Benedetta Montanaro is a Junior Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano School of Management, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering. She received her Ph.D. with distinction in 2022, concluding a joint doctoral program between Politecnico di Milano School of Management and Ghent University (Belgium), where she joined the Department of Accounting, Corporate Finance and Taxation.
Benedetta’s main research area is Entrepreneurial Finance. In her doctoral dissertation, Benedetta focused on investigating the determinants of entrepreneurial ventures’ valuation, in particular examining the path-dependency nature of valuation, i.e. how ventures’ decision to go through a particular deal impacts valuation in future financial events. Her research interests also cover VC financing, acquisitions and equity crowdfunding.