From Idea to IPO

Venture-Net Partners specialize in private equity offerings for start-up and other early-stage ventures.

Our Mission

Our mission is to facilitate the capitalization and development of viable business opportunities from start-up through a successful initial public offering or acquisition by a publicly-traded company.

Our Market

Following the election of the least market liberal president in U.S. history, venture capital activity plummeted to $19.5 billion in 2009, a 32 percent decline from 2008 and the lowest annual total since 1997.

Although a very difficult two-year period saw an overtly anti-capitalist executive branch coupled with one party control of both chambers of Congress, neither cap and trade nor union card check nor a single payer healthcare system materialized.

Investors responded to this less than worse case scenario with a 19 percent increase in venture capital activity. Funds invested in 2010 totaled $23.3 billion, on par with the post-Internet bubble slump of 2002 to 2005.

With the November 2010 election of the most Republican-dominated House of Representatives since 1946, the pace of VC activity has accelerated. Total investments for 2011 exceeded $28.4 billion, very near the levels seen prior to the 2008 election.

Our Point-of-View

Although this is a challenging market, availability of capital is not the problem. In terms of dollars invested on an annual basis, the VC industry is still more than double what it was just 15 years ago. The challenge lies in developing a credible and attractive offering and then selling the deal.

"The explorers of the modern era are the entrepreneurs, men with vision, with the courage to take risks and faith enough to brave the unknown. These entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. They are the prime movers of the technological revolution."

– President Ronald Reagan addressing faculty and students at Moscow State University (1988)