scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Passion and Venture Capitalists’ Willingness to Invest: The Role of Relational Capital

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongtao Yang ◽  
Hangyu Shi ◽  
Yenchun Jim Wu ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Shuting Xie
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Relational Capital ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Venture Capital Investment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Passion ◽  
The Relationship

Venture capital investment has serious conflicts of interest and information asymmetry. Venture capitalists often make investment decisions on the basis of the passion of entrepreneurs, including enthusiasm and preparedness, in the process of interacting with them. Most of the previous research on relational capital have focused on the cooperative relationship between suppliers and buyers. However, the role of relational capital in the process of partnership between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs has not been revealed. On the basis of signaling theory, we explore the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and venture capitalists’ willingness to invest. We also examine the mediating and moderating roles of relational capital. This study takes 79 projects between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs as samples for empirical analysis to verify our hypothesis. Results show that entrepreneurs’ enthusiasm and preparedness have a significant positive impact on venture capitalists’ willingness to invest. Relational capital plays a mediating role between entrepreneurial passion and venture capitalists’ willingness to invest. Relational capital positively moderates the relationship between preparedness and venture capitalists’ willingness to invest but has no moderating effect between enthusiasm and venture capitalists’ willingness to invest. Results deepen the understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurs’ passion and venture capitalists’ willingness to invest, which has guiding significance for venture capital practice in China.

scholarly journals Governance of the venture capital investment: Factors influencing selection of an IT firm

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Shailendra Kumar ◽  
Amar Johri
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Venture Capital Investment ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Bank Managers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

The selection of a firm for venture capital investment is not an easy task for any investor and so it is important to decide certain factors based on which a firm will be selected for the investment. This paper is based on the 104 responses generated through fund managers, venture capitalists, managers of financial institutions, bank managers etc. and examined two important aspects, first the factors used by venture capitalists to evaluate an IT in order to make investment decisions and second the importance of factors across different investors. This study was conducted in 2014 to find out the important aspects affecting decision making process while selecting an Information Technology firm. We have analyzed the qualitative and quantitative aspects suggested by the previous studies and studied the relationship between choice of factors among different investors and assigning weightage for them with respect to screening of an IT firm for investment.

scholarly journals Impact of Venture Capital Investment Syndication on Enterprise Lifecycle and Success

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asif Siddiqui ◽  
Dora Marinova ◽  
Amzad Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Survival Duration ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Venture Capital Investment ◽  
Investment Theory ◽  
Capital Financing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Investment Growth ◽  
The Impact

The article investigates the impact of venture capital investment and investment syndication on enterprise lifecycle and success using the exit history of venture capital backed companies in Australia. It is observed that the venture capital backed companies tend to outperform those which are not while companies receiving syndicated venture capital investment tend to outperform the other venture capital backed companies. Based on the classic venture capital investment theory, we argue that venture capitalists essentially engage in superior venture selection through pre-investment screening and contribute to entrepreneurial development through post-investment monitoring and value creation. We then empirically investigate the lifecycle of the Australian venture capital backed companies from company formation to first venture capital financing round to exit. Survival duration of the ventures, investment growth and exit status are specifically analysed to capture the lifecycle. The findings show that the survival duration prior and post venture capital investment, venture capital investment growth in successive rounds and investment syndication increase the probably of success for the ventures.

scholarly journals Empirical Analysis of Hungarian Firms According to Venture Capital Investment Criteria

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-32
Author(s):  
Judit Edit Futó
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Venture Capital Investment ◽  
Capital Financing ◽  
Venture Capital Firms ◽  
Investment Process ◽  
Index Investment

Abstract Over the past decade the venture capital industry has become more and more prominent, not just on a global level, but in Hungary, too. Thanks to the JEREMIE Program a large number of new venture capital firms are located in our country, and therefore an investment wave has started. The aim of the paper is to sort micro- and small sized enterprises in terms of how appropriate is a venture capital financing. The main topic of the paper relates to the selection of firms for venture capital investment; therefore, in the first part of the study we briefly summarize a general venture capital investment process, highlighting both the selection process and the criteria used for selection. Then we propose 3 indexes (trustworthiness index, openness index, investment index), which we have created to help venture capitalists to decide whether the targeted enterprises are appropriate for them, or not. In the main part of the paper we provide a classification of micro- and small sized Hungarian firms based on my own survey, and we analyze what kind of relationship exists between the proposed indexes and the type of the classified firms. The result of the classification is that we identify four main firm types and, based on statistical tests, it can be said that there is no significant relationship between the trustworthiness index and the clusters, but that there are between the two other indexes and the clusters.

scholarly journals Commitment to capital raising for venture capital funds in India: An Application of ARDL Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
MOHAMMAD MUSTAFA ◽  
◽  
SYED SHAHID MAZHAR ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Market Liquidity ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Venture Capital Investment ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Interest Rate Spread ◽  
Macro Variables

Venture capitalists (VCs) áourish on the ability to add funds to their kitty across nations. Consequently, VCsíability to convince Limited Partners (LP), who are their primary source of Önancing, plays a critical role in the venture capital investment growth in any economy. However, it is not easy to rake in capital from an investor. LPs assess the market conditions carefully before making their capital available to the VCs. This paper examines the macro-economic variables that ináuence the supply of money to venture capital funds in emerging economies such as India from an LPs perspective. The empirical analysis using Autoregressive-Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach reveals that supply of capital to the VC funds in India is ináuenced by macro variables as well as past investment behaviours. Macro-variables such as GDP growth, interest rate spread, global liquidity, and ináation rate signiÖcantly ináuence the supply of capital to the VC funds in India. However, stock market liquidity does not ináuence the supply side of the venture capital investment. Our analysis reveals that VCsífund raising in India is highly ináuenced by their past investment relation with the LPs.

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