The level of modeling sophistication in financial services has increased considerably over
the years. Nowadays, the complexity of financial problems and the vast amount of data …

Investing in early-stage companies is incredibly hard, especially when no data are available
to support the decision process. Venture capitalists often rely on gut feeling or heuristics to …

This paper proposes a new order relation for Pythagorean fuzzy numbers (PFNs) and
applies to multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM). The main contributions are …

Venture capitalists are confronted with decision-making problems under an uncertain
investment circumstance, which lead them to rely heavily on intuition and psychological …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose an intuitionistic fuzzy technique for order
preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) multi-criteria decision making method for …

Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been preoccupied by the issue of selecting a promising
start-up firm, whereas, ranking the available start-up firms is an effective way to solve this …

In developing countries, the government has played an important role in supporting startup
businesses in various aspects, primarily through tech-focused government agencies. With a …

This study, based on the characteristics of the Chinese government venture capital (GVC),
developed an index system that basically allows to identify potential on key aspects on a …

Venture capitalists invest not only in the business aspect of a deal but also in its contractual
terms. Therefore, the selection of deals and the combination of contractual terms pose …

Venture capital is viewed by many researchers as a tool for supporting innovation through
the provision of funding for high-risk innovative projects. Furthermore, the literature suggests …