FINANCING EARLY STAGE
TECHNOLOGY BASED COMPANIES:
INVESTMENT CRITERIA USED BY INVESTORS
Jagdeep S. Bachher, University of Waterloo
Paul D. Guild, University of Waterloo
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Introduction
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This study sought to advance understanding of the decision making criteria currently used by Canadian equity investors to evaluate early stage technology based companies. Three types of equity investors participated: business angels (BAs, n=20), private venture capitalists (PVCs, n=20) and public venture capital funds (PVCFs, n=20). A total of 95 criteria were derived from previous investment literature and these subsequently received a priori assignment to one of five categories: (1) characteristics of the entrepreneur(s), (2) characteristics of the market, (3) characteristics of the venture offering, (4) investor(s) requirements and (5) characteristics of the investment proposal.
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