Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27097 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Freiberger Arbeitspapiere No. 2006/03
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Freiberg
Abstract: 
Informed capital is a crucial ingredient to a well-functioning market for start-up finance, especially in times of difficult market conditions. For bank-based systems, the question regarding which investors actually supply informed capital has not yet been answered. To fill this gap, we conduct a survey among 85 German suppliers of start-up finance. We find significant differences between the investors which are linked to banks and those financiers which are not. Although, the bank-related group, including public equity suppliers, delivers some sort of informed capital, venture capital companies and Business Angels are the key providers of informed capital in the German market for start-up finance.
Subjects: 
Informed capital
start-up financing
venture capital
banks
JEL: 
G21
G24
D21
M13
O16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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