Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311242 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Business Economics [ISSN:] 1861-8928 [Volume:] 92 [Issue:] 9 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1431-1453
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Startups typically have no positive cash flow, little collateral to offer, and high bankruptcy rates. As a result, they seem to be poor loan candidates. However, venture loans as hybrid form financing that include a loan and a warrant are used in practice. We focus on this distinct form of venture debt and identify characteristics of startups and their financing history that are related to their probability of receiving a venture loan. We use an unbalanced panel data sample of 13,540 companies that have conducted 27,577 financing rounds. Our key finding is that venture loans are associated with strongly committed existing investors, which stimulates the requirements of venture lenders and is signaled through large invested capital amounts per investor in previous rounds. Furthermore, we find that venture loans are associated with rather mature startups and offer empirical indication that the medical, health, and life science industry with clear milestones provides good conditions for venture loans.
Subjects: 
Venture lending
Venture debt
Venture loan
Venture capital
JEL: 
C23
G24
G32
M13
M21
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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