title: Newly listed firms' M&A activities data and their VC-backing data.
abstract: This article contains hand collected and matched data on the VC investment situation in newly listed firms in SME and ChiNext board from 2009 to 2012 and the corresponding M&A activities data undertaken by these newly listed firms as acquirers in three years following initial public offering. Mentioned data are related to the research article "Heterogeneous Venture Capital, M&A Activity, and Market Response" (W. Li, T. Cao, Z. Feng, 2016) [1].
authors.affiliation: School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cao