How private investing works: funding rounds, valuation, risks and deal mechanics — explained apart from the news cycle.
What is venture investment in simple words Venture capital investments are investments in companies that are in early or mid growth stages and have not yet gone public. Most often we are talking about technology busin...
A secondary market, or secondary market, is a market in which an investor buys an asset not from the issuer or fund itself, but from another investor. To simplify, in the primary market money enters the transaction di...
An IPO is the initial public offering of a company's shares on a stock exchange. Simply put, it's the moment when a private business first opens access to its shares to a wide range of investors. Before an IPO, the co...
Pre-IPO is an investment in a private company shortly before its potential stock market listing. Simply put, an investor buys a stake prior to the public offering, expecting that with further business growth and a suc...
Investments in Pre IPO companies attract private investors with the opportunity to enter a strong business before going public. The logic is clear: if a company continues to grow and then IPOs at a higher valuation, a...
A venture capital deal is an investment in a private company that has not yet entered the public market and is usually in an active growth stage. Unlike buying shares on an exchange, here the investor does not enter i...
Venture investments almost always attract investors with the promise of asymmetric returns: one strong company can offset weak deals and deliver significant portfolio growth. But precisely because of this asymmetry, v...
Liquidity in private markets is not an abstract technical term, but one of the key factors determining an investor's comfort and risk level. When a person enters public stocks, they usually proceed from the idea that ...
Alternative investments are assets beyond public stocks and bonds: private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, and other niches. They are valued for diversification and access to returns unavailable ...
High risk assets can provide strong returns, but only if they occupy a small and meaningful portion of the portfolio. The problem is usually not the risk itself, but the fact that it is taken too much and without a pl...
Direct listing is an entry to the stock exchange without the classic placement of new shares. The company does not raise additional capital, but simply makes existing securities available to the market. For an investo...
A SPAC is a shell company that raises capital for a future deal with a real business. Unlike a classic IPO, here first there is an instrument, and only then the target asset appears. For an investor, a SPAC may look l...
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