This book sheds light on the unresolved questions regarding the impact of venture capital (VC) syndication on performance. Although VC syndicates received considerable attention in the last two decades, still numerous questions remain unanswered. In this book, I conducted a holistic investigation of the conditions under which the benefits of syndicates outweigh the costs. I did so by challenging the homogeneity of syndicates that most studies implicitly assumed. Previous research juxtaposed a syndicated to a non-syndicated deal, or computed the amount of investors and investigated the performance impact. Some studies took a network perspective looking at the centrality or status of VC investors and studied how these impact ...
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