Venture Capital Performance: A Comparative Study of Investment Practices in Europe and the USA

ISBN-13: 9781032084794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Keith Arundale

Opis

This book provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of the various structural, operational and wider environmental factors that impact on the performance difference between UK / European and US VC funds.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. The European / US gap in venture capital fund performance

3. The factors that impact on venture capital fund performance

4. Theoretical considerations

5. Research aims and methodology

6. Structural differences

7. Operational differences

8. Wider environmental differences

9. Characteristics of firms with better performing funds

10. Summary and conclusions

O autorze

Keith Arundale, PhD, is a university lecturer, executive trainer and consultant in private equity and venture capital. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading. His PhD from the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, explores the reasons for the historical difference in performance between European and US VC funds with a focus on VC investment practices. Previously, Keith was with PwC, leading the VC programme and marketing for PwC’s Global Technology Industry Group in Europe. He lives in Windsor, UK, with his wife Kathy.