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
PLUS Ventures vs Kairos
Not ranked
Whole-book follow-on hit rate 57.1% (4 of 7 labeled deals). 95% Wilson interval 25.0%–84.2%. Vintage-weighted base rate 48.9%. This is not a fund return.
Not ranked. A book needs at least 15 labeled deals with a vintage base rate. This one has 7.
Vs same-vintage base rate
+8.2 pp
57.1% on 7 deals vs 48.9%
Vs median VC book
-7.5 pp
57.1% on 7 deals vs 64.6%
Vs top-quartile VC
-24.2 pp
57.1% on 7 deals vs 81.3%
Vs Y Combinator
-17.6 pp
57.1% on 7 deals vs 74.7%
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
52
Flagged deals
0no labeled flagged deals
Companies
7 labeled follow-on deals, 3 matched without an observable label (dropped, not counted as failures).
| Company | Vintage | Follow-on | Kairos percentile | Flagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CartCrunchcartcrunch.com | 2011 | Yes | 85 | — |
| Pouncepounce.mobi | 2012 | No | 70 | — |
| Yotpoyotpo.com | 2011 | Yes | 66 | — |
| hoozinhoozin.me | 2011 | No | 59 | — |
| eVigiloevigilo.net | 2011 | Yes | 19 | — |
| Fiixfiix.io | 2013 | No | 14 | — |
| Carambola Mediacarambo.la | 2013 | Yes | — | — |
| Re-Sec Technologiesre-sec.com | 2013 | Unobserved | — | — |
| MyPermissionsmypermissions.com | 2013 | Unobserved | — | — |
| YEVVOyevvo.com | 2013 | Unobserved | — | — |