Artikel

Risk management in the venture capital industry: Managing risk in portfolio companies

Managing risk is one of the main activities of venture capital companies. Despite the fact that this topic is of high practical relevance, only little research was published on risk management performed by venture capital companies in their ventures. Hence, we conducted a structured literature review which was the basis for developing five hypotheses concerning measures to decrease failure risk in venture capital-backed ventures. We tested these hypotheses with an empirical data set of 93 venture capital-backed ventures in Germany using original deal data from nine different venture capital funds using a structural equation model. We showed that the experience and the skills of the corresponding investment manager have a significant negative impact on the failure risk of a venture. Investment manager's experience and skills were measured by the working and founding experience, the technology expertise and the network size. Hence, the results emphasize the importance of the selection of the investment manager for risk management in venture capital investments.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) ; ISSN: 1551-9570 ; Volume: 18 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-33 ; Montrose, CA: The Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance (AEF)

Klassifikation
Management
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage; Ratings and Ratings Agencies
Entrepreneurship
New Firms; Startups
Thema
risk management
failure risk
venture capital
new-technology-based firms

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Proksch, Dorian
Stranz, Wiebke
Pinkwart, Andreas
Schefczyk, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance (AEF)
(wo)
Montrose, CA
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Proksch, Dorian
  • Stranz, Wiebke
  • Pinkwart, Andreas
  • Schefczyk, Michael
  • The Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance (AEF)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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