Selected Academic Papers

Kingmaking: VC in the AI Era

I define the kingmaking phenomenon: a company receiving a valuation exceeding one billion dollars prior to first product launch & revenue generation.

VC Ecosystems

I study the micro-structures underlying the boom of entrepreneurial ecosystems across the US.

AI in VC decisions

How is artificial intelligence transforming decision making in venture capital?

VCs as international M&A brokers

Venture Capitalists investing abroad appear to help foreign companies accessing their domestic M&A market, only if the nature of the company is "unbounded" (i.e. not linked to to where they are located at the time of the investment)

Funding Attraction (for startups)

For your company, the best investor today might not be the best investor tomorrow. We developed a score to help you figure that out.

Strategic VC Networks

We gathered all the published evidence on when networks intervene across the venture capital investment cycle.

How do VCs become influential?

By having already established VCs invest in their portfolio companies, regardless of the company financial success.

Midas: are investors missing out?

The chicken or the egg? Midas (best ranked VC investors) seem to invest only on founders who were previously backed by a Mida...