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Influence of Corporate Venture Capital on Established Firms' Aquisition of Startups  

Kim, MyungGun (Graduate School of Management of Technology, Korea University)
Kim, YoungJun (Graduate School of Management of Technology, Korea University)
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship / v.14, no.2, 2019 , pp. 1-13 More about this Journal
Abstract
As a way to find new and innovative technologies, many companies have invested in and acquired skilled startups. Because startups are usually small in size and have a small history of past business experience, there are many risks involved in acquiring them as they have limited technical skills and business feasibility verification methods. Thus, venture capital plays an important role in discovering and investing competitive startups. While Independent Venture Capital generally values financial returns, Corporate Venture Capital, which plays investment roles in the firm, values business synergies with the parent company from a strategic perspective. In an industry sector where development of technology is rapid and whether new technology is held determines a company's competitiveness, existing companies incorporate startups with innovative technologies into their investment portfolios, collaborate together, and take over for comprehensive cooperation. In addition, new investments and acquisitions are carried out through the management of portfolio companies to obtain and utilize industry information. In this paper, major U.S. companies listed in the U.S. verified their investment activities through corporate venture capital and their impact on parent companies and startups through regression, while the parent company's acquisition performance was analyzed through an event study based on a stock price analysis. The criteria for startup were defined as companies with less than 12 years of experience, and the analysis showed that the parent companies with corporate venture capital with a larger number of investments actively take over startups. In addition, increasing corporate venture capital's financial investment activities shows a negative impact on the parent companies' acquisition activities, and the acquisition performance increased when the parent companies took over startups in its portfolio.
Keywords
Independent Venture Capital; Corporate Venture Capital; Startups; Parent Companies; Acquisitions; Market Capitalization; Regression Analysis; Event Study;
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