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Venture capital
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limited partnerships
Financial services; Venture capital
The legal structure used by most venture and private equity funds. Usually fixed life investment vehicles. The general partner or management firm manages the partnership using policy laid down in a ...
full ratchet
Financial services; Venture capital
An investor protection provision which specifies that options and convertible securities may be exercised relative to the lowest price at which securities were issued since the issuance of the option ...
fund of funds
Financial services; Venture capital
Fund of Funds is an investment vehicle designed to invest in a diversified group of investment funds such as a mutual fund that invests in other mutual funds.
privatise
Financial services; Venture capital
The repurchasing of all of a company's outstanding stock by employees or a private investor to stop company from being publicly traded. Sometimes, the company might have to take on significant debt ...
incubator
Financial services; Venture capital
Company or facility designed to foster entrepreneurship and help startup companies, usually technology-related, to grow through the use of shared resources, management expertise and intellectual ...
institutional investors
Financial services; Venture capital
Refers mainly to insurance companies, pension funds and investment companies collecting savings and supplying funds to markets but also to other types of institutional wealth like endowment funds, ...
investment banks
Financial services; Venture capital
Financial intermediary that performs a variety of services which includes underwriting, acting as an intermediary between an issuer of securities and the investing public, facilitating mergers and ...
