{"id":2357,"date":"2021-08-22T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2021-08-22T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T18:16:09","slug":"venture-capitalists-ready-to-support-high-growth-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/venture-capitalists-ready-to-support-high-growth-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture capitalists ready to support high-growth businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following article was published in\u00a0ICAEW Insights on 13 August 2021:<\/p>\n

Dr Keith Arundale, Senior Visiting Fellow at the International Capital Market Association Centre and Non-Executive Director of Henley Business Angels, considers the prospects for venture capital firms<\/p>\n

Like other sectors of the economy, the pandemic \u201creally shook everybody\u201d in the venture capital industry and \u201ca lot of the fundraising and investing stopped,\u201d says Dr Keith Arundale.<\/p>\n

Venture capital<\/span><\/a> firms were focusing on their existing portfolios, making sure that they were adequately financed, and not so much looking at new deals unless they had already started the due diligence.<\/p>\n

But firms got used to the virtual working world of Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Despite venture capital being a relationship business, they adapted, even doing the due diligence virtually \u2013 although a physical meeting at least once at the start is a prerequisite, he cautions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings really picked up in the second half of 2020 and it ended up actually being a very good year for venture capital,\u201d Arundale says.<\/p>\n

The article continues at: https:\/\/www.icaew.com\/insights\/viewpoints-on-the-news\/2021\/aug-2021\/Venture-capitalists-ready-to-support-highgrowth-businesses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The following article was published in\u00a0ICAEW Insights on 13 August 2021: Dr Keith Arundale, Senior Visiting Fellow at the International Capital Market Association Centre and Non-Executive Director of Henley Business Angels, considers the prospects for venture capital firms Like other sectors of the economy, the pandemic \u201creally shook everybody\u201d in the venture capital industry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}