It has already dried up venture capital financing for new drug and medical device startups.
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Invests in publicly traded companies when they emerge from venture capital financing.
According to Dow Jones Venture Source, of the companies that received a round of venture capital financing in 2010, only 6% had a female CEO, and just 7% percent had at least one female founder.
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Henriquez is a 25-year veteran of the venture capital and financing community.
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And they're scheming to keep the taxman at bay earlier, long in advance of their initial public offerings, even at the venture-capital financing stage.
Orix, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1998 and whose shareholder base is more than 50% outside Japan, also operates in investment banking, life insurance, venture capital and in the financing of real-estate development.
Perhaps leading venture-capital firms will return to financing baby start-ups, which they long ago abandoned.
Stangler estimates that between 1% and 3% of the financing for start-ups comes from venture capital firms.
The analysis includes 2907 therapeutics companies that raised venture capital dollars between 2000-2010 across 5100 rounds of financing.
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Silicon Valley-style venture capital emerged during the 1970s, as did venture debt, better (and unfortunately) known as junk bond financing.
Startups that offer this type of financing models have also grown quickly and attracted venture capital investments.
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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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The OECD found that increased government loan guarantees and venture capital and equity funding were the most common government responses to the financing gap.
Unlike a bank loan or other types of debt financing, equity capital (whether it's an angel investment or venture capital) gives someone else an ownership interest in your company.
The financing round was led by Egan-Managed Capital, and also included Kodiak Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures and Star Ventures Management.
The venture capital system and angel investors are right for some kinds of new businesses, but what about start-up financing for the rest of us?
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