Esposito C., Gortan M., Testa L., Chiaromonte F., Fagiolo G., Mina A., Rossetti G.
Computational Mathematics Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) Investment trajectory Research Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science - Social and Information Networks FOS: Computer and information sciences Network analysis Statistics - Applications Venture capital Applications (stat.AP) Functional data analysis Multidisciplinary
In this paper we characterize the performance of venture capital-backed firms based on their ability to attract investment. The aim of the study is to identify relevant predictors of success built from the network structure of firms' and investors' relations. Focusing on deal-level data for the health sector, we first create a bipartite network among firms and investors, and then apply functional data analysis to derive progressively more refined indicators of success captured by a binary, a scalar and a functional outcome. More specifically, we use different network centrality measures to capture the role of early investments for the success of the firm. Our results, which are robust to different specifications, suggest that success has a strong positive association with centrality measures of the firm and of its large investors, and a weaker but still detectable association with centrality measures of small investors and features describing firms as knowledge bridges. Finally, based on our analyses, success is not associated with firms' and investors' spreading power (harmonic centrality), nor with the tightness of investors' community (clustering coefficient) and spreading ability (VoteRank).
Source: Applied network science (2022). doi:10.1007/s41109-022-00482-y
Publisher: Springer international, Cham, Svizzera
@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:471887, title = {Venture capital investments through the lens of network and functional data analysis}, author = {Esposito C. and Gortan M. and Testa L. and Chiaromonte F. and Fagiolo G. and Mina A. and Rossetti G.}, publisher = {Springer international, Cham, Svizzera}, doi = {10.1007/s41109-022-00482-y and 10.17863/cam.85951 and 10.48550/arxiv.2202.12859}, journal = {Applied network science}, year = {2022} }
10.1007/s41109-022-00482-y
10.17863/cam.85951
10.48550/arxiv.2202.12859
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