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Venture capital and private equity funds are a new instrument for financing the development of young and innovative companies. Their functioning is affected by many factors especially form the public markets, but despite many changes, these funds continue to invest in young innovative companies, which are characterized by above-average investment risk rewarded unparalleled rate of return. It is characterized by a huge dispersion encountered in other investments called alternative or public. Activity funds is cyclical, so the purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of public markets on venture capital activity.