Deng, Guanrou;
Fiaschetti, Maurizio;
Mazzarisi, Piero;
Medda, Francesca;
(2025)
Optimizing investment period length and strategies for later stage venture capital staged financing portfolio.
The European Journal of Finance
, 31
(12)
pp. 1576-1598.
10.1080/1351847x.2025.2532548.
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Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the investment and exit decisions in late-stage Venture Capital (VC) rounds of financing portfolios. We utilize a stochastic programming framework to minimize the investment period and find the optimal investment strategy for the VC portfolio under a predefined payoff. Validation of the model is conducted using the US later stage rounds of financing deals from PitchBook. Numerical results of the model reveal an ‘S’-shaped relationship between the portfolio’s payoff and investment period length, demonstrating the importance of timely termination for maximizing returns. Furthermore, a longer period with stricter exit multiples leads to a higher DPI payoff due to increased selectivity. However, excessively high exit multiples may reduce exits, hampering the portfolio’s overall payoff. Finally, portfolios with positive correlation perform better than the uncorrelated ones. These findings shed light on VC portfolio dynamics, providing insights for informed decision-making in staged financing investments.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Optimizing investment period length and strategies for later stage venture capital staged financing portfolio |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/1351847x.2025.2532548 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847x.2025.2532548 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Venture Capital fund portfolio; rounds of financing; investment period length; investment strategies |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211738 |
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