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Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment
Cupák, Patrik ; Sato, Alexej (advisor) ; Černohlávková, Eva (referee) ; Baláž, Peter (referee) ; Kursová, Petra (referee)
This doctoral thesis is focused on the most progressive part of alternative financing for small business nowadays, on Private Equity and Venture Capital. Despite its undeniable importance, compared to the more traditional ways of collecting financial resources for further business development, only very little research has been done in this area from the point of view of economics sciences. The recent world financial crisis has only served to highlight the importance of Private Equity. However, the theory is still unable to provide answers to many questions raised by practice. In view of that, the main aim of the thesis is to provide detailed description of the field, examine the current trends in Private Equity investment and introduce Private Equity as one of the most perspective systems of business activity financing. The thesis is divided into three main parts. The definition of financial market, its functioning as well as the main agents are included in the first part of the dissertation. The second part deals with the comparison between the EU and its new member states represented by the region of Central and Eastern Europe, and also examines the factors that have been influencing Private Equity development in the last four years and their mutual interdependencies. In the third part, the original valuation model measuring total returns of Private Equity investments is developed. In his dissertation, the author tests the following hypotheses: 1. Private Equity can be considered as one of the most risky investments among all. Total return from PE is well above the average of any other forms of investment. 2. The total amount of Private Equity investments in CEE region is growing steadily. The largest part of this investment is constituted by Buy-outs. Both tested hypotheses are confirmed. This doctoral thesis of Patrik Cupak provides a detailed analysis of Private Equity investments development. The main contribution of the dissertation is the fact that it represents the first analysis comparing the actual situation in Private Equity investments in European and CEE region of this type. The thesis also has significant theoretical and practical contributions due to its wide content and original analysis in this field. Its findings can be thus used in both, practice as well as the academic field.
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Investment
Bártík, Jan ; Zadražilová, Dana (advisor) ; Kursová, Eva (referee)
The thesis deals with venture capital and private equity from investor's point of view first. There are presented different types of investors, management companies and funds and the relation among these subjects. Venture capital and private equity is an alternative to finance business activities from the entrepreneurial perspective and this paper provides profile of an appropriate company and explains the relation between the investment fund and the company. The analytical part focuses on investment activity in the Czech Republic and the findings about level and structure are analysed with regard to selected factors from business and investment environment.
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Risk capital in entrepreneurship
Ježková, Slávka ; Sato, Alexej (advisor) ; Beníček, Milan (referee)
The diploma thesis describes and defines in theoretical part the entire venture capital system, analyzes the individual elements and inner flows. The thesis contains chapters where the reader can meet the term of venture capital, its history and specifics, and various possible types of investment, subjects at venture capital maktet and the investment process. The second part of the thesis focuses on the issues of the venture capital market in Central and Eastern Europe and in detail in the Czech Republic with particular accent on the last period and the changes caused by the financial crisis and includes the limiting factors for the development of this market.
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Private Equity financing in the Czech Republic
Quittek, Radim ; Valach, Josef (advisor) ; Krabec, Tomáš (referee)
Diploma thesis aims to describe the current state of the Private Equity financing in the Czech Republic. This issue is viewed from two angles. The first part is devoted to macro-economic assessment of the current state of Private Equity in the Czech Republic. It aims to describe the current situation, compare it to economies with a developed private equity market and to draw recommendations that will lead to further development of private equity in our country. The focus of the second part is to characterize the Private Equity market from a microeconomic perspective. It aims to describe the functioning of the Private Equity market at the level of individual entities, the business model and analyze and compare the investment strategies of General Partners operating in the Czech Republic.
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Private equity investments in the Czech Republic
Procházka, Adam ; Marek, Petr (advisor) ; Podškubka, Tomáš (referee)
Private equity investments belong to alternative investments. They are based on investing into non-public firms. Private equity can be devided in two groups. In the first case starting and expanding companies are being sought(venture capital), the second choice consists of buying established companies(private equity in closer). In both cases the necessary assumption is a high potential of the particular company so the investor can re-sell the business in few years for profit. As will be shown on five different investment cases from Czech environment, high returns on capital are compensated by high risk -- particularly by low liquidity and by a threat of wrong market estimation.
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Private Equity and Venture Capital as instruments of business financing
Zvárová, Petra ; Machková, Hana (advisor) ; Sato, Alexej (referee)
The objective of this diploma thesis is to introduce the sector of Private Equity and Venture Capital which is aimed to finance perspective companies that are not publicly traded. The first chapter presents the development of sector and main featuring players on the market. The second chapter explains phases of the investment process. The topic of the third chapter is analysis of the sector in terms of development trends and comparisom of particular types of investment as well as comparison of the main markets which are the USA and Europe. The goal of the last chapter is to present and analyze the Alternative Investment Market in London as a new market for the venture capital backed companies.
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Key performance indicators of private equity
Beran, Marek ; Krabec, Tomáš (advisor) ; Fous, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis aims to identify key performance indicators of private equity. At the beginning of the paper are defined both parts of private equity, criterias of each part and relationships among market participants. It is then outlined the history of the two main parts. In the next step is introduced global development with emphasis on the last 30 years. A larger space is then devoted to Europe, which will subsequently be a pivotal part of the work. Following this section is indicated methodology. In the next section is defined 7 countries, which are subsequently subjected to research. The fourth chapter is an empirical survey of individual States, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, Romania, Singapore and France, where are mentioned results of evaluated factors and also the defending of values. The last, fifth, is itself part of the evaluation and comments on results achieved.
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Venture capital funds in the Czech Republic
HUBENÁ, Jana
The diploma thesis is divided in two main parts. In the first part the thesis describes the concept of venture capital, it provides venture capital concept definition and clarifies possibilities of utilisation of venture capital. The work shows creating funds, gives definition of a founder, funds rules and their priorities, ways of checking investments and the process of the final phase, i.e. evaluation. Kind of venture capital investment, investment process length, quantity of provided tools and investment risk are very important points in this dissertation, too. The second part of the thesis tries to find out more on venture capital funds, which are regular members of CVCA, i.e. Argus Capital Group Limited, Genesis Capital, KBC Private Equity, Enterprise Investors, Advent International and 3TS Capital Partners.
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Comparison of different forms of corporate financing
ŠEDIVÝ, Petr
This Bachelor thesis is focused on comparison of the various forms of corporate financing activities and selection of appropriate forms for a particular situation. In the theoretical part are describe the methods of financing such as loans, leasing, bond, factoring, forfaiting, venture capital, project finance, partnerships for research and development limited. Int the practical part is solved the problem of financing concrete company.
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