Amplifying angels: Evidence from the INVEST program
Marius Berger and
Sandra Gottschalk
Journal of Business Venturing, 2025, vol. 40, issue 1
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This paper shows that angel investor grants encourage new investors to enter the risk finance market, where they syndicate investments with other investors. We argue that this results from the high cost of information acquisition for new investors. New investors bring additional capital into the market but provide little managerial support. However, as these investors join syndicates, ventures can raise larger financing amounts without compromising managerial support. Taken together, these factors positively affect the performance of entrepreneurial ventures. To test our hypotheses, we consider the case of Germany, where the federal government has introduced an investment grant for angel investors. Combining applicant data from the subsidy program with company and ownership information on the quasi-universe of German companies and a large-scale company-level panel survey covering over 900 angel-financed ventures to empirically assess our hypotheses provides strong support for our predictions.
Keywords: Investment grant; Angel financing; Syndication; Managerial support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G24 L26 L38 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2024.106456
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