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
Northwest Venture Associates vs Kairos
Not ranked
Whole-book follow-on hit rate 33.3% (2 of 6 labeled deals). 95% Wilson interval 9.7%–70.0%. Vintage-weighted base rate 39.4%. This is not a fund return.
Not ranked. A book needs at least 15 labeled deals with a vintage base rate. This one has 6.
Vs same-vintage base rate
-6.1 pp
33.3% on 6 deals vs 39.4%
Vs median VC book
-13.1 pp
33.3% on 6 deals vs 46.4%
Vs top-quartile VC
-29.4 pp
33.3% on 6 deals vs 62.8%
Vs Y Combinator
-63.3 pp
0.0% on 4 deals vs 63.3%
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
6
Mean model percentile
55
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 33.3% (2 of 6). 95% Wilson interval 9.7%–70.0%.
Vs exit base rate
+18.0 pp
33.3% on 6 deals vs 15.4%
Vs median VC exit book
—
No overlapping vintages
Vs top-quartile exit book
—
No overlapping vintages
Companies
6 labeled follow-on deals, 0 matched without an observable label (dropped, not counted as failures).
| Company | Vintage | Follow-on | Kairos percentile | Flagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MessageGatemessagegate.com | 2003 | Yes | 93 | — |
| Estorian | 2006 | No | 82 | — |
| World Wide Packets | 2004 | Yes | 54 | — |
| SprayCoolspraycool.com | 2007 | No | 45 | — |
| Vigilosvigilos.com | 2006 | No | 42 | — |
| IP Fabricsipfabrics.com | 2006 | No | 15 | — |