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
Reed Elsevier Ventures vs Kairos
Not ranked
Whole-book follow-on hit rate 20.0% (1 of 5 labeled deals). 95% Wilson interval 3.6%–62.4%. Vintage-weighted base rate 44.3%. 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
-24.3 pp
20.0% on 5 deals vs 44.3%
Vs median VC book
-33.2 pp
20.0% on 5 deals vs 53.2%
Vs top-quartile VC
-48.8 pp
20.0% on 5 deals vs 68.8%
Vs Y Combinator
-45.0 pp
25.0% on 4 deals vs 70.0%
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
80
Flagged deals
0no labeled flagged deals
Companies
5 labeled follow-on deals, 1 matched without an observable label (dropped, not counted as failures).
| Company | Vintage | Follow-on | Kairos percentile | Flagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fingerprintfingerprintplay.com | 2011 | Yes | 85 | — |
| Netli | 2006 | No | 84 | — |
| Fina Technologiesfinatechnologies.com | 2009 | No | 81 | — |
| Struqstruq.com | 2012 | No | 79 | — |
| Siperiansiperian.com | 2004 | No | 70 | — |
| Treatotreato.com | 2013 | Unobserved | — | — |