- 401(K) Plan
- A Round
- Accredited Investor
- Accrued Interest
- Acquisition
- Acquisition for Expansion Financing
- Acronyms
- ACRS: Accelerated Cost Recovery System
- Adjustment Condition
- ADR: American Depositary Receipt (ADR's)
- Advisory Board
- Agent
- AIV
- Allocation
- Alternative Assets
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
- Amortization
- AMT: Alternative Minimum Tax
- Angel Financing
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- Annexe fund
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- Average Company Financing
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- B Round
- Balance Sheet
- Balanced Fund
- Bankruptcy
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- Bear Hug
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- Best Efforts
- Blue Sky Laws
- Book Value
- Bootstrapping
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- Broad-Based Weighted Average Ratchet
- Brokers
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- Capitalization Table
- Capitalize
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- Contributions
- Conversion Ratio
- Conversion Rights
- Convertible Security
- Corporate Charter
- Corporate Fund
- Corporate Venturing
- Corporation
- Covenant
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- Cumulative Dividends
- Cumulative Preferred Stock
- Cumulative Voting Rights
- Current Period
- Deal
- Deal Flow
- Deal Structure
- Deemed Management Fee
- Deficiency Letter
- Demand Rights
- Depreciation
- Dilution
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- Director
- Disbursement
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- Distressed debt
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- Distributed to Paid in (DPI)
- Distributions
- Diversification
- Divestiture Financing
- Dividend
- Dollar Value Add
- Dollar-weighted (returns)
- Down Round
- Drag-Along Rights
- Drawndown Capital
- Due Diligence
- Early Stage
- Early Stage Financing
- Early Stages of Development
- Earn out
- EBITDA
- Economies of Scale
- Elevator Pitch
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- Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
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- Enterprise Value
- Equity
- Equity Kicker
- ERISA
- ERISA Significant Participation Test
- Event Transaction
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- Exercise Price
- Exit Mechanism
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- Expansion Financing
- Factoring
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- Final Regulation
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- Finder
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- Forced Buyback
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- Form 10-K
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- Formation Date
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- Fully Diluted Outstanding Shares
- Fund
- Fund Age
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- Fund Focus
- Fund Manager
- Fund of Funds
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- Fund-raising
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- GAAP
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- Government Fund
- Gross IRR
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- Harvest
- Headquarters
- Hockey Stick Projections
- Holding Company
- Holding Period
- Hot Issue
- Hurdle
- Hurdle Rate
- Incubator
- Informal Investor
- Information Rights
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- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Institutional Investor
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- Intellectual Property
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- Invested Capital
- Investment
- Investment Bankers
- Investment Company Act of 1940
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- Investment Multiple
- Investor Types
- IRA Rollover
- IRR
- ISO
- Issue Price
- Issued Shares
- Issuer
- J-Curve Effect
- Key Employees
- Key Person Clause
- Labour-sponsored Venture Capital Corporation (LSVCC)
- Late Stage Financing
- Late Stages of Development
- Lead Investor
- Lemon
- Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
- Lifestyle firms
- Limited Partner
- Limited Partner Clawback
- Limited Partnership Agreement (LPA)
- Limited Partnership (LP)
- Liquidation
- Liquidation Preference
- Liquidity
- Liquidity Event
- LLC - Limited Liability Company
- Lock-up Period
- Lower Quartile
- Management Buyout Financing
- Management Company
- Management Fee
- Management Fees Offsets
- Management Team
- Mandatory Redemption
- Market Capitalization
- Market Standoff Agreement
- Merchant Banking
- Merger
- Mezzanine Capital
- Mezzanine Financing
- Middle Market
- Middle-Market Firms
- Mutual Fund
- Narrow-Based Weighted Average Ratchet
- NASD
- NASDAQ
- NDA (Non-disclosure agreement)
- Net Asset Value (NAV)
- Net Financing Cost
- Net IRR
- Net Management Fee
- Net Present Value
- New Investment
- New Issue
- Newco
- No-Fault Divorce
- No Shop, No Solicitation Clauses
- Non-accredited
- Non-Compete Clause
- NYSE
- Offering Memorandum
- Offering Size
- Open-end Fund
- Option Pool
- Original Issue Discount (OID)
- Outstanding Stock
- Over-the-Counter (OTC)
- Overhang
- Oversubscription
- Oversubscription Privilege
- Paid-in Capital
- Paid-in to Capital Committed (PICC)
- Pari Passu
- Participating Preferred
- Participation
- Partnership
- Partnership Agreement
- Partnership Expenses
- Pay to Play
- Payback Period
- Penny Stocks
- Piggyback Registration
- PIK Debt Securities
- Placement Agent
- Plain English Handbook
- Plum
- Poison Pill
- Pooled Investment Vehicle (PIV)
- Pooled IRR
- Portfolio Company
- Post-Money Valuation
- Potential Clawback Value
- Pre-Money Valuation
- Preemptive Right
- Preference Shares
- Preferred Dividend
- Preferred Investment Range
- Preferred Return (AKA Hurdle Rate)
- Preferred Stock
- Private Equity
- Private Equity Industry Guidelines Group (PEIGG)
- Private-Independent Fund
- Private Investment In Public Equities (PIPES)
- Private Investment In Public Equity (PIPE)
- Private Placement
- Private Placement Memorandum
- Private Securities
- Prospectus
- Provincial Venture Capital Corporation (PVCC)
- Put Option
- QPAM
- Ratchet
- Re-capitalization Financing
- Realized Investment
- Realized Proceeds
- Recallable
- Recapitalization
- Reconfirmation
- Red Herring
- Redeemable Preferred Stock
- Redemption
- Registration
- Registration Rights
- Regulation A
- Regulation C
- Regulation D
- Regulation S
- Regulation S-B
- Regulation S-K
- Regulation S-X
- Reorganization or Corporate Reorganization
- Reported/Remaining Value
- Residual Value to Paid In (RVPI)
- Restricted Securities
- Restricted Shares
- Restructuring/ Turnaround Financing
- Retail Fund
- Return
- Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
- Revlon Duties
- Right of First Refusal
- Rights Offering
- Risk
- RTO
- Rule 144
- Rule 144A
- Rule 147
- Rule 501
- Rule 504
- Rule 505
- S Corporation
- SBIC
- SBIR
- Secondary Market
- Secondary Purchase
- Secondary Sale
- Securities Act of 1933
- Securities Act of 1934
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Seed Financing
- Seed Money
- Seed Stage Financing
- Senior Securities
- Series A Preferred Stock
- Shell Corporation
- Since Inception
- Size of Financings
- Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982
- Special Purpose Vehicle
- Specialized Fund
- Spin Out
- Stages of Development
- Start-up Financing
- Statutory Voting
- Stock Options
- Strategic Investors
- Subordinated Debt
- Subscription Agreement
- Succession Plan
- Sweat Equity
- Syndicate
- Syndication
- Tag-Along Rights / Rights of Co-Sale
- Takedown Schedule
- Target Multiples
- Tax-free Reorganizations
- Tender Offer
- Term Sheet
- Termination Date
- Time Value of Money
- Time-weighted (returns)
- Total Enterprise Value (TEV)
- Total Invested/Invested Capital
- Total Return
- Total Value
- Total Value to Paid In (TVPI)
- Trade Sale
- Tranche
- Treasury Stock
- UBTI
- ULPA
- Unfunded Commitment
- Unrealized Investment
- Upper Quartile
- Valuation
- Valuation Policy
- Venture Capital
- Venture Capital Financing
- Venture Capital Operating Company (VCOC)
- Venture Capitalist
- Vesting Schedules
- Vintage Year
- Vintage Year Returns
- Voluntary Redemption
- Voting Right
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- Weighted Average Anti-dilution
- Williams Act of 1968
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