Contents
1 Introduction to the Companion to Venture Capital 1
Douglas Cumming
PART I Alternative Forms of Venture Capital 7
2 Venture Capitalists Decision Making: An Information
Processing Perspective 9
Andrew Zacharakis
3 Banks Versus Venture Capital in the Financing of
New Ventures 31
Jean Etienne de Bettignies
4 Corporate Venture Capital 51
Vladimir I. Ivanov and Fei Xie
5 Angel Finance: The Other Venture Capital 71
Andrew Wong
6 Business Incubation and Its Connection to
Venture Capital 111
Darek Klonowski
7 Philanthropic Venture Capital: A New Model of
Financing for Social Entrepreneurs 131
Luisa Alemany and Mariarosa Scarlata
PART II The Structure of Venture Capital Investments 151
8 Financial Contracts and Venture Capitalists’ Value-Added 153
Catherine Casamatta

9 Venture Capitalists, Monitoring and Advising 169
Roberta Dessi
10 Project Externalities and Moral Hazard 191
Dima Leshchinskii
11 Doing It Not Alone: Antecedents, Dynamics, and
Outcomes of Venture Capital Syndication 221
Dirk De Clercq and Dimo Dimov
PART III Venture Capital Value-Added and Conflicts 243
12 Time to Grow Up: Large Sample Evidence on the
Maturation Dynamics of Private Venture-Backed Firms 245
John R. M. Hand
13 How Do Venture Capitalists Create Value for
Entrepreneurial Firms? A Review of the Literature 277
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Karthik Krishnan, and Debarshi Nandy
14 Venture Capital and Innovation 299
Masako Ueda
15 Reputation in Financial Intermediation: Evidence from
Venture Capital 319
Rajarishi Nahata
16 Investor Opportunism, and Governance in
Venture Capital 347
Brian Broughman
17 Conflicts of Interest and Litigation in the Venture
Capital Industry 365
Vladimir Atanasov
PART IV Venture Capital Exits and Returns 387
18 Venture Capital Exits 389
Armin Schwienbacher
19 Returns to Venture Capital 407
Mike Wright and Riya Chopraa

20 Venture Capitalists’ Control: Stimulating or Stunting? 439
April Knill
PART V International Venture Capital and Public Policy 471
21 Cross-Border Venture Capital and Private Equity 473
Markku V. J. Maula
22 The Canadian Public Venture Capital Market 501
C′ecile Carpentier and Jean-Marc Suret
23 Public Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurial
Finance 525
Christian Keuschnigg
24 Twelve Meditations on Venture Capital 553
Gordon Murray and David Lingelbach
Index 585