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Venture Farm Announces a New Paradigm for Venture Capital Investment

Mission Viejo CA (PRWeb) December 22, 2006 -- Sid Mohasseb, the managing director for Venture Farm, has announced a new paradigm for venture capital investment. By creating an option to exit earlier, the newly created Venture Farm can re-energize the venture capital community and enable angels to make more investments.

"We have designed a model in the venture capital industry that solves a few key problems with deal flow, investment gaps and potential angel capital availability."

"Much like the real estate market," Mohasseb explained.

"The real estate market has enjoyed a two tier investment structure for years, the land developers and the building developers each have very focused objectives and a defined business model -- the two groups each make investments and contribute by adding value to the property. They co-exist nicely and in a complementary way," Mohasseb said.

He added, "A mismatch between the development stages of the deals available and the investment parameters for venture funding has caused significant gaps in the venture funding chain." "The Venture Farm innovation is targeted at the existing gaps and is designed to increase the "qualified" deal flow for organize angels and venture capital firms."

"It will also help in closing the gaps by providing entrepreneurs with the needed early stage execution assistance and capital to get to the next stage of their being much faster."

"At the present, the situation is less than desirable," Mohasseb explained. "Despite an abundance of capital available for venture investment, strategic and value added investments are limited for very early stage companies. As a result, entrepreneurs are ill prepared to execute effectively. Unfortunately, good ideas are not given a proper chance to get to the follow-up investment thresholds."

Tarang Shah from Softbank (www.softbanck.com) describes the Venture Farm concept as: "It is simply a smart idea that fits well into the emerging venture investment structure". Frank Peters, the incoming chairman the Tech Coast Angels (www.techcoastangels.com) describes Venture Farm as "it is a new twist, a new concept."

Others have described Venture Farm model as "an innovative twist to the entrepreneur in residence concept. The very early stage risk and due diligence efforts are shifted to Venture Farm -- it is a win/win."

And "there is value delivered to the entrepreneur, the angles and the VC's: Although not all VC's will embrace the concept immediately, the more open and innovative ones will appreciate it."

And, "It is a timely and valid concept that will have a place in early stage funding and the venture capital ecosystem."

And, "It will allow VC's to take a larger position in a deal without further diluting the founders or over valuing a company; and that is a good thing."

Mohasseb concluded, "We passionately help portfolio companies build a solid organizational foundation, fine tune their value proposition accelerate their growth and gain access to subsequent funding."

"Our formula for accepting portfolio companies is simple: We are looking for good people with good ideas, where we can clearly define how we at Venture Farm can help."

About Venture Farm:
Venture Farm is an equity funding source that adds hands-on experience to the execution process without replacing the management.

Venture Farm addresses the existing gaps in the venture capital and angel investing process and offers an innovative investment model that provides the fund's Limited Partners with the ability to participate in the early stage investment process while potentially recognizing short term returns based on partial exits. To reduce risks associated with execution 1) capital is infused in an incremental manner and based on measurable progress; 2) portfolio performers get a larger share of the available capital and more assistance; 3) an experienced and focused managing director contributes significant time to each deal; 4) portfolio diversity and 5) a strong network of domain advisers.

Unlike standard VC funds, Venture Farm's management fees are value driven only (no performance, no fees) and the managing partner's direct investment is close to five times higher than standard models.

Venture Farm is an innovation in very early stage investing and is specifically neither an angel investor group nor an Incubator or a VC. To learn more please visit: www.VentureFarm.com.

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