Private Equity and Venture Capital is a financing instrument providing equity combined with active management support to small and mid-sized companies not quoted on the stock market Therefore it helps to increase the chances of success in the entrepreneurial arena and enables:

• the start-up, expansion and internationalization of growth-oriented SMEs and therefore the fast application of new research results, as well as the marketing and spread of innovations and the increase in highly qualified workplaces

• restructuring, merging, as well as succession solutions, for mid-sized firms, which results in increased value added and an improvement in the attractiveness of Austria as a place to invest

To get a quick overview please see EVCA's The little book of Private Equity