The paper deals with the issues of investment of hybrid and public venture capital funds. The results show that hybrid and public venture capital funds in Latvia in most cases are the first investors. Only a smaller part of these investments are investments of the early stages of funding. The...

One of the tools for financing young innovative companies is state-subsidized venture capital funds (VCF). The paper explores the issues of demand for investment and the structure of Latvian state-subsidized VCF investments. We found that of the total number of applications for investment...

Business angels (BAs) are an important source of financing for start-up companies, thus many countries implement different initiatives to support BAs. However, in order to obtain accurate data on the level of BA activity it is necessary to develop tools for measuring it. The existing literature...

Business angels are one of the main sources of financing for innovative start-up companies. In this regard, it has been discussed in the existing literature that policy-makers and stakeholders are in great need for a tool to measure the level and scale of the development of the business angel...

The current article examines the issue of financing the micro-enterprises of Latvia by venture capital funds. It considers the number of applications submitted by enterprises to venture capital funds, the number of investments and the amount of the financing granted to enterprises in general and...

Each country is required to have a clearly formulated and detailed national strategy in the transition period for the purpose of management, stimulation, assessment and funding of innovative technology development process. A range of various funding sources includes private venture capital...

The paper examines the issues of state and development of the informal venture capital (IVC) of Latvia. The results of a questionnaire survey of managers of business angels networks (BAN) are presented in the paper. The research analyses both quantitative and qualitative indicators of the IVC....

The paper deals with the issues of attracting investments into venture capital and private equity funds in Latvia. The aim of the research is to assess changes in the venture capital and private equity industry and evaluate its condition in the post-crisis period. The period of analysis is the...

This study is devoted to a comparative analysis of the level of venture capital funding in Europe. The goal of the study is to identify economic factors, which determine the activity of venture capital in the country. We considered a relationship between a volume of venture capital in a country...

The paper deals with the problems of capital attraction into venture capital funds of Latvia. In the post-crisis period, investor concern towards risks worsened. The attitude of banks to venture projects became more cautious as well. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to identify...