A SIGNALING THEORY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURE’S VALUATION: EVIDENCE FROM EARLY TERMINATION OF VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Ali Mohammadi (), Mohammadmehdi Shafizadeh () and Sofia Johan
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Mohammadmehdi Shafizadeh: Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

No 349, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This paper investigates how early termination of venture capital (VC) investment in entrepreneurial ventures affect the ability of these young ventures into acquiring further resources necessary for survival and growth. We propose that young entrepreneurial ventures face a higher cost of external financing if existing investors stop investing in the next rounds of financing. Future investors, faced with great unobservable qualities of young companies and the uncertainty surrounding their financial prospect, rely on observable characteristics to appraise a company; The continuation of investment by existing investors confers a positive signal about the quality of young ventures and that young ventures, as endorsed by further commitment of capital, are more likely to perform better than otherwise comparable ventures that lack such escalated commitment.

Keywords: Information Asymmetry; Signaling Theory; Venture Capital; Discontinued Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 G24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2014-03-12
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