- B - “B“ Round: A financing event whereby professional investors such as venture capitalists are sufficiently interested in a company to provide addi...
- C - CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate. The year over year growth rate applied to an investment or other aspect of a firm using a base amount. Call O...
- D - Deal Flow: The measure of the number of potential investments that a fund reviews in any given period. Deal Structure: An Agreement made between...
- E - Early Stage: A state of a company that typically has completed its seed stage and has a founding or core senior management team, has proven its ...
- F - Factoring: A procedure in which a firm can sell its accounts receivable invoices to a factoring firm, which pays a percentage of the invoices im...
- G - GAAP: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The common set of accounting principles, standards and procedures. GAAP is a combination of auth...
- H - Harvest: Reaping the benefits of investment in a privately held company by selling the company for cash or stock in a publicly held company, als...
- I - Incubator : An entity designed to nurture business concepts or new technologies to the point that they become attractive to venture capitalists....
- J - J-Curve Effect: The curve realized by plotting the returns generated by a private equity fund against time （from inception to termination）. The ...
- L - Later Stage: A fund investment strategy involving financing for the expansion of a company that is producing, shipping and increasing its sales ...