{"type":"script","doc_desc":{"producers":[{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","abbr":"DECDI","affiliation":"World Bank - Development Impact Department","role":"Verification and preparation of metadata"}],"prod_date":"2026-05-18","version":"1"},"project_desc":{"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Santiago Reyes-Ortega","affiliation":"International Finance Corporation","email":"sreyesortega@ifc.org"},{"name":"Paolo Mauro","affiliation":"International Finance Corporation","email":"pmauro@ifc.org"},{"name":"Kianna Freeman","affiliation":"International Finance Corporation","email":"kfreeman1@ifc.org"},{"name":"Pablo Hernando-Kaminsky","affiliation":"International Finance Corporation","email":"pablohk@ifc.org"},{"name":"Jeremias Huber","affiliation":"International Finance Corporation","email":"jhuber@ifc.org"}],"title_statement":{"title":"Reproducibility package for What Does Venture Capital Actually Finance? 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Using a new cross-country dataset that harmonizes firm-level venture capital records with equity issuance data for more than 150 economies, the data shows that VC markets differ across countries not only in scale but in kind. Outside high-income countries, rather than being concentrated in knowledge intangibles, venture capital tilts--at both the sector and firm levels--toward organizational intangibles such as distribution, logistics, and payments. Highlighting the unique features of venture capital, this pattern is absent from public equity markets, where sectoral composition is far more similar across income levels. An accounting decomposition separates venture capital depth into the rate at which firms enter the market and the funding each entrant attracts, and entry accounts for the largest cross-country gaps. Moreover, the business environment is associated with VC primarily through entry, linked both to the size of the market and to the composition of what venture capital finances, the latter through entry into knowledge-intensive sectors in particular.","geographic_units":[{"name":"World","code":"WLD"}],"keywords":[{"name":"Venture Capital"},{"name":"Developing Economies"},{"name":"Sectoral Composition"},{"name":"Startup Financing"},{"name":"Equity Markets"},{"name":"Intangible Capital"},{"name":"Organizational Innovation"},{"name":"Financial Development"}],"topics":[{"id":"G24","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Investment Banking \u2022 Venture Capital \u2022 Brokerage \u2022 Ratings and Ratings Agencies","parent_id":"G2"},{"id":" O16","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Financial Markets \u2022 Saving and Capital Investment \u2022 Corporate Finance and Governance","parent_id":"O1"},{"id":" O14","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Industrialization \u2022 Manufacturing and Service Industries \u2022 Choice of Technology","parent_id":"O1"},{"id":" L26","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Entrepreneurship","parent_id":"L2"}],"output":[{"type":"Working Paper","description":"Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP)","title":"What Does Venture Capital Actually Finance? 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The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.","license":[{"name":"MIT License","uri":"https:\/\/opensource.org\/license\/mit"},{"name":"World Bank IGO Rider","uri":"https:\/\/github.com\/worldbank\/metadata-editor\/blob\/main\/WB-IGO-RIDER.md"}],"contacts":[{"name":"Santiago Reyes-Ortega","affiliation":"International Finance Corporation","email":"sreyesortega@ifc.org"},{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"reproducibility@worldbank.org"}],"datasets":[{"name":"Harmonized Venture Capital Deal-Level Data","note":"Source: Calculations from PitchBook, a Morningstar company, and Crunchbase.\nAccess year: PitchBook (2025) and Crunchbase (2023).\nDescription: It contains the harmonized venture capital deal-level data used throughout the analysis, including deal sizes, company identifiers, years, sectors, and country classifications.\nFile location: Data\\RawData\\Harmonized_Feb2026.dta\n","access_type":"Data access was granted directly to the study authors by the data owners\/managers. It was obtained with a custom data license that does not allow for redistribution and it is not included in the reproducibility package.\n","license":"Custom License","license_uri":"https:\/\/pitchbook.com\/terms-of-use; https:\/\/about.crunchbase.com\/terms-of-service ","uri":"https:\/\/pitchbook.com\/; https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/","citation":"Authors' compilation. 2025. Harmonized Venture Capital Deal-Level Data [dataset]. 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It was obtained with a custom data license that does not allow for redistribution and it is not included in the reproducibility package.\n","license":"Custom License","license_uri":"https:\/\/www.lseg.com\/en\/policies\/website-terms-of-use","uri":"https:\/\/www.lseg.com\/en\/data-analytics\/products\/sdc-platinum-financial-securities","citation":"London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). 2025. \"Securities Data Company (SDC) Platinum\" [dataset]. https:\/\/www.lseg.com\/en\/data-analytics\/products\/sdc-platinum-financial-securities. Accessed December 2025.\n"},{"name":"World Development Indicators (WDI) ","note":"Source: World Bank.\nAccess date: December 2025. \nIndicators accessed: country level aggregates for Working Age Population, GDP, GDP per capita; Country-level labor market restriction data. 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See subsection Datasets for more details.\n2. **Run the Package**: After placing the data in the folder:\n         - Update the working directory in line 20 of the do-file `Main_dofile' and run it.\nSince some of the original data cannot be redistributed, the package includes the outputs produced by the authors, which can be used to review the results presented in the paper.\n"},"datacite":{"creators":[{"givenName":"Santiago","familyName":"Reyes-Ortega","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[{"name":"International Finance Corporation","affiliationIdentifier":"https:\/\/ror.org\/049rm1a24","affiliationIdentifierScheme":"ROR","schemeUri":"https:\/\/ror.org"}]},{"givenName":"Paolo","familyName":"Mauro","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[{"name":"International Finance Corporation","affiliationIdentifier":"https:\/\/ror.org\/049rm1a24","schemeUri":"https:\/\/ror.org","affiliationIdentifierScheme":"ROR"}]},{"givenName":"Kianna","familyName":"Freeman","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[{"name":"International Finance Corporation","affiliationIdentifier":"https:\/\/ror.org\/049rm1a24","schemeUri":"https:\/\/ror.org","affiliationIdentifierScheme":"ROR"}]},{"givenName":"Pablo","familyName":"Hernando-Kaminsky","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[{"name":"International Finance Corporation","affiliationIdentifier":"https:\/\/ror.org\/049rm1a24","schemeUri":"https:\/\/ror.org","affiliationIdentifierScheme":"ROR"}]},{"givenName":"Mariana De La Paz ","familyName":"Pereira Lopez","nameType":"Personal","affiliation":[{"name":"International Finance Corporation","affiliationIdentifier":"https:\/\/ror.org\/049rm1a24","schemeUri":"https:\/\/ror.org","affiliationIdentifierScheme":"ROR"}]}],"titles":[{"lang":"en","title":"Reproducibility package for What Does Venture Capital Actually Finance? 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