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Christian Catalini.
Etienne, Alain, S.M. Sloan School of Management
Geha, Andre
Sloan School of Management.
Sloan School of Management
2017-09-15T15:35:07Z
2017-09-15T15:35:07Z
2017
2017
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111459
1003321703
Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2017.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-78).
AngelList developed online syndication to enable lead investors to collect backing investments from other individuals and professional investors. Online syndication, as part of equity crowdfunding, was expected to answer some fundamental issues of seed funding and possibly contribute to the disruption of the crowdfunding industry. However, we observed that there is a shift in the platform's strategy towards institutional investors and that the platforms that was once believed to embody the future of equity crowdfunding follows another direction to go away from crowdfunding. It is becoming a back-office platform for traditional investors and focuses on new markets, outside of funding. We argue that AngelList is going beyond a new form of equity crowdfunding to develop a digital solution that will bring online a wider concept and aims at becoming the startup platform, across all its non-core needs. However, this will require AngelList to cross-boundaries, and the Boston case example shows that the platform is not there yet from the geographical point of view.
by Alain Etienne and Andre Geha.
S.M. in Management Studies
93 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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