Reconstructed first-round book from the research data, not a scrape of today's website. Public portfolio pages over-report winners, and this graph has the same public-data bias. Investor edges are essentially Crunchbase through late 2015, plus Y Combinator.
Research book · 3-year follow-on
Harbert Venture Partners vs Kairos
Not ranked
Whole-book follow-on hit rate 60.0% (3 of 5 labeled deals). 95% Wilson interval 23.1%–88.2%. Vintage-weighted base rate 44.9%. This is not a fund return.
Not ranked. A book needs at least 15 labeled deals with a vintage base rate. This one has 5.
Vs same-vintage base rate
+15.1 pp
60.0% on 5 deals vs 44.9%
Vs median VC book
+3.9 pp
60.0% on 5 deals vs 56.1%
Vs top-quartile VC
-8.2 pp
60.0% on 5 deals vs 68.2%
Vs Y Combinator
-17.3 pp
60.0% on 5 deals vs 77.3%
Ranked when at least 15 labeled deals have a vintage base rate. Rank is the average-rank percentile of shrunk excess (20 pseudo-deals at that book's vintage base rate) among eligible VC books that clear the same minimum. 100 is best. The whole book is never compared to Kairos's top-50 hit rate.
What Kairos would have said
Scores are the model’s percentile at each company’s first observed funding event, not at a later round. That matches this fund’s entry only when the fund was in the first-round syndicate. A deal is flagged when its percentile clears that vintage’s top-50 cutoff. The whole book is not compared to the top-50 hit rate.
Deals with a score
5
Mean model percentile
67
Flagged deals
0no labeled flagged deals
Five-year exit, secondary
Five-year exit labels are observable mainly for 2005–2010. A missing later exit is not counted as a failure. This panel is not the ranking.
Hit rate 0.0% (0 of 5). 95% Wilson interval 0.0%–43.4%.
Vs exit base rate
-14.7 pp
0.0% on 5 deals vs 14.7%
Vs median VC exit book
—
No overlapping vintages
Vs top-quartile exit book
—
No overlapping vintages
Companies
5 labeled follow-on deals, 1 matched without an observable label (dropped, not counted as failures).
| Company | Vintage | Follow-on | Kairos percentile | Flagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privarisprivaris.com | 2005 | No | 89 | — |
| Innovative Biosensorsinnovativebiosensors.com | 2005 | Yes | 88 | — |
| PeopleMatterpeoplematter.com | 2010 | Yes | 88 | — |
| Unitrendsunitrends.com | 2005 | No | 38 | — |
| Aldagenaldagen.com | 2006 | Yes | 30 | — |
| RegisterPatientregisterpatient.com | 2012 | Unobserved | — | — |