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Private equity and venture capital
Investment types
  • Buyout
    • Leveraged
  • Venture
  • Mezzanine
  • Growth
  • Secondaries
  • Equity co-investment
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History
  • History of private equity and venture capital
  • Early history of private equity
  • Private equity in the 1980s
  • Private equity in the 1990s
  • Private equity in the 2000s
Terms and
concepts
Buyout
  • Financial sponsor
  • Management buyout
  • Divisional buyout
  • Buy–sell agreement
  • Leveraged recapitalization
  • Dividend recapitalization
Venture
  • Angel investor
  • Business incubator
  • Post-money valuation
  • Pre-money valuation
  • SAFE
  • Seed money
  • Startup company
  • Venture capital financing
  • Venture debt
  • Venture round
Structure
  • Private-equity firms and funds
  • Limited partnership
  • Limited liability company
  • Carried interest
  • Management fee
  • Pledge fund
  • Publicly traded private equity
    • Business Development Company
    • Venture capital trust
  • Private investment in public equity (PIPE)
  • SPAC
Investors
  • Corporations
  • Institutional investors
  • Pension funds
  • Insurance companies
  • Fund of funds
  • Endowments
  • Foundations
  • Investment banks
  • Merchant banks
  • Commercial banks
  • High-net-worth individuals
  • Family offices
  • Sovereign wealth funds
  • Crowdfunding
Related
financial terms
  • AUM
  • Cap table
  • Capital call
  • Capital commitment
  • Capital structure
  • Distribution waterfall
  • EBITDA
  • Envy ratio
  • High-yield debt
  • IPO
  • IRR
  • Leverage
  • Liquidation preference
  • M&A
  • PME
  • Taxation of private equity and hedge funds
  • Undercapitalization
  • Vintage year
  • Private equity and venture capital investors
  • Private-equity firms
  • List of private-equity firms
  • Venture capital firms
  • List of venture capital firms
  • Angel investors
  • Portfolio companies
Categories
Categories:
  • Venture capital
  • Private equity firms
  • Alternative investment management companies