How to value early-stage technology companies
Haakon Overli is a managing partner at Dawn Capital, a venture capital firm, and his expertise has helped him to find start-ups such as Wonga and Mimecast. He talks to Joanne Hart about finding and assessing the value of technology companies.
Around 20% of venture capital investments make no money at all for their backers and a further 30% make very little yet valuation techniques are rarely scientific, why?
'There are no specialist tools when it comes to valuing early stage technology businesses. We tend to rely on old-school techniques, such as gut instinct and talking to experts with specific sector knowledge,' says Overli.
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