TITLE:
Growth of Venture Capital in International Markets
AUTHORS:
Mathan Liu
KEYWORDS:
Venture Capital, VC, Funding
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.11 No.6,
November
24,
2023
ABSTRACT: Venture capital (VC) has become a sizable fraction
of aggregate private investment in the United States and globally. This paper
examines the structure of venture capital investments as well as the benefits
and drawbacks of VC investments relative to other sources of corporate
financing. This paper attempts to determine and find the effect of public
popularity and media interest on VC investments globally. Utilizing data
garnered from the OECD, Statista and Pitchbook, this paper analyzes the
increase in the amount of VC investment that has occurred globally.
Furthermore, Google Trends and WeChat trends data are all standardized in order
to compare the popularity of VC in countries around the world. Finally, this
paper investigates the growth in VC’s internationally and how this growth has
related to consumer and media interest in venture capital, finding that these
variables are highly correlated. This paper finds a correlation between the
increasing public popularity of VC and the growth of VC internationally.