We investigates the analyst recommendations for venture capital backed (VC backed) initial public offerings (IPOs) versus Non-venture capital backed (Non-VC backed) initial public offerings. Some previous studies show that VC backed IPOs get better performance than Non-VC backed IPOs while some other literature does not. These inconsistent conclusions for the effect of VC backed firm induce us to examine whether there is different between these two groups from the view of analysts. In addition, we examine the firms’ characteristics to realize the analysts’consideration for the start-ups. Our results indicate that analysts do prefer to issue better recommendation for the VC backed IPOs than Non-VC backed IPOs.