Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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A Comparative Study of the Accelerator and Venture Capital through Investment Behavior

투자 행태를 통한 엑셀러레이터와 벤처캐피탈의 비교 연구

  • Choi, Yunsoo (Department of Business Administration, Graduate School, Kookmin University) ;
  • Kim, Dohyeon (School of Management, Kookmin University)
  • Received : 2016.07.08
  • Accepted : 2016.08.24
  • Published : 2016.08.31
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Abstract

Venture companies, which can commercialize various kinds of new ideas and creating added value, are amid of great attention. Since most of venture companies in initial development stages cannot finance its capital sufficiently all by their own, investments from outside investors are key factor to their survival. However, they have lots of difficulties in financing from outside investors because of their typical uncertain but favorable investment characteristics. Moreover, even though they had successfully financed from outsiders, problems related to their stakeholders, such as interrupting in management and types of investments, cause contrary results to firms. Therefore there are various kinds of systems for startups like angels, venture capitals and governmental supports. Even so, investments and supports for venture companies are still not sufficient. 'Accelerator', which is a brand-new investment type started from Silicon Valley in United States during the mid 2000, is growing attention these-days. It mainly supports startups financially in the initial development stages, however, it also supports the firms by providing mentoring, education and networking services. On the other hand, difference between existing investment types and performance of the investment is still in controversy. Therefore this study compared investment behavior between accelerator and venture capital. As a result, we found that the difference in investment behavior of accelerators and venture capital.

최근 다양하고 새로운 아이디어를 사업화하여, 부가가치를 창출 할 수 있는 벤처기업에 대한 관심이 증대되고 있다. 초기 벤처기업의 경우 필요 자금을 내부에서 충분히 조달할 수 없는 경우가 대부분이며, 외부에서의 투자가 생존에 중요한 역할을 한다. 하지만 전형적인 High-risk, High-return의 형태를 가지고 있는 벤처기업은 초기 외부 자본 조달에 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 또한 경우에 따라서는 어렵게 외부의 투자를 받는 경우에도 이해관계자와의 다양한 문제(투자 형태, 경영에의 간섭 등)로 인한 역효과가 발생하기도 한다. 이처럼 이미 벤처캐피탈, 엔젤 등을 통한 투자가 이뤄지고 있고, 정부의 다양한 지원 정책이 존재하지만 여전히 '초기' 벤처기업에 대한 적절한 투자나 지원이 부족한 실정이다. 2000년대 중반 미국 실리콘밸리를 중심으로 시작된 엑셀러레이터는 초기 벤처기업을 위한 새로운 투자 유형으로 주목받고 있다. 엑셀러레이터는 기존 투자 유형과 달리 멘토링, 교육, 네트워킹 등을 추가로 지원하며 초기 벤처기업의 성장을 지원하고 있지만, 기존 투자 기관과의 차이, 엑셀러레이터 프로그램 성과에 대한 논쟁이 존재한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 엑셀러레이터와 벤처캐피탈의 투자 행태를 비교하여, 두 유형 간 차이가 실제로 존재하는지 검증해 보았다. 그리고 그 결과로 엑셀러레이터와 벤처캐피탈의 투자 행태에 일부 차이가 있음을 발견하였다.

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