A Study on Project Information Search Channels in the Process of Private Equity Investment

There are serious asymmetric information problems in the process of private equity investment, accordingly bringing out information search activities. This paper analyses six available channels of project information search in private equity investment, and analyses the condition of realizing the optimal search scale. Through analyzing the questionnaire, this paper finds that the current private equity investment funds search information mainly from the way of their social network which has some disadvantages. Based on Zhejiang Silicon Paradise Investment & Innovation Service Center Co., Ltd., this paper concludes that it is one of inevitable choices to build information intermediaries supported by government to solve project information search problems at the initial development stage of private equity investment in emerging economies.