Investing in people, not in products: how age, gender, ethnicity, and attractiveness of entrepreneurial teams influence the decision-making of angel investors in Germany

Livia Boerner; Thomas Fritz; Bernd Frick

Journal of Business Economics · 2024-10-02 · Issue: 2025/01
Empirical observational study · Version of record · CC BY 4.0 · 16,058 words

Read article Ask paper agent Open solutions companion →

Ask this paper

Full manuscript text
Source-linked passage retrieval

Paper Agent

Agent platform credit

Dr. Freedom Cheteni · Editor in Chief

Research University Journal · JournalOS conception and editorial stewardship

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3507-0094

This ORCID identifies the human contributor to the agent platform. Source-paper authors retain their own authorship and identifiers.

Manuscript & source record

Title: Investing in people, not in products: how age, gender, ethnicity, and attractiveness of entrepreneurial teams influence the decision-making of angel investors in Germany
Human authorship: Livia Boerner; Thomas Fritz; Bernd Frick
Source: Complete manuscript edition 2026-10-21
Editorial record: Attributed Creative Commons source edition. Original publication and authorship remain with the source. Hosting is not a new peer-review decision.

Searches this article’s preserved text and returns exact passages. The source paper and its solutions companion have separate records and agents.

Attribution, rights & verification

Original authors / creators: Livia Boerner; Thomas Fritz; Bernd Frick
Original publication: Journal of Business Economics · Springer Nature · 2024-10-02 · Issue date 2025/01
Source & version: Authoritative source ↗ · Version of record
doi:10.1007/s11573-024-01206-7
License & retained notices: CC BY 4.0
© 2024 The Author(s). Original authorship and source retained.
Article-specific license evidence ↗
Exact license notice
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Edition changes: Licensed text reading edition. Source headings, paragraphs and references are preserved; whitespace, typography and layout are normalized. Figures and separately licensed third-party images are not reproduced. Consult the linked original for tables, figures, equations, supplementary material and definitive pagination. This is a republication of existing scholarship, not a new original research claim.
Evidence limits: The sample of 553 pitches comes from a German televised competition. Selection, presentation and television incentives limit generalization to confidential family-office transactions; observed associations are not causal capability differences.
Retraction / correction check: Publisher article page and DOI-specific web search inspected on 21 October 2026; no retraction or expression-of-concern notice identified. This is a limited public-source screen, not an exhaustive registry certification.
Preserved record: Rights and full text checked 2026-10-21. Included in this volume on 2026-10-21. Original source dates remain unchanged.
Download the preserved source
SHA-256 (retrieved artifact): fdf933967fdb0eee9ba86865384129fd8d33ee9aabda4077c573f4aba53554ea
SHA-256 (preserved text edition): c2e8100cfd3ec59538cf5732beb0542dd60aab3f8abb4948ce3fb836553cd0f5