VC readiness in Bio-entrepreneurship and its challenges

Early years of the modern life sciences industry and respective venture capital financingtransactions date back to the 1791s. Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form offinancing that is provided by firms or funds to small, emerging firms that are deemed tohave high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth. In this article we aregoing to speak about three entrepreneurial finance elements which are: Business Angles(BAs), Venture Capitals (VCs), and Bank loans, with a special attention to the VCs. Acomparison between these three cases will be provided and the emphasize is on VCs. Themost important challenges and risk-taking by VCs will be discussed.

Keywords:

Entrepreneurial finance , Venture Capital , Bio-entrepreneurship , Coinvestment , Trade-off.