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Venture Backed Companies in Fortune 500 (view source)
Revision as of 15:28, 30 March 2016
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==Project Overview==
The goal of Venture Capital is to stimulate growing businesses by providing capital in one capacity or another with the expectation of appreciation. Venture capitalists will invest in whichever businesses they see fit. Not coincidentallyWhile the precise definition of "fit" companies varies by venture capitalist, there are industry-wide trends . Take, for instance, the dot com boom. In that time period, Venture Capital reached an all time high of $27M in 1999 [https://www.statista.com/chart/2732/venture-capital-investments-in VC investment-the-us/]. Like in any other market, just as there are trends in securities exchangesVC investment. Moreover, job marketsthese trends tend to reflect greater movements within the economy (as we saw with the boom in '99-'01, and the decline in the recession). Like in venture capital markets. These , Fortune 500 trends often vary develop by sector, location, and overarching market conditions. Obviously, with the development of technology and advent of internet, tech companies arose in the list. Earlier on, the same was true for the automotive industry
Our goal is to isolate trends in Venture Capital since 1980, and compare those trends to changes in the Fortune 500 over time. Ideally, our report will segment the changes in VC and the F500 into different categories (sector, US location, time period). Additionally, we are keenly interested in finding which (and what kind) of venture-backed businesses have entered the F500 since '80. Doing this analysis will shed some additional light on the primary focus of this project: isolating and comparing trends in Venture Capital and the Fortune 500.
