Bank recently launched private equity fund with British-Norwegian joint venture to invest in small and midsize companies.
The Skolkovo Foundation will then provide them with some initial cash and hope that venture capitalists invest in them.
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Because it takes several years for the companies in which venture capitalists invest to exit, the number of exits is best measured against the number of companies backed several years earlier.
U.S.-based venture capitalists invest 20% of their money overseas.
Or invest the money in venture funds that can invest in new biotech or other companies that might become the next Groupon.
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First, venture capital funds invest in young, entrepreneurial companies, frequently focusing on new technologies.
Psilos is part of a small group of venture capitalists who invest in health IT.
So in 2010 he decided to start his own business, Global Digital Prima Venture, to invest in Internet companies.
For another, 60% of the companies venture capital firms invest in fail anyway.
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If a venture capitalist could invest in a High II company, that sounded to me like it would be great.
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Venture firms traditionally invest in young, closely held companies and nurture them over time to a sale or an initial public offering.
Dius is also considering proposals to create two funds to encourage venture capitalists to invest in small high-tech companies by matching their investment with public funding.
Women 2.0 will begin profiling women (from angel investors to venture capitalists) who invest in women.
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Six years ago, Mike Arrington announced CrunchBase, a free, web-based database about startups and the venture capital firms that invest in them.
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Among his savvy moves: establishing venture capital vehicles to invest in hot private tech companies like Facebook well ahead of their initial public offering.
Venture capital funds typically invest after angels, when a business is more proven and needs bigger dollars to build out its product and scale its operations.
The programme sees entrepreneurs pitch for investment in the Den from the Dragons - five venture capitalists willing to invest their own money in exchange for equity.
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An additional benefit of Astia is that it can help syndicate a much larger round of financing through connections to other angel groups and venture capital companies that invest in early-stage companies.
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In conclusion, pensions that invest in venture capital funds should begin asking the same difficult questions of these funds that they would ask of a public company or registered investment adviser with which they invest.
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Great New York Times article on Vinod Khosla and his plans to start a venture capital fund to invest in companies that confront poverty in India, Africa and elsewhere by providing services like health, energy and education.
According to sources, when AOL chairman Tim Armstrong said it was acceptable for Arrington to continue to work for TechCrunch while starting a new venture capital fund to invest in tech companies, Huffington took it as an intolerable incursion into her territory.
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Like other private equity and venture capital firms, they invest in some companies that fail.
The venture capital firm plans to invest in and support five to eight entrepreneurs at the intersection of food, health, and technology.
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Once a pension has made the decision to invest in a venture fund, it typically is locked in for an average of ten years.
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By buying the property at a fraction of its replacement cost, the KKR venture will have capital to invest in building space for new tenants.
Ng, who is now an Asia-based managing director of Silicon Valley's Granite Global Ventures, says the venture capital firm expects to invest more money in China in the next few years.
Recently another class has started to emerge, in which the state plays the role of a venture capitalist: local governments invest in or create funds that back companies that they hope will bring both jobs and financial returns.
Others say they might invest in an Internet venture and its stock shoots up.
In return, they give Fusenet the right of first refusal to invest in any commercial venture that results from the innovation.
Many venture capitalists say they love to invest in CEOs who are single, have no life, live off ramen, and have no passions but their company.
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