Abstract:Based on the situation of venture capital industry in China, from three aspects, such as network density, network size and network centrality, this paper researches the influence of the venture capital network structural embeddedness on investment performance. The analysis shows that the relationship between the network structural embeddedness and the investment performance is nonlinear. Using the sample data of CV Source database from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2014, and using Logit multiple regression model, the results show that the relationship of the structural embeddedness and investment performance has significantly inverted U type. Before structural embeddedness reaches the optimal value, structural embeddedness have a promoting effect on investment performance, that is, with the increasing of structural embeddedness, the investment performance is gradually increasing. However, after more than the optimal value, structural embeddedness has an inhibitory effect on investment performance, that is, with the increasing of structural embeddedness, the investment performance begins to decline, the impact of structural embeddedness in the investment performance from the promotion effect to the suppression effect. The research results have an important significance to improve investment performance and optimize the network structure of venture capital.