Financing Sustainable Entrepreneurship: ESG Measurement, Valuation, and Performance in Token Offerings*
Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE) seeks to attain profitability and sustainability goals. A major research gap concerns the economic attractiveness of SE for entrepreneurs and investors. The question is ambiguous because sustainability orientation creates costly constraints, while startups cannot fully appropriate their positive externalities. We relate startups’ Environment, Society and Governance (ESG) properties obtained from a machine-learning …