Middle Market Deals and how to buy, sell and raise capital from $5 to $500 million

Venture Capital:  venture capital refers to a subset of the private equity market focused on investing in growing businesses, typically receiving minority interests in their portfolio companies.

The venture capital market can be segmented across a spectrum of stages of development of their portfolio companies and separately across industries.  Most funds specialize in helping companies at a specific stage of their development, ranging from seed stage to late growth stages.  Similarly, venture funds typically focus on a narrow range of industries, like information technology and communications or proteomics and genomics.  Most funds have the flexibility to invest outside their area of focus, but rarely do so.

Some of the largest and most well recognized funds include Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins.