Pathways to Foreign Venture Capital Investments

Balachandran, S (2024) Pathways to Foreign Venture Capital Investments. In: Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9783030387389

Abstract

Foreign venture capital (VC) investments are minority equity investments in entrepreneurial ventures located in a country different to the investor’s home country. The volume of such investments has grown rapidly in recent times, but with considerable heterogeneity between otherwise similar firms in the level, type, and location of the foreign investments they make. This chapter summarizes some of the existing research on the antecedents of such investments.