(20 ILCS 3501/810-10)

Sec. 810-10. Definitions. The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this Article, shall have the following meanings ascribed to them, except where the context clearly requires otherwise:

(a) "Co-venture investment" means a venture capital or seed capital investment by the Authority in qualified securities of an enterprise that is made after or in conjunction with one or more professional investors that have or are making equity investments in that enterprise, as provided in this Act. A direct investment made by the Authority may later be treated as a co-venture upon such investment made by a professional investor.

(b) "Direct investment" means a venture capital or seed capital investment by the Authority in qualified securities of an enterprise in which no professional investor or seed capital investor is also making an equity investment.

(c) "Enterprise" means an individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, estate, or unincorporated association.

(d) "Professional investor" means any bank, bank holding company, savings institution, trust company, credit union, insurance company, investment company registered under the Federal Investment Company Act of 1940, pension or profit-sharing trust or other financial institution or institutional buyer, licensee under the Federal Small Business Investment Act of 1958, or any person, partnership, or other entity whose principal business is making venture capital investments and whose net worth exceeds $250,000.

(e) "Qualified security" means any note, stock, convertible security, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, limited partnership interest, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, pre-organization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, certificate of deposit for a security, certificate of interest or participation in a patent or application therefor, or in royalty or other payments under a patent or application, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a "security" or any certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or option, warrant, or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the foregoing.

(f) "Seed capital" means financing in the form of investments in qualified securities that is provided for applied research, development, testing, and initial marketing of a technology, product, process, or invention and associated working capital.

(g) "Seed capital investor" means any person, partnership, corporation, trust, or other entity making a seed capital investment.

(h) "Director" means the person designated by the Authority to manage the activities associated with the Illinois Venture Investment Fund.

(i) "Venture capital" means financing in the form of investments in qualified securities that is provided for the capital needs of a company that is developing a new technology, product, process, or invention.

(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)