A branched compound including a core part, at least one side chain part bonded to the core part, and an end, wherein one repeating unit or two or more repeating units expressed by the following formula (1) repeat in the or each side chain part, with the proviso that in a repeating unit bonded to the core part, T is bonded to the core part, and in two or more contiguous repeating units, each L is bonded to the T, each L is formed of a plurality of conjugation-forming units linked together; each L includes at least one thienylene unit as the conjugation-forming unit; and at least two of the groups existing at the ends of Ls (the ends of the L in sides which are not bonded to T) are acceptor groups. (In the formula, each L represents a divalent organic group which may have a substituent and the T represents a trivalent organic group which may have a substituent.)