Douglas Cumming is Professor and Ontario Research Chair at the Schulich School of Business, York University.

Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is a Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship and the Ontario Research Chair at the Schulich School of Business, York University.

Brent Goldfarb is Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.

April R. Shen is a graduate student in strategy in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

David A. Kirsch is Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Thomas Åstebro is Associate Professor of strategic management at HEC Paris.

Frank M. Fossen is Assistant Professor of Economics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, a research associate of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

Sheryl Winston Smith is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

David T. Robinson is Professor of Finance and the William and Sue Gross Distinguished Research Fellow at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Morten Bennedsen is the André and Rosalie Hoffmann Chair of Family Business Management and Professor in Economics at INSEAD.

Haoyong Zhou is a PhD fellow in the Department of Economics at Copenhagen Business School.

Markus Ampenberger is a research fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies (CEFS) at Technische Universität München.

Ann-Kristin Achleitner holds the KfW Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance and is Scientific Co-Director at the Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies (CEFS) at Technische Universität München (TUM).

Eva Lutz is Assistant Professor at the KfW Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at Technische Universität München (TUM).

Stephanie Schraml holds a doctorate degree from the KfW Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at Technische Universität München (TUM).

Benson Honig is the Teresa Cascioli Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, McMaster University, Canada.

Robert Cressy is Professor of Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Birmingham Business School.

Dr. Rebel Cole is Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Kellstadt College of Business of DePaul University in Chicago and a special advisor to the International Monetary Fund.

Dr. Liang Han is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the Business School, University of Hull.

Song Zhang is currently a PhD student at the Business School, University of Hull.

Armin Schwienbacher is a professor of finance at the Université Lille Nord de France - SKEMA Business School (France) and a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam Business School (the Netherlands).

Benjamin Larralde is the founder of FansNextdoor.com, a platform for artists and creative people to fund their projects through crowdfunding.

Ramon P. DeGennaro is the CBA Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Tennessee.

Michael R. Peneder is deputy director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) and managing editor of the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade.

James C. Brau is a Professor of Finance at Brigham Young University and the editor of The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance.

Rajesh K. Aggarwal is the US Bancorp Professor of Financial Markets and Institutions at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Sanjai Bhagat is the Provost Professor of Finance at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Srinivasan Rangan is an Associate Professor of Finance and Control at theIndian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Vicente Cuñat is Associate Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics at the London School of Economics.

Dr. Khaled Soufani is an Associate Professor of Finance and is Director of the Desjardins Centre for Innovation in Business Finance at Concordia University in Montreal - Canada.

Stefano Gatti is Director of the B.Sc of Economics and Finance at Bocconi University in Milan, where he is also the past Director of the International Teachers' Programme.

Stefano Caselli, Full Professor of Banking and Finance, Università Bocconi, Milan.

Alessandro Steffanoni is head of project finance team in Meliorbanca S.p.A. Meliorbanca is the investment bank of italian commercial bank Banco Popolare Emilia Romagna.

Houman B. Shadab is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions.

Christian Keuschnigg is Professor of Public Economics at the University of St. Gallen (FGN-HSG) and a research fellow of the networks CEPR, CESifo and Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation.

Robert Fairlie is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Dr. Susan Coleman is a Professor of Finance at the University of Hartford.

Larry Chavis is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Leora Klapper is Senior Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank.

Inessa Love is a Senior Economist in the Finance Team of the Development Research Group.

David Lingelbach is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Baltimore and Professorial Lecturer at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Miriam Bruhn is an Economist at the World Bank Development Research Group.

Fenella Carpena is a consultant at the World Bank Development Research Group.

Bilal Zia is an Economist at the World Bank Development Research Group.

Roy Mersland is associate professor at Kristiansand School of Management at University of Agder in Norway.

R. Øystein Strøm is professor of finance at Oslo University College in Norway.

"This is a wide-ranging and comprehensive handbook which provides an outstanding introduction to the field. It provides an excellent overview of all the main aspects of financing entrepreneurial businesses and is to be welcomed especially for the broad range of international experience it covers."--Alan Hughes, Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies and Director of the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge