How Do Accelerators Impact High-Technology Ventures? Revise & Resubmit, Management Science
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Accelerators aim to help nascent companies reach successful outcomes by providing capital, enabling industry connections, and increasing exposure to investors. However, it remains unclear how accelerators impact the performance of early-stage ventures. I construct a novel dataset of approximately 900 accelerator companies that participated in 13 accelerators which are then matched to 900 non-accelerator companies. Using this dataset, I establish stylized facts and propose a model to identify mechanisms through which accelerators impact funding, acquisitions, and closures. I find that through both self-selection and accelerator feedback effects, accelerator companies raise less money, close down earlier and more often, raise less money conditional on closing, and appear to be more efficient investments compared to non-accelerator companies. Additional analysis using a separate sample of rejected accelerator applicants further supports these findings. These results suggest that accelerators help resolve uncertainty around company quality sooner, allowing founders to make funding and exit decisions accordingly. ∗I am especially grateful to my advisors Luis Cabral, Adam Brandenburger, John Asker, and Robert Seamans for their guidance and encouragement. I also thank J.P. Eggers, April Franco, Deepak Hegde, Robin Lee, Bill Kerr, Scott Stern, and participants at the Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research, Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, Social Enterprise @ Goizueta Research Colloquium, seminar participants, and anonymous referees. I am indebted to entrepreneurs, accelerator partners, accelerator mentors, and investors who were interviewed, and the CrunchBase team for providing database assistance. This research was funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. All errors are my own.
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