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Thursday 10 May 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.

The first thing to do is to define what this type of investment is. In a nutshell, it is a type of fund that holds money used for startup companies or small ones that have very high growth potential. These companies are unique to most because they have a high risk attached to them but they also have possible high returns if they become successful.

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.

For those who are beginners in investing, they may think that these types of funds are actually like hedge funds or mutual funds. While they do have similarities, ventures are different in a sense that they are specific to young startup or small companies that need funding for an idea to work. Also, the majority of the investors of ventures become a part of the board.

Now that one has an idea about what ventures are, it is important to also know how the investors operate. As mentioned above, these types of investments are very high risk as the idea or concept that the investors fund might not make it big. In a way, these capitalists are actually taking a gamble about whether or not a certain idea will work out or not.

Now, although these companies have a very high possible rate of return, they also have a high risk of closing down if the idea fails. This is why capitalists usually invest their money into more than one young startup. If at least one of them jump starts, the return of investment will be able to cover the losses of other investments.

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.

If one would want to invest in a venture capital fund, then these are some of the things to know of. Before one would go into this endeavor, he has to make sure to study the idea or concept very well first to see its feasibility. He also has to check the implementation to see if the implementation is also feasible, otherwise his money will be taken for a ride.




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