1. Value-adding activities of venture capital companies: a content analysis of investor’s original documents in Germany
- Author
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Michael Schefczyk, Cornelia Ernst, Andreas Pinkwart, Wiebke Stranz, Dorian Proksch, and Nino Röhr
- Subjects
Finance ,050208 finance ,Social venture capital ,Individual capital ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Corporate venture capital ,Venture capital ,Investment (macroeconomics) ,Scarcity ,Financial capital ,0502 economics and business ,Economics ,Portfolio ,Business and International Management ,business ,050203 business & management ,media_common - Abstract
As many studies have shown, venture capital companies pursue value-adding activities for their portfolio firms to achieve abnormal returns compared to the market. Value-adding activities are complex and highly diverse, but also are very relevant to practice. Hence, the topic has been considerably analyzed in academic literature. However, there continues to be a lack of in-depth knowledge because of the sensitivity and scarcity of publicly available data from venture capital companies. We provide in-depth insights into the practices of venture capital companies. Using a longitudinal data-set obtained from nine venture capital companies in Germany, we qualitatively analyzed their value-adding activities. Drawing on investors’ original documents, including business plans, investment committee papers, reports and annual statements of the investments, we created a typology of which value-adding services were performed. Results suggest that, consistent with prior studies, venture capital companies are h...
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- 2016