The relationship between (a) private and public equity market valuations and (b) financial statement information is examined for a sample of 502 venture capital backed companies from six different industries over the 1993-2003 period. Financial statement information explains a sizable component...

This study is the first to examine the role offinancial statement information in a broad cross-section of industries in theventure-backed, private equity market. First, a discussion of prior research onventure-backed private equity valuation is offered. Next, data on the privateand public equity...