Enterprises need venture capital to secure their future existence and to finance further growth and expansion. Private capital reduces high liabilities and debts and ensure a strong equity position, which considerably reduces the risk of insolvency. Illiquidity and overindebtedness as a rsult of heavy losses in times of economic downturn and the risk of sanctions carried out by creditors hover like a sword of Damocles over the head of enterprises with a poor equity quota. Private capital, i.e. capital from private investors, improves the equity quota. Besides the financing by investment companies oder investment, the German capital market offers numerous other ways additional business financing for enterprises at home and abroad.