Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments Why Do Venture Capital Firm
Hortense Tarrade analyses over 200,000 venture capital (VC) investments over the past 20 years to understand the investors' motivation to select national or foreign companies into their portfolio. She compares the sensitivity of US-based, non-US and Germa
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Hortense Tarrade
Cross-Border Venture Capital Investments Why Do Venture Capital Firms Invest at a Distance? Foreword by Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D
RESEARCH
Hortense Tarrade München, Germany Voestalpine Linz, Österreich
Bernhard Schmidt Langenhagen, Deutschland
Dissertation Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2010 D 19
ISBN 978-3-8349-3118-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-8349-6939-2
ISBN 978-3-8349-6939-2 (eBook)
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Foreword Venture capital financing is an important motor of entrepreneurship throughout the world. As borders lose their relevance thanks to new technologies and sharply reduced transportation costs, start-ups are increasingly international from the start. This raises the question of which VC firm they should seek financing from – local or foreign. From the venture capitalist firms' perspective, a similar question is posed: why would they restrict their investments to com
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