This paper contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between strategic alliances and VC exits. Recent empirical literature concludes that strategic alliances improve the probability of successful exits (IPOs and M&As) for venture-backed companies. When we control for observed and...

Recent years have seen an upsurge of novel sources of new venture financing through crowdfunding (CF). We draw on 54,943 successfully crowdfunded projects and 3,313 venture capital (VC) investments throughout the period 04/2012-06/2015 to investigate, on the aggregate level, how crowdfunding is...