by: Nibhapan Poonsatiansup CFP®, independent financial planner, writer and lecturer
At present, capital investment is widely acknowledged. Startup investment is, accordingly, interesting. This article will give you more idea of startup investment.
Prior to startup investment we should no more about Startup investor, who are:
- Angel Investor - the independent investor, focusing for the startup value by firstly seeding investment with his/her own money. The added “Angel” is to identify them as “Angel of Startup”.
ส่วนใหญ่ Angel Investor จะเป็นบุคคลทั่วไปที่ใช้เงินทุนของตนเอง และมีทุนไม่สูงนัก เมื่อเทียบกับสถาบันการเงิน หรือ Venture Capital
Mainly, an angel investor is anyone among investors who are not of high capital – comparing to the Venture Capital (VC)
- Venture Capital (VC) is the joint investment with a company, as which a person who’d like to have his/her own company, without sufficient capital – asking friends, relatives or other investors to jointly invest as shareholders who’ll be entitled for profits sharing based on certain shareholding.
Venture Capital is the Private Equity Capital (one of the non-registered investment in the stock market) at the beginning and growing period (outside the stock market). Generally, it is of stock buying in cash. Venture Capital is, thus, of rather high risk as well as of high returning.
Mainly, the VC investors do not stay with any one company throughout. After 3-5 years, or 10 years for the longest period, they would then withdraw their shares, since they are expecting for registration in the stock market where share selling would yield a higher return – comparing to the other assets investment.