deal flow

Non-traditional deal flow: One of the VC industry disruptions is a sharp increase in the amount of non-traditional deal flow.

Although significant financing has been lined up for China deals, the deal flow remains disappointing.

"There is too much money chasing too few assets at the moment, which puts a premium on managers that can generate deal flow, " says Mr Hill.

Through these programs Google Ventures is attempting to leverage its unique position within Google and create exclusive deal flow channels.

Mr Partridge said this year's deal flow was largely dependent on the implementation of the foreign take-over rules.

Deal flow, particularly at early stages, was active, and even though valuations were high, investor dollars were seemingly at the ready.

Even on a completed basis, deal flow is running close to 2007 levels in Asia, at $189bn in the year to date.

That track record means that angels and VCs look to these incubators for deal flow, meaning you will get access to capital when you need it.

Until [firms] work out the exact costs and benefits, you probably won't see an active deal flow.

Fund managers tend to direct most business to brokers who have the best deal-flow in certain stocks.

But even then, deal flow is not yet strong enough, says Mr Vovor, and government incentives are needed to accelerate the project pipeline.

As a result, deal flow has slowed, drying up a profit stream for investment banks.

So the lure of China's capital markets will give domestic private equity firms with dollar funds a big boost in deal flow.

Based on last year's deal flow, they are fully employed.

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A good quantity and quality of deal flow