Foreign Sources of Financing for Startups in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector: the Case of Mangrove Capital Partners on the Russian Market

Student: Chartorizhskaya Alexandra

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: International Business (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This paper is devoted to the sources of financing for start-ups involved in the ICT sector. In this work we are going to study the main sources of financing for start-ups, their advantages and disadvantages, and we are going to assess which finical options the entrepreneur should chose at different stages of start-up development. Special attention will be paid to the Mangrove Capital Partners' (MCP) activity on the Russian market. Through the case of MCP we will study the attractiveness of the Russian market for both foreign and domestic investors. We will also investigate what implications arise for the start-up with the choice of a foreign or domestic investor.

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