European Venture Capital Market: Scaling Beyond Current Boundaries

This study systematically documents the perceptions of LPs, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and their views of the trends and challenges facing the European venture capital market. The interest from LPs in European venture capital funds was found to be neutral to marginally negative because of...

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Main Authors: GEORGE, Gerard, Nathusius, Eva
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-57292017-11-28T08:45:18Z European Venture Capital Market: Scaling Beyond Current Boundaries GEORGE, Gerard Nathusius, Eva This study systematically documents the perceptions of LPs, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and their views of the trends and challenges facing the European venture capital market. The interest from LPs in European venture capital funds was found to be neutral to marginally negative because of historical returns. However, buoyancy in the supply of high quality opportunities at reasonable valuations has the potential to improve this outlook. The findings suggest that European venture capitalists still face structural barriers in the form of heterogeneous consumer preferences, improving but weak exit and fundraising environments, and the scarcity of LPs of significant size. The study revealed that successful venture capitalists tended to build scaleable businesses, either global or European which improve the potential for returns. In addition to having an aspiration to build global companies, venture capitalists with entrepreneurial, industry and investment experience with access to a rich professional network were top performers. 2007-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4730 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5729/viewcontent/EuropeanVentureCapitalMarket_2007.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Business Finance and Financial Management
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Finance and Financial Management
GEORGE, Gerard
Nathusius, Eva
European Venture Capital Market: Scaling Beyond Current Boundaries
description This study systematically documents the perceptions of LPs, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and their views of the trends and challenges facing the European venture capital market. The interest from LPs in European venture capital funds was found to be neutral to marginally negative because of historical returns. However, buoyancy in the supply of high quality opportunities at reasonable valuations has the potential to improve this outlook. The findings suggest that European venture capitalists still face structural barriers in the form of heterogeneous consumer preferences, improving but weak exit and fundraising environments, and the scarcity of LPs of significant size. The study revealed that successful venture capitalists tended to build scaleable businesses, either global or European which improve the potential for returns. In addition to having an aspiration to build global companies, venture capitalists with entrepreneurial, industry and investment experience with access to a rich professional network were top performers.
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author GEORGE, Gerard
Nathusius, Eva
author_facet GEORGE, Gerard
Nathusius, Eva
author_sort GEORGE, Gerard
title European Venture Capital Market: Scaling Beyond Current Boundaries
title_short European Venture Capital Market: Scaling Beyond Current Boundaries
title_full European Venture Capital Market: Scaling Beyond Current Boundaries
title_fullStr European Venture Capital Market: Scaling Beyond Current Boundaries
title_full_unstemmed European Venture Capital Market: Scaling Beyond Current Boundaries
title_sort european venture capital market: scaling beyond current boundaries
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2007
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4730
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5729/viewcontent/EuropeanVentureCapitalMarket_2007.pdf
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