Startup valuation and the venture capital syndication hypothesis
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Shin, Albert,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Sloan School of Management.
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Antoinette Schoar.
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We formally replicate and extend Gompers and Lerner's (2000) findings that positively link venture capital fund flows to startup valuation. We confirm most of the original findings. However, we find a divergence in venture capital fund sizes and startup valuation in recent years. Specifically, the average pre-money valuation of a startup has grown dramatically larger relative to the increase in VC funding. We put forth a "syndication hypothesis" to explain this phenomenon. The funding landscape has changed from a co-opetitive model to a more competitive one as evidenced by less demand for deal syndication. We test a broad version of this hypothesis for both institutional and angel investors and find that the overall degree of syndication has fallen since the 1980s.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, May, 2020 Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 13).
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2020Department
Sloan School of ManagementPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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