# Startup funding

`kaal:entity:startup-funding`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `startup-funding`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2021.

**2018**

- [3117224-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3117224-003) [mechanism/asserted] -- ICOs lower barriers to entry for a diverse body of investors and thereby increase the diversity and heterogeneity of start-up funding.
  > ICOs provide low barriers to entry for a diverse body of investors and thus increase the diversity and the heterogeneity of start-up funding.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Initial Coin Offerings The Top 25 Jurisdictions and Their Comparative Regulatory Responses (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3117224

**2021**

- [3962614-001](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3962614-001) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The rapid growth of digital asset startups into billion dollar businesses with little or no venture capital funding demonstrates that the traditional venture capital model alone was not enough to meet the funding needs of technology startups.
  > Digital assets startups that grow rapidly into billion-dollar businesses with little or no VC funding have demonstrated that the traditional venture capital model alone was not enough to meet the funding needs of technology startups.
  Wulf A. Kaal, REPUTATION AS CAPITAL – How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Address Shortcomings in the Ventu (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3962614
- [3962614-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3962614-014) [mechanism/argued] -- Because traditional VCs need to defend their investment choices to their own investors, they are often reluctant to invest in digital asset startups that have little history or sales records.
  > Traditional VCs are often also not able to effectively invest in the digital asset market because they need to defend their investment choices to their own investors. Because of that, traditional VCs are often reluctant to invest in digital asset startups with little history or sales records.
  Wulf A. Kaal, REPUTATION AS CAPITAL – How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Address Shortcomings in the Ventu (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3962614

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