Success factor analysis of startup accelerators: Focus on the relations between corporate, independent and public categories

• Autor(a) principal: Vitellaro, Marco
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/31043
• topic: Startup; Startup financing; New firm growth; Tomada de decisão -- Decision making; Financiamento de startups; Crescimento de novas empresas

This thesis explores the role of startup accelerators programs, available to get access to, funding, mentors, resources (tangible and intangible), and networks that can help Startup s to get their ideas off the ground. In particular my thesis focuses on the comparison and analysis of the three different kinds of accelerators: Corporate, Independent and Public, for better understand the differences that emerged among them in terms of success with all the startup that they are dealing with. ➢ Corporate accelerator programs are accelerators managed by or directly sponsored by one or multiple established firms. ➢ Public accelerators are all those sponsored and carried out by universities, research centers and governments. ➢ Independent accelerators are born as autonomous companies with the objective of supporting emerging startups through the knowledge and skills of their mentors. To conduct the study an effective dataset of 1794 startup accelerators was extracted from Crunchbase, an online platform that collects business information. Three different models were run with three different dependent variables describing the performance of the accelerators: Success rate, Number of Portfolio organizations and Number of exit IPO. The results obtained are in line with expectations, in fact Corporate accelerators have better performance compared to the other two categories.performance compared to the other two categories.