THE ANALYSIS OF VENTURE COMPANIES’ RATIONAL INVESTMENT DECISIONS BY VALUE CRITERIUM

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to investigate the methodological tools for analyzing the rationality of investment decisions of venture capital companies by value criterion. Based on this goal, the state of development of venture business with participation of the corporate market in global venture agreements, global venture financing, the size of the global median of venture financing agreements in the stages of implementation of innovative entrepreneurial idea was analyzed. The result of the article was the systematization of the theoretical and methodological tools for the analysis of the rationality of investment decisions of venture companies by the criterion of value. The main criterion for the rationality of investment decisions is the possibility of return on investment in the future. Therefore, most of the world’s venture capital firms are pursuing an absolute and relative return on investment. The most successful are investments with a threefold increase in the value of repaid capital. However, they usually take up a small proportion of such investment decisions (up to 5%). The rest balance at the limit of zero. Considering the state of development of venture business, the theoretical and methodological toolkit to substantiate investment decisions that can be based on the analysis of their rationality for venture capital companies on the criterion of value and some indicators of evaluating the effectiveness of venture financing research allowed to make the following general conclusions in the following: allows to increase its value in the future; rational investment models take into account two main criteria: profitability and riskiness; there are no clearly stated factors that determine the value of a venture capital firm; all models have some limitations and difficulties in their practical application.