Venture Capital Financing : Text and Case Studies in Unorganized Environment

Contents: Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction to venture capital financing. 2. Venture capital financing: global scenario. 3. Venture capital financing in India. 4. Venture capital growth in unorganized environment. 5. Potentiality of VCF in unorganized environment. 6. The synthesis. 7. The final word. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

Many studies emphasizing on Impact of human and social capital in Venture Capital Financing (VCF) have carried out in a different socio-eco-political environments, i-e. carried out in countries like UK, USA, Israel, Germany etc. Albeit it seems that a similar circumstances relating to growth and diffusion of human and social capital might prevail under the socio-eco-political environment in India, but evidence followed by a systematic study has been found to be non-existent. Considering this the book has been designed in such a way that it highlights both the text as well as the VCF growth in unorganized environment with case studies of Assam and Karnataka. In order to gain experience of VCF in the state where venture capital financing has experienced success up to global standard, the state of Karnataka has been selected for gaining experience on VCF vis-a-vis the kind of growth and diffusion of human and social Capital there. Karnataka has been selected because of its agrarian economy prior to the IT boom like that of the prevailing economy of Assam which is predominantly agriculture based and rural in nature. The basic objective of this book is to have a comprehensive analysis of meaning and development of VCF in general and also the growth of Venture capital in Assam as a case so as to find out the reasons behind the low growth of Venture capital financing in the unorganized environment. While analyzing the growth pattern of VCF, some of the global as well as Indian experiences have been utilized to draw a meaningful analogy on the subject. The book aims at: 1. To have on overview of growth of VCF in some of the organized environment. Here special emphasis has been given on the growth of VCF in some of the countries of America, Europe and Asia continent. 2. To have an overview of growth of VCF in India. 3. To evaluate the venture capital growth in Assam. The growth for the purpose of this book implies both the mental preparation for VCF and also its physical growth especially in the state of Assam as a case of unorganized environment. This is because mental preparedness supported by certain physical infrastructure manifest as physical growth. While analyzing the growth of venture capital in Assam, a comparison with Karnataka has been carried out with a similar perspective of growth to evaluate the problems and prospects of venture capital in Assam. 4. To evaluate the role of financial institutions in developing venture capital financing in Assam. By doing that the book tries to locate the reasons behind the discernible growth of venture capital financing in Assam as a representative of unorganized environment. At the same time the book also tries to investigate the potential of venture capital financing in Assam.