Early stage investors are investors who invest in companies in their early stages of development. They include Angel investors, venture capitalists and seed funds which fund these startups in return for an equity stake in the company. These slides present a brief overview of the kinds of early stage investors and their investing strategies.

1. Early Stage Investors

2. • Early stage investors are quite unconventional.
While there are investors who invest billions in
well established firms for a minor stake, these
Early Stage Investors are on the look for fresh
talent.
• Out of the box ideas that could pay rich
dividends to their investments. They believe
that these startup companies in the bud might
one day grow into huge fruit bearing trees.
• The success stories of startups like
Google, Infosys, Flipkart and Amazon have
only increased its credibility and made
startups a hot sector for investments.

3. Who are these Early Stage Investors?
• The term early stage investors encompasses the
Angel Investors, Angel Groups, Venture
Capitalists, Seed funds and every other
organization that fund startups in their early
stage of development.
• While there are differences in the sort of
companies they fund and the amount and kind of
funding, they operate on one basic principle:They
provide funds to the Entrepreneurs and then take
a percentage stake of the company.

4. Angel Investors
• Angel Investors are wealthy investors with a
little or no market know how, who provide
seed funds to the startups.
• They are usually people who’ve had years of
experience in the Investment field and are
looking for new and lucrative fields for
investments.
• They usually don’t interfere in the working of
the company as long as they get their Return
on Investment.

5. Venture Capitalists
• Venture Capitalists, on the other hand, look
for companies eyeing expansion. They usually
fund the second round of investment that the
entrepreneurs need once they’re exhausted
with the seed fund.
• They also look into the working of the
company, guide them and help steer their
company through the financial and legal
roadblocks that they might encounter.

6. • The funds thus generated are used by the
Entrepreneurs to get things off the ground.
• The initial market analysis and the product
development would be a part of this.
Utthishta is one such seed fund that provides
seed funds to startups in return for an equity
stake in the company.

7. • Early stage investors are usually people
who’ve had rich years of experience in the
Investment sector, might have been
Entrepreneurs themselves and would want to
see the next generation of entrepreneurs
flourish.
• Not only do they provide them with the seed
but also the financial and legal assistance that
the Entrepreneurs nee during the initial stages
in establishing a company.

8. • Statistics say that only 2 out of 10 startups
become successful, the rest might not even
achieve breakeven.
• Despite the risk involved the rewards that the
Investors reap from the successful ones more
than make up for the loss.
• So, the number of Early stage Investors is
quite on the rise and so is the number of
startup companies that have managed to
create waves in the Indian Market what with
the innovative path they employ and out of
the box ideas they implement.

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