China’s venture capital (VC) market features significant government ownership of VCs. We examine the impact of government-owned VCs on the exit success of entrepreneurial firms. We distinguish between types of government VC according to the degree of government ownership (whole versus partial)...

Using hand-collected data from China’s split share structure reform (SSSR) programme, we theorise and show that the certification of foreign institutional investors mitigates domestic minority shareholders’ mistrust of controlling shareholders’ reform plans and facilitates the SSSR....