We analyze growth in family and non-family Spanish venture capital-backed firms. When the venture capital firm (VC) does not hold a majority stake, the usual risk aversion attitudes in family firms may lead to conflicts between the management cultures of the existing and new shareholders, which...

This chapter presents an innovative proposal to analyze the economic impact of venture capital on investee companies to address the issue of causality. We test whether productivity growth rates are better in venture-backed companies than in comparable non-venture-backed ones for a sample of 518...