Business angels (BAs) are high wealthy individuals, usually former entrepreneurs or
professionals, who invest their own money in promising startups in which they have no direct …

This paper explores how business angels develop the knowledge necessary to offer
sustainability-value-adding activities, thereby becoming green angels. A multiple case study …

Despite the increasing importance of business angels (BAs) as crucial players in the growth
of high-potential early-stage startups, their motivations are not fully understood. Many of the …

This study investigates whether the individual attributes and investment approaches of
business angels (BAs) affect the growth of funded companies by distinguishing between two …

We provide empirical evidence of the post-investment performance and survivorship profile
of angel-backed companies, filling a long-standing gap within the entrepreneurial finance …

Building on social-psychological insights into social perception and judgment and empirical
findings from the entrepreneurship literature, we propose that early-stage equity investors …

This paper explores and explains how, why and with what consequences business angels'
trust in the entrepreneur affects their decisions to invest, reinvest or withdraw funding in the …

In this paper we use a large UK survey of business angels (BAs) investing in two different
publicly supported schemes to directly question the role that investment motivations play in …

Having secured venture capital for their startups, digital entrepreneurs face a critical
transition to the postinvestment phase. They must evolve new organizational models and …

Besides the extraordinary impact of Business Angels (BAs) as the leading contributors to
fund entrepreneurship at the early stage, the value BAs perceive from their investment …