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
Minor Ventures vs Kairos
Not ranked
Whole-book follow-on hit rate 42.9% (3 of 7 labeled deals). 95% Wilson interval 15.8%–75.0%. Vintage-weighted base rate 45.1%. This is not a fund return.
Not ranked. A book needs at least 15 labeled deals with a vintage base rate. This one has 7.
Vs same-vintage base rate
-2.3 pp
42.9% on 7 deals vs 45.1%
Vs median VC book
-10.2 pp
42.9% on 7 deals vs 53.1%
Vs top-quartile VC
-24.7 pp
42.9% on 7 deals vs 67.5%
Vs Y Combinator
-26.6 pp
42.9% on 7 deals vs 69.4%
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
7
Mean model percentile
78
Flagged deals
21/2 followed on
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 28.6% (2 of 7). 95% Wilson interval 8.2%–64.1%.
Vs exit base rate
+13.6 pp
28.6% on 7 deals vs 15.0%
Vs median VC exit book
—
No overlapping vintages
Vs top-quartile exit book
—
No overlapping vintages
Companies
7 labeled follow-on deals, 0 matched without an observable label (dropped, not counted as failures).
| Company | Vintage | Follow-on | Kairos percentile | Flagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrandCentralgrandcentral.com | 2006 | No | 99 | Yes |
| Swiveleagereyes.org | 2006 | Yes | 98 | Yes |
| 8020 Media8020media.com | 2006 | No | 92 | — |
| OpenDNSopendns.com | 2005 | No | 91 | — |
| Kareokareo.com | 2005 | Yes | 72 | — |
| Scout Labsscoutlabs.com | 2006 | Yes | 56 | — |
| Minor Studiosminorstudios.com | 2009 | No | 40 | — |