Do Venture Capital Investors Learn from Public Markets?

Bibo Liu () and Xuan Tian ()
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Bibo Liu: PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100083, China
Xuan Tian: PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100083, China

Management Science, 2022, vol. 68, issue 10, 7274-7297

Abstract: We examine whether venture capital (VC) investors learn information contained in public market stock prices. VCs are less likely to stage finance startups and syndicate with other VCs when stock prices are more informative. An instrumental variable approach suggests that the relation is likely causal. The startup’s initial public offering (IPO) prospect is the plausible information contained in stock prices learned by VCs. The effect of VC learning on staging and syndication is more pronounced when collecting information is more costly and the information learned is more reliable. Evidence from a survey of VC investors confirms that they actively learn information from the public market. VCs’ learning from the public market significantly affects their investments across startup firms. Our paper sheds new light on the real effects of financial markets and suggests that the informational role of security prices is much broader than what we have thought.

Keywords: learning; venture capital; staging; syndication; price informativeness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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