Venture Capital
Vanacker, Tom Manigart, Sophie
Vanacker, Tom
Manigart, Sophie
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2013-03-18
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Alternative Investments
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241
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262
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This chapter introduces venture capital, which is a subset of the private equity asset class that focuses on investments in new or growing privately held companies with high growth potential. It specifically addresses why venture capital investors exist beside traditional financial intermediaries such as banks; what the different venture capital models are; what venture capitalists do; how venture capital investors influence the development of their portfolio companies; and how venture capital as an asset class may create value for investors. For this purpose, the chapter relies on an extensive and growing, but largely fragmented, stream of research on venture capital from the finance, entrepreneurship, and management fields.
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3801 Applied Economics, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 38 Economics, 3502 Banking, Finance and Investment, 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour