Venture Capital Firms (Emerging Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the venture capital industry, primarily in the United States. The paper gives a snapshot summary of the emerging industry in the US, with additional sections on its development, organisation and structure, current conditions and leading companies.

Emerging Industry Overview: Venture Capital Firms

Industry Snapshot

With the glossy sheen still coating the dot-com business model, venture capital (VC) firms in the late 1990s achieved enormous returns and were among the primary beneficiaries of the inflated technology bubble of the period. But when the market bottomed out, these companies found themselves with scads of money lost to investments that would never pan out. At one time, the venture capital industry, one of the more glamorous sectors of finance in the late 1990s, cooled in a hurry following the declining technology sector--its bread and butter--in the early 2000s, which...

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