LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global venture capital investment market 2016-2020 report. This research report also lists five other prominent vendors that are expected to impact the market during the forecast period.
Competitive vendor landscape
Venture capital is a source of financing for new businesses that have limited operating history and are unable to raise capital through debt issuance. It is a form of private equity involving financing provided to small and early stages of firms with high growth potential or those already showing high growth rate. In return, venture capitalists receive an ownership stake in the invested company. Most start-ups are usually from hi-tech industries such as IT and biotechnology. Mostly, the venture capital comes from investment banks, wealthy investors, and other financial institutions that pool such investments.
Venture capitalists have started investing in healthcare robotics and defense drone manufacturing companies in response to high demand in these sectors. In 2015, more than USD 108 million was invested in nascent drone industries across start-ups and companies such as Airware, 3D Robotics, Skycatch, and CYPHY. Currently, the commercial sector is investing significantly in robotics. Google acquired robotics companies such as Schaft, Industrial Perception, and Meka Robotics; Amazon acquired Kiva Systems in 2014 for USD 775 million and renamed it Amazon Robotics; and Qualcomm with its Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator program plans to provide USD 120,000 seed investment each to ten new start-ups.
“For venture capital firms to make solid investments at the later stage, it is necessary for investors to do a competitive analysis between different companies by judging their financial performance such as earnings before interest and tax (EBIT), working capital, or cash flow statement. This is a prerequisite for investors to make the right decisions and for managers of start-up firms to lead a business unit in the right direction,” says Amit Sharma, a lead research analyst at Technavio.
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Key Vendors:
Benchmark Capital
Benchmark Capital is a venture capital company that has experience in start-up, seed, mid-venture, early stage, emerging growth, late venture, along with growth capital investment. The company seeks to invest in companies that are based in the US and Europe, with a focus on the West Coast that includes California and New York along with strong investments in Israel.
Benchmark Capital is also focused on investing in new and technologically advanced sectors in the fields of communications and security, enterprise software and services, social and cloud computing, semiconductors, financial services, mobiles, consumer services, Internet retail, infrastructure, and online services, along with optical devices and systems software.
First Round Capital
First Round Capital is a venture capitalist with expertise in offering seed-stage funding to various technology companies. The company is focused on offering various products and services that help founders to build better companies from the early stage. It has its offices in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York in the US.
The company plans on making strategic investments in innovative and technological start-ups across the US market and is also looking to focus on expanding its presence in new regions and markets.
Lowercase Capital
Lowercase Capital is focused on investing in new start-ups, advising businesses, acquiring, and funding later stage companies of various sizes on execution and strategy. The company is currently making strategic investments in innovative start-ups across the US markets.
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a major venture capitalist and private equity company with expertise in start-up, incubation, early stage, seed funding, mid and late ventures, emerging growth, and private investment in public equity (PIPE) investments in public and private companies.
The company is focused on investing in various sectors focusing on financial services, energy, Internet and mobile, healthcare, technology, and outsourcing. It also invests in companies that are based in the US for seed and early stage funding. It provides investments for companies located in China, India, California, Europe, and Israel, along with South America.
Union Square Ventures
Union Square Ventures is a major venture capital and equity firm that has expertise in growth capital, early and late stage, and start-up financing. It also invests in the Internet sector that focuses on the applications layer of the web, web services, and Internet services that create large networks along with the mobile sector.
The firm also channels its investments to companies that use IT for creating high-growth business opportunities in the financial services, media, telecommunications, marketing, and healthcare industries focusing on IT-enabled services. The company plans on making strategic investments in innovative and sustainable start-ups worldwide.
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Technavio analysts employ primary as well as secondary research techniques to ascertain the size and vendor landscape in a range of markets. Analysts obtain information using a combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches, besides using in-house market modeling tools and proprietary databases. They corroborate this data with the data obtained from various market participants and stakeholders across the value chain, including vendors, service providers, distributors, re-sellers, and end-users.
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