Venture Capital Funds in Emerging Markets : Lessons from IFC's Investments

Venture capital funds pool and manage money from investors seeking private equity stakes in small and medium-size enterprises with strong growth potential. These investments tend to be long term, and the industry is relatively new in emerging marke...

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Main Authors: Barger, Teresa, Carter, Laurence, Kuczynski, Irving
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1996/09/693099/venture-capital-funds-emerging-markets-lessons-ifcs-investments
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11611
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Summary:Venture capital funds pool and manage money from investors seeking private equity stakes in small and medium-size enterprises with strong growth potential. These investments tend to be long term, and the industry is relatively new in emerging markets. So only very recently has it been possible to draw some conclusions about the performance of these funds. The authors outline some of the lessons from IFC's portfolio.