As in Goldfarb et al. (2005), the funded plans received less first round financing amounts than the general population,
and appear to have been systematically valued at amounts less than the mean firm in the population.Moreover, the VCs that funded sample firms appear, in general, to be lower quality. This suggests that we undersample high-quality firms.This sample characteristic may lead to a general paucity of VC funding events. A lack of representation of high-quality VCs in our sample implies that our results may not generalize to that class of investors