- Venture capital has its origins in the 1940s when Georges Doriot founded AR&D, considered the first VC fund, which had an investment in Digital Equipment Corporation that returned over 5000x.
- In the 1950s-60s, entrepreneurs from Harvard Business School like Arthur Rock and Bill Draper went on to establish prominent VC firms and helped fuel innovation in Silicon Valley.
- Venture capital has grown to be a large industry concentrated in the US, with IT being the dominant sector and periods of boom and bust driven by economic cycles. Recent trends include the rise of micro VC funds alongside traditional large firms.
2. WHO AM I TO SPEAK ?
? HEC graduate (last millenium)
? Entrepreneur…
- Chateauonline
- Netboussole
- Samaris
? …Turned VC (dark side of the force)
- Saeed Amidi (Amidzad partner / plug&play tech center)
- Paris Business Angels
- ISAI
CONTACT : r a y n a u d @ i s a i . Fr / @chraynaud
3. WHAT WILL I BE TALKING ABOUT ?
? What is Venture Capital History ?
? What is an investment thesis ? What’s ISAI’s ?
? How do VC/ISAI source/screen opportunities ?
? What makes a great founder ?
8. FATHER OF VENTURE CAPITAL
? FRENCH ENGINEER
? HBS MBA 1922
? FOUNDER OF INSEAD
? FOUNDED AR&D in 1946
- $4M RAISED
- FIRST EVER PRIVATE EQUITY / VC FUND
> A FAIL FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS UNTIL…
10. A $70K INVESTMENT
IN 1958…
…TURNED INTO A
$355M RETURN*
IN 1970
* INCLUDING A $2M LOAN ON TOP
OF THE INITIAL INVESTMENT
11. A $70K INVESTMENT
IN 1958…
…TURNED INTO A
$355M RETURN*
IN 1970
> 5000X MULTIPLE
> 100% IRR
* INCLUDING A $2M LOAN ON TOP
OF THE INITIAL INVESTMENT
13. HBS ENTREPRENEURSHIP ALUMNI
? DRAPER & JOHNSON (DGA)
? PERKINS (KPCB)
- Compaq/Sun/AOL/Netscape/Google
? ARTHUR ROCK (VENROCK)
- 3COM/APPLE/INTEL
- HELPED FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR
RAISE $1,5M
> BIRTH OF SILICON VALLEY
15. FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR ALUMNI
? ROBERT NOYCE
& GORDON MOORE
(INTEL)
? EUGENE KLEINER
(KPCB)
? DON VALENTINE (SEQUOIA)
- ATARI/ORACLE/CISCO/YAHOO/YOUTUBE
> BIRTH OF VENTURE CAPITAL
21. … WITH HUGE SOCIAL/ECONOMIC IMPACT
? 21% OF U.S GDP
2.900.000.000.000 $ (Revenue of US Venture backed Cies)
? 80% OF JOBS CREATED
12.1 MILLION JOBS ( AT US Venture Bascked Cies)
24. MATURITY PHASE & RECENT TRENDS
? CYCLES, WAVES & BUBBLES
?BEER INDUSTRY ANALOGY
- BIG BRANDS / MICRO VC
? ENTREPRENEURS’ FUND
? BASICS STILL TRUE :
- US DOMINATED INDUSTRY
- HIT DRIVEN INDUSTRY