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What is Venture Capital and Private Equity ?

VC – refers to investments in early stage and expanding companies.

PE – is a finance stake in a potentially high growth unquoted company.

Unlikely to recruit recent graduates, but graduates may raise it as a career option. If so :

MBA common requirement

Average age 27-32

Experience preferred from: IB, Accountancy, Consulting or Industry

Languages essential – English, French, German, Italian, Spanish. Why?

These are the countries with the largest funds raised

Venture Capital / Private Equity

• Early stage companies (break-even to $5M EBITDA)
• Equity invest.: up to $10M
• Industry knowledge

(e.g. tech, life-sciences)

• Relationship-building esp. with entrepreneurs

• Growing companies

($20-75M EBITDA)

• Equity invest.: up to $150M
• Sourcing deals
• Deal diligence and execution

• Mature companies (over $75M EBITDA)
• Equity invest.: over $150M
• Deal diligence and execution
• Prior PE experience

Time
Growth Capital
(Expansion Stage)
Buyouts
Venture Capital
(Pioneering Stage)
Growth Capital
EBITDA
Venture Capital
Mid Cap
Large Cap
Investment
Profile
Skills they want

Public / govt. sector

Define and implement monetary policy, manage official reserves, provide financing for development.

In the case of the IMF: prevent economic mistakes (Great Depression and WW II) and tariff wars, but … …

Kal,
The Economist
1997