Start up companies with a potential to grow need a certain amount of investment. Wealthy investors like to invest their capital in such businesses with a long-term growth perspective. This capital is known as venture capital and the investors are called venture capitalists.
Venture can be defined as a prospective project converted into a process with an adequate assumed risk and investment. For example the start-ups which are initiated with a predefined course of action contemplated by the thought process of goal driven idea of innovative technology or business model.
Capital is the fuel required to illuminate a venture towards the goal i.e the finance or money required to materialise a goal.
Venture capital is a type of private equity or a form of financing that is provided by firms to emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential. Venture capitalists normally focuses on the new companies with limited business operation history that are too small to raise capital in the public markets and have not reached the point where they are able to secure a bank loan or complete a debt offering.
Some Venture Capital firms which have gained momentum to the start-ups are mentioned below.
- Kalaari capital: funded projects like Myntra, zivame, snapdeal, scoopwhoop etc
- Accel Partners: funded projects like book my show, taxiForSure, Urban clap etc
- Tiger Global Management: funded start-ups like delhivery, hike, ola etc and also invested in some of the biggest established companies like Apple, Google, and linkdln.
- Sequoia Capital: start-ups funded like mobikwik, oyo rooms, zomato, groupon india etc
- Saif partners : start-ups funded like swiggy, toppr, chef’s basket etc
- IDG Ventures India: start-ups funded like yatra, lenskart, FirstCry, silver push etc
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