As of early 2022 seven of the ten largest firms in the world by market capitalization had been
funded through various types of entrepreneurial finance. This handbook provides an up-to-date
survey of what we know about this significant phenomenon in all its forms and where our
knowledge about it needs to head from here. The handbook embraces a wide range of established
and emerging academic and practitioner voices across the globe to explore the theoretical and
practical flux and tension in the field. Until recently most studies have taken a supply side
perspective focusing on the perspective of those who provide funding to new ventures. This
book takes a different demand side perspective beginning with the entrepreneur and gradually
broadening our view to include close by and then more distant funding sources. Following this
approach it is organized into four parts detailing the individual level (founders' resources
bricolage and bootstrapping effectuation and portfolio entrepreneurship) the inner circle
(informal financing business groups incubators and accelerators) the wider world (formal
debt microfinance venture capital corporate venture capital business angels government
funding and family offices) and emerging perspectives (non-Western perspectives gender
indigenous perspectives post-conflict and disaster zones and ethics). The introduction
considers the general state of the field while the conclusion takes on additional topics
relevant to entrepreneurial finance such as decentralized finance big data behavioral
economics financial innovation and COVID-19 as well as possible ways in which entrepreneurial
finance can have a greater impact on other disciplines. This handbook will be a core reference
work for researchers practitioners and policy makers seeking an up-to-date academic survey of
entrepreneurial finance. It can also be used as a primary text in Ph.D. seminars in
entrepreneurship entrepreneurial finance and finance. Instructors in Master's level courses
in entrepreneurial finance and venture capital will also find the book of benefit.