This paper examines the German venture capital (VC) syndicate networks and towhat extent certain characteristics of VC companies determine the investors’interconnectedness. The data used contains detailed information on 300 VCinvestments and their investors from the years 2004 and 2005. The...

We examine the role of spatial proximity for Venture Capital (VC) investments inGermany. The main database is a survey of 85 personal interviews withrepresentatives of different types of financial institutions. The analysis shows thatspatial proximity is far less important for VC investments...

This paper deals with the question of whether public venture capital (VC) isperforming its task properly, taking a look at how public VC companies’ selectionprocess, investment behavior, and consulting services reflect goals that differ fromthose of private VC firms. The results present...