Friday, May 11, 2018

How Venture Capital Funding Works

By Gary Hill


Most people have heard of venture capital from movies or from businessmen during their coffee table talks. However, not many people really know what venture capital funding is. For those interested to know more about it, here is a small breakdown about what this type of endeavor is all about.

When one would want to invest ventures, it is very important that he knows what they are about. To be short, venture capital funds are funds wherein a pool of money is collected to be used as funding for the seed capital of the startup business that one wants to invest in. These businesses are very high risk because they have a high chance of failure although they also have high possible returns.

So now that one knows what these companies are, one must know what kind of companies constitute ventures. Basically, ventures are companies that have come up with something groundbreaking and may even change the world with their product or service. Most of the ventures these days are from tech companies that create revolutionary apps or software.

Of course, these types of funds differ from the more common funds such as the mutual fund or the hedge fund. Mutual funds or hedge funds are not very particular where their money goes as long as there is a decent return of investment. Ventures, on the other hand, specifically target the small and revolutionary companies to invest in it and also get a seat in the board of directors.

Now the next thing that one should know is how exactly do investors in this field operate. It was mentioned beforehand that these types of investments are very risky because the idea or concept might just fall flat. This is why capitalists have to use a lot of money management techniques to make sure they do not have losses.

This is why these kinds of capitalists always invest in more than one young startups as they believe that at least one will prevail. And it will only take one to make do since capitalists in this field only invest in extremely high return companies. If one takes off and skyrockets, then the losses from the other investments are covered.

In these types of funds, there may be more than one or two investors depending on how attractive the idea of the young startup is. However, most funds like this would also have a limit, especially if the company will want to start out small first. The fund also charges its investors a fee which will be used for paying salaries of the general or managing partners.

Those are some of the basic things that one will have to take note of if he decides to invest in venture capital. Now, the important thing to take note of here is value investing. This means that every investor has to make sure he studies the idea and implementation well to see if it actually has any value to the consumers or not.




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