اميرحسين سلامت

Due to the growing number of creative practical ideas that are formed in the minds of entrepreneurs, there is a need for venture capatalists who can support these ideas by taking calculable or uncountable risks and aim to make a profit with entrepreneurs for commercialization. It seems important and necessary for their ideas to come together. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the decision to invest in startups in Iran. The present study was a case study and based on the nature and method was a descriptive-survey. The statistical population of the present study consisted of managers of venture capitalists, business mentors, managers of growth centers, managers of accelerators and statistical sample of the mentioned persons in Tehran province and located in the Innovation and Prosperity Fund and provincial research and technology funds. The research tool in the present study was based on two standard questionnaires of experts. For this purpose, the standard questionnaire of fuzzy Dimtel method was used, based on which after classifying the factors affecting the decision to invest in startups in Iran, the four dimensions extracted with 17 sub-criteria in terms of the intensity of direct effects on each other were eva‎luated. In order to analyze the data, Excel and Expert Choice software were used. Supercision software was also used to perform calculations related to the network analysis process method to perform calculations related to unbalanced super-matrix and partial super-matrix in software. Findings indicate that four factors were introduced in the form of four general dimensions and 17 sub-criteria. Based on the final results, the most important general dimension in terms of influencing investment behaviors in Iranian startups is the product dimension and its four sub-criteria. After that, financial and economic, market and entrepreneurs dimensions had the greatest impact on the investment behaviors of Iranian startups, respectively.

سرمايه گذاري , استارتاپ , سرمايه‌گذاري خطرپذير

investment , startups , VC

Amirhossein Salamat

Dr. Saeed Mirzamohammadi