Who reaps the majority of the rewards from venture backed companies – VC or public markets?
“Over the last decade when measured in terms of total dollars of value creation accruing to pre- and post-IPO investors: post-IPO investor gains have often been substantial.“
Of the 165 IPOs analysed – the vast majority had a large share of value accrue to public markets (blue region).
There are some exceptions (red region), and some shared (yellow region).