CapitalVX: A Machine Learning Model for Startup Selection and Exit Prediction
2020
Using a big data set of venture capital financing and related startup firms from Crunchbase, this paper develops a machine-learning model called CapitalVX (for “Capital Venture eXchange”) to predict the outcomes for startups, i.e., whether they will exit successfully through an IPO or acquisition, or fail. Using a large feature set, the out-of-sample accuracy of predictions on startup outcomes and follow-on funding is 88%. This research suggests that VC/PE firms may be able to benefit from using machine learning to screen potential investments using publicly available information, diverting this time instead into mentoring and monitoring the investments they make.
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