ROP addresses these issues by treating capital investments like financial options. Outside of the oil industry, it mainly occupied the attention of academic financial economists until the early 1990s when Paul Henderson of Boston University first...
The fund will be managed by UK-based venture capital specialist, Quester, and is expected to make between eight and 12 investments in the next ten years. Simon Acland, director of Quester, said: "Initially, we will invest around £1m and £1.5m per...
Intel Capital has begun to operate in Russia and has placed its first investments there. Intel Capital currently has investments in approximately 475 companies. The company will make investments in companies in both Russia and Ukraine.
Before Intel set up its specific home fund, the company had made four investments from its general capital fund. The chipmaker never reveals the size of its investments but a spokesman helpfully said that its typical investments were for sums...
Only this time around the start-ups that result may well avoid the modern plagues by outsourcing and automating all the functions they need. Curiously it would appear that companies with automated plants, and the most advanced societies with huge...
Venture capital investments in US businesses are on the rise, as they are in the UK and the rest of Europe. Software maintained its place as the most popular sector to invest in, with $1.2bn worth of investments, more than the previous quarter.