Identification of IT startup investment strategy

Bc. Viktoriia Bubentsova

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This research is focusing on the main conditions of investments as influential factors, which define the future success of IT startups. Stage and sum of investments are also evaluated according to their contribution to the resulting price of sale in case of exit. The startup investment deals on the Russian venture market were selected as a basis of this research. The data about the investments made from 2008 to 2017 were primarily taken from the database RUSBASE. The aim of diploma thesis is to check and reveal the degree of influence these factors have and to propose the preferable conditions for success of the venture. The study gives recommendations developed on the basis of research results in the most beneficial funding strategy for future IT startup development in the Russian venture market.

Keywords

startup, investments, venture market, startup development, investment strategy, stages of startup, parameters of startup funding, startups in IT industry, exit cases

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 24. 3. 2018

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: prof. Ing. Ivana Tichá, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management