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    The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence across Countries
    21 Jan 2016Working Paper Summaries

    The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence across Countries

    by Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, Stanislav Sokolinksi and Karen Wilson
    Examining a cross-section of 13 angel groups who considered transactions across 21 countries, this study finds that angel investors have a positive impact on the growth of the firms they fund, their performance, and survival, while the selection of firms that apply for angel funding varies across countries.
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    This paper examines investments made by 13 angel groups across 21 countries. We compare applicants just above and below the funding cutoff and find that these angel investors have a positive impact on the growth, performance, and survival of firms as well as their follow-on fundraising. The positive impact of angel financing is independent of the level of venture activity and entrepreneur friendliness in the country. But we find that the development stage and maturity of startups that apply for angel funding (and those that are ultimately funded) is inversely correlated with the entrepreneurship friendliness of the country, which may reflect self-censoring by very early stage firms that do not expect to receive funding in these environments.

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    • Working Paper Publication Date: December 2015
    • HBS Working Paper Number: 16-072
    • Faculty Unit(s): Entrepreneurial Management; Finance
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