In Britain, the bulk of venture capital has traditionally gone into the comparatively safe area of backing management and institutional buyouts. |
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The fund is the largest of nine regional venture capital funds and is sponsored by the London Development Agency. |
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We can see the fruition of its policy in the venture capital provisions of this bill. |
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He said the company was approached by two venture capital firms and a private investor after the funding event. |
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In larger transactions, a syndicate of venture capital houses or private equity firms might combine to provide the equity finance. |
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He said another was the lack of access to venture capital for campus companies spun off from university research. |
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Some of these companies have attracted high profile venture capital funding. |
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He will also be responsible for attracting new venture capital activities into Scotland. |
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He got a taste for leveraged buyouts through his work at the venture capital arm of First National Bank. |
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Later on, if they're ready to go public or go national, they could get venture capital. |
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He is optimistic crowdfunding will provide a successful venture capital model for established businesses. |
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He said the company had been in negotiations with four or five venture capital firms before settling on Summit. |
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All of these sites were haemorrhaging money, and started talking up movie projects as a way of sustaining their venture capital. |
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The venture capital market in the States is not all that it may be cracked up to be. |
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Before acquiring IMAX, he specialized in leveraged buyouts and venture capital investments. |
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In 1995, a venture capital firm introduced the young dealmaker to Nutt, who had recently started AMG with three employees. |
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It has also been suggested to allow mutual funds and pension funds to invest in venture capital funds. |
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Founders Ernst Malmsten and Kajsa Leander begin spending their venture capital booty. |
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That could create uncertainty for non-residents who may be contemplating venture capital investment in New Zealand. |
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A lack of venture capital cash has forced the company to look abroad for partners to develop its lead product, a treatment for cystic fibrosis. |
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For an investment bank expert in venture capital, nothing has been ventured here and nothing gained. |
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Now Jacobson is hoping to tap into the huge pool of venture capital available in New York. |
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He financed the company with a combination of venture capital and government grants. |
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When the dot-com bubble burst, much of the country's venture capital seemed to go with it. |
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In order to grow further, however, the company must find additional venture capital backing. |
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The government is also planning to have a single authority for controlling venture capital funds. |
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Entrepreneurs can choose from all manner of investment vehicles, from venture capital to partnerships to blind pools. |
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His options, as he saw them, were to seek venture capital or take the company public. |
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So, what does a successful first-round venture capital funding mission feel like? |
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Domek takes pride in having made it to the Web without massive infusions of venture capital. |
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Last year representatives of 28 venture capital and business angel groups attended the conference. |
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All that is not to say that venture capital is impossible to raise these days. |
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The whole corporate culture of spinning out companies has created this vast pool of venture capital. |
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Even when it comes to raising serious venture capital, a past failure is not the black mark it once was. |
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In May, it became the first Scottish-based business to secure new venture capital funding in euros. |
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To be sure, there are no exact replacements for the cash that can come from venture capital firms. |
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He said companies should consider whether they could be small and profitable without venture capital. |
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They offer online tools for creating business plans, finding venture capital, and scoping out the competition. |
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The group grew out of political expediency, as a source of venture capital for Whig entrepreneurs. |
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According to a 1996 survey, Massachusetts ranks number one in venture capital spending but not a single penny has been spent on development on the Site. |
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Inject venture capital into companies and cooperatives and provide expert advice to support their start-up, growth and expansion. |
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Angel investors put small amounts of money into companies that sometimes have already received seed funding, but are not yet at the stage to attract venture capital. |
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In time, a number of Fairchild employees attracted private venture capital and split off to found their own high-tech businesses. |
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A merchant bank, venture capital firm, or conventional lender that is unfamiliar with a business will find it more difficult to assess risk and will be less accommodating. |
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Personics flamed out in one of the biggest busts in venture capital history. |
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And in 2012, 16 European companies backed by venture capital went public, raising 379 million Euros between them. |
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There was a hole in the venture capital market, said the program's boosters, and the government was needed to fill it. |
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Larry Kramer is senior adviser at Polaris Venture Partners, a national venture capital firm. |
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That has allowed them to bootstrap their business without the drawbacks of seeking venture capital. |
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The development of the venture capital model empowered entrepreneurs to launch a cornucopia of high-tech start-up businesses. |
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America is taken as a case in point, worshipping as it does at the shrine of venture capital and profits. |
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If the investment takes place at a very early stage of development, it is termed venture capital. |
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The answer for some venture capital outfits has been to go in quest of a new generation of unicorns. |
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On the contrary, most small and medium-sized enterprises have no capital of their own and no venture capital. |
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Equity for existing business includes: retained earnings, venture capital and going public. |
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Therefore, it is only to a very limited extent in competition with venture capital funds. |
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Aboriginal people are now enjoying unprecedented access to venture capital, business supports, and training and educational programs. |
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An infrastructure venture capital fund may be created to pool these high-risk equity stakes. |
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The group also proposed the establishment of a public guarantee system covering the claims of venture capital funds. |
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Last year, under the watch of the Conservative government, only one new start-up high tech corporation was created using venture capital. |
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Often,the first major financing step for an emerging technology developer is securing venture capital. |
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Gimv takes its role as venture capital provider one step further, being a reliable business partner in every sense of the word. |
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If the consequences of failure entail not just legal bankruptcy but also personal ruin, the venture capital model will not get off the ground. |
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He noted that the high tech industry was volatile and that the employer was highly dependent on venture capital funding. |
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We are now in a position to offer the whole range of services including leasing, term debt, mezzanine finance, venture capital and now working capital with a current account. |
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Scottish Equity Partners, the Glasgow-based independent venture capital company, is bucking the market trend by expanding both its Glasgow and London offices. |
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The focus will now switch to the other bidder still in the race, a consortium of venture capital companies headed by merchant banking heavy hitter Goldman Sachs. |
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After four years of growth, Québec venture capital activity showed a significant decrease in 2008, mirroring the sweeping slowdown in North American and world markets. |
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In Switzerland, this fund is an established part of the Swiss venture capital market and makes an important contribution in supporting dynamic companies in the biotech sector. |
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A third usual source of capital for startup companies has been venture capital. |
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Hydro-Québec CapiTech is a venture capital company whose mandate is to make profitable investments in technology companies related to Hydro-Québec's core business lines. |
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Their investment in equity capital also complements the activity of venture capital companies, as they provide smaller amounts at an earlier stage of the enterprise's life. |
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The element that has most small-business advocates excited is the crowd-funding provision, which institutionalizes a form of financing that is, on a small scale, much like venture capital investing. |
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Education is to be put in order, a fiscal policy devised and venture capital arranged. In fact, everything possible is to be done to provide the innovators with everything on a plate. |
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And if you have venture capital and are looking at where to invest with a great sense of stability, Canada is clearly a place for you to be thinking about. |
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This would boil down to funds raised by taxation being invested as venture capital and to substantial shares in the profits then being handed over to private enterprise. |
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These experts will bring to bear their unique knowledge and skills in analyzing complex technological and business proposals, and will serve as sounding boards for the BDC's venture capital decision makers. |
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The Boulder-based venture capital firm was looking for an app that would essentially replace a receptionist for greeting visitors. |
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Failure to develop a well-functioning venture capital system would scupper Europe's efforts to build an innovative SME-led knowledge economy, he added. |
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Moreover, they provided statements of a venture capitalist that many SMEs with viable business plans are rejected by venture capital funds that could be suitable for Investbx. |
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The research and practical cases that we will develop with Gimv will further spread best practice in private equity and venture capital amongst all onrushing management talent. |
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A new survey shows that venture capital investment – the stuff that fuels technology innovation – is growing in parts of the country where it has been largely unapparent. |
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Gimv focuses increasingly on the provision of venture capital and thinks the time is right to show the world that it is an autonomous investment company rather than an instrument of and for the Flemish government. |
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It specializes in providing private equity and mezzanine debt capital for large and mid-cap companies, venture capital for developing industries, and financing for a growing portfolio of infrastructure and timberland assets. |
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The financial crisis of 2009 has led venture capital investors to retrench, favoring even more strongly ventures closer to market over those in the early stages of development. |
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The pair created a strong Board of Directors made up of prominent industry figures who advised them to reposition into text-messaging routers and applications, invested in the business and helped them attract venture capital. |
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The venture capital team manages ¤400m of investment funds ploughed into up-and-coming, high-potential companies in the sectors of technology and life sciences. |
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The relevance of this issue is highlighted by the strong knock-on effects of the slump in the technology sector on, for example, venture capital markets, but also on bond markets and on the credit supply to technology firms. |
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The availability of venture capital is not a universal panacea. |
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Accel notched the biggest venture capital victory. |
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The harmonisation of the taxation of venture capital funds will increase investor's certainty about their legal position and thus their planning decisions. |
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With services available across Canada in both official languages through a network of more than 80 branches, the BDC offers financial services, consulting services, subordinate financing and venture capital. |
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This could involve encouraging competition through measures to promote the entry of new firms, such as reducing the administrative burdens they face, making markets more competitive and facilitating access to venture capital. |
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Private equities, with usually expect revenues within one or two years are unlikely to be interested, and the industry has to rely on venture capital and strategic investors. |
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However, NBIF has had difficulty in meeting that target for venture capital investments, and therefore has spent somewhat more in the research area. |
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Although their overriding motive is to achieve capital gain, venture capital investors often wait several years before selling their equity stakes. |
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When public equity is not accessible to new firms, venture capital offers a means of combining the financing of high-risk projects and managerial support in a flexible way. |
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Zon Capital is a venture capital fund headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey with offices in Radnor, Pennsylvania. |
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In 2004, it was reported that Silicon Fen was the second largest venture capital market in the world, after Silicon Valley. |
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Profit sharing and venture capital where the lender is also exposed to risk is acceptable. |
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Many large financial institutions, multinational banks, and venture capital firms are based in or have regional headquarters in the city. |
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Low-cost financing, access to venture capital, expanding shopsteading programs, and providing fee waivers are some productive approaches. |
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The CLEC Planner reduces financial risk for both CLECs and venture capital firms that invest in these companies, by taking away the guesswork. |
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Ltd, a fully-fledged oncology pharmaceutical firm announced that it would be injecting in Remiges BioPharma Fund, a newly formed biotech venture capital fund. |
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Blue Telecommunications, based in Nottingham, has bought KEB Business Solutions with help from East Midlands venture capital fund, managed by Catapult Venture Managers. |
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Berlin developed a thriving, cosmopolitan hub for startup companies and became a leading location for venture capital funded firms in the European Union. |
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A wide range of businesses including early stage, venture capital backed as well as more established companies join AIM seeking access to growth capital. |
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The Kite Patch is the creation of a collaborative effort between ieCrowd, an innovation venture capital group, and Olfactor Laboratories, a subsidiary of ieCrowd. |
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The firm's partners have been founders and CEOs of successful start-ups, officers of large companies, and have decades of venture capital experience. |
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The key is knowing how to get capital, and African Americans heretofore have not been prominently placed in the technology startup or venture capital arenas. |
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The company is planning to launch the vehicles in collaboration with New Enterprise Associates-backed Cybernaut Investment, a venture capital company. |
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MasterLink Securities, one of Taiwan's most important brokerages, has obtained the green light from Chinese authorities to establish a venture capital firm in Tianjin. |
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At the time, Gould was a Manhattanite fresh off running mobile content for Virgin Mobile USA, interviewing for a position with Bay Area venture capital firms. |
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