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Lack of funding is one of the most important problems for people and institutions to pass on new ideas in today's economy where globalization continues rapidly. One of the alternative financing techniques developed to be able to resolve this problem is venture capital investment trusts (VCIT). These institutions use their funds both to make a profit for their investors and to provide value to companies by making long term investments in high competitive companies which have growth potential. In this way, it is aimed at passing the illusion of future projects, reducing unemployment and contributing to the economy of the country. The objective of this thesis is to analyse financial strcutures of the VCITs which operates in Turkey comparatively. In that respect, the VCITs are first analyzed within themselves and then compared with each other. One of the most important issues to be examined here is how much the VCITs are engaged in the appropriate activities of their founding philosophy, that is, how much financial support they gave to enterprise companies. In the application part of the thesis, investment status, liquidity position, the financial condition, profitability and market performance condition of 7 VCITs operating in Turkey are compared by using financial ratio data with the help of ratio and graphic analysis methods. As a result of the analysis, it is observed that in general, Gözde VCIT has the most investment in venture capital investments but Verusaturk has the least investment, in terms of liquidity, Verusaturk has the most, but Gözde has the least cash, in terms of financial structure, Gedik VCIT used the equity capital the most, but Gözde VCIT used the least, in terms of profitability, Verusaturk has the highest, but RHEA VCIT has the lowest equity profitability, and finally, in terms of market performance, Gözde VCIT has the highest, but Rhea VCIT has the lowest earnings per share.