzle in Canadian Venture Capital Finance
- U.S. based research has demonstrated that convertible preferred equity is the optimal form of venture capital finance. This paper introduces a large and detailed data set on forms of finance used by Canadian venture capitalists in 5323 financing transactions from 1991 to 1998. Surprisingly, over the years for which there...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Overview of the Venture Capital Markets in Canada and the US
- Although geographically Canada and the US could not be closer, their venture capital markets are fundamentally different. Industry Canada gives an overview of the Canadian and US venture capital markets and provides analyses of the trends in the two markets and the differences in their structure and performance. In Canada,...
- White papers 2002-09-24
- Creating an Environment: Developing Venture Capital in India
- In the last decade, one of the most admired institutions among industrialists and economic policymakers around the world has been the U.S. venture capital industry. The OECD (2000) report identified venture capital as a critical component for the success of entrepreneurial high-technology firms and recommended that all nations consider strategies...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Essays on the Valuation and Syndication of Venture Capital Investments
- This study focuses on the valuation and syndication of venture capital investments. It constructs and tests a binomial pricing model for staged venture capital investments. The paper demonstrates how investor prominence affects the valuations of venture capital backed companies. It examines the relationship between investment syndication and the efficiency of...
- White papers 2003-02-27
- Apple & Yozma discuss joint venture capital fund. (Apple Computer, Israeli government-owned venture capital fund) (Brief Article)
- Apple Computers and Yoznia, the government owned venture capital fund, are conducting advanced negotiations to establish a new venture capital fund. The two sides are expected to reach agreement in the next two to three months, barring unforeseen d Apple Computers and Yoznia, the...
- Research articles 1994-06-03
- What is venture capital?(National Venture Capital Association definition)(Brief Article)
- The National Venture Capital Association in Arlington, Va., www.nvca.org, defines venture capital as money provided by professionals who invest alongside management in young companies that have the potential to develop into significant economic contr The National Venture Capital Association in Arlington, Va., www.nvca.org, defines venture...
- Research articles 2002-03-25
- The National Venture Capital Association reports U.S. venture capital investment fell 15% in 2003 from the previous year.(Washington Insider)(Brief Article)
- The National Venture Capital Association reports U.S. venture capital investment fell 15% in 2003 from the previous year. On the bright side, VC investment showed signs of bouncing back in the fourth quarter. Total VC investment for 2003 reached $18. The National Venture Capital Association reports...
- Research articles 2004-02-06
- European venture-capital fund raising climbs more than 60% in the second quarter of 2005; U. S. venture-capital funds increase1 60% in the second quarter according to VentureOne.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-22 August 2005-VentureOne: European venture-capital fund raising climbs more than 60 in the second quarter of 2005; U. S. venture-capital funds increase1 60 in the second quarter according to VentureOneC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22082005 LONDON - European venture-capital fund raising...
- Research articles 2005-08-22
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